Sorry I haven't posted the 30 days of Harry Potter day by day. I have been very busy with working on a Fireworks's booth. It is our second time for running a huge business for fireworks and I now have two classes that require six to eight hours for me to work on. My sorority, Tau Beta Sigma, requires a lot of assistance for these fireworks and nobody else is volunteering for the job. We need the money to support the Music Program and so I have practically "worked" for at least ten hours each day while attending school, summer school at that while the rest of my chapter bails out. it is frustrating that nobody will step up to the plate but I think we are better than that and people will. As well as each class I attend each day occurs, each day represents a week of the regular school term so I am doing double duty for the summer. I believe all this hard work will pay off and continue to a trip somewhere that makes it all worthwhile.
Anyways, for day 2, it is favorite book. This one is very difficult for me. I had not read all of the books for awhile and it was difficult. But I chose Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The reason this one is my favorite is that it is where it all began. We are introduced to a young boy who has no idea that he was a wizard. The premise that Professor McGonagall predicts Harry's name would be known by all the children in the Wizarding World was a haunting effect that made this book memorable. It also contains the starting foundation of the golden trio's friendship. The fact it was formed over a troll incident and then solidified by the mystery of the mysterious Nicholas Flamel. It makes me giddy with joy to think this young scrawny eleven year old would have to face death alone in a world. A poor orphan with glasses has to defeat the greatest wizard of all time again and again. Philosopher's Stone represents a rich, diverse universe where I got lost in the midst of vivacious chocolate frogs, flying in the skies searching for the snitch in Quidditch, thinking vile thoughts against Malfoy as he bullied Harry again, and again.
One scene that made me really pick this among the seven was the mirror of erised. This chapter represents a more mature part of writing that made me understand now that I am older that this world also had its consequrnces. It could be poignant without recognizing it. I love reading this again and again because it shows the most pure instance of love that makes me recall the innocence Harry has as a young protagonist. It deals with the most mature levels of sadness and understanding with our desires. what do we really want in our lives? It seems very existential as you imagine yourself stare into the looking glass of what you want. What would you desire?
Natalie
