Sunday, January 30, 2011

Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone 280-309

In chapter sixteen, Through the Trap Door, Harry, Hermoine and Ron all go deep into the undergrounds of Hogwarts. They go through many different rooms, one for each teacher and a spell that is specific in their field of wizardry. For example, Snape had Potions, Professor Sprout had Devils Snare and Professor McGonilgal had the wizard chess set. In each of the rooms Harry, Hermoine and Ron had to make special sacrifices to go to the next level. In the last room it ended up being just Harry and Hermoine because Ron had stayed to finish the game of wizard chess. Harry went through to the final level, Dumbledores level by himself where he found professor Quirrell.
In chapter seventeen, The Man with Two Faces, Harry meets professor Quirell in the last room and discovers that the whole time he had suspected Snape doing all of the terrible things and trying to steal the Sorcerers stone that it was really Professor Quirrell all along. Harry soon realizes that it is not only Professor Quirrell in the room and that behind the turban that Quirrell wears is the face of lord Voldemort. Harry, petrified, does not know what to do. Meanwhile, Quirrell is in the room trying to figure out Dumbledores trick to the room, where the Mirror of Elixor is. The very mirror Harry saw his parents in except this time when he looks he sees the Sorcerers Stone in his pocket, and as soon as he sees the stone in his pocket, he feels the stone in his pocket. This begins a battle between Harry and Quirrell over the stone, where Harry realizes that he has the ability to burn Quirrell just by touching him because of the love his mother gave him and the special spell she gave him right before she was killed by Voldemort. Before the fight is even over the book switches to Harry in the hospital wing, where he wakes up to Dumbledore who tells him that Dumbledore had came when he was fighting Quirrell and helped him defeat him and Voldemort and that the stone was safe, but was being destroyed. And for Nicholas Flamel he was going to die, however he had accepted his fate and was happy. In the end for Harrys bravery he won Gryffindor 60 house points and gained all of his Gryffindor friends back. With Harry, Hermoine, Ron and Neviles points combined they put Gryffindor into the lead and won the house cup!!
In the end I feel that this book was a pretty easy read, it did not have any complicated vocabulary. I really enjoyed the plot of the book and felt that JK did an excellent way of explaining the wizarding world. Overall, I loved the book and I am looking foreword to reading the rest of the series although I don't think that they will be next on my reading list.

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