"You'd never climbed a tree before?" Harry asked curiously, but after a moment's reflection, he realized that it was entirely possible someone got through childhood without climbing one. After all, the only reason he'd ever done it was because Aunt Marge's prize bulldog had been chasing after him at the time. After that, he'd had his fill of climbing trees, mostly because Ripper had kept him treed until midnight, much to the delight and amusement of the Dursleys.