Chapter 4: The Keeper of the Keys

Another knock happens at the door before a giant man smashes down the door. Uncle Vernon threatens the giant man with a gun, but the giant man takes the gun and ties it into a knot. The giant man presents Harry with a chocolate birthday cake and introduces himself as Hagrid, the "Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts."

Another knock happens at the door before a giant man smashes down the door. Uncle Vernon threatens the giant man with a gun, but the giant man takes the gun and ties it into a knot. The giant man presents Harry with a chocolate birthday cake and introduces himself as Hagrid, the "Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." Hagrid is disturbed to find out that the Dursleys have never told Harry what Hogwarts is. Vernon tries to stop Hagrid from telling Harry about Hogwarts, but to no avail as Hagrid asks if a great Muggle like himself is going to stop him. Hagrid tells Harry that Harry is a wizard and presents him with a letter of acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Vernon protests that he will not allow Harry to attend Hogwarts. Hagrid explains to Harry that the Dursleys have been lying all along about how his parents died. Harry learns that they did not die in a car crash, as he had always thought, but were killed by the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. Harry does not believe he could be a wizard, but then he realizes that the incident with the boa constrictor was an act of wizardry. With Uncle Vernon protesting, Hagrid takes Harry from the shack. harry potter hagrid

The next day, another letter arrives for Harry, this time addressed to him in "The Little Room." Uncle Vernon is alarmed. Harry tries to get the letter but Uncle Vernon keeps with him. The next morning, Harry wakes up early to get the mail before someone gets up, but is hampered by Uncle Vernon, who was near the mailbox waiting for letters. Even Uncle Vernon email nail slot closed, twelve letters from Harry to come the next day, slipped under the door or through the cracks. Letters will soon flood the house with the impossible. Uncle Vernon Harry continues to impede the reading of any of them. Angry, Uncle Vernon decides to take all away from home, but stay at the hotel, a hundred letters were delivered to Harry. Uncle Vernon decides to further isolation. In a dark, stormy night, his family has a cottage on an island in the middle of the sea. Inside, Vernon bolts of the door. At midnight, as is Harry anniversary (July 31). There is a sudden knock on the door.