The Burrow, At Flourish and Blotts

Alright, so at the end of chapter 2, Harry is literally stuck in his room, his Uncle Vernon fit bars to his window. Which in the book, he pays someone to do, but in the movie, he does it himself. But anyway, in the beginning of chapter 3 Harry wakes up from a dream and Ron is at his window. He's in a flying car! He's also with Fred and George, who are driving the car. So of course the reason their there is to break Harry out of there and bring him back to the "burrow". Alright by the way something I don't understand is that why would they call their house the burrow. They are already portrayed as poor people and a burrow sounds like a beaver making a home underground. Just makes them sound like they live in a horrible house also. Anyway in the movie, they just rip off the bars, and Harry escapes. But in the book, they rip off the bars, Fred and George go in and have to break into the closet under the stairs to get Harry's school stuff. Then they escape, Vernon manages to get in the room and grabs Harry's ankle but of course he gets him to let go and they fly away. Getting to the Burrow, Ron's mother, is supposed to be a super scary women when shes mad. So she comes out and totally flips out on Ron, Fred, and George. So they end up having to denome the yard. Which you can also do in the video game if your interested. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is an awesome game. Though it kind of doesn't follow the story line, but it starts and ends the same way, so thats pretty fun. Back to the story. You also find out that Ron's father (Arthur Weasley), works at the Ministry of Magic, in the department of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office. He's obsessed with muggles, he takes muggle stuff home and takes them apart and puts enchantments on them. Anyways in the fourth chapter in the book, Harry experiences for the first time, Floo Powder. You go up to the fire place, grab a hand full of Floo Powder, throw it in and say clearly where you are meaning to go. Harry went to go do this and didn't speak clearly, so he ended up in Knockturn Alley, which is pretty much where you would go to buy, dark magic stuff. But Harry while Harry was here, he saw Draco and his father come into the store, and wanting to sell stuff. Due to the Ministry going to search peoples houses for dark magic stuff. So their selling. But Harry is eventually found by Hagrid and pulled out of there. He meets back up with the Weasleys in Diagon Alley. While in Flourish and Blotts, he meets a particular annoying wizard who is really full of himself called Gilderoy Lockhart. He notices that Harry is in the store as well and gives Harry a lot of undivided attention, and also his full book collection (which he needs for school anyways). He has a run in with Malfoy and thats pretty much the jist of it.

Criticism

If your at all interested, I put up some criticism on the link on the right. It's talking about how he's the devil or something. I don't agree with these people. But I guess we have to show all sides of this controversy. Thank you for reading

Harry Potter year 2

Alright, welcome to the 2nd year of Harry Potter's adventure! Some like this book/movie better then the 1st. Personally I like the 2nd better then the 1st but hey thats just me. Anyways here we are in the beginning of the 2nd book. Harry is sitting once again in his aunt and uncle's house on Private Drive. By the way the main characters stay the same from here to the last book, but obviously Professor Quirrell is not in this book anymore, considering that he is dead. But a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is in his stead, his name is Gilderoy Lockhart, he is full of himself. He thinks he is the most famous and beautiful person around. We'll look into him more through out the book. Anyway, back to the story, Harry's uncle Vernon locked all of Harry's school stuff in the closet under the stairs, and since underage wizards are not allowed to use magic outside of school, he can't get them. Hedwig (Harry's owl), is locked inside of her cage and hasn't been let out since they moved back in. So anyways the book starts out into a fight, where Harry is told that he is not allowed to use the word "magic" in the house. He told Dudley to say the magic word, which is quite hilarious. This part is not in the movie. You also find out that that night will be a special dinner for his uncle, since someone who is rich he wants to sell to is coming over. So obviously he's trying to impress him and his wife. So Dudley is supposed to seem like an angel and take their coats at the door. Petunia is supposed to welcome them to the house. Harry is supposed to be in his room acting like he doesn't exist. They have the whole night planned out and Harry's plans aren't to change. In the next chapter is when the night comes and Harry goes up to his room quickly to find a house elf sitting on his bed. The house elf's name is Dobby, and he is wearing a pillow case for a shirt and pants. But he nervously explains to Harry that he musn't come to Hogwart's this coming year because he will be in danger. He also explains what a house elf is and that he is a slave to a family that make him beat himself whenever he does wrong. He must do what they say, by the way for anybody that doesn't know. But Harry has been suffering from not getting any letters from his friends. But Dobby explains that he was stopping the letters for in the hope Harry wouldn't go back to school if he felt that Harry's friends had abandoned him. Anyways so Harry keeps saying no to not going and Dobby runs downstairs with Harry chasing closely behind. Now between the book and the movie their both very different. In the book, Dobby magically picks up the cake and drops it on the ground, while it looks like Harry is right there. Then an owl swoops in and drops a letter right on the head of the guests wife, who just happens to have a terrible fear of big birds. So they lose the customer. Harry opens the letter, to find out that the ministry of magic sent a letter saying a Hover charm was used at a certain time and that if he is caught using magic outside of school again then it means expulsion from Hogwarts. So now that Vernon knows this, he locks him up in his room and only gives him food through a flap at the bottom of the door. (How humane). Now for the movie, Dobby rushes out of the room and Harry is chasing him, Dobby levitates the cake and Harry tries to grab it in the air and it is dropped on top of the head of the wife. No letter is sent that you see just the next thing you see is bars going over Harry's window. So there you go that is the first 2 chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

