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   A SECOND BOOM happened. Then by the third one, everyone was awake and present. Vernon was holding a rifle in his hands, "Who's there?" he shouted "I warn you, I'm armed."

  Suddenly, the door was hit with such force that it swung clean off its hinges and with a deafening crash landed flat on the floor.

A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long man of hair, and a tangled beard. The giant squeezed his way into the hut, crouching so he wouldn't hurt his head.

  "Sorry about that." the giant said, picking up the door and fixing it back into frame.

He strode over to the sofa where Dudley sat frozen in fear. "Budge up, yeh great lump." Mia and Harry watched as their cousin squeaked and ran to hide behind his mother, who was crouching, terrified, behind Uncle Vernon.

"An' here's you two are!" said the giant.

Harry, who stood behind Mia, looked up into the fierce, shadowy face and saw that the beetle eyes were crinkled in a smile.

"Las' time I saw you two, you was only a baby and tot," said the stranger. "Yeh two look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes, Harry."

Uncle Vernon made a funny rasping noise.

"I demand that you leave at once, sir!" he said. "You are breaking and entering!"

"Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune." said the giant. He reached over the back of the sofa, jerked the gun out of Uncle Vernon's hands, bent it into a knot as easily as if it had been made of rubber, and threw it into a corner.

"Anyway, Harry," said the giant, turning his back on the Dursleys, "A very happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yeh here - I mighta sat on it at some point, but it'll taste all right."

From an inside pocket of his black overcoat he pulled a slightly squashed box. Mia watched warily as she let Harry open it. Inside was a large, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday Harry  written on it with green icing.

"Who are you?" Mia asked, crossing her arms as her brother stared at the cake in wonder.

"True, I haven't introduced meself. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Ground at Hogwarts."

The giant- Hagrid started to make himself comfortable, "What about that tea then, eh? If not say no ter summat stronger if yeh've got it, mind."

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