Little Much

            I’m a rather large Harry Potter fan: Pottermore says I’m a Slytherin. When I saw that we needed to read the First book for this course, I got really excited. I thought, “This actually gives me a valid excuse to read it again!” I have not had the chance to reread the series in so long, which is saddening to me since my mom rereads it every Summer. Harry Potter has played such a roll in my childhood and I have so much nostalgia for the PC games (especially the Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets [CoS is my favorite in all three mediums!]). That all being said, I guess it was longer than I thought that I’ve read this book. I never noticed something in it that I noticed this time (and I’m not talking about the Sassy Harry count).

            The last time I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, I had not noticed just how much suspension of disbelief there was regarding the Dursley’s and all of the other people that Harry encounters before going to Hogwarts. Now, everything about the Magical World is also SoD, but that is to be expected because it’s, well, magic. Any strange behavior of any Witch or Wizard can literally be attributed to them simply being one of the W-words. Everyone else that are “muggles” are just so unrealistic that it’s kind of creepy. The Dursley’s, for example, are played up to be so normal but they are much more messed up than even Voldemort! These people are abuse Harry. He never has clothes that fit, he is extremely skinny, and chances are he often has bruises and such from his cousin picking on him.

            Being bullied leads me to his school life. This entire Primary School must be employed by robots are uncaring lizard people because I cannot fathom how NONE of the teachers or faculty ever once thought to help him, at all. He was targeted by bullies and no student wanted to associate with him because they were afraid of being beat up by Dudley and his gang. But the teachers NEVER saw any of this? Harry goes to recess, no shiner. Harry comes back from recess, shiner on his right eye. “He must have ran his eye into a monkey bar!” I would like to continue with the free-writing rambol, but I’m already at 400 words so I will stop here. Overall, though, this ‘theme’ is likely something like “ignorance (the muggles since they don’t know about the magical world) makes people savages.”