Chapter 10: Halloween
In chapter ten of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry makes Draco Malfoy’s jealousy levels reach nuclear threat red levels when he’s sent a Nimbus 2000 broom, Harry learns the rules of Quidditch, and J.K. Rowling is inundated with questions about the rules of Quidditch for the next twenty years, never finding an escape.
It makes total sense. There’s glamour in chasing an elusive lucky break, but teamwork and persistence can still win the day. Everyone’s vulnerable to blows of fate and obstructive people, and success means rising above them. Quidditch is the human condition. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/0VYCgo13xh
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 9, 2018
Ron and Hermione bicker over the pronunciation of a spell and Hermione locks herself into a bathroom to cry when she overhears Ron speak the bitter truth: she’s a bit of a pill and doesn’t have any friends. It’s a harsh thing for Ron to say, but from what we’ve seen of Hermione to this point, it’s accurate. (Also, he didn’t mean for her to hear it.) She doesn’t seem to have friends, and she’s being rather unpleasant to deal with.
Quirrelldemort runs into a delicious sounding Halloween feast with the highest theatrics, fainting and swooning over a troll.
It does continually make you wonder at what point he’s being controlled, and to what degree. I’d like to think Voldemort’s head is whispering under the turban “swoon you fool, harder! Harder! Fall on Dumbledore if you can! Break his nose again!”
So Dumbledore sends everyone to their dorms,
and of course that means Harry and Ron don’t actually go to their dorms because they realize the crying Hermione is missing and unaware of the troll.
Either way, Ron and Harry have to rescue Hermione from a troll they accidentally locked into a bathroom with her, in the most PotzWeaz way possible; attempted fruitless violence and a spell pulled out of one’s ass. Hermione, either realizing the error of her uptight ways or truly due to gratitude, lies that PotzWeaz came to save her from a foolhardy attempt to take on a troll, and McGonagall does some creative math to be sure Gryffindor gets those sweet sweet points, baby.
The chapter ends with one of my favorite lines from Sorcerer’s Stone:
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