Harry Potter

And The Goblet of Fire

J.K.Rowling

But Aunt Petunia didn't know what was hidden under the loose

floorboard upstairs. She had no idea that Harry was not following

the diet at all. The moment he had got wind of the fact that he was

expected to survive the summer on carrot sticks. Harry had sent

Hedwig to his friends with pleas for help, and they had risen to the

occasion magnificently. Hedwig had returned from Hermione's

house with a large box stuffed full of sugar-free snacks. (Hermione's

parents were dentists.) Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, had

obliged with a sack full of his own homemade rock cakes. (Harry

hadn't touched these; he had to much experience of Hagrid's

cooking.) Mrs.Weasley, however, had sent the family owl. Errol,

with an enormous fruitcake and assorted meat pies. Poor Errol, who

was elderly and feeble, had needed a full five days to recover from

the journey. And then on Harry's birthday (which the Dursleys had

completely ignored) he had received four superb birthday cakes,

one each from Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, and Sirius. Harry still had

two of them left, and so, looking forward to a real breakfast when he

got back upstairs, he ate his grapefruit without complaint.

I particularly like this paragraph because its saying even though Harry's Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin don't love him he still had friends who care. Then I love it how the author brings in the structure of this paragraph to where the reader is imagining Harry thinking all this while he is eating his grapefruit. This what to my mind when reading this paragraph