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Andy Potter
and the Gray Nicolls Longbow

...by J.K Rolling

CHAPTER 1: Letter From St. Warts`

Mr and Mrs Tweety of 5 Rabbit Drive, Nunholm, Dumfries lived happily in the knowledge that they were a "well to do" family in a "well to do" area of the town. The only downside to this stable family environment was that their nephew Andy Potter had lived with them since the strange disappearance of his parents when he was but a baby.

Andy was a strange boy according to the Tweety’s, one that showed no family resemblance, wasn’t very bright, and did not show any talent in Mr Tweety’s passion: cricket. In fact Andy was so strange to them, they made him stay in a cupboard under the stairs and was only allowed out to go to school and at meal times, and occasionally for good behaviour he would be allowed to oil Mr Tweety’s bat and whiten his pads.

The truth of the matter is that the Tweetys were terrible snobs, and only disliked Andy because he could not play a Hobbs-like cover drive, or bowl a genuine leg-cutter!

Andy wished that there was some way he could escape the terrible life he had at the Tweety’s, and could play cricket his way - with free abandon using his natural talent, not being restricted to front foot drives as instructed by his regimented Uncle.

The next morning Andy woke, got dressed, and went to get the mail. Andy always got the mail-both the Tweety’s were far too lazy to get the mail. Much to Andy’s surprise there was a letter addressed to him:

Mr Andy Potter
The Cupboard Under The Stairs
5 Rabbit Drive
Nunholm
Dumfries

Andy opened the letter and began to read it as he sat down next to the Tweety’s at the breakfast table.

"What’s that your reading Potter?" asked Mr Tweety.

"It’s a letter for me." Replied Andy.

"Nobody ever writes to you, you silly boy…." said Uncle Tweety scornfully "…what does it say then?"

Andy read the letter aloud:

St. Warts` School Of Batting And Bowling
Headmaster. Prof. David Dumbledore
(Dr. Spin, Order of the Late Cut, First Class,
Hard To Dismiss Confed. Hon. Member)

Dear Mr Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have secured a place at St. Warts` School Of Batting And Bowling for the coming summer. Please find a list of all necessary clothing and equipment.

Season begins on 27th April. We await your bat by no later than 1st March.

Yours sincerely,

Brenda

Brenda McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

Questions flew in Andy’s mind. What did this mean? What was St. Warts`? And why had he been picked to attend this summer?

Andy’s thoughts were interrupted by the explosion of his Uncle Tweety.

"There’s no way you`re going to that lot this summer my boy. I’m going to lock you in that cupboard ‘till October now!"

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