Hey All I'm back. So it turns out I am able to post another review fairly soon after the last one (contrary to my earlier opinion) But I can tell you that I maybe not be able to post next week so by all means count this as next weeks post if I am unable to post. So, without further rambling ado, Chapter 11! We're almost done book 1!
Summary:
OK, So, in this chapter Harry is busy with classes and, most importantly, Quidditch! It's finally time for the first Quidditch match of the season, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin of course, and naturally the Slytherins are helping so much with that. While Harry is panicking the match starts and everything is going fine until it doesn't anymore. Harry's broom starts to try and throw him off. Naturally the Quidditch team (read Fred and George), does everything they can to try and get him down but nothing works and the more they try the higher his broom goes. So they settle for circling under him to catch him should he fall. Meanwhile in the stands Hermione and Ron have spotted this and try scan the crowd for any sign of, well, anything. They settle on the teachers stand and they think it's Snape that's trying to unseat him. So, having leapt to a conclusion Hermione goes to do something about it. She sets Severus' robes on fire and in her haste to get to him she knock's Quirrel over into the seat in front of him, breaking his eye contact. Thus the day is saved. Or so we think, Harry does a mad dive toward the ground and it turns out he's swallowed the snitch! Gryffindor wins!!! Thus ends the Quidditch match.
Review: I really like this chapter because I love Quidditch. Also Lee Jordan's commentary gives me unrealistic expectations for sports commentary. It's pretty great. I love his Quidditch commentary. It's wonderful, especially when he screams about the Slytherins and McGonagall has to get involved. It's a very interesting commentary and I can sort of picture Remus Lupin doing a semblance of the same thing if he did Quidditch commentary in his school days, maybe less biased, just a bit, but no less entertaining.
Anyway, back to the meat of the chapter. So, obviously when Hermione and Ron are scanning the audience for whoever is jinxing Harry's broom, Snape would be the obvious conclusion, he was muttering the countercurse, his mouth was moving and Quirrel's wasn't. However, saving a friends life or not, is setting him on fire really the way to do it? yes it was an admittedly effective distraction but really? I digress. I'd like to point out that Hermione and Ron both learn the leg locker curse after Malfoy uses it on Neville to use on Snape should he try something like that again when he referees their next Quidditch match. But that's a couple chapters on. What I'll never understand about this match. Harry's broom is trying to throw him off. He's in the air and fairly far away from anyone else. Why didn't Anyone do anything about his bucking broomstick? Yes Severus is muttering a countercurse but he's barely holding his own but you've got the likes of McGonagall not doing squat! They're just sitting there! Surely together they could get Harry down faster. But of course nothing makes sense in the wizarding world apparently. Apart from the lack of sense the wizarding world makes this chapter is really good, I love Quidditch and this chapter is what made me love the sport so much.
That's all for now folks! I will attempt to update next week (I may have to go on to University campus for wifi/internet but if I don't get a chance I will update the week after.) See you next time!
Friday, 28 August 2015
Sunday, 23 August 2015
The Harry Potter Re-Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Chapter 10: Troll in the Dungeons?
Hi everyone I'm back, I went on holiday for a couple of days and I'm not going to be able to update for another week either, starting tomorrow I won't have internet. Either way, here's the next chapter! I can't believe we're still on the first book, I need to work faster. So, without further ado, Chapter 10!
Summary:
This chapter starts with the aftermath of the non-existent midnight duel when Draco (our favourite Slytherin) When he tries to get Harry and Ron kicked out of Hogwarts by inciting a midnight duel in the trophy room. Needless to say he's more than a little shocked to see them still there the next day and he further attempts to get them in trouble when Harry gets his new broomstick but that bears no fruit for him as the teachers know. Later in the chapter Hermione is sent crying after charms class because of a remark made by a fellow student *cough* Ron, *cough* However Ron resolves to apologize to Hermione in their next lesson (with a little coaxing from our resident, bespectacled, hero) but she isn't there. They learn from a classmate (Neville in the movie) that she's been in the girls bathroom crying all day. They were going to look for her but the Halloween feast drives the fact that Ron made her cry from their minds. Fortunately they come to their senses (if a little late) when Quirrel faints, exclaiming to the great hall about a Troll in the dungeon. ("How did a troll get in? they're really stupid") So they go to her rescue, and almost get killed themselves when they come face to face with the troll, who they had locked in the girls bathroom with Hermione. Well, they get awarded some points for "Sheer dumb luck" and move on with their lives and their Halloween feast. But from then on they were friends. And that's how the Golden Trio came to be kids!
