First Time Readers

Chapter 6 - The Portkey INTRO - Character impressions in your mind. Harry felt as though he had barely lain down to sleep in Ron’s room when he was being shaken awake by Mrs Weasley. Q1 - Is this the worst feeling ever? Non-snow days? What is the worst feeling as a kid? Q2 - You need a license to Apparate? Do you think anything else should require a license in the magical world? Q3 - What’s the ea...

Chapter 1 - The Riddle House The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer’s morning, when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive, and a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead. Q1 - What do you think happene...

Chapter 19 - The Servant of Lord Voldemort “YOU'RE PATHETIC!” Harry yelled. “JUST BECAUSE THEY MADE A FOOL OF YOU AT SCHOOL YOU WON'T EVEN LISTEN _” “SILENCE! I WILL NOT BE SPOKEN TO LIKE THAT!' Snape shrieked, looking madder than ever. "Like father, like son, Potter! I have just saved your neck, you should be thanking me on bended knee! You would have been well served if he'd killed you! You'd ha...

Chapter 14 - Snape’s Grudge Q1 - What should the procedure be after Sirius Black has been caught sneaking into Hogwarts again? Q2 - Why hadn’t Sirius killed Ron and then gone to Harry? “But I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two’d value yer friend more’n broomsticks or rats. Tha’s all.” Ron had to hold onto the fence to keep himself standing, he was laughing so hard. Q3 - What is the hardest you have...

Chapter 9 - Grim Defeat Q1 - Should the students be sent home after Sirius Black got in the castle? “Have you any theories as to how he got in, Professor?” asked Snape. Harry raised his head very slightly off his arm to free his other ear. “Many, Severus, each of them as unlikely as the next.” Q2 - How do you think Sirius got in the castle? Harry knew she was deeply interested in the Gryffindor te...

Chapter 5 - The Dementor They headed down to breakfast, where Mr Weasley was reading the front page of the Daily Prophet with a furrowed brow and Mrs Weasley was telling Hermione and Ginny about a Love Potion she made as a young girl. All three of them were rather giggly. Q1-  Do you think Mrs Weasley gave the love potion to Mr Weasley? “Harry, I knew you were, well, made of stronger stuff than Fu...

Chapter 1 - Owl Post Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework, but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard. Q1 - Wendelin the Weird is so named because she liked to be burned, if you had a title to your name, what...

Chapter Fifteen - Aragog Q1 - Who do you think would be the best person thus far to replace Dumbledore as headmaster? “Let me at him,” Ron growled, as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. “I don’t care, I don’t need my wand, I’m going to kill him with my bare hands—” Q2 - Is it irresponsible for Harry to leave the cloak at Hagrids because he doesn’t think he’ll need it. Q3 - What animal do you hate...

Chapter Eleven - The Dueling Club “So Dobby stopped us getting on the train and broke your arm…” He shook his head. “You know what, Harry? If he doesn’t stop trying to save your life he’s going to kill you.” Q1 - At this stage of their schooling, which Wizard or Witch would you want to duel and which would you not want to duel? “Scared?” muttered Malfoy, so that Lockhart couldn’t hear him. “You wi...

Chapter Six - Gilderoy Lockhart “You’d better open it, Ron,“ said Neville, in a timid whisper. “It’ll be worse if you don’t. My gran sent me one once, and I ignored it and —” he gulped, “it was horrible.” Q1 - What do you think Gran’s howler was about? And do you like the idea of howlers? At least the Howler had done one thing: Hermione seemed to think they had now been punished enough and was bei...

Chapter 1 - The Worst Birthday “I want more bacon” “There’s more in the frying pan, sweetums,” said Aunt Petunia, turning misty eyes on her massive son. Q1 - Has your opinion of the Dursley’s changed at all? Harry stared from his purple-faced uncle to his pale aunt, who was trying to heave Dudley to his feet. Q2 - Why do you think Vernon is purple and Petunia is pale? Q3 - Why do you think Harry w...

Chapter 14 - Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback “But there aren’t wild dragons in Britain?” said Harry. “Of course there are,” said Ron. “Common Welsh Green and Hebridean Blacks. THe Ministry of Magic has a job hushing them up, I can tell you. Our lot have to keep putting spells on Muggles who’ve spotted them, to make them forget.” Q1 - Now that you’d know but do you think the Ministry of Magic has e...

