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Chapter One
Manual Labor
Harry had planned to sleep late on his first day of summer vacation. He felt as if he needed to
sleep for a year after what he’d been through during his fourth year of wizarding training. Harry
Potter was possibly the most famous wizard in the world, apart from the dark wizard who had
killed his parents. And now he was probably even more famous, having won the Triwizard
Tournament just a couple of weeks ago. But he was only famous in the wizarding world; in the
non-magical, Muggle world, he was just an annoyance to his aunt and uncle and cousin. He just
wanted to sleep late and try to forget everything that had happened to him during the previous
ten months.
this is seems to be a book by Rowling, J. K
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Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy
Chapter One: Shelter
In all traditions, the roof represents the essential
element of shelter, and once the frame of a roof
exists the shape of a building comes clear.....for
centuries builders have fastened small trees or
evergreen boughs or flowers...to the ridges of
newly framed roofs....Having taken wood from
the tree, builders bring the tree back to the wood.
The tree becomes the house, and in ceremony,
the house becomes the tree.
--Tracy Kidder, House
Time had lost all meaning for Harry Potter. He was about to live through what would undoubtedly be the longest month of his life. In one month he would be seventeen. It might as well be one century away, he thought. Normally, he spent the summer marking off days on a homemade calendar counting down to the first of September, when he would be able to return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but now he had a nearer goal, which, in spite of that, seemed far more elusive than his return to school usually did.
Although non-magic teenagers might normally be counting down to their seventeenth birthdays because it would mean the opportunity to finally have a driver’s license, Harry was counting down to this day because he would be of age in the wizarding world. He would no longer have to worry about avoiding doing magic outside of school. He could begin learning to Apparate. He could even vote for the Minister of Magic, if a vote was held. (There hadn’t been a vote in the last sixteen years, as far as he knew. Harry almost wished there would at least be a vote of no-confidence, but he wasn’t sure what the point would be, as the only person people wanted to be Minister, other than Fudge, was Albus Dumbledore, who preferred to be the headmaster of Hogwarts). Right before his birthday he would be leaving the Dursleys forever and going to live with his godfather, Sirius Black, in Scotland. Although he was definitely looking forward to that, it was the birthday he was really anticipating.