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

by J.K. Rowling

‘Now, what’s the platform number?’ said the boys’ mother.

Lol

‘Only joking, I am Fred,’

This joke is like poetry to me 💕💕

‘Excuse me,’

Ngl Harry is actually a pretty confident kid, idk if i would've had the guts to ask a random starnger i probably wouldve just walked into the wall and hoped for the best

Platform Nine and Three-Quarters

Why 3/4?

He passed a round-faced boy who was saying, ‘Gran, I’ve lost my toad again.’ ‘Oh, Neville,’ he heard the old woman sigh.

Neville intro

A boy with dreadlocks was surrounded by a small crowd. ‘Give us a look, Lee, go on.’

Lee Jordan intro

‘Harry Potter,’ chorused the twins. ‘Oh, him,’ said Harry. ‘I mean, yes, I am.’

I love this boy

‘I’m up front, the Prefects have got two compartments to themselves –’

Aww he's so proud 💕💕

‘Don’t, Ginny, we’ll send you loads of owls.’ ‘We’ll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.’

Honeatly, she would probably love that!

Harry saw the boys’ mother waving and their sister,

It's interesting that Arthur wasn't there for Ron's first year

He didn’t know what he was going to – but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

‘I think Mum’s got a second cousin who’s an accountant, but we never talk about him.’

The wizarding world is wild to me, why would you not talk about him?

You could say I’ve got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left – Bill was Head Boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy’s a Prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they’re really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it’s no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I’ve got Bill’s old robes, Charlie’s old wand and Percy’s old rat.’

Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat grey rat, which was asleep.

Scabbers intro

‘You won’t be. There’s loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quick enough.’

This is why I like Ron he's like the scruffy voice of reason.

‘Hungry, are you?’ ‘Starving,’ said Harry, taking a large bite out of a pumpkin pasty.

11 yr old logic: I'm hungry so I'm going to stuff on lollies

Albus Dumbledore, currently Headmaster of Hogwarts. Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon’s blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.

‘When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour – you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once.’

Do you reckon Rowling knew what she was starting when she wrote down these flavours? So. Much. Pain.

‘Bleaaargh – see? Sprouts.’

Eat your greens, Weasley.

The toadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl with him. She was already wearing her new Hogwarts robes. ‘Has anyone seen a toad? Neville’s lost one,’ she said. She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth.

Hermione intro

I’m in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear Dumbledore himself was one,

Rowling would never have done it bc only "good" characters are in Gryffindor but i honestly think Dumbledore should've been in Slytherin or at the least Ravenclaw, but never Gryffindor.

‘Whatever house I’m in, I hope she’s not in it,’

I kind of love that they get married in the end

‘You know, I think the ends of Scabbers’s whiskers are a bit lighter,’

Harry - moral support, action Ron - info Hermione - initiative

‘Charlie’s in Romania studying dragons and Bill’s in Africa doing something for Gringotts,’

He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it.

For a kid, he really does have a lot of guts.

All right there, Harry?’

Hello i love him 😊😊

Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door.

I feel like this should be a more iconic line than it is.

‘Some sort of test, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot, but I think he was joking.’

You'd think ppl with siblings at the school would know, but i like to think its somehow a huge mystery and the you get there and it's legit a talking hat!

‘Oh, you may not think I’m pretty, But don’t judge on what you see, I’ll eat myself if you can find

I always find it amusing that authors have to actually think up these things

If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

Same

‘Bulstrode, Millicent’

Why would you name someone Bullstrode?? Seems extra cruel.

He remembered being picked for teams during sports lessons at his old school. He had always been last to be chosen, not because he was no good, but because no one wanted Dudley to think they liked him.

‘Not Slytherin, eh?’ said the small voice. ‘Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that – no? Well, if you’re sure – better be GRYFFINDOR!’

Ngl I read all of that in Leslie Phillips' voice

At the end nearest him sat Hagrid, who caught his eye and gave him the thumbs-up. Harry grinned back.

😍😍

in a large gold chair, sat Albus Dumbledore.

So... a throne??

He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table:

Rowling: how many foods can I name in 1 minute...

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at your service.

‘I’m half and half,’ said Seamus. ‘Me dad’s a Muggle. Mam didn’t tell him she was a witch ’til after they were married. Bit of a nasty shock for him.’

ICONIC

My great-uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me – he pushed me off the end of Blackpool pier once, I nearly drowned –

HE WHAT The lengths they'll go to not be like muggle is astounding

Great-uncle Algie came round for tea and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my great-auntie Enid offered him a meringue and he accidentally let go.

OUTSIDE AN UPSTAIRS WINDOW

And you should have seen their faces when I got in here – they thought I might not be magic enough to come, you see.

#JusticeForNeville

was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose and sallow skin.

Disgusting. Snape intro

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes – and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead. ‘Ouch!’ Harry clapped a hand to his head.

Is this what started Harry's dislike of Snape?? Even though it was bc of the back of Quirrel's head and not Snape at all?

Knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts, Snape.’

I wonder why

Harry noticed that the other teachers’ smiles had become rather fixed.

Honestly this would be me if i had to sing but im assuming this is bc of the 3rd floor???

‘Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Again, she had to think this stuff up. Its like a fever dream.

There was a pop and a little man with wicked dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks.

Peeves intro

‘The Bloody Baron’s the only one who can control him, he won’t even listen to us Prefects.

Not even the prefects?? *gasps*

Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending.

but Peeves the poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class. He would drop waste-paper baskets on your head, pull rugs from under your feet, pelt you with bits of chalk or sneak up behind you, invisible, grab your nose and screech, ‘GOT YOUR CONK!’

He seems like a great guy to have in a school