Sunday, December 19, 2021

summary of potter book one stone

Potter book 1 Sorceror=Philosopher’s Stone

fixing William Silvester's bad Chapter Synopses, July 10, 2011, by me 2021

__Chapter 1, The Boy Who Lived; Vernon Dursley and his blond haired wife Petunia have a blond son named Dudley. [x peculiar happenings, too vague] Vernon saw a cat reading a map. Dumbledore told Professor McGonagall that voldemort is gone. a flying bike, which Hagrid rode delivered Harry Potter to the Dursley's door because petunia and his dead ma [not pa] were siblings.

note: was uncle vernon on father's side or mother? neither only by marriage. 

Chapter 2  The Vanishing Glass; Harry has often fled from his violent cousin Dudley, the bully who punched him and other students. Harry went with Dudley to the zoo where dudley punched harry so hard that harry fell. unexplicably, the glass of the boa cage "vanished" so Dudley was scared as the boa escaped. note: in video differs: dudley pushed harry as he left the cupboard under the stairs, but in book harry is already doing chores when dudley came to the kitchen. in video, when glass vanished, dudley toppled forward and splashed into the boa's water but in book he jumped back. 

+fan fiction: the glass temporarily vaporized so dudley who was leaning on the glass toppled in and splashed as the boa escaped. after the boa was free, it rematerialized so the boa had swapped places with Dudley. he was trapped by the glass and banged until the zoo crew unlocked a door. the staff banned the dursleys from coming to zoo due to their crazy kid who somehow got in the boa cage.

lesson: magic is possible without a wand.

Chapter 3  The Letters From No One; harry got a letter in the mail=post but dudley stole it and Uncle Vernon destroyd it. more envelopes came, despite Vernon's efforts so he drove the family to a hotel. even there a letter came so they go to the sea to sleep in "the house on the rock" on a tiny island.

Chapter 4  The Keeper of the Keys; Hagrid came and told Harry "you are" [x that he=which?] a wizard. He told how Harry's parents were murdered... by a dark wizard. on halloween, he who must not be named, voldemort attempted to murder the Potter family. both parents died but "Somehow" Harry survived with only a scar, the lightning scar on his forehead.

Chapter 5  Diagon Alley; Hagrid led Harry to the secret and magical "Diagon Alley" in London. at the Gringotts bank, Hagrid took a secret package from a vault. harry saw his inheritance and took some. they went and purchased school supplies, including his wand.  Hagrid gave Harry a train ticket to Hogwarts. +in video: hagrid led harry to the train station where he met the Weasleys.

Chapter 6  The Journey From Platform 9 3/4; Uncle Vernon drove Harry to 

the train Station and left him on platform nine. the Weasleys explain how to go to the secret Platform 9 3/4 [+meaning closer to ten coulda wrote 2/3 but that truly is a different train route maybe not express but with more stops to hogwarts school]. he and ron become friends and they met Hermione. harry went in a boat to the castle with other first years. +kuz no brooms like the older kids on train. harry used train in year 3, kuz train not only for first years. he probably flew on broom from the station to the school castle.

Chapter 7  The Sorting Hat; Professor McGonagall tells the first-years that the school has four competing houses. a magical wizard's pointy hat sorted the first years so Harry hermione and ron are in the same house. a generous meal materializes. ron's brother led harry and his house mates to [x find] the tower dorm.

Chapter 8  The Potions Master; on his first day of classes he meets his teachers in several magical lessons. charms and transfiguration and potions.

snape targeted [x pointed out] harry to shame him. Hagrid invited harry to visit.

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Chapter 9  The Midnight Duel

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