Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
The Dursley family is a Muggle family, and the only known living close relatives of Harry Potter. Petunia Dursley (née Evans) was the older sister of Harry's mother, Lily Potter (née Evans), but took the surname Dursley when she married Vernon Dursley. They had a son named Dudley.
Harry Potter's aunt and uncle met at work. Petunia Evans, forever embittered by the fact that her parents seemed to value her witch sister more than they valued her, left Cokeworth forever to pursue a typing course in London. This led to an office job, where she met the extremely unmagical, opinionated, and materialistic Vernon Dursley. Large and neckless, this junior executive seemed a model of manliness to young Petunia. He not only returned her romantic interest, but was deliciously normal. He had a perfectly correct car, and wanted to do completely ordinary things, and by the time he had taken her on a series of dull dates, during which he talked mainly about himself and his predictable ideas on the world. During one particular date when they were sitting in his car in front of a chip shop she tearfully confessed about her strange sister. As she had expected, Vernon was quite shocked, though he comforted her and told her it wasn't her fault for having a "freak" for a sister and that he would not hold it against her. He finally proposed to her in his mother's (very ordinary) living room, it was all very emotional.
Due to Petunia's maternal connection to Harry Potter, Harry was sent to live with the Dursleys after his parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort. The belief was that Lily's maternal sacrifice for Harry would be transmitted through Petunia, even though she held Harry in contempt. Due to his wizarding background, Harry was treated with fear and negligence by the Dursleys; originally being kept oblivious to his wizarding heritage, and being told that his parents had died in a car accident.

The Dursleys lived at 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey, and often went out of their way to keep their neighbours oblivious to anything odd about their family, usually explaining away anything odd by telling people that Harry was a delinquent who went to a detention school far away. Harry did occasionally update them about Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Because of their family connection to Harry and the danger of Voldemort using them to get to Harry, they were forced to go in hiding for their own safety for a period of time during the height of the Second Wizarding War.

Despite his mistreatment of Harry, Harry's cousin Dudley Dursley eventually came to regret his cruelty towards Harry, and the two reconciled later in life; this was mostly due to an incident in the summer before Harry's fifth year of schooling that involved him saving Dudley from a Dementor.
Harry Potter was born on the 31st of July in 1980 to parents Lily & James Potter. He was born a wizard and into a magical family. He has black hair, blue eyes and impaired vision, requiring glasses. His fathers best friend, Sirius Black, was made Harry's godfather when he was a baby.

During the First Wizarding War, when he was only one year old, Voldemort attempted to kill Harry but failed. First James tried to block his path and was murdered, then Lily shielded Harry giving him the ultimate protection; love. The curse rebounded and Voldemort ceased to exist in physical form, while Lily was killed in the process and Harry was left completely unharmed with the exception of a lightening shaped scar on his forehead, making him 'The Boy Who Lived'. Harry was then collected by Rubeus Hagrid and they traveled to Surrey, where they met Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall. They left Harry on the doorstep of Lily's muggle sister (Petunia)'s house with a letter explaining what had happened. Reluctantly taking him in, Petunia and her husband Vernon raised Harry along side their son Dudley. Harry grew up being borderline abused and forced to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs. He was told at an early age that his parents were killed in a car accident, he also knew nothing of being a wizard or the magical world.

While on a trip to the zoo for Dudley's 11th birthday, he discovered he could talk to a snake. He accidentally made the glass for the snake's enclosure disappear, setting the snake free. Harry tried to assure his uncle he didn't do anything, but Vernon knowing the truth of his powers locked him in the cupboard when they arrived home. The next day Harry received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that he started to open but was interrupted when Dudley snatched it from him, then Vernon destroyed it. He was sent numerous letters, never getting to read them, then one Sunday, their house magically started to fill with letters. Vernon ordered all four of them to move to an island to escape until the morning of Harry's 11th birthday, where Hagrid arrived and gave Harry a copy of the letter. He read the letter learning he had been accepted to Hogwarts as a student, and learnt the truth of his parents death and his magical powers. He left with Hagrid to go to Diagon Alley, where he collected school supplies, including an owl he named Hedwig. In the alley, Harry met Olivander, a wand expert, shop owner and salesman, whom sold him his first wand. Hagrid then walked Harry halfway to Platform 9 3/4 leaving him to find his own way. Confused, he asked for help from then stranger Molly Weasley, whom helped him onto the platform by instructing him to run into a wall. To his surprise he appeared on the platform and boarded the Hogwarts Express.

