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{Ever since|Since|From the moment|When} Harry had {come|returned|arrived} {back|} home for {his|the} summer {holidays|vacation|break}, {Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a {ticking|} bomb that might {go off|explode|detonate} at any {moment|second|instant|time}|Harry had been treated by Uncle Vernon like a {ticking|} bomb that could {go off|explode|detonate} at any {moment|second|instant|time}}, because {Harry Potter {simply|just|certainly|} wasn't a {normal|regular|ordinary} boy|{normal|regular|ordinary} wasn't a word that described Harry Potter}. {As a matter of fact|In fact|The truth was|Truth be told}, {he was as {not normal|abnormal|unusual|extraordinary|different} as it {is|was} {humanly|} possible to be|it was {hardly|barely|scarcely} possible to be more {abnormal|unusual|extraordinary|different} than he was}.