This first chapter is just what I sent in my friends' group text. It started out like this, and I decided to include you in my "conversation"…especially since I shouldn't keep blowing up my friends' phones ;P. Essentially, this is a look into my most casual mind, and my prominent thoughts as I read a book for the first time, despite having watched the original eight movies years ago.
Don't expect context. Just know that I'm reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone.
Feel free to comment, just like my physical-world friends were allowed to do!
Italicized and on the righthand margin = friends commenting (or, in your case, reviewing) on my commentary
Btw, I've begun reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, since I've been incorporating HP into fanfictions. Would any of you like my commentaries as I, who watched the movies as a child, read the book?
Petunia was blonde?!
Mr. Dursley going about his day was funny.
I lowkey ship McGonagall and Dumbledore here.
Hagrid is a cinnamon roll.
R.I.P. Harry's childhood.
Flying motorcycle dream T-T
A VCR XD. Cutting edge at the time.
Should've made Mrs. Figg important XD.
Lol, little does Harry know…
"MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!"
To think Rowling went from this charming material to "The Deathly Hallows" and "The Cursed Child".
Oh my goodness…the snake said "amigo" XD
MRS. FIIIIIIGG!
My new favorite character in the whole Potterverse XD XD XD
Savage Harry is best Harry.
I don't even remember Mrs. Figg
Poor tortoise…
Oh, and Mrs. Figg is the cat lady with the cabbage-scented house. She was usually Harry's babysitter, but she broke her leg (by tripping on one of her cats) and couldn't watch him on Dudley's birthday.
Players gonna play, play, play,/And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake,/Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake,/ "Shake em off…shake em off"
I feel Hagrid's anger, to the point where I had to take a break and cool off.
Haha…Hagrid calling Hogwarts "safe" makes me smile…hah…
Somebody needs to take that book away from her XD
They make gloves out of dragonhide? I demand faux material! Oh, and can we just agree the uniform sounds like what a dorky druid would wear? The winter cloak would be cool, though. By the way, I still bet it costs less than one semester of college materials.
A toothless walnut XD
Dedalus Diggle's reaction to Harry remembering him in the street was so sweet!
Quirrell *narrows eyes suspiciously*
Doris XD
Lol, Quirrell's backstory reminds me of a college student before and after an internship.
Am I the only one who flipped back a few pages to check on the required cauldron size and material?
Dragon liver actually sounds kind of delicious…
The bank warning is the bet. Someone should engrave that above their pantry.
THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT WAS MALFOY. I love how it was a casual, civil conversation, albeit with Malfoy's supremacist ideals showing. He was all "Oh, that other kind don't even know about Hogwarts until they get their letters, can you imagine? Oh, hey, what's your surname?" Meanwhile Harry's just playing it casual and thinking he's a lot like Dudley XD.
It's hilarious how Harry was enthralled by a book about cursing and counter-cursing friends and enemies.
382 B.C. XD