"My parents weren’t people the Dursleys considered normal. To them, they were "abnormal’, or "freaks’. In their eyes, I inherited their "freakishness’, and they strongly resented the fact I had to live with them. So much so that they took it out on me. By the time I was five-year-old, I was doing most of the chores in the house. When I inevitably did something wrong – which I did because I was five – she would call Vernon who would take his belt and whip me in the back with it. I still have the scars, I can show you if you don’t believe me."