36, counted them myself. yes, but some of them are a bit bigger than last year's! i'm warning you now boy. any funny business, any at all and you won't have any meals for a week. get in. move. what happened? there's no such thing as magic. oh marge is ill. ate a funny whelk. yours? who'd be writing to you? no more mail through this letterbox. shoo! go on! fine day sunday. in my opinion best day of the week. and why is that dudley? right you are harry. no post on sunday. ha! no blasted letters today! no, sir! not one single bloody letter! not one! no sir, not one blasted, miserable- stop it! give me that! give me that letter! that's it! we're going away, far away! where they can't find us! who's there? i demand that you leave at once. you are breaking and entering. he will not be going! we swore when we took him in that we would put a stop to all of this rubbish! he will not be going. i will not pay to have some crack pot old fool teach him magic tricks! use the boy. he lies. let me speak to him. have strength enough for this. harry potter, we meet again. yes, you see what i have become? see what i must do to survive? live off another. a mere parasite. unicorn blood can sustain me but it cannot give me a body of my own. but there is something that can. something that conveniently enough lies in your pocket. stop him! dont be a fool! why suffer a horrific death when you can join with me and live? bravery, your parents had it too. tell me harry would you like to see your mother and father again? together we can bring them back. all i ask is for something in return. thats it harry. there is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. together we'll do extraordinary things. just give me the stone! kill him! fool get the stone!