Sunday, November 21, 2010

Notes on Harry Potter 2/16/08

I decided to read HP again and make some notes so I can follow all the threads through the entire series. I don't know why I originally made it private, but here it is, to be updated as I finish each book.



Book 1-Sorcerer's Stone

Harry discovers he's a wizard and famous in the wizarding world and the Dursleys have been hiding it from him.
Gringotts-Harry finds out he need not worry about money-also Hagrid takes a package out of vault 713.
Harry meets and dislikes Draco Malfoy.
The wand that chooses Harry is made from the same phoenix as you-know-who's.
Meets the Weasleys and Hermione.
Meets and becomes immediately suspicious of Severus Snape.
Meets Quirell and scar burns for first time.
Harry becomes a Seeker after demonstrating natural talent on a broomstick, and receives a Nimbus 2000.
Harry and Ron knock out a troll in the girl's loo.
Stumble on the three headed dog.
Receives invisibility cloak.
Discovers mirror of Erised and sees his parents and family.
Sees Quirell/Voldemort in forest drinking unicorn blood-scar burns for second time.
Discovers V inside Quirell-Q was the one who tried to steal the Stone from Gringotts-so V could have eternal life.
Stone destroyed in the struggle underground after H, R, and H get past all the three-headed dog and all the charms-Flamel and wife die.
Harry asks Dumbeldore questions he will not answer.



Book 2-Chamber of Secrets

Dobby the house elf comes to the Dursely's to warn Harry not to go back to Hogwarts because he's in danger-admits that he has been interceping Harry's letters from his friends.
Durselys lock him up but he escapes in Mr Weasley's car.
From Weasley's, uses Floo powder and ends up on Knockturn Alley-hears Lucius Malfoy sell something.
Back in Diagon Alley, meets Lockhart.
Can't get through platform 93/4 to school, so they take the car, which crashes
Lockhart tries to suck up to Harry.
Harry discovers Filch's zwikspell and finds out he's a squib.
Mrs Norris petrified and graffitti re Chamber of Secrets being opened.
They hear the Chamber of Secrets legend (along with the story of Hogwarts original four) from Professor Binns-find out that the heir of syltherin wants to get all half- and Muggle-borns from Hogwarts.
Hermione comes up with the idea to make polyjuice potion to portray Syltherins to get the truth out of Malfoy-they think he is the heir.
Bludger goes after Harry at a quidditch match-he ends up in the infirmary-turns out it was Dobby trying to get Harry away from Hogwarts again (he also made them miss the train).
Harry speaks parseltongue to a snake about to attack-this is a trait of Syltherin so now people think that he is the heir.
Discovers Tom Riddle's diary-finds out Hagrid opened the chamber before-pitied the monster.
Hermione petrified. Hagrid blamed and sent away-but not before he says to follow the spiders.
Harry sees Riddle's memory and knows heir is not Malfoy and Hagrid did not open the Chmber this time
Takes invisibility cloak and follows the spiders to aragog-finds out about the baliwick (sp) and are saved from being eaten by the spider by Wesely's car.
talk to moaning Mrytle about how she died-find their way into chamber-harry finds riddle-who is voldemort and was using Ginny through the diary to wreak the havoc.
harry is sent the phoenix and sorting hat to defend against the monster and V-is wounded but the phoenix tears heal him, and he puts on the sorting hat and it gives him the sword of Gryfindor-which he uses to put out eyes of monster and burn up diary and banish V (book is first horcrux!).
Dumbeldore reveals that V set up Ginny so that everyone would blame her and her family, all purebloods, for the violence against half and Muggle borns.Also tells Harry that his ability to speak parseltongue derives from the mark that V left on him-through his scar.

Book 3-Prisoner of Azkaban



Hedwig brings Harry birthday presents at the Dursley's.


Aunt Marge visits-Harry makes her a balloon and leaves privet Dr.


Sees a black dog in the alley.


Gets picked up by the Knight Bus-hears about Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban


Is met by Fudge at the Leaky Cauldron, where he gets a room for the remainder of the summer..


