HP Files - Philosopher's Stone - Chapters 7 - 9

Chapter 7 - The Sorting HatPg 87 - "Harry had never imagined such a strange and splendid place" - If only he knew some of the other wierd and wonderful places he'll be seeing.Pg 87 - "Harry looked upwards and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. He heard Hermione whisper, "It's been bewitched to look like the sky" - Now yes I know it's fiction and that it would probably just be like being on one of those 'bottomless' boats but I really wish I could see this - it would just be so spectacular, especially at night.Pg 87 - "I read about it in 'Hogwarts, A History'" Here's something else to tally.Pg 89 - "'So we've just got to try on the hat!' ROn whispered to Harry. 'I'll kill Fred, he was going on about wrestling a troll'" Foreshadowing? I think so.Pg 90/91 - I wish we could have had an insight into the other two's moment under the Sorting Hat, particularly Hermione - it would've been interesting to see whether she'd been like Harry only over Ravenclaw rather than Slytherin.Pg 92 - "Nitwick! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" I'm sure there's a hidden meaning here.Pg 93 - "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 accidently let go. But I bounced - all the way down the garden and into the road." That explains alot Neville - but what did we expect from an man named after pond-scum.Pg 95 - Whatever happened to the school song? It disappeared and hasn't been heard since Harry's first year.Pg 96 - As a matter of interest, does anyone know what Caput Draconis actually means?Chapter 8 - The Potions MasterPg 101 - "Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the main castle and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls." There was no way Snape was going to be a pleasant, undisturbed character was there?Pg 101 - "Harry Potter. Our new - celebrity" Nobody will ever say that quite as well as Alan Rickman.Pg 103 - "At this, Hermione stood up, her hand stretching towards the dungeon ceiling." I'd forgotten just how annoying she was in this book.Pg 103 - "'I don't know' said Harry quietly. 'I think Hermione does, though, why don't you try her?" Hee! Harry's a bad ass.Pg 103 - "Harry caught Seamus's eye and Seamus winked." And the slash lovers are all jumping out of their seats.Chapter 9 - The Midnight DuelPg 107 - "The way Seamus Finnigan told it, he'd spent most of his childhood zooming around the countryside on his broomstick". Surely this would mean he was okay at flying so why have we never heard of him trying out for the team, especially in OotP?Pg 108 - "At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she'd got out of a library book called 'Quidditch Through the Ages'". I've got this book. Which leads me to ask, on the 'check out card' in QTtA, it says that Fred was due to give the book back in on 15 February and then Hermione was due to give it back on 2 March but in PS, we haven't even had Hallowe'en yet. Timing error me thinks but maybe I'm just looking into this too much.Pg 108 - I never got the point of Remembralls. What's the point in knowing you've forgotten something if you can't remember what it was?Pg 110 - "The Remembrall glittered in the sun as he held it up. 'Give me that Malfoy,' said Harry quietly." This was probably the worst delivered line in the entire movie.Pg 112 - "He was going to be expelled, he just knew it". The amount of times he says this you'd have thought he'd just learn to stop being such a badass.Pg 112 - "Potter, this is Oliver Wood". Ironic for a guy who spends half his life on a broomstick. Which makes me wonder, what's with all the surname-ing. Maybe she was just trying to make it more British but honestly, hardly anyone does that. I mean we refer to teachers by their surnames (obviously not to their faces) but teachers never refer to us by our last names.Pg 113 - "'Your father would have been proud,' she said, 'He was an excellent Quidditch player himself.'" And didn't he know it.Pg 114 - "Wizard's duel. Wands only - no contact." Duels will always remind me of The Sword in the Stone.Pg 119 - "They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog which filled the whole space between the ceiling and the floor. It had three heads." In which case, is it still a dog - doesn't it border into the 'three-headed monster' category?Pg 120 - "It was standing on a trapdoor. It's obviously guarding something" Increasingly quick to the uptake this onePg 120 - "We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled". And this goes into the hat for classic one-liners.Coming soon - Chapter 10 - Hallowe'en