Review:
I always liked this chapter, mainly because Halloween is one of my favourite holidays (it helps that my birthday is Devil's Night). Although, reading it back I still wonder why the prefects don't have lists of students for emergencies like this. it would have been so much easier to find out that there were 3 first years missing. Or, if someone (namely Hermione's next class teacher (McGonagall I think)) had noticed she was missing. I know in our muggle schools, especially at 11, attendance is still taken in each class, even just comparing the class list with the number of students they would have noticed she was missing and she might never have almost died. Like, you'd think the professors would notice that a student is missing and not just assume she's in the hospital wing or whatever. That was always a point I wondered on. The rest of what happens in this chapter isn't much, they knock out a troll, Harry almost dies, nothing new.I do like how they chose to tackle the troll though. It might have seemed a little foolhardy of Ron to attempt a spell he had been previously unsuccessful with but he does it, not only to save his own life but to save the life of a classmate, two classmates if you want to be literal. In doing so, using a spell he had been previously unsuccessful with, with tutelage from Hermione of course, he saved the lives of his two friends. I mean, Harry helped but ll he really he did was jump on the trolls back and show his wand up its nose, like he did with Uncle Vernon at the beginning for a Hogwarts letter but that's really all he did. I like this chapter because Ron, even though he doesn't particularly like Hermione at first, it takes more than a little encouragement from Harry but he does go to save her life and they both realize that, despite her tendency to sound like a textbook on occasion, she's good to have as a friend and I think that their more than a little good for her too in the end. (remember in book 5 Hermione is the one to suggest starting the DA.)
This marks my next update, tune in next time to find out what else happens to our intrepid heroes.
A/N this was supposed to be posted before i went on vacation but I never got the chance. Also, I might not get a chance to update next week or for a bit but there will be an update coming at some point.
Summary:
This chapter starts with the aftermath of the non-existent midnight duel when Draco (our favourite Slytherin) When he tries to get Harry and Ron kicked out of Hogwarts by inciting a midnight duel in the trophy room. Needless to say he's more than a little shocked to see them still there the next day and he further attempts to get them in trouble when Harry gets his new broomstick but that bears no fruit for him as the teachers know. Later in the chapter Hermione is sent crying after charms class because of a remark made by a fellow student *cough* Ron, *cough* However Ron resolves to apologize to Hermione in their next lesson (with a little coaxing from our resident, bespectacled, hero) but she isn't there. They learn from a classmate (Neville in the movie) that she's been in the girls bathroom crying all day. They were going to look for her but the Halloween feast drives the fact that Ron made her cry from their minds. Fortunately they come to their senses (if a little late) when Quirrel faints, exclaiming to the great hall about a Troll in the dungeon. ("How did a troll get in? they're really stupid") So they go to her rescue, and almost get killed themselves when they come face to face with the troll, who they had locked in the girls bathroom with Hermione. Well, they get awarded some points for "Sheer dumb luck" and move on with their lives and their Halloween feast. But from then on they were friends. And that's how the Golden Trio came to be kids!
Review:
I always liked this chapter, mainly because Halloween is one of my favourite holidays (it helps that my birthday is Devil's Night). Although, reading it back I still wonder why the prefects don't have lists of students for emergencies like this. it would have been so much easier to find out that there were 3 first years missing. Or, if someone (namely Hermione's next class teacher (McGonagall I think)) had noticed she was missing. I know in our muggle schools, especially at 11, attendance is still taken in each class, even just comparing the class list with the number of students they would have noticed she was missing and she might never have almost died. Like, you'd think the professors would notice that a student is missing and not just assume she's in the hospital wing or whatever. That was always a point I wondered on. The rest of what happens in this chapter isn't much, they knock out a troll, Harry almost dies, nothing new.I do like how they chose to tackle the troll though. It might have seemed a little foolhardy of Ron to attempt a spell he had been previously unsuccessful with but he does it, not only to save his own life but to save the life of a classmate, two classmates if you want to be literal. In doing so, using a spell he had been previously unsuccessful with, with tutelage from Hermione of course, he saved the lives of his two friends. I mean, Harry helped but ll he really he did was jump on the trolls back and show his wand up its nose, like he did with Uncle Vernon at the beginning for a Hogwarts letter but that's really all he did. I like this chapter because Ron, even though he doesn't particularly like Hermione at first, it takes more than a little encouragement from Harry but he does go to save her life and they both realize that, despite her tendency to sound like a textbook on occasion, she's good to have as a friend and I think that their more than a little good for her too in the end. (remember in book 5 Hermione is the one to suggest starting the DA.)
This marks my next update, tune in next time to find out what else happens to our intrepid heroes.
A/N this was supposed to be posted before i went on vacation but I never got the chance. Also, I might not get a chance to update next week or for a bit but there will be an update coming at some point.
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