The Forbidden Forest, Through the Trap Door, and The Man with Two Faces

Alright the end of the book goes by pretty quickly, so where we left off Filch took Harry and the gang down to Professor McGonagall's office and they each get 50 points taken away (might I add, because Harry said something about it being harsh). Oh by the way in my last post I made a mistake, It was only Harry and Hermoine who were out getting rid of Norbert, Ron was in the hospital wing because the dragon bit his arm a couple days ahead of time and it was turning green. Anyways back on topic, so 150 points are taken off Gryffindor in one night, putting them in last place for the house cup. Harry feeling really misrabble for this made an oath to never go snooping around again, he was to ashamed of himself to lose so many points to do so again. Harry actually started to feel so ashamed that he wanted to resign from Quidditch but Wood wouldn't let him. So Harry and the gang turn to studying. Since it is rounding the end of the year, they need to study for final exams. But though Harry had gone to an oath he heard Quirrell whimpering in a classroom. Harry couldn't help to listen in, and when Quirrell came rushing out, he was straightening his turban and Harry looked in to find out nobody else was in there. So he just assumed that Snape left through a different door. Harry of course told them about it and they decided that going to Dumbledore is not an option, because nobody'd ever believe their story that sounds too much like a lie. At this time Harry, Hermoine, and Neville each get a letter from McGonagall to go to the Great Hall at 11 to attend their detention. Following Mr.Filch he speaks of how he wished they could still use their old torture methods, and he leads them to Hagrid's hut. For their detention they must follow Hagrid to find an injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, they just have to follow the whitish blood that it's been leaving. So they go into 2 separate teams one where there is Hagrid, Harry, and Hermoine, then there's Malfoy, Neville, and Fang (Hagrid's cowardice dog). So to make a long story short, they have to switch teams where Harry and Malfoy were together. Not long later they found the unicorn. It was dead. There was also a hooded creature bent over drinking it's blood. At this point Malfoy and Fang ran off because they were scared. Harry's scar started to burn becaus no one knows why. The next thing Harry knows a centaur jumps over him and scares the creature away. The centaurs name is Firenze and he explains to Harry that drinking the blood of a unicorn would save you from even an inch from death. But the consequences are having a cursed life, for killing something so pure as a unicorn, for your own benefit. Also finding out that this creature is Voldemort. So when Harry gets back from detention his Invisibility cloak that he left in the tower was folded in his trunk with a note attached saying "Just in case".
So the next chapter starts where they are just finishing their exams for the year, and they have an entire week to mess around before the end of the year feast. So afterward Harry and the gang are wandering the lake side when an idea comes to Harry's head. Why would somebody randomly have a dragon egg? So they rush to Hagrid's hut to ask him questions. He tells them that he told the stranger that he had Fluffy (the 3 headed dog) and that music puts him right to sleep. So knowing this Harry figured out that Snape knows how to get past Fluffy, which was the only thing keeping him from the Sorcerer's Stone. So that night after dark Harry and the gang head for the 3rd floor corridor. They get past fluffy with ease, and land into a plant called Devil's Snare. Now in the movie this part is a little different. Ron struggles with it and nearly gets killed, thats normal. But before then Hermoine actually uses the blue flame she used during the winter to get it to let go because it hated light. Not necessarily just sunlight. So they move on to the key room. where there's a bunch of flying keys. In the movie Harry is the only one to go flying around trying to find the right key. and when he grabs the broom the keys fly towards him to hit him pretty