Chapter 13: Nicholas Flamel
In chapter thirteen of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Wood’s fanatical devotion to Quidditch kicks up a notch, and Harry and the team find out that Snape is refereeing the next Quidditch match against Hufflepuff.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
On reread, we know why Snape is refereeing the Quidditch match, Snape is protecting Harry, but the logistics amuse me. Did Dumbledore agree for the same reason Snape wanted to ref? How did Madam Hooch take this slight to her abilities? Either way, Harry thinks Snape is at best reffing to cheat Gryffindor out of a win, at worst trying to kill him in part 3 of Snape is Endlessly Suspect: Just Act Like a Normal Human You Suspicious Weirdