![]() ![]() And once it did, the signs were strewn all over the pages of the book. It wasn't until three-fourth of the book was over that the idea began to form. This has a lot of spoilers so those who haven't read Casual Vacancy yet, would do well to avoid this piece altogether. Imagine a muggle Harry Potter, complete with his decency, sense of justice and considerable insecurities, albeit with a different name, living permanently at Privet Drive attending a muggle school - this is the story of Andrew Price, of Casual Vacancy. But this could have been the opening to her debut adult novel 'Casual Vacancy'. ![]() This is not an extract from JK Rowling's now immortal Harry Potter series. As she climbed the single flight of stairs down to her immaculate kitchen, that uneasiness about how her husband Vernon, who was so quick to work up a murderous rage regarding anything concerning Harry, would receive the news of shifting the boy to a local school now that he was 11, remained. She had been watchful these 11 years and had come to believe that Harry was, in fact, not magic. She had a premonition of something terrible about to happen to her ever since she received an owl from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 11 years ago, asking her to look out for the signs. A strange uneasiness woke Petunia Dursley up much before the diffused rays of the sun swept the manicured lawns of 7, Privet Drive, Little Whinging. ![]()
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