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

by J.K. Rowling

‘I’m – er – not supposed ter do magic, strictly speakin’. I was allowed ter do a bit ter follow yeh an’ get yer letters to yeh an’ stuff – one o’ the reasons I was so keen ter take on the job

When I open my eyes I’ll be at home in my cupboard.’

This is honestly such a sad sentence.

‘Knuts?’ ‘The little bronze ones.’

Money - knuts

‘Wizards have banks?’

Why wouldnt they?

Harry dropped the bit of sausage he was holding.

The boy who has been underfed &/or starved his whole life just dropped food. Sure, Jan. I'd like to think he caught it with his super fly quidditch skills.

Hagrid drew himself up proudly. ‘He usually gets me ter do important stuff fer him. Fetchin’ you – gettin’ things from Gringotts – knows he can trust me, see.

Hagrid is fuckn whipped

‘Flew,’ said Hagrid. ‘Flew?’

WAIT HAGRID CAN FLY???

Harry still staring at Hagrid, trying to imagine him flying.

Dude, me too wtf.

‘If I was ter – er – speed things up a bit, would yeh mind not mentionin’ it at Hogwarts?’

If anyone can do magic they're not supposed to, how does the ministry track illegal magic?

‘They say there’s dragons guardin’ the high-security vaults. And then yeh gotta find yer way – Gringotts is hundreds of miles under London, see. Deep under the Underground. Yeh’d die of hunger tryin’ ter get out, even if yeh did manage ter get yer hands on summat.’

Lol

‘They wanted Dumbledore fer Minister, o’ course,

Okay but for real,imagine Dumbledore with all that power... yikes

‘Well, their main job is to keep it from the Muggles that there’s still witches an’ wizards up an’ down the country.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Why? Blimey, Harry, everyone’d be wantin’ magic solutions to their problems. Nah, we’re best left alone.’

Interesting answer, considering fbawtft lore

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad

So why does Ron have a rat?

‘Can we buy all this in London?’ Harry wondered aloud.

I don't know why but i love this line.

It was a tiny, grubby-looking pub. If Hagrid hadn’t pointed it out, Harry wouldn’t have noticed it was there.

A charm?

‘Did you hear that? He remembers me!’

I'm honestly surprised no cultist tried to kidnap him or anything like that. The fact that he was basically left alone for 11 yrs is baffling to me like, you're telling me they'll get this overexcited by being in the same room as him now but in a muggle setting they'll just bow and move on???

Doris Crockford kept coming back for more.

‘D-Defence Against the D-D-Dark Arts,’

Such a wird name for a class. I guess it makes sense in later books but rn with all "evil" supposed to be gone its a bit weird, also they're kids so it seems a bit like unnecessary training. Wait fuck i sound like umbridge I TAKE IT BACK All I'm saying is why didn't they change the name??

‘N-not that you n-need it, eh, P-P-Potter?’

In my mind i read this in Quirrel's voice. I'm so unused to scripts being this close to the og material.

Vampires? Hags? Harry’s head was swimming.

Its interesting that aside from books 3 & 4 we never really got to see this side of the Wizarding world, even in book 7.

He tapped the wall three times with the point of his umbrella.

Okay but seriously how are you supposed to get in if you don't know the secret password? How do muggle borns get in?

‘You have his key, sir?’

Why does Hagrid have the key? Did Dumbledore have the key???

Griphook

he thought he saw a burst of fire at the end of a passage and twisted around to see if it was a dragon,

Is this technically foreshadowing?

How often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep?

This is really sad wording. "Keep"?

‘The gold ones are Galleons,’ he explained. ‘Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it’s easy enough.

... what

Then he noticed a grubby little package wrapped up in brown paper lying on the floor.

It's just... lying on the floor?? I love that there's no extra protection inside the vault.

Harry didn’t know where to run first now that he had a bag full of money.

Apart from the lollies in the train with Ron in this book dies H ever really "go nuts" with his money? It would be difficult knowing that the only money you could potentially ever have is all locked in 1 vault, and if you spend it all then it's gone fof good.

‘Listen, Harry, would yeh mind if I slipped off fer a pick-me-up in the Leaky Cauldron?

I keep forgetting that Hagrid is literally an alcoholic.

‘Hogwarts, dear?’

Do students from other schools shop at Diagon Alley?

In the back of the shop, a boy with a pale, pointed face was standing on a footstool while a second witch pinned up his long black robes. Madam Malkin stood Harry on a stool next to him, slipped a long robe over his head and began to pin it to the right length.

Draco intro

‘No,’ said Harry, feeling more stupid by the minute.

Poor kid.

imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I’d leave, wouldn’t you?’

Rude

‘Oh,’ said the boy, ‘I’ve heard of him. He’s a sort of servant, isn’t he?’

Is this what he's been told or is he jsut that privileged? I mean, he definitely has servants.

lives in a hut in the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic and ends up setting fire to his bed.’

I mean... you're not wrong

‘Oh, sorry,’

Okay, but i would never actually expect him to say sorry ao that actually suprised me.

(chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts).

Uhhh... yum Hagrid has good taste in ice cream flavours.

‘It’s our sport. Wizard sport.

Its kind of funny that they only have 1 sport, but i guess I've never thought wizards were particularly creative.

‘There’s not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn’t in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one.’

silver unicorn horns at twenty-one Galleons each

Shouldn't they be more expensive?

We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers and the heartstrings of dragons.

It's amazing they don't stink

holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple.’

Harry's wand

things? I’m famous and I can’t even remember what I’m famous for.

Hagrid leant across the table. Behind the wild beard and eyebrows he wore a very kind smile.

Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts – I did – still do, ’smatter of fact.’

Okay, but why was this probably the only good and kind advice Harry ever got in these books? And he hasn't even gotten to the school yet!

Hagrid helped Harry on to the train that would take him back to the Dursleys, then handed him an envelope.

WAIT He has to go BACK to the Dursleys before he goes to school?? Fml that's so dumb, the adults really don't want him to have a chance in life! Why wouldn't they have waited until the closest possible time to get him out of the house, to diagon alley and hogwarts? Or just set him up with a room at the leaky cauldron???

Harry’s last month with the Dursleys wasn’t fun.

A WHOLE MONTH???

Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?’

See, if he wasn't a horrible person that would actually be funny.

‘Don’t talk rubbish,’ said Uncle Vernon, ‘there is no platform nine and three-quarters.’

The fact that they don't belive him is kind of astonishing, considering everything.

Harry turned and saw the Dursleys drive away.

They legit left him there. You have to wonder, if Petunia didn't know that the platform was real (which im assuming she does know) would they still have taken him/left him there?