When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here." Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate. Lisa Ann Sandell
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At the end of a row on a farm, there is a pile of hay bales. These bales are used to store the harvested hay for winter months. In this quote by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter is on a farm and on his way to the barn.

He's tired from work on the farm and he needs to rest up before going back to work in the morning. As he gets closer to the barn, he hears the lowing of the cows and their various sounds of calving. He also thinks of his beloved aunt Petunia who lives nearby at Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey.

Harry gets so close to the barn that he can hear them and smell them. He feels so alone and so lost without his family, even though they're just a few miles away from him. He's thinking about his future with Ginny and Ron and Hermione at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when he stops in the middle of a row of hay bales thinking about his past with Tom Riddle that was hidden from him until recently by Dumbledore.

Harry wants nothing more than to go back to sleep under these hay bales but he knows he has responsibilities now that require him to do something productive for once instead of just lying awake all night thinking about himself or feeling depressed over what might have happened if he had done things differently or not at all. Harry sits down on one of the hay bales and thinks about how much things have changed since he left Hogwarts at 16 years old, almost 14 years ago now after Voldemort had attacked him with killing curse in Godric's Hollow near Little Whinging, Surrey.

Source: A Map Of The Known World

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