The Harry Potter Re-Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Chapter 15: Save the Unicorns!

Hello everyone, I'm back again, it's bee a while, since at least last year. I will try to keep my updates consistent but I make no promises especially with the way my computer's been acting lately (chrome froze and shut down and I reopened it and I lost about half of what I had open *growl*) but anyway. I will be taking a week long hiatus from the blog around February 3rd ish but for the time being I'm back (I'll try to update once a week or once every couple of days). Also, as you can see I've changed my blog template, so let me know in comments what you think.

Summary:

Alright,  in this chapter we see the aftermath of the incident with Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon. Well in this chapter they are assigned detention (Neville, Draco, Hermione and Harry) for wandering the school after dark and telling "cockamamie" stories about dragons. So, naturally they all have detention. After dark. At 11 o'clock at night. The exact reason they got detention in the first place. They are led down to Hagrid's hut by Filch and they go into the forest (!!) for their detention. Hagrid splits them up (Neville and Draco together and Hermione and Harry together) but obviously that goes south because Draco and Neville is just a bad combination to begin with. So Harry goes with Draco and they venture into the forest to find the injured unicorn. Well, Draco and Harry find it alright and there is something drinking it's blood. Draco takes Fang and scarpers but Harry falls to his knees with searing pain in his scar. He is rescued by the centaur named Firenze and taken back to Hagrid. Back in Gryffindor tower he tells Hermione and Ron about it and they come to the conclusion that as long as Dumbledore's around Harry will be safe from the Dark Lord.

Review:

Alright, so this chapter really sets up for the end of the book in 2 chapters, obviously they're still way off base with who is behind it, as they still think it's Snape but they know there's nothing really they can do about it. What makes no sense to me, they got detention in the first place for wandering around the castle after dark so obviously the only suitable detention is to wander around after dark. Not only that but in the Forbidden Forest, which is expressly forbidden to Students because it's dangerous in there. Also, I think everyone noticed that Professor McGonagall went a little overboard with the points thing, like, wandering the castle after dark I'd get maybe 20 pints, or 15 points each but not 50. She also acted a lot more shocked than she should have. (Like, really, you've never, not once heard of 4 students out of bed roaming the halls at night, not ever, let's go with that.) Actually this chapter is really good for delving sort of into the way that Dumbledore's mind works especially since he'd probably have to approve the detention to go into the forest at night. Anyway, I think this chapter was really good for setting up for the last 2 chapters, even if the dynamics don't really make to much sense to my mind.

Well that's all for me tonight folks, again let me know what you think of my new blog template and as always book recommendations are always welcome in the comments.