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A rainwater drain pipe sticks off the side of a building, near the ground. A bit of water trickles down.

Dudley and another child grab Harry and drag zem to the pipe, and jam zir head against it.

We see a closeup of Harry's mouth – a simplified drawing, reminiscent of Voldemort. There is a nasty cut next to zir mouth, where the scar will be. There is also blood on the edge of the drain pipe.

We see Harry in a car with Petunia; Harry is in the back seat, staring out the window, trying to cover zir cut with one hand, but still bleeding. Petunia speaks in a rigid style, but slightly irregular, as opposed to the precise formality of characters like Snape and Fudge.

PETUNIA: I had to leave work to pick you up. That's more of my money you're costing, useless brat. And don't you dare get your blood on the seats. They were just reupholstered.

We see Petunia ordering Harry through a cupboard door under some stairs. After Harry goes in, Petunia locks the cupboard shut with a large padlock.

PAST HARRY (continuing the monologue from the previous page): ...because the story of what they did to me is written on my face where anyone can read it.

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I have a hard time remembering all the things I need to draw on Harry's face in each thing. There's the zigzag scar, obviously (although when I draw zem as a baby before Voldemort attacks, I'll have to omit that). There's the mouth scar, which exists in things chronologically after the events of this page, but not before. There's the black blotches under zir eyes that indicate constant fatigue, which mainly appear when ze's at Hogwarts. And there's the glasses.

I don't think I've forgotten to include the glasses yet - they're often missing, but for a reason. In the current narrative layer, Harry doesn't have glasses because the Dursleys never bought zem any. Hagrid noticed Harry's bad vision and brought Harry to a magical eye doctor in Diagon Alley when they went to shop for books – and the sudden ability to see properly was yet another of the things that seemed wonderful about the magical world to Harry, before the more painful realities reached zem.

The Dursleys might not even have known that Harry had vision problems. It interfered with zir performance in school, and zir ability to do everyday tasks, but they assumed Harry was lazy and incompetent anyway.

Approximate readability: 10.68 (939 characters, 200 words, 10 sentences, 4.70 characters per word, 20.00 words per sentence)