When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; the Dursleys were his only family. Yet sometimes he thought (or maybe hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him. Very strange strangers they were, too.在哈利年纪还小的时候，他经常做梦，梦见一位亲戚突然来把他接走，可是他的梦从来没有实现。德思礼一家是他惟一的亲戚。可有时候他觉得（也许是盼望）街上的陌生人似乎认识他。而且，他们都是些非常奇怪的陌生人。 A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without buying anything. A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus.一次他跟佩妮姨妈和达力上街买东西，就有一个戴紫罗兰色大礼帽的小个子男人向他鞠躬行礼。佩妮姨妈怒冲冲地追问哈利是否认识那人，之后就把他和达力赶出商店，什么东西也没有买。另外一次在公共汽车上，一个放荡不羁、穿一身绿衣服的老太婆笑眯眯地向他招手。 A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word. The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.还有一次，一个穿紫色拖地长袍的秃头男子在大街上竟然跑过来跟他握手，之后一句活没说就走开了。而最令人感到不可思议的是，当哈利想更仔细地看他们的时候，他们便消失得无影无踪了。 At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley’s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley’s gang.在学校里，哈利没有一个朋友。大家都知道，达力一伙最恨的就是穿松松垮垮的旧衣服、戴一副破碎眼镜的怪人哈利·波特。谁也不愿意去跟达力一伙作对。