happy_hannah
02-05-2007, 01:10
okay, now for a proper post on my re-read of philosophers stone. first of all i have to mention just how much of a childrens book i found it compared to the rest, it so short! but even still it is packed with so much i never noticed.
1. I love the beginning narration 'this is where our story starts', i was so used to harry's point of view that this threw me off guard, and i wondered, is this how the book will end as well, e.g 'and here we finish our story about harry potter, the boy with the scar' -or something like that?
2. when hagrid comes he mentions two key things to harry about his history, one his parents were killed by voldemort on halloween and harry's scar is a result of a dark curse touching him which also apparently took care of the house ('pulled you out of the rubble me'self'). now i know hagrids knowledge of spells and their effects may be limited owing to his expulsion from hogwarts , but can we presume he is correct and that the avada kedavra curse blew up the house? or was it perhaps the backfire of a horcrux spell? (the killing of harry being the seventh splitting of voldemorts soul to put into an object? perhaps the locket...?)
how will the fact that his parents were killed on halloween play into DH?
3. firenze-again, i know but i am obsessed with what he tells harry in the forest, namely 'the planets have been read wrongly before now, i hope for your sake this is one of those times' (not exact words). it frustrated me to no end whether he was talking about the end of PS/SS or the end of the septology? i am inclined to hope that his 'planets have been read wrongly before...' bit is true, and hermione also says that mcgonagall told her divination is a very imprecise brand of magic. On one hand we have trewlaney who did make a real prophecy but in every other case i do not think we should trust fortune telling and planet reading too much.
4. hagrid kisses mcgonagall on the cheek at christmas lunch and she giggles , sorry i had to add this, gross!
5. there is a lot of mention of 'in years to come' and 'harry would never understand' etc, which made me think he indeed lives.
6. hagrid also says voldemort didnt have enough human left in him to die...horcrux foreshadowing!
Just general thoughts now, the forest scene where harry see's voldemort/quirrel drinking the unicorn blood, the hooded creature is described as 'crawling out of the bush towards the unicorn' that scared me so much! what a creepy image. There is also so much reference to harry comparing the wizarding world to the muggle world, he also says there were spiders in his cupboard. for some reason when i read that i envisioned a 'and harry woke up in his cupboard, it was all a dream' kind of ending, only because he was obviously treated so horribly who wouldnt want to escape it?
1. I love the beginning narration 'this is where our story starts', i was so used to harry's point of view that this threw me off guard, and i wondered, is this how the book will end as well, e.g 'and here we finish our story about harry potter, the boy with the scar' -or something like that?
2. when hagrid comes he mentions two key things to harry about his history, one his parents were killed by voldemort on halloween and harry's scar is a result of a dark curse touching him which also apparently took care of the house ('pulled you out of the rubble me'self'). now i know hagrids knowledge of spells and their effects may be limited owing to his expulsion from hogwarts , but can we presume he is correct and that the avada kedavra curse blew up the house? or was it perhaps the backfire of a horcrux spell? (the killing of harry being the seventh splitting of voldemorts soul to put into an object? perhaps the locket...?)
how will the fact that his parents were killed on halloween play into DH?
3. firenze-again, i know but i am obsessed with what he tells harry in the forest, namely 'the planets have been read wrongly before now, i hope for your sake this is one of those times' (not exact words). it frustrated me to no end whether he was talking about the end of PS/SS or the end of the septology? i am inclined to hope that his 'planets have been read wrongly before...' bit is true, and hermione also says that mcgonagall told her divination is a very imprecise brand of magic. On one hand we have trewlaney who did make a real prophecy but in every other case i do not think we should trust fortune telling and planet reading too much.
4. hagrid kisses mcgonagall on the cheek at christmas lunch and she giggles , sorry i had to add this, gross!
5. there is a lot of mention of 'in years to come' and 'harry would never understand' etc, which made me think he indeed lives.
6. hagrid also says voldemort didnt have enough human left in him to die...horcrux foreshadowing!
Just general thoughts now, the forest scene where harry see's voldemort/quirrel drinking the unicorn blood, the hooded creature is described as 'crawling out of the bush towards the unicorn' that scared me so much! what a creepy image. There is also so much reference to harry comparing the wizarding world to the muggle world, he also says there were spiders in his cupboard. for some reason when i read that i envisioned a 'and harry woke up in his cupboard, it was all a dream' kind of ending, only because he was obviously treated so horribly who wouldnt want to escape it?