Chapter 10 - Hallowe’en Q1 - Is it shady that McG has bought a Nimbus Two Thousand — the current best broomstick in the world — for Harry? “Potter’s been sent a broomstick, Professor,” said Malfoy quickly. “Yes, yes, that’s right,” said Professor Flitwick, beaming at Harry. “Professor McGonagall told me all about the special circumstances, Potter. And what Model is it?” “A Nimbus Two Thousand, sir...

Chapter 6 - The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters FF: Not who Hedwig is named after, but Saint Hedwig of Andechs (1174–1243), Duchess of Silesia, is the patron saint of orphans. Q1 - Is Hagrid an idiot for not showing Harry how to get on the platform? He passed a round-faced boy who was saying, “Gran, I’ve lost my toad again.” “Blimey,” said the other twin. “Aren’t you —?” “He is,” sai...

Chapter 1 - The Boy Who Lived He hurried to his car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn’t approve of imagination. “You can’t blame them,” said Dumbledore gently, “We’ve had precious little to celebrate for eleven years.” Q1 - What are your general impressions of McGonagall, Dumbledore, Hagrid, and the Dursleys? Q2 - Why can McGonagall...

Lizzy and Jon are diving into Harry Potter! It's Lizzys second time reading, although she's forgotten so much that it might as well be her first time reading, and it very brilliant with how she sees Harry Potter. Coming from someone who reads it every year, Jon has had his mind changed more about certain things in the short time Lizzy has taken to read this series, than by anyone else who has read...

Join Jon, Jenn, Danny, and Kristen as they talk over the movie of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. They talk over some theories about what will happen, their impressions of the characters, and what they thought of the sixth movie.

Join Jon and Lizzy as they talk about the ethics of Dementors—whether they are good, evil, or if theyre justified in sucking out the souls of witches and wizards. This is a sneak peak of Season 2—which is coming out soon!

Did you do it then?...So join Jon, Jenn, Danny, and Kristen as they talk over the movie of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They talk over some theories about what will happen, their impressions of the characters, and what they thought of the sixth movie.

Chapter 36 - The Flaw in the Plan Hands, softer than he had been expecting, touched Harry’s face, pulled back an eyelid, crept beneath his shirt, down to his chest, and felt his heart. He could hear the woman’s fast breathing, her long hair tickled his face. He knew that she could feel the steady pounding of life against his ribs. “Is Draco alive? Is he in the castle?”  Q1 - Were you surprised at...

Chapter 35 - Kings Cross He recoiled. He had spotted the thing that was making the noises. It had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breath. He was afraid of it. Small and fragile and wounded though it was, he did not want to approac...

Chapter 34 - The Forest Again Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive. His job was to walk calmly into Death’s welcoming arms. Along the way, he was to dispose of Voldemort’s remaining links to life, so that when at last he flung himself across Voldemort’s path, and did not raise a wand to defend himself, the end would be clean, and the job that ought to have been done in Godr...

Chapter 32 - The Elder Wand She had pulled Ron behind a tapestry: They seemed to be wrestling together, and for one mad second Harry thought that they were embracing again; then he saw that Hermione was trying to restrain Ron, to stop him running after Percy. “Listen to me — LISTEN, RON!” “I wanna help — I wanna kill Death Eaters —” His face was contorted, smeared with dust and smoke, and he was s...

Q1 - What did you think of the students staying back to help and do they stand any chance against Voldemort and the Elder wand? “Well, help me, then!” Her composure was slipping. “It — it is not a question of —” she stammered. “My mother’s diadem —” “Your mother’s?” She looked angry with herself. “When I lived,” she said stiffly, “I was Helena Ravenclaw.” “You’re her daughter? But then, you must k...

Chapter 30 - The Sacking of Severus Snape “We can push it off on the kids,” said Amycus, his piglike face suddenly crafty. “Yeah, that’s what we’ll do. We’ll say Alecto was ambushed by the kids, them kids up there” — he looked up at the starry ceiling toward the dormitories — “and we’ll say they forced her to press her Mark, and that’s why he got a false alarm. . . . He can punish them. Couple of...