Hi all I'm back! I moved into a new place last week and we just got our Wi-fi going, like yesterday. I have never had so many Facebook notifications OMG.
Author's not: Sorry guys, I'm back again though! School got crazy and then I had neck problems...but it's all good, I can update now!
Summary:
So, this chapter is interesting. In the book it Christmas Holidays and, Harry, having no where to go (except back to the Dursley's and we all agree that's not happening so he stays behind at Hogwarts. But he's not alone, while Hermione o's off home for the holidays, Ron, Fred, George and Percy stay behind because Arthur and Molly are off visiting Charlie in Romania. (OK, this is something I never got, how expensive can a portkey be to make/have made? Like, they may Portkeys out of literally anything and they couldn't have used one to take the entire family to Romania? They can stay on the dragon reserve. The wizarding world doesn't have expensive methods of travel like the muggle one, it's not like their taking an aeroplane).
So, Christmas, Hermione prompted them, before she left, to attempt to look in the restricted section of the library for Nicholas Flamel, naturally under the watchful eye of Madame Pince the librarian that's not going to happen so they forget about it for a couple of days until Christmas morning. Harry is bewildered that he has presents and obviously he's got something from Mrs. Weasley because Ron mentioned that he wasn't expecting anything.
OK, so he gets a bunch of stuff including a Weasley jumper and fudge but most importantly he gets his father's invisibility cloak with a mysterious note "You father left this in my possession before he died, use it well." and he goes off and looks in the library at night but almost gets caught and ends up in an abandoned classroom with a mirror in it, so he looks in the mirror and sees his hearts erised...erm...desire...naturally much sneaking around after dark ensues...
Review:
So, this one...I love this chapter...but it does raise some questions. What I love, Molly Weasley just sends Harry a Weasley jumper, she met him once when she showed him how to get on to the platform but when Ron told her that he probably wasn't expecting anything from those muggles she sent him a sweater and some fudge! Also, Hagrid, who's known him, properly anyway, for like, 3 days, makes him a wooden flute with his own two hands. But it does raise some questions...why would James Potter leave the invisibility cloak in Dumbledore's possession? What's his motivation? The cloak had been in his family for generations and Dumbledore wants to study it so he can borrow it, fine whatever? I know by this point he probably has the elder wand and has his suspicions about this all powerful cloak but really? also, who sends a gift with a cryptic note to an 11 year old and hopes that he won't turn it in. That same thing happens in book 3 (the Firebolt) and look how well that turned out. Granted the cloak should have come to Harry to begin with but he could have put it in Harry's vault. (less dramatic I know but less chance it'll get turned in to one of the teachers for being a mysterious cloak that someone sent me with no name on the note). It also raises a question about Mrs. Weasley. Did she send a Weasley jumper and fudge to all of her children's best friends (like Lee Jordan for instance) or was it just Harry?
I'm rambling. Although it also raises some other questions. Harry is the boy-who-lived, he should have been getting fan mail out the wazoo, what happened to it all? I get that Dumbledore doesn't want dozens of owls converging on little Whinging to give him his fan mail but he should have at least got it when he came to Hogwarts! And what about letters and parcels from his uncle Remus? Presumably Remus didn't just go abroad and have no contact with Harry till he turned 13.
I really did love this chapter, especially that the first thing Harry does with the invisibility cloak was sneak in to the restricted section of the library after curfew...a very Ravenclaw thing to do if I do say so my self.
That's all for now folks, I'll try to keep updating more regularly but I make no promises, especially since I'm working at Oktoberfest next week (I'm so excited!!)
I'm probably just being nit picky with this chapter, other than that I really did love it
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