No. 6
Summary:
Dursley family start their day dull and gray where unusual things happen such as shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? The Muggles didn’t know all of these happenings contribute to a celebration about You-Know-Who had gone and Harry Potter had lived but unfortunately his parents died because of Voldemort. So, Harry Potter would live to his aunt Dursley because she is his mother’s sister.
Ten years passed, to Harry Potter, it had been miserable years he’d lived with the Dursleys. To him, he felt like no one, he hadn’t gain attention from them though strangers to him felt like his family. Muggles tend to treat him “weirdo” because he was always involved in unusual things such as vanishing glass. The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Harry his longest ever punishment. By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started. Summer gave Harry a bunch of letters from no one which his aunt and uncle didn’t allow him to read it.
His eleventh birthday came and an unexpected guest came and revealed Harry’s true life and true future. Only his guest, giant Hagrid remembered his birthday.
The next day, Hagrid and Harry went to London to buy all the things required in Hogwarts. They passed to Leaky Cauldron through the secret Diagon Alley where all their required things could be bought.
Summer’s gone and Harry was preparing to go to Hogwarts. Dursleys brought him to King Cross Station to Platform 9 ¾but there was nothing. Until Weasleys came over and help Harry to go to Platform 9 ¾, then Hogwarts Express, then to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. On his first day, he met many friends because he was famous.
Sorting Ceremony began by use of Sorting Hat to know if their house is in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Harry Potter belonged to Gryffindor house together with his known friends. After sorting, began the feast, then go to their respective dormitories and slept.
His first day, he met with different professors which introduced their corresponding subjects. His first week didn’t work out well because Snape lose him 2 points from Gryffindor. On Friday, he and Ron went to Hagrid and heard alarming news about Gringotts robbery case from their bank. The event happened earlier on the day of his birthday, July 31.
On Thursday, they will be starting their flying lessons on Quidditch through Madam Hooch. At their training, Neville got off to the hospital wing. While Harry and Malfoy got a quarrel on remembrall of Neville and they fly around the Hogwarts with their broomsticks. Professor McGonagall was shocked by Potter’s ability and recommended him to Oliver Wood to be the new Seeker of Gryffindor’s team. Malfoy bet Harry for a midnight duel, but Malfoy didn’t showed up and, this result of knowing a hidden room where a dog with three heads was guarding some kind of trap door.
The following day, Harry already got his own broomstick that started him to know about rules of Quidditch. He is already confused with his hectic schedule, Quidditch then lessons from Flitwick.
Halloween came and a surprise waked Harry, Ron and Hermione by a troll about 12 feet. The troll tried to eat Hermione but Ron and Harry save her and they became the best of friends.
Quidditch fever became more and more approaching. When Harry discovered something about Snape and the three-headed dog.
Quidditch had begun and the result, Gryffindor won a hundred and seventy points. Snape really abhors Harry that he tried to spell the broomstick to make Harry fell.
Christmas came, and Harry got his present, the Invisibility Cloak. But this event became more happier when he discovered the Mirror of Erised where he ought to find his relatives and family because the mirror show not his face but is his heart’s desire.
Quidditch battle begun between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff and Gryffindor had won in 5 minutes. Harry, Ron and Hermione had known Nicolas Flamel and almost knew behind Snape and Quirrell’s plan until Hagrid also almost told them.
Hagrid, now have an illegal dragon, a Norwegian Ridgeback. So Harry, Ron and Hermione devised a plan to get rid of it by the use of Ron’s brother, Charlie. But their plan didn’t work out well when Mr. Filch caught them creeping round the night and lose a hundred and fifty points to Gryffindor.
Their detention was going to a Forbidden Forest. Well, even though it was a detention, it helped Harry a lot to discover more about the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Final exams has started and ended. When it ended, Harry, Ron and Hermione devised a plan on how to get to the trapdoor after gathering ideas from Hagrid. Through the trapdoor, there were chambers, each of which with different challenges. Devil’s Snare, Flying Keys, Big Chess played alive, then up to the next chamber appeared Quirrell.
Quirrell was the one he had been hated for he thought it was Snape.
Now, how do they get the Sorcerer’s Stone from the mirror? Voldemort suggests using the boy. But Harry lie to which result to a quarrel between Harry and Quirrell.
When Harry was awakened, he was already at the hospital wing being saved by Dumbledore. However, the stone was gone and the Flamels would die. After he had recovered from the quarrel, without his presence, The Gryffindors stuck in the fourth place, but with points given by Dumbledore to the courage faced by Neville, Ron, Hermione and Harry from the challenges through the trapdoor, they won the first place.
His first year is indeed been great to Harry. His summer would be greater with the Dursleys because of learned experiences from Hogwarts.
Characters:
Dudley
Mrs. Petunia Dursley
Mr. Vernon Dursley
Albus Dumbledore
Professor Minerva McGonagall – teacher of transfiguration
Lily Potter
James Potter
Piers Polkiss – Friend of Dudley
Rubeus Hagrid – giant, face hidden by long shaggy mane of hair, tangled bead eyes glinting like black beetles. Keeper of keys and grounds of Hogwarts.
