This time a read the stories about Dudley's
birthday and the letters from Hogwarts.
In
Dudley's birthday, Dursley family would go outside every year without Harry.
They would leave Harry to home of Mrs. Dursley’s friend who always treated
Harry badly. But this person couldn't let Harry in her home this year. There
was no choice except taking Harry together to avoid that Harry breaks their
house by his uncontrolled magic power. Dursley family decided to go to the zoo
with Dudley's friends and Harry. Harry met a snake there and talked to it, he
even made the glass disappear. The author used this detail to reveal that Harry
was different from us readers.
After this accident, there was a letter
written for Harry, and mentioned the cupboard. Harry didn't get and read it
because Mr. Dursley didn't give it to Harry. However, Mr. Dursley made Harry
change his room from the small cupboard to a room which used to be used as
Dudley's second room. I suppose that the action that Mr. Dursley did was
because someone knew that he let Harry sleep in the bad place and treated him
meanly. Mr. Dursley was afraid of that these things would be known by somebody.
Who made him scared? We all know that's wizards.
Although Harry got a better place, he wanted to know what the
content of the letter is. How can he get the letter hidden by Mr. Dursley?
Don't worry, because after the day the letter first be found, the letter or
letters would be in mailbox everyday with twice the amount of the day before.
Yesterday Dursley family got one letter, they would get 2 today, and they would
get 4 letters tomorrow. Mr. Dursley felt annoyed by these letters, but he still
didn't let Harry get anyone of letters. To avoid more and more letters, Mr.
Dursley took all families and Harry to leave their house. They went to hotel
but letters still came. Finally, they stayed overnight in a boat in a lake in a
storm night.
From this description, we can understand clearly that Mr. Dursley
didn't want Harry read the letter which about Hogwarts. But there was a
question. Why didn't Dursley family just sent Harry to Hogwarts then they could
get rid of Harry who was the son of Lily and James? The author didn't mention
it. I suppose there are several reasons. First, they wanted Harry stay to run
errands and do housework for them. Second, they didn't want Harry learn how to
use magic power because Harry would be more powerful than them, or because they
think magic would make people bad as Lily to aunt Petunia. In my point of view,
I suppose that aunt Petunia hate Hogwarts instead of Lily herself because
Petunia didn’t hate Lily until that Hogwarts sent a letter to Lily, after that,
every thing changed. Petunia’s parents thought that Lily with magic was more
special and loved her more. It made Petunia hate Hogwarts and everything
related to magic. When I think of this, I feel upset. I would become self-abased
and started hating my sister as well If I had an excellent sister who was much
better than me, our parents compared us every day, kept saying she was so great
that she made them proud and never mention that I made them proud. Although the
author didn’t focus much on the relationship of aunt Petunia and Lily, we can
still learn something by thinking of it ourselves.
From the story, I not only learned something from the relationship
of Petunia and Lily, also from Dursleys. I know they didn’t like Harry and they
were afraid of wizards, but they still treated Harry badly. To me, this was a
kind of self-destructive actions. If you don’t want to be punished by wizards,
then don’t treat their hero badly. Though they were lucky for being not punished,
the appearance of Hagrid also scared them. I don’t want to be this kind of
adults.
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