much. But in the book all 3 of them fly around trying to find it, much less the keys don't attack. So moving on the enter the chess room. Where the 3 take the places of some chess pieces. So pretty much the only thing thats different is that Ron doesn't get on a horse or anything he's just standing there just like Hermoine and Harry. But yes he does sacrifice himself so Hermoine and Harry can move on. In the movie Hermoine doesn't follow Harry and he goes straight to the end. But in the book there is 2 rooms yet. So Hermoine and Harry go through and climb over an already knocked out troll. and entire another room. that has purple flames and black flames over the doors. There is but a note on the table and 7 veils. So 3 of them are poison, 2 of them are wine, and 1 will get them through the purple flames, and 1 will get them through the black flames. Hermoine quickly figures it out with her brain power and decides to have Harry move on and her go back to get help.
So in the last chapter Harry moves on and doesn't find Snape there but Quirrell. The mirror of erised is also there in which he is staring. Quirrell reveals that he was the one trying to kill Harry at the Quidditch game, and that Snape was muttering a counter-curse to save him, also on why Snape wanted to referee the next game. So next Harry gets binded up in ropes by Quirrell then unbinded to look into the mirror. He figues out before hand but when he looks in he sees himself holding the sorcerer's stone and putting it in his pocket. Where it magically appears. Quirrell undoes he turban to see that Voldemort is actually coming out of the back of his head. I found this part hilarious because Harry said he would have screamed if not for the circumstances. Anyways, Harry finds out that by simply touching Quirrell he gets hurt. Though in the movie, he starts dissintegrating, which doesn't happen in the book. Harry goes into a black out only to be awoken by Dumbledore, somedays later. They have a chat and Dumbledore also mentions that there are somethings that Harry cannot know yet. But he will answer his questions as best as he can. So Harry also finds out the reason that Quirrell couldn't touch him is because his mom sacrificed herself to save him which gave him love, which is something that Voldemort cannot touch. So the next day Harry has enough strength to go the the end of the year feast. Which is decorated in green for Slytherin since they had the most points. Now this next part is so emotionally heartfelt I'm just going to quote it from the book so you can get in on the action as well.
"Another year gone! And I must trouble you with an old mans wheezing waffle before we sink our teeth into our delicious feast. What a year it has been! Hopefully your head are all alittle fuller then they were... you have the whole summer ahead to get them nice and empty before next year starts... Now as I understand it, the house cup here needs awarding, and the points stand thus: In fourth place, Gryffindor, with 312 points; in third place, Hufflepuff, with 352 points; In 2nd place Ravenclaw, with 426 points; and in 1st place, Slytherin with 472 points. Yes, yes well done, Slytherin. However, recent events must be taken into account. I have a few last-minute points to dish out. 1st to Mr. Ronald Weasley...For the best played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years. I award Gryffindor 50 points. 2nd to Miss. Hermoine Granger...For the use of cool logic in the face of fire. I award Gryffindor 50 points. 3rd to Mr. Harry Potter...For pure nerve and outstanding courage. I award Gryffindor 60 points. (At this point Gryffindor is not tied with Slytherin). There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award 10 points to Mr. Neville Longbottom." That is an awesome speech!!! Gets me everytime. Anyways Gryffindor wins the house cup. Everyone leaves for the summer, and Ron promises to send Harry some notes over the summer and for them to meet up to hang out. So there you go that is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and next week I will start on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Nicholas Flamel and Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback

Alright so you find out in the beginning of chapter 13 is that Dumbledore convinced Harry not to go looking for the mirror again, and later Harry and the rest of the quidditch team are wondering why Wood keeps pushing them so hard for practice. But they find out that Snape is going to referee the next game of Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. Also of course they find out who Nicholas Flamel is. Harry remembers seeming his name on Albus Dumbledore's collectors card from the chocolate frogs. So you find out that Nicholas is 665 and that the Sorcerer's Stone turns things into gold, and gives the elixer of life. Which is why he is so old. (in the movie they don't mention his wife who happens to be 658). So of course at this time they find out that the 3-headed dog is guarding the Sorcerer's Stone. So not long later in the chapter the next quidditch game is about to start (by the way this whole part in the book is not in the movie, which probably should have since it seems to me to be pretty important). The game lasts 5 minutes, literally. Harry catches the snitch within 5 minutes of the game. Not letting Snape call any fouls on them. Also putting Gryffindor in the lead for the Quidditch Cup. After the game Harry saw a hooded figure rushing toward the forbidden forest. So of course Harry got on his Nimbus Two Thousand and soared over the Forbidden Forest. Seeing that Quirrell and Snape were talking (Snape was the hooded figure, by the way they kind of alter this part in the movie instead of their chat being in the Forbidden Forest, Harry actually sees Snape and Quirrell in the castle while he is wandering the halls after hours). Snape says "We'll have another little chat soon, when you've had time to think over and decided where your loyalties lie." Harry goes back to the common room and tells Hermione and Ron about it.
So in Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback you can obviously tell what is going on in this chapter, Hagrid gets hold of a dragon egg. (Hagrid tells Harry in the beginning of the book how much he's always wanted to raise a dragon). So pretty much Hagrid wins the dragon egg through a card game at the Hog's Head (a tavern in the town nearby). Hermoine is telling him that it is illegal to have a dragon. By the way Harry and the gang also find out everything blocking the sorcerer's stone, first up is Fluffy (3-Headed dog), then is Professor Sprout (the Herbology teacher), then Professor Flitwick (Charm's), Professor McGonagall (Transfiguration), Professor Quirrell (Defense against the Dark Arts), Professor Snape (Potions), and lastly Professor Dumbledore (do I have to say at this point? That's in order as well). So anyways Harry and the gang were talking about that the egg was hatching in Herbology and Malfoy overheard, which is obviously bad news because now they are under his palm. So they quickly find a way to get rid of the dragon, Charlie (Ron's brother), and they must wait till the next saturday to get rid of it. So Hagrid has the dragon for a few weeks. Harry and the gang go to bring the dragon to the tallest tower at midnight to get rid of him. On their way up there McGonagall finds Malfoy lurking (Malfoy gets a book from Ron, which contains the note that is sent by Charlie to meet him up there at midnight). They get rid of the dragon and forget the invisibility cloak in the tower, and Filch catches them.

The Mirror of Erised

So in the beginning of this chapter it is the start of Christmas time, the snow has just fallen, and people are having fun. Ron tries to attack Malfoy for insulting his family. But Snape somehow appears (like he usually always does), and takes points away for it. Something I've noticed is that their point system in the book seems to be unfair. For example when the troll incident happened McGonagall herself took points away from Gryffindor, but Snape though you haven't seen him take any points away from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, I can almost guarantee he takes just as much points away from them, that he does Gryffindor. Also that he probably has never taken any points away from Slytherin. Unfair, I think so. Hermoine goes off for the holiday's and Ron stays because his parents were going off to Egypt to visit their son Charlie (or Ron's oldest brother). Harry learns Wizard's chess (just moving pieces compared to normal chess), and also that you can't go into the restricted section of the library without a referral from a teacher. So later in the chapter Christmas hits and Harry has a bunch of presents waiting for him in front of his desk. So Harry gets a maroon sweater from Ron's mom, and also an invisibility cloak from an anonymous person. All the note said was "use it well" and that it belonged to his father. So throughout the whole day Harry kept thinking about this one thing. That night he figured out that he can go anywhere throughout the whole school and nobody would be able to see him. So believe it or not he goes out. Pulls a screaming book in the restricted section trying to search for something about Nicholas Flamel, runs from Filch, and Snape, and finds this room. It looks like an unused classroom, and his attention goes to this mirror kind of out of the way. He looks in and sees people that at first he doesn't recognize. His family. His parents behind him and his grandparents also (there's more people but it doesn't say who they are so i'm not going to assume that I know). But he goes to bed and goes back the next night with Ron. Ron though sees himself as Head Boy, the captain of the Quidditch team, holding the house cup, and holding the Quidditch cup. So the next night Harry goes by himself. He's starting to get mezmorized by the fact that his family is here. He goes in and only after a few moments of gazing into the mirror. Dumbledore talks to Harry. He tells him what the Mirror does. That people have gone mad gazing into the mirror, and that he should not go looking for it since it is leaving the next day. So my question about this last part is, what does the mirror of erised have to do with the story line? Is it going into more detail about what's going on in Harry's head. Or did she simply want to include another chapter? I have tried to look up these questions on google. But so far I have not found review on why J.K. Rowling wrote some of the parts. If anybody out there does know. I'd very much like for someone to leave me a comment about it.