Meets Weasleys and Hermione there when they come to Diagon Alley


Harry finds out that Black is out to get him and everyone is afraid for his safety


Meets Lupin (new defense of dark arts teacher) on the train, where he faints from the effects of the dementor


At Hogwarts, Hagrid is chosen professor of the Care of Magical Creatures class


In Divinations class, Prof Trelawney sees a black dog that she interprets as a Grim-omen of death


They have a Hippogriff lesson in which Harry excels and Malfoy is hurt


Lupin teaches boggarts-take the shape of what one fears most


Harry sees Snape bring Lupin a potion


Sirius Black tries to get in to Gryfindor


Harry sees (what he thinks is) a Grim at the Quidditch match


Dementors make Harry fall off his broomstick-and he hears his mother voice pleading for his life


Harry gets Marauder's Map from Fred and George


Harry overhears the story about Black being his parents' secret keeper and how he (supposedly) betrayed them


Lupin teaches Harry the Patronus charm


Harry gets to use his Firebolt broomstick after its through inspection by Prof McGonigal


Malfoy tries to shake Harry by posing as a dementor in the Quidditch but Harry uses his Patronus charm and gets the snitch


That night, someone slashes Ron's bed curtains


Harry goes to Hogsmeade under the Invisibility cloak but Malfoy sees him and rats on him


Lupin takes marauder's map away from Harry


Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, sentenced to death for attacking Malfoy


Hermione is acting strangely


On the night before big Quidditch match, harry sees Crookshanks the cat (who has never liked Scabbers the rat) outside with a big black dog


Gryfindor wins the Cup after a dirty Quidditch match


Prof Trelawney channels Voldemort-says that a long-lost servant is coming back to him


Go to Hagrid's under Invisibility cloak, and they think Buckbeak is executed


Dog attacks them on the way back to Hogwarts and takes Ron into/under the Whomping Willow


They follow and find Sirius Black-who was the dog all along


Harry has the chance to kill Black but doesn't


Lupin arrives and embraces Black.


They find out that Lupin is a werewolf and back in the day his friends Potter, Black and Pettigrew figured out how to become Animingi to keep him company-the four of them wrote the marauder's map


Also discover that Scabbers is Petter Pettigrew, who has been in his animal form as Scabbers for 12 years


Snape arrives as Lupin is telling the story of James Potter saving Snape from Lupin as a werewolf.


It turns out the Peter Pettigrew was the Potter's secret keeper and he betrayed them to V


Lupin and Black were going to kill Pettigrew but Harry stopped them


Black (who is Harry's godfather) invites Harry to come stay with him


As they all go back to hogwart's , Lupin, who hasn't had his potion, transforms into a werewolf; Black changes into the dog.


In the confusion, Pettigrew, as Scabbers, gets away


Dementors come after Black and harry, and he is almost lost, but is saved by someone casting a Patronus from across the lake.


Black is captured and is set to get the Dementor's kiss


Harry and Hermione (who's been going to two classes at once all year) are two places at once as they travel back in time, at Dumbeldore's suggestion, to save both Buckbeak and Black, by freeing Buckbeak and flying him to the window of the castle where Black is held and both of them flying away to safety in hiding


Harry and Hermione manage to free Buckbeak, all while following themselves through the night's events. Harry wants to change other events, like Pettigrew getting away, but Hermione convinces him not to.


As Harry is watching the dementors go after he and Black from across the lake and waiting for the mysterious Patronus to save them (Harry thinks that it was his father), he realizes that he saved them-being both attacked by dementors and across the lake watching at the same time-so


Harry casts his Patronus charm, and a stag appears and drives away the dementors.


Harry and Hermione get back with Buckbeak in time to save Black from the dementor's kiss-


Black and Buckbeak fly off together.


Lupin is leaving Hogwarts now that everyone knows he's a werewolf, and he gives the Marauder's Map back to Harry


Harry can not stay with Sirius because he's on the run-but he sends an owl to him on the train-with a note that lets harry know that Sirius was the one that sent the Firebolt, and also permission to go to Hogsmeade next year.


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