Could Snape possibly know they’d found out about the Sorcerer’s Stone? Harry didn’t see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds.Ĭhapter 13: Nicolas Flamel, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone Potions lessons were turning into a sort of weekly torture. At times, he even wondered whether Snape was following him, trying to catch him on his own.
The wand, after all, is his entryway into the Wizarding world, and to drop something so innocuously into an otherwise very happy scene is like sneaking drugstore candy into a movie theater.Īlso, shout out to paying 7 Galleons, because 7 is the magic number and the number of horcruxes Harry’s wand’s twin makes and, and, and, you get it, etc.ģ. Harry’s vague mistrust for Ollivander shows up almost verbatim in The Deathly Hallows, but it’s still interesting to see how Rowling planted this one small sense of foreboding into a scene that is essentially one of the most magic things to happen to Harry in the entire book. Ollivander bowed them from his shop.Ĭhapter 5: Diagon Alley, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone He paid seven gold Galleons for his wand, and Mr. “… After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things - terrible, yes, but great.” (Little do you - okay, if a dude has hands like trashcan lids, chances are good there is something up there, but hey, it’s his legacy to tell.)Ģ. And clearly, if you see someone who is just that large, chances are good you would call them a giant too, and think nothing of it. She calls Hagrid a giant in the very beginning of the book. calls the massive man with the trash-cans for hands and baby dolphins for feet a giant. Still, even if everyone’s pieced together the fact that Sirius gave Hagrid the bike so he could go off and chase down Wormtail and thus begins the entire trajectory of Azkaban, look closer. It’s in the first few pages of the very first chapter, after all. This is the easy one, the Easter egg that everyone knows. I’ve got him, sir.”Ĭhapter 1: The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone “Borrowed it, Professor Dumbledore, sir,” said the giant, climbing off the motorcycle as he spoke. “Hagrid,” said Dumbledore, sounding relieved.