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.