As usual, they make his stay miserable by locking him in his room with no one to talk to except his owl, Hedwig. Harry wishes to go back to Hogwarts but the Dursleys won’t allow it. One day, Dobby, a house elf, appears warning him that terrible things will happen if he decides to return. Harry refuses to believe the elf and continues to pack to leave. In the middle of the night, his friends Ron, Fred, and George appear with a flying car stealing Harry away for the rest of the summer.
As Harry and the Weasleys go shopping for Hogwarts at Diagon Alley, they encounter the Malfoys and also Gilderoy Lockhart, Hogwarts’ new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. They then try to abroad the train at Platform Nine and Three-Quarter to go to Hogwarts however Harry and Ron are unable to. As a result, Ron steals his family’s flying car and tries following the Hogwarts train back. They land roughly in which they are caught and given detention and Ms. Weasley finds out and scolds