An Extraorinary School

Summary
As soon as all the first years arrive to Hogwarts they are introduced to professor McGonagall, who says that now they shall proceed to their sortings. Inside the castle, Harry observes an old looking hat in the middle of all professors. It is the Sorting Hat, the one who will assign them into one of the four different Hogwarts Houses (Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff). Ron tells Harry that mostly every Wizard that has gone evil was set on Slytherin, and just then Draco Malfoy, Harry's enemy, was assigned to Slytherin. Harry and most of his friends were placed on Gryffindor, but the Sorting Hat had some trouble deciding whether to put harry on Gryffindor or Slytherin, which worried him. Harry liked most of his classes, he had transfiguration with professor McGonagall (who was also the headmaster of the House of Gryffindor), defense against the Dark arts with professor Quirrel, etc... But there was one House Harry didn't like: Potions, with Professor Snape. Snape seemed to hate Harry, but also his best friends, Ron and Hermione. Not only was Snape awfull with them, but Harry suspected he was up to something. He had overheard Hagrid talking about Nicolas Flamel (the creator of the philosophers stone), and he believed that Snape was after his invention. Harry began to follow Snape everywhere he went, until one day when he found him on the Forbidden Forest, threatening professor Quirrel to obtain the stone; now Harry was totally convinced of Snape's dark intentions.

Quotes
"'I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death - if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach'" . p 137
This quote made me just realize how Snape is different from the other teachers. For example, Professors McGonagall and Sprout are helping students, guiding them, while Snape is bullying them. I barely know the characters on this book but from this description that the author is giving, it is clear that Snape is somehow a little bit evil.

"' However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible'". p 213
This quote takes place after Harry sneaks out of the Gryffindor's room just to observe the Miror of Erised. At first I didn't gave much importance to this quote but then it crossed my mind how Erised is just Desire spelled backwards. I am really impressed at how the author approaches these subjects by using metaphors like this one.

Final Thoughts
Now the action is intensifying. I can't believe how Harry is changing drastically on this part of the book. At the beggining he didnt even had any idea what was magic and now it is basically part of his life; also before he didn't have friends, now he has Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Hedwig, and much more people, his life is improving. I also think that the movie left out some really funny parts, it is totally worth it reading this book even if you have already seen the movie. Lets finish this book next time. here on An Adventure on Every Page.