blog 6-12/20

194-227
This section is extremely funny because I already know the end of the book. Harry thinks Snape is he bad guy and Quirrell is trying to stop him. Also They have the misconception that Snape is trying to kill Harry. They have that completely backwards because both are trying to help him. Then they try to show Snape and the other Slytherins that they aren't wimpy. They do this by having the shortest Quidditch game on record, and Ron and Neivelle beat up Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. Then Harry looks in the Mirror of Erased and sees is family. I like Dumbedore's position about it. Looking at what you want will only drive you mad, it won't give you your dreams.

blog 5-12/13

In pages 163 to 193 a lot happens. Harry and Ron save Hermione from a troll on Halloween. It was nice for them to save her but they got her into that predicament. I'm not sure what to think about their actions because they were really mean and said that no one liked her. Hermione is a very sensitive person and went crying to the bathroom the rest of the day, where the troll found her. Harry and Ron are also extremely ignorant. They lock the troll in a room. They wouldn't think to see if it was the girls bathroom before locking the door, would they. Then Hermione lies. This is such a breakthrough. I believe that that is what made Harry and Ron befriend Hermione, not the saving her from the troll, like the book portrays. Harry has his first quiddich match. I think he has a right to be nervous because everyone is saying how good he is. What if he wasn't? His team might have killed him. Then someone, perceived to be Snape jinxed Harry's Broom. His broom was definitely jinxed but they shouldn't blame Snape. They aren't positive he did it, and it would be unjust to accuse him because he hates Harry.

blog 4- 12/5

Harry begins to use all the skills he used at the Dursley's house in pages 131 to 162. He always had to run away from Dudley, and now he is running away from Filch. I think it is good that he learns that he is good at quidditch because it really shows that he can be someone other than "the boy who lived." Hermione Granger which Harry and Ron meet is a very studious girl. I wouldn't spend so much time studying if I didn't have anything else to do, but you can tell that she likes to be correct and probably wishes that she was like Harry and be famous without trying because she seems desperate. I don't care for professor McGonagall's reaction to Harry flying when Madame Hooch told them not to. She basically promoted him to a position no one has ever been in for braking rules. That just encourages more rule breaking. Harry goes out at midnight to fight Malfoy. As I just said, more rule breaking. You could get the wrong message from this section and believe it is okay to break rules because Harry gets away every time he breaks the rules.

blog 3-11/30

In pages 88 through 123 we meet many new characters. Draco Malfoy is the first one. He acts like a spoiled brat. He appears to think he is better than everyone else is very nonsensical. He was just like 'oh' when he found out Harry's parents had died. He also didn't recognise that he was talking to Harry, when everyone else did. I would definitely not be friends with him because he doesn't seem like he would care about what I say. The next people Harry meets are the Weasleys. They were a lot nicer than Malfoy, and don't backtalk any of the houses. They don't have much money, but their family is really nice. Fred and George are really funny, and play jokes on Ron, like giving him dud spells. They also say that they will send their little sister, Ginny, a toilet seat from Hogwarts. This seems like a good family situation to be in, and if I had to pick a family out of the book so far to live with it would be them. I would also be friends with every one of the Weasleys that we have heard any description of so far.

Blog 2 11/22

Between pages 46-75 In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I think Harry acts very mature, unlike in the movie. He talks to the people in the Leaky Cauldron with out freaking out about all the attention which would take a lot of guts because he was neglected all of his life. He also remembered his manners, like how he didn't interrupt Hagrid when he was reading the paper. He was also mature because he didn't hide when a giant (half-giant)banged down the door and told him that he, Harry, was a wizard. The Dursleys on the other hand did start freaking out, and talked back to Hagrid. That's very rude seeing they don't know him. I really enjoyed Hagrid's reaction to this. He turned Dudley into a pig and yelled at the top of his lugs which I imagined to be pretty loud considering his size. I was surprised the hut didn't fall down, but it gave me a good laugh. I like Hagrid. He is completely the opposite of what you would expect from someone so large. You would normally expect him to be tough and able to take anything, being stereotypical, but he was really nice to Harry and got car sick on the way to the volt in Gringotts. I kept forgetting how large he really was.

blog 1-11/15

In the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, pages 1-43, we learn the Dursleys are related to a boy named Harry Potter. Harry's Aunt Petunia is his mother's sister and is not magical at all. Based on some events in the seventh book I believe Petunia is jealous of her. Harry's Parents died and he was forced to live with the Dursleys when he was very young. He was treated like trash. This was unfair and prejudice because they had no idea if Harry was a wizard or not, just because his parents were. As he got older Harry started doing weird things, like when he was at the zoo he talked to a snake and removed the glass so it could get out. That was my favorite part so far in the first book. It was so sweet of him, but he didn't even know how he had done it. After ten years of torture, around the time of Harry's eleventh birthday, he got a letter in the mail. I would have run away by then if I were him. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia snatched it from him and decided to rip it up. He got several more of these letters, all of which were destroyed. The Dursleys finally got fed up with it all and chose to leave. When they got to the hotel, there were about a hundred letters waiting for them. Whoever was sending all of the letters must have been crazy smart because Uncle Vernon didn't know they would stay at that hotel until they got there. All of the Dursleys are really mean and don't like anything out of the ordinary. Harry started as a normal child and slowly became concealed because he wasn't allowed to ask questions and slept in the cupboard under the stairs. There will probably be a theme coming from Harry's patients with the Dursleys but nothing has happened to signify that yet other than all the letters. We don't kow what the leeters are saying though.