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Mike Williamson reading challenge 1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling

Watch the clip on the Premier League website and pause the video when you are ready to answer the questions. The Premier League website will open in a new window.

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Complete all of the questions below, add your first name and your school number if you have one, then collect your reward. The challenge text on the right will help you find the right answers.

Challenge Text

The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four.
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time. His jeans were torn and dirty, his t-shirt baggy and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the uppers. Harry Potter’s appearance did not endear him to the neighbours, who were the sort of people who thought scruffiness should be punishable by law, but as had hidden himself behind a large hydrangea bush this evening he was quite invisible to passers-by.

 
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