Who is the boy?

[mr_ed732000]

No: HPFGUIDX 54136

My silly suggestion as to why the boy at issue is Harry:

*  A quote alleged to appear in the first chapter OofP reads:

     "The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing
      to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large,
      square houses of Privet Drive. . . The only person
      left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat
      on his back in a flower bed outside number four."

*  An actual quote in GoF (pp 4-5, American hard-bound edition) 
reads:

     "The wealthy man who owned the Riddle House these
      days neither lived there nor put it to any use;
      they said in the village that he kept it for 'tax
      reasons,' though nobody was very clear what these
      might be.  The wealthy owner continued to pay Frank
      to do the gardening, however.  Frank was nearing his
      seventy-seventh birthday now, very deaf, his bad leg
      stiffer than ever, but could be seen pottering around
      the flower beds in fine weather, even though the weeds
      were starting to creep up on him, try as he might to
      suppress them."


My "logic" is as follows:  1) if pottering is something one does in 
flower beds; and 2) if Harry's only living relatives are named 
Dursley; THEN the only possible unnamed character otherwise doing 
nothing in a flower bed must be Harry.  

Do you see any flaws in that reasoning?  :0)


Not so sincerely yours,

Mr. Ed  (who asks this genuine question about Frank Bryce:  who is 
this guy?  and why does Harry's dream at the beginning of GoF seem 
to take place largely from Frank's perspective?)