Voldemort – “You-Know-Who”
Cornelius Fudge – Ministry of Magic
Professor Quirrell – Defense Against Dark Arts Teacher
Malkin– owner of robes
Hedwig – Harry’s owl name
Mr. Ollivander – owner of “Ollivanders”
Fred, Ron, George, Percy, Ginny, Bill, Charlie Weasley
Scabbers – Ron’s rat
Draco Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle
Bill – in Africa, working for Gringotts
Charlie – in Romania, studying dragons
Nicholas de Mimsy – Nearly Headless Nick
Petrificus Totalus – “Body Bind”
Bloody Baron – ghost of Slytherin
Argus Filch – Caretaker of Hogwarts school
Mrs. Norris – cat of Argus Filch
Professor Sprout – teacher of Herbology
Professor Binns – teacher of History of Magic
Professor Flitwick – charms teacher
Professor Snape – potion’s teacher
Madam Hooch – Professor of Quidditch, first flying lessons
Oliver Wood – captain of Gryffindor’s team
Marcus Flint – Slytherin captain
Neville Longbottom
Fluffy – the 3-headed dog
Madam Pince – the librarian
Nicolas Flamel – known maker of Philosopher’s Stone about 665 yrs. old
Perenelle Flamel – Nicolas Flamel’s wife about 658 yrs. old
Vocabulary:
1. Beefy – sturdy, heavily and powerfully built
2. Tawny – brownish orange to light brown color
3. Tyke – a small child
4. Twanging – to speak or sound with nasal intonation
5. Thronging – to crowd together in great numbers
6. Pelting – blowing
7. Poltergeist – a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises
8. Swarthy – a dark color, complexion or cast
9. Stammering – to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking
10. Swishy to produce a long hissing sound
11. Beetroot – a beet grown from it’s edible red root
12. Bloke – man, fellow
13. Hag – witch
14. Hobbled – to move along
15. Galoshes – shoes with heavy sole
16. Whelk – any of numerous larger snails
17. Wafting – to move lightly
18. Ducked – bowed
19. Cowering – to shrink or crouch
20. Rasping – to rub with something tough
21. Riffraff – disreputable persons
22. Flitting – to pass quickly
23. Foghorn – a loud hoarse voice
24. Furling – curling, folding
25. Fur ore – hectic activity
26. Miffed – ill human offend
27. Mangled – wound deep disfiguring
28. Queuing – arrange, wait
29. Quaver – tremble
30. Yelp – to utter a sharp quick shrill cry
Operational definition:
· Muggle – non-magic folk
· Sickles, Knuts – bronze coins (wizard coins)
· Gringotts – Wizards bank
· Ministry of Magic
· Flourish and Blotts – name of shop of Wizard’s clothes
· Ollivanders – place of wands
· Eeylops Owl Emporium – place of owls
· Caput Draconis – password used through passing a portrait of a very fat woman in pink silk dress to their dormitory
· Herbology – learning how to take care strange plants and fungi and found out their uses
· Bezoar – stone taken from stomach of a goat and it will save you from any poisons
· Asphodel and Wormwood – when combined formed sleeping potion known as the Draught of the Living Death
· Monkshood and Wolfsbane – are the same plant, which also goes by the name aconite
· Remembrall – tells you if you forget something. If it turns scarlet, that means you forgot something
· Alohomora – locked doorknob could be open
· Chasers – throw Quaffle to each other and try to get it through one of the hoops to score a goal
1 hoop = 10 goals
· Quaffle – red ball
· Bludgers – black balls
· Keepers – guards the goal posts
· Beaters – keep the Bludgers away from their team
· Golden Snitch – gold ball with wings
· Winggardum Leviosa – making objects fly
· Alchemy – study concerned with making of Philosopher’s Stone
· Philosopher’s Stone – transform metal into pure gold and produces Elixir of Life which makes the drinker mortal
· Locomotor Mortis – Leg-Locker-Curse
· Warlock’s Convention of 1709 – outlawed dragon breeding
· Norwegian Ridgeback – dragon owned by Hagrid
· Address to Dudley’s House
Mr. H. Potter
The Cupboard under the stairs
4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging Surrey
· Letters From No One
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorcerer, Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederation of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Potter,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Uniform
First Year students will require:
1. 3 sets of plain work robes (black)
1. 1 plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
2. 1 pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
3. 1 winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)
Please note that all pupil’s clothes should carry their name tags
Set Books
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
A Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
Other Equipment
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales
Students may also bring an owl or cat or a toad
Parents are reminded that first years are not allowed their own broomsticks
Gringotts
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most clearly in their terms,
So if you seek beneath our floors,
Thief you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there
Curse and Counter-Curses(Bewitch your Friends and Befuddle your Enemies with the latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and much, much more ) by Professor Vindictus Vindian
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE…currently headmaster of Hogwarts. Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times. Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the 12 uses of dragon’ blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.
Morgan, Hengist of Wood craft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe, Paracelsus, Merlin.
Song of the Thinking Cap (The Sorting Hat)
Oh, you may not think I’m pretty,
But don’t judge on what you see,
I’ll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I’m the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all
There’s nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can’t see
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
There daring, nerve and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong to Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil,
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you’ve a ready mind
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You’ll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends
So put me on! Don’t be afraid!
And don’t get in a flab!
You’re in safe hands (though I have none)
For I’m a Thinking Cap!
HOGWARTS SCHOOL SONG:
‘Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with the filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they’ve bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we’ve forgot,
Just do your best, we’ll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot.
GRINGOTTS BREAK-IN LATEST
Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July, widely believed to better work of dark wizards or witches unknown. Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day. ‘But we’re not telling you what was in there to keep your noses out if you know what’s good for you’, said a Gringotts spokes goblin this afternoon.
Fourth Battle Through the Trapdoor
Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find
One among us seven will let you more ahead
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line
Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues for,
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine’s left side
Second, different are those who stand at other end,
But if you could move onwards, neither is your friend
Third, as you see clearly, all are of different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight
