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HP book 1, ch.3 & 4
Mar. 10th, 2025 03:33 amSpoilers very possible!
Random thoughts & questions (increasingly sort of doing my own narrative as we go along) for chapter 3 of Sorceror's Stone:
Mr H Potter
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
4 Privet Dr
Little Whinging, Surrey
*Addendum: "Cokeworth" sounded somehow familiar to me so I never bothered to look it up all this time, but apparently it's not actually a real place - it's the fictional industrial city where Lily's family and Snape's family are supposed to have grown up!
Random thoughts & questions (increasingly sort of doing my own narrative as we go along) for chapter 3 of Sorceror's Stone:
- Harry's never been to the zoo?? I know not everybody has parents who take them to the zoo, but do British schools not do field trips?
- I'm guessing "knickerbocker glory" is an ice cream sundae
- Harry has a dream about a flying motorbike (does he remember riding with Hagrid long ago??)
- I assume the "tiny man in a violet hat" would be Diggle, right?
- "secondary" school starts at 11. (I have no real understanding of British schools at all, if I haven't already made that obvious!) - anyway, Harry is meant to go to Stonewall High while Dudley goes to Smeltings
Mr H Potter
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
4 Privet Dr
Little Whinging, Surrey
- Yellowish parchment and emerald-green ink - I assume that's Prof McGonagall's favorite ink color there. The coat of arms (in purple wax) has a lion, eagle, badger, & snake - with an H, of course.
- The Dursleys apparently don't want anybody to know that Harry has been sleeping in the closet all this time?
- It bothers me that we're told that Dudley threw his tortoise through the greenhouse roof, but not whether the tortoise is ok (which I'm guessing means that it is not okay)
- And I also want to know who can see inside the house the next day, so that they can address the second letter to "The Smallest Bedroom" rather than the cupboard? (house-elves, maybe?)
- 3rd day - Harry gets three letters, & he steps on his uncle guarding the letter-box; later it's nailed shut
- 4th day (which is Friday) - 12 letters, all in different places, but his uncle still finds them and burns them
- 5th day - 24 letters, all inside the eggs
- 6th day (Sunday) - there's no post so this is when they come down the chimney.
- At midnight there's a BOOM. (D. says, half-asleep, "Where's the cannon?") I love that Hagrid knocks the door down but then puts it back.
- Unlike in the movie, he knows which kid is Harry.
- The final letter says "Mr H Potter, The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock, The Sea"
- Rubeus Hagrid's title is Keeper of Grounds and Keys
- Things he takes out of his coat: kettle, sausages, poker, teapot, mugs, a flask (at least that's what I assume it is - a bottle containing "an amber liquid")
- Hagrid is stunned to lean that Harry knows nothing about Hogwarts or magic or how his parents actually died
- Dumbledore's titles, as given in the letter: Order of Merlin, First Class; Grand Sorcerer; Chief Warlock; Supreme Mugwump, Int'l Confederation of Wizards
- (what on earth is a mugwump, anyway?)
- Hagrid especially didn't expect to have to explain Voldemort - and also, he can't spell it, he says
- Harry's parents were Head Boy and Girl
- Harry sleeps that night under Hagrid's coat (which may have a couple of dormice in it)
*Addendum: "Cokeworth" sounded somehow familiar to me so I never bothered to look it up all this time, but apparently it's not actually a real place - it's the fictional industrial city where Lily's family and Snape's family are supposed to have grown up!
