Dudley had never been so scared in his life. He had been awakened from sleep by the feel of a sword on his throat, then he had been magically paralysed whilst a little man that Dudley had thought lived only in children’s videos, needed only seconds to find the money that Dudley had hidden under his mattress. Minutes later, Dudley and his parents had disappeared from their house, to appear in a place that had stone walls, and torches in the walls for light. Dudley, his mother and his father were floated into separate gaol cells and the doors were shut and locked; only then could Dudley move and speak.