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Friday, 10 July 2015

The Harry Potter Re-Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Chapter 8: Snape, Snape, Severus Snape

Spoilers Ahead: Read with Caution

Hi all I'm Back! It's been a while but life's been busy, again, and I've been working on a couple of projects I've had going for a while, and  couple new ones. I will attempt to keep a regular updating schedule but as usual I make no promises.

Summary:

This chapter starts off as an ordinary day at Hogwarts, people wandering around trying to get to their first classes of the year, doubling back to get a good look at the Boy-Who-Lived and his friend...oh wait, that's unusual, and confusing I'd imagine. They find their classes and you meet Professor Flitwick, the charms professor, who falls off his stack of books taking role when he reached Harry's name. Professor McGonagall who changed her desk into a pig and back and set them to learning how to transfigure matchsticks into needles. and the potions master, Professor Snape. Who seems to loathe Harry just for existing, and asks him questions no first year (except maybe Hermione) would know the answer to. At the feast Harry got the terrible feeling that professor Snape may not like him, despite not having met him before, he was wrong of course, professor Snape absolutely hates him through no fault of his own. Other than meeting the professors not really much happens in this chapter.

Review:

This chapter is mostly exposition and setting the scene for late chapters with the relationships between characters, mostly the teachers and our favourite trio of not-yet-friends. Personally I don't like the way Snape treats Harry or Neville but you're not supposed to. Although I kind of do understand the need to terrify you class a bit especially in a potions lab. Anything that were to happen, like a cauldron explosion, could be disastrous, like in a chemistry lab. All in all it's a good chapter if a bit introduction heavy.

That's all for now folks, I'll be back soon with the next chapter review, hopefully it's less than a month this time...until then keep reading, and writing and comment!

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