Quidditch

Alright so chapter 11 is all about quidditch, except for seeing Snape's leg the he hurt trying to "get past the 3 headed dog". But otherwise Gryffindor and Slytherin play in the 1st match of the season. Harry's broom gets jynxed by who they think is Snape (Hagrid keeps denying that it is). And Harry catches the golden snitch in his mouth. Winning Gryffindor their first game! By the way between the movie and the book. Harry kind of fell into the snitch, not even going after it in the book. In the movie he was chasing the snitch when he leaned forward to much and accidentally caught it in his mouth.

By the way if anybody's got a suggestion on something, or has a question for me just let me know. Thanks for reading

The Duel, and Halloween

Alright so the book is flying by pretty quickly. At the beginning of Chapter 9 the Gryffindor's and the Slytherin's are in the same flying class. So to sum this up Neville loses control of his broom and falls from a great height breaking his wrist (in the movie they greatly exaggerate this part from what happened in the book), Malfoy picks up Neville's rememberal (glows red if you've forgotten something). Anyway Malfoy starts flying with the broomstick taunting Harry, Harry goes after him. Malfoy throws the rememberal and Harry goes after it to catch it. Harry must make a terrifying dive to catch it. In which he does right in front of Professor McGonagall's window. So she comes down and fetches Potter (remember that the flying instructor said that if anybody is caught flying they'd be instantly expelled). Potter is rewarded becoming the new seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch, where Harry meets the captain, Oliver Wood. In the movie Harry is sent a Nimbus 2000 the newest broomstick model at his table from an anonomous person. But in the book it is sent to him and he must open it away from every one because knowing that 1st years aren't allowed to have broomsticks, and it was sent by McGonagall. One more thing this part in the movie is not till after the Halloween incident. Which obviously happens before in the book. So next Malfoy challenges Harry to a duel at midnight in the trophy room in the book. So obviously Harry and Ron go. Hermoine follows because she is trying to convince them not to, and Neville goes along too because once they leave the common room, Neville is laying on the ground because he couldn't remember the new password. But it turns out that Malfoy lied and Filch was trying to catch them which he never did. But in the mean time, the 4 of them go into the room that Dumbledore explained at the beginning of the year not to go into. But there is a 3 headed dog in there. In the movie Harry, Ron and Hermoine were together, going to the common room and the stairs switch on them. Which they go through the door finding the 3 headed dogs, trying to hide from Filch's cat.
In chapter 10 in the beginning, Harry gets his broomstick. And the class in Charms start learning a spell called Wingardium Leviosa, which is a levitation spell. Later Quirrell runs into the Great Hall, Halloween night. Yelling that there is a troll in the dungeon. Harry and Ron are on their way to the Gryffindor common room when they remember that Hermoine is in the girls bathroom crying (shes been in there all day, because Ron was talking bad about her and she overheard). Anyways when they get there the troll is in there trying to attack Hermoine. So to make a long story short. Harry sticks his wand up the trolls nose, and Ron uses Wingardium Leviosa to drop the trolls club on its head, knocking it out. Moments later McGonagall, Snape, and Quirrell (surprisingly the same people in the movie), walked in and McGonagall was furious. Hermoine lied saying that she had gone after the troll to get Harry and Ron out of trouble. McGonagall take 5 points, then awards Harry and Ron 5 points for being brave to take on a fully grown Mountain troll and surviving. From that point on Ron and Harry were officially Hermoine's friend. Something I want to add. They treat Hermoine like crap. They both make bad comments and don't care about her feelings. You'd think that since Harry was grown up with that, that he'd know how it feels to do it to somebody else. Just sayin'