Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were
to say that they were perfectly
, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or
, because they just didn't hold with such
.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made
. He was a
, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he had a very large moustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much time craning over garden fences,
on the
. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
The Dursleys had everything they
, but they also had a
, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years, in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her
husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys
to think what the neighbours would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away, they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that.
