Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

by J.K. Rowling

‘Oh,’ he said. ‘I didn’t realise it had to be so wet.’ ‘Don’t be stupid,’ snapped Aunt Petunia. ‘I’m dyeing some of Dudley’s old things grey for you.

Oh my god

Who would? He had no friends, no other relatives

The Cupboard under the Stairs

They know he lives under the stairs & they dont think that's the least bit odd ?

The envelope was thick and heavy, made of yellowish parchment, and the address was written in emerald-green ink. There was no stamp.

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’.

‘I’m not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn’t we swear when we took him in we’d stamp out that dangerous nonsense?’

It only took Harry one trip upstairs to move everything he owned from the cupboard to this room.

Dudley had swapped at school for a real air-rifle, which was up on a shelf with the end all bent because Dudley had sat on it.

The Smallest Bedroom,

Aunt Petunia shredded the letters in her food mixer.

Why???

Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets.

Hogwarts is so dramatic holy shit

Uncle Vernon seized Harry around the waist and threw him into the hall.

Of course, his birthdays were never exactly fun – last year, the Dursleys had given him a coat-hanger and a pair of Uncle Vernon’s old socks.

which was dangling over the edge of the sofa on his fat wrist,

The descriptioms are so unnecessary

maybe he’d wake Dudley up, just to annoy him

I feel like this is one of the things we really lost in the movies - Harry's inner monologue. Hes such a shit-stirer and we never got to see that on-screen

A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair.

Harry looked up into the fierce, wild, shadowy face and saw that the beetle eyes were crinkled in a smile.

‘Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh’ve got yer mum’s eyes.’

Hagrid was probably the first person to say this to Harry. Most likely this is some of the first information Harry ever got about his parents.

and began taking all sorts of things out of the pockets of his coat:

Plot twist: Hagrid is Mary Poppins

‘Yer great puddin’ of a son don’ need fattenin’ any more, Dursley, don’ worry.’

I mean you're not wrong, but that's still a HORRIBLE thing to say in front of Dudley, especially since they're talking about him. He's only 11, it's not his fault, the blame lies entirely with his parents.

‘Call me Hagrid,’ he said, ‘everyone does. An’ like I told yeh, I’m Keeper of Keys at Hogwarts

Hagrid looked shocked. ‘Sorry,’ Harry said quickly.

‘Do you mean ter tell me,’ he growled at the Dursleys, ‘that this boy – this boy! – knows nothin’ abou’ – about ANYTHING?’

Why does he not know this? You can't tell me NO ONE ever kept tabs on Harry or checked up on The Boy Who Lived. I call bull.

‘I know some things,’ he said. ‘I can, you know, do maths and stuff.’

Well, he probably knows more than the other kids then, if you think about it. They never really do math at Hogwarts. Is there a really intense pre-school programme that they go through before their Wizarding education?? Or, is that too "muggle"?

‘Harry – yer a wizard.’

‘Gallopin’ Gorgons, that reminds me,’ said Hagrid,

Ngl, I never understood why Hagrid was the one sent to get Harry. I love him, but it always seemed like an odd choice.

Harry realised his mouth was open and closed it quickly.

I feel like this represents Harry throughout the entire series tbh.

‘A what?’ said Harry, interested. ‘A Muggle,’ said Hagrid. ‘It’s what we call non-magic folk like them. An’ it’s your bad luck you grew up in a family o’ the biggest Muggles I ever laid eyes on.’

Without any context from the Fantastic Beasts series, the dialogue just makes the Wizarding community seem like the biggest race of racists you've ever seen.

‘We swore when we took him in we’d put a stop to that rubbish,’

It's amazing how much of the dialogue was in the 1st movie script! Can you imagine if that'd carried through the entire movie series?!?

turning teacups into rats.

Because the underage wizardry rule clearly didn't apply to Lily Potter???

But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!’

This is sad of you think about it but really, it doesn't excuse her actions as an ADULT!

and of course I knew you’d be just the same, just as strange, just as – as – abnormal –

This is a horrible thing to say to an 11 year old kid

‘How could a car crash kill Lily an’ James Potter?

It's amazing to me that the parents are so "famous"/popular, i guess their teenage personas took over their legacy because that's all they really had but, really, they were kids how could they be so well known and to this standard? I don't quite understand what I'm saying yet but i think it's strange the way that people talk about amd seem to idolise Lily and James Potter.

‘I never expected this,’

Poor Hagrid, there is no doubt in my mind that Dumbledore knew that Harry was in this situation. So, to make Hagrid have to do this is HORRIBLE.

‘I had no idea, when Dumbledore told me there might be trouble gettin’ hold of yeh, how much yeh didn’t know.

‘It begins, I suppose, with – with a person called – but it’s incredible yeh don’t know his name, everyone in our world knows –’

’Course, some stood up to him – an’ he killed ’em.

‘Now, yer mum an’ dad were as good a witch an’ wizard as I ever knew. Head Boy an’ Girl at Hogwarts in their day!

‘But it’s that sad – knew yer mum an’ dad, an’ nicer people yeh couldn’t find – anyway –

So weird how they're idolised. Is it because they were basically kids??

Took yeh from the ruined house myself,

Dumbledore’s orders.

The wording around Dumbledore is pretty wild

‘I accept there’s something strange about you, probably nothing a good beating wouldn’t have cured

There was somethin’ goin’ on that night he hadn’t counted on

clouted by Dudley and bullied by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon;

If he’d once defeated the greatest sorcerer in the world, how come Dudley had always been able to kick him around like a football?

A valid question. Unfortunately, the answer is because you're too nice of a kid.

Now he came to think about it … every odd thing that had ever made his aunt and uncle furious with him had happened when he, Harry, had been upset or angry … chased by Dudley’s gang, he had somehow found himself out of their reach …

Further proof that it was always Harry's instinct to protect himself and not fight back.

‘He’s going to Stonewall High and he’ll be grateful for it.

I've never really thought about it but i suppose he really does think that Harry should be greatful to him. Disgusting.

‘Stop Lily an’ James Potter’s son goin’ ter Hogwarts! Yer mad.

Sort of weird that Hagrid is defining Harry by his parents and not his already amazing achievements. This is a completely random observatiom but it feels like Harry's parents are being held on this weird pedestal.

his hands clasped over his fat bottom, howling in pain.

Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn’t much left ter do.’

Of all the characters to get turned into a pig it had to be the fat kid..