Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The first 3 chapters

I am exhausted, so this will be brief.

I started my reread of the Harry Potter series today.

Observations:
Dumbledore says, "He'll have that scar forever." [eyebrow]
And, "Scars can be useful."

Hmm.

Nothing odd sticks out about Petunia at this point. Except that it is stated that the Dursleys and Potters have not seen each other for several years at the beginning - meaning that Petunia had never met her baby nephew, until the Tuesday when Voldemort was defeated.

Dudley Dursley's friend's name is Piers Polkiss. Many wizards and witches have names that are alleterative. (Erm. Not sure if that's a word, but I'm just pointing out that it's interesting that so many characters have the same letter for their first and last names, and that both of the aforementioned kids are [assumedly] Muggles...)

Hagrid borrowed the motorcycle from "young Sirius Black". But... wasn't Black in Azkaban at that point? (I need to keep that question in mind, for when I get to book 3)

I'm surprised at how quick the first three chapters went. Things were so much easier in the beginning...

1 comment:

Amy said...

You know who else has alliterative names? Superheroes. Y'know, like Peter Parker. And ... the rest.

Also, Sirius totally wasn't in Azkaban yet. That was still the night of, so he would have met Hagrid before going off on the revenge kick that lead to his sham trial. That had to take at least another two days.

Oh boy!