Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Phòng Chứa Bí Mật/Chương 1”

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== Analysis ==
 
As will become the series' usual framework, the first chapter recaps the previous book and uses the Dursleys to reinforce the contrast between Harry's magical world and his family's mundane Muggle household. Life has hardly improved for Harry. Here and in the following chapter, we see how his enforced non-magical life causes him spiritual poverty and deprivation as he endures the long weeks before he can return to school. The Dursleys, crueler than ever, do what they can to make his life miserable away from Hogwarts, a place he not only loves but represents a world where he is valued not only for his (unwanted) fame, but for his own self and individual talents. However, once he returns to Privet Drive, his magical abilities make him strange and abnormal to his family, and anything tying him to that world is forbidden or securely locked away. Even Hedwig must remain in her cage. Harry copes with this abuse in various ways: by equally ignoring his family, occasionally standing up for himself, and even pretending to use magic on Dudley to scare himDudley. However, Harry's situationunahappy homelife is made even more glum when it seems his new-found Hogwarts friends have already forgotten him.
 
We are also exposed to another aspect of the Dursleys—they are scheming social climbers. Their ambitious plans for entertaining the Masons, as Harry sees, are extremely sycophantic, and would irritate any person with even a near-average intelligence. One wonders how Vernon was ever able to earn a living, if this represents the quality of his sales pitch. This also indicates Vernon's shallow thought processes. Believing that he would like to be treated in such a condescending manner, he assumes Mr. Mason would prefer the same.