On the train he met Molly's son Ronald, and the two quickly became friends sharing sweets and jokes. Ron introduced Scabbers, his pet rat. They were interrupted by Hermione Granger, whom introduced herself and then showed off her skills in spells by fixing Harry's gasses. After reaching Hogwarts, Harry is confronted by Draco Malfoy who tried to befriend him but insults Ron, leading Harry to decline. He is then sorted into Gryffindor House along with Ron and Hermione. Harry quickly learns of his fame and the truth of his past. After Ron upsets Hermione, a troll is loose in the castle, leaving the boys to find and save her, to which they are almost punished for by Professor McGonagall, before Hermione steps in, leaving the three children best friends. In his first flying lesson, Harry retrieves classmate Neville Longbottom's remembrall from bully Draco, and is recognised as a talented flyer, leading him to become the seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. McGonagall gives Harry a Nimbus 2000, the at the time, fastest broom in the world. He then discovers his father was the Gryffindor seeker when he was a Hogwarts. Harry wins his first game, despite almost falling from his broom due to someone, believed to be Professor Snape, tempering with his broom. Upon exploring the castle, the trio find a giant three-headed dog standing on a trap door to which they find curious, and confide in friend Hagrid whom assures the children that the dog is his and accidentally slips the name Nicholas Flamel. Draco catches the trio out after curfew and tells McGonagall, to which all four receive detention in the Dark Forest. Here Harry is confronted with Voldemort and almost murdered, until he is saved by a centaur named Ferenz. After trying to research Flamel, Harry finds the Mirror Of Erised, in which he sees his parents standing by his side, Dumbledore finds him and explains that the mirror shows you your hearts deepest desires. During the Christmas period, Harry receives his first ever present - an invisibility cloak with a note saying it was his fathers - by an at the time unknown person. After Hermione researches Flamel and finds information on the Philosophers Stone, the children manage to slip past the dog and find themselves in a room with a plant that tries to kill them, until Hermione casts a spell to avoid it. They pass through a potion room and then a chess room where they are forced to play wizard chess if they want to continue. Ron is knocked unconscious here so Hermione takes him to the hospital wing leaving Harry to continue.

All summer Harry sends numerous letters to his friends but receives none back. A few days before the beginning of his second year, Harry finds a house elf named Dobby in his bedroom, whom pleads him not to return to Hogwarts in fear of his safety, and admitting being the one to steal his letters. Refusing, Dobby uses magic to drop a cake on Vernon's guests, leading Harry to be blamed and locked in his new bedroom. During the night, Ron and his twin brothers Fred & George drove their fathers flying car to rescue Harry and Hedwig from the Dursleys, and bring him back to their house known as the 'Burrows'. After scolding her sons for stealing their fathers car, Molly makes Harry and the Weasleys breakfast and from here on out, treats Harry as if he were her son. This is where Harry first meets Ron's father Arthur whom works at The Ministry Of Magic studying Muggles. Everyone goes to Diagon Alley to meet with Hermione and her family to shop for school supplies, where they come across Gilderoy Lockhart, their new defense against the dark arts teacher, doing a book signing whom insists a photo with Harry. Draco and his father Lucius (a known Death Eater) appear, who comment on Harry's fame restricting him on visiting a shop without someone asking for a picture. Lucius taunts the Weasleys and Everyone then heads to Platform 9 3/4 with Harry and Ron last in line. Attempting to get on the platform, the wall was sealed and they were unable to go through. They then stole the flying car again and drove to Hogwarts instead, flying straight into the whomping willow where Ron broke his wand. After almost being expelled by Snape, the boys were allowed to stay. During a duel, Harry spoke to a snake that Draco set on him, revealing to the school he's a parcel-tongue. Everyone turned against him with the exception of Ron and Hermione. A message is written in blood by the heir of Slytherin stating that The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened, someone everyone believes to be Harry. In a Quidditch match, Harry is attacked by a rogue bludger and has his arm broken and sent to the hospital wing. Here he meets again with Dobby, warning him that history is about to repeat itself, but also admitting to sealing off Platform 9 3/4 and tempering with the bludger.
J.K. Rowling says she is working on a play about the boy wizard’s life before he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

“What was it like to be the boy in the cupboard under the stairs,” Rowling wrote in her announcement on her website Friday.

The play will “explore the previously untold story of Harry’s early years as an orphan and outcast,” she said.

Rowling will be a co-producer on the show, along with veteran theatre producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. The statement said Rowling will collaborate with a writer but will not write the script herself.

“Over the years I have received countless approaches about turning Harry Potter into a theatrical production, but Sonia and Colin’s vision was the only one that really made sense to me and which had the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy I thought appropriate for bringing Harry’s story to the stage.”

Friedman is producing The Book of Mormon and Mojo in London’s West End theatre district.

Callender has produced the TV version of Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby and the Broadway production of Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks.

A director has yet to be chosen. No opening date has been set for the show, although the British newspaper The Independent reported it would be within two years.

Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies around the world and were adapted into eight Warner Bros. feature films.