Reading - Harry Potter

 Hello again!

The following test we are going to practice is a little complex, but we want to focus on the description J. K. Rowling does of Harry's family, the Dudley family.

This is a fragment from the fisrt chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone

Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have 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 of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. 

Can you paint the Dudley family? Why do you think J. K. Rowling told us this characteristics and no others?

Bibliography:

Rowling, J. K. (1999). Harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone. Scholastic.