HP Files - Philosopher's Stone - Chapters 4 - 6

Chapter 4 - The Keeper of the KeysPg 39 - "'Yeh look a bit like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mum's eyes'" - I think I'm going to tally this.Pg 40 - "'Shut up Dursley, yeh great prune'" - Ahh yes, one of the lesser know but more effective wizard insults.Pg 40 - "The giant sat back... and began taking all sorts of things out of the pockets of his coat: a copper kettle, a squashy package of sausages..." and all this fits because he bought his jacket from the same place Mary Poppins bought her bag.Pg 41 - "Uncle Vernon...whispered something that sounded like 'Mimblewimble'." This is obviously his hard core response to the prune comment.Pg 43 - "Dear Mr Dumbledore". WTF Hagrid? Since when has Dumbledore ever been referred to as Mr?Pg 44 - "I was the only one the only one who saw her for what she was - a freak!" This coming from the woman who voluntarily married Vernon DursleyPg 48 - "Hagrid seized his umbrella and whirled it over his head" - Again with the Mary Poppins references.Pg 48 - "Harry saw a curly pig's tale poking through a hole in his trousers" Didn't this happen in one of Roald Dahl's short stories? It seemed familiar.Chapter 5 - Diagon AlleyPg 52 - Where does she get her names from? I know when I'm writing, I find it really hard but JK Rowling always comes up with perfect names - the best examples being the names of the authors of the school books Scrap that, I just read the answer at her website.Pg 54 - I always loved that the 'connection' point between the wizarding world and the muggle world was a grubby old pub. Just goes to show that wizards too are alcoholics.Pg 58 - "'Seventeen silver sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine knots to a Sickle'" - I always loved how random that was, I never remember the exact values, a bit like the old Imperial system here.Pg 59/60 - "...a boy with a pale, pointed face", I always knew Malfoy had a good bone structure but even from this very first description of him you can tell he's gonna be a 'bad' guy which is usual with J.K Rowlings character introductions however you then turn the page and the first thing you hear Malfoy say is "Hullo" now I'm sorry but that isn't the kind of thing Malfoy would say even to a friend. The passage then goes on to portray him as a pompous, self-righteous git but still, no-one says Hullo, even spoilt 11-year-olds.Pg 63 - "You have your mother's eyes" Tally's up to 2Pg 63 - "Your father...favoured a mahogany wand... excellent for transfiguration". She's started hinting already.Pg 65 - "It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother - why, its brother gave you that scar" Convenient that really.Pg 66 - "I'm famous and I can't even remember what I'm famous for". Why couldn't it stay that way I'd forgotten how insanely innocent he was at the beginning at the book. It's obviously Ron and Hermione that have a bad influence on him.Chapter 6 - The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-QuartersPg 68 - "Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?" And that ladies and gentlemen will b the only witty comment we'll hear from Uncle Vernon for the rest of the series.Pg 70 - "[Mrs Weasley] pointed at the last and youngest of her sons. He was tall, thin and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet and a long nose." How unattractive does he sound? Time to employ that selective reading again. Anyway, I like how this contrasts Harry who's "small and skinny". Opposites attract obviously.Pg 72 - Bless his ickle cotton socks..."'Harry Potter' chorused the twins.'Oh him' said Harry, 'I mean, yes, I am'"Pg 73 - "Harry heard the little girl's voice.’Oh Mum, can I go on the train and see him'". I will just *wook* at only_lightPg 75 - "You could say I've got a lot to live up to". This is one of the reasons I love Ron - he's so humbled and understated and unlike Harry he's so normal.Pg 76 - "It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties and cakes". Hee! Male bonding!Pg 81 - "You hang around with riff-raff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid and it'll rub-off on you". You know, plain bad-ass Malfoy is much more satisfying to read than the stupid bickering in the later books. Yey for plain mean-ness.Coming soon - Chapter 7 - The Sorting Hat