Saturday, October 16, 2010
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.
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I remember that. In the movie they place a lot of the attention on Ginny in that scene, but I can't remember if the same is true in the book.
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