Exciting parts of the Sorcerer's Stone

Now that I've actually finished the first book, my favorite characters so far are Harry Potter, obviously, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Prof. McGonagall. These are my favorite characters because I like the parts they get in the first book. And also the exciting parts usually have those characters and I like exciting parts, so I like those characters.

One of the exciting parts was when Harry was looking at the Mirror of Erised because that's how he got the stone. He looked in the mirror, reached in his pocket and pulled out a blood-red stone. And it happenedto be the sorcerer's stone. But that was not really happening. He was really in the hospital wing thinking that he was doing that. That was one of the exciting parts.

This is another exciting part. This is with Hermione Granger, Prof. McGonagall, Hary Potter and Ron Weasley. They're eating the end of the year feast and Slytherin has won the quidditch cup so far. Then they happened to tie but just at that second Neville Longbottom won 10 points. The Slytherin banner was down but the Gryffindor banner was up. The Gryffindors had won!!!!

My first experiences with Harry Potter

For a long time my parents have been nagging me to read Harry Potter books and now that I'm reading them, it's just like, so exciting, that I just can't stop, even though I'm on the first book. It is so good that I take all my spare time to read Harry Potter books, because they're actually very interesting.

Also it's very surprising that in the first book he goes from a baby to a 10-year old boy.

I didn't actually read the book first; I watched the Chamber of Secrets (second movie) and it was very good. So, I started reading all the books but I'm not going to skip number 2 because I want to see what it's like.

If I had a choice if I could go to my regular school which I go to or Hogwarts, I would go to Hogwarts because I've never learned magic before and I would love to learn magic. Also I would get to live there.

I learned that Harry Potter's last name was written in lightning on the book cover because he had a lightning scar, which I never knew that he had.

Da Capo (by Ruru)

It's been years, of course, since I read the first Harry Potter book, and now that I've finished the series I thought it would be interesting to do a re-read. First of all, I didn't remember that the book starts with the defeat of Voldemort and the death of Harry's parents. My, I thought my memory was better than that!

It's interesting to consider Harry's aunt Petunia's behaviour in light of what we learn later about her early attitude to witchcraft (ok, I'd better stop so no spoilers).

I've only re-read the first two chapters, but I have to say that the descriptions of Dudley are quite funny - as a baby he's a "large pink beach ball", and later a "pig in a wig"! That's my favorite part so far. Well, that and Harry's conversation with a snake - I didn't realize he spoke to snakes already!

Harry Potter book club

So we agreed to start a book club for reading Harry Potter and write on this blog ...

Philadelphia

more Philadelphia photos

This is the Philadelphia aquarium*. I am Little Mermaid. My favorite part was trying to touch a shark. I wanted to touch the shark that was sticking out but I didn't. Mommy did.

* Actually, it's the New Jersey aquarium across the river from Philadelphia in Camden. -Ruru

My 5th Birthday

Today is my birthday and I got some presents and you know what they were? One of them was 2 My Little Ponies and some hair clips. I got a birthday card and some money from grandpa and grandma. I got 2 books, one from Dad and one from Mom.

Park City, Utah

These are bulls and I’m sitting on them. The father is leading the family. I am in Park City, Utah, and I really miss Dad. Daddy’s working so he did not go on the trip.

String painting

This is my string painting. I did it at school.

I cooked something today, and you know what it was? It was Valentine cookies. We're going to wrap them up as a present for our family.

Chinese New Year

Gong xi fa cai!

Dad is saying cheese while eating Chinese New Year's dinner in Grandma's house. I was wearing a little bit of red.

Great grandma and grandpa are eating rice, spring rolls, fried dough sticks, ribs, beef, fish and other dishes. I got 3 red envelopes with money inside.

Lily's Birthday Party

Yesterday I went to Lily's birthday party. I was eating but then it was cake time so everyone ate cake except me, so I ate cake a little bit later. It was strawberry cake and it had Belle on it.

There were ice skaters there. Dad, Mom and I got ice skates and I was a great ice skater for my first time. When I went on the watery, slippery part, I didn't like it. At the end I had one marshmallow in some hot chocolate and I got some balloons from Lily's mother.



In the second picture you can see Bridger and Lukas. They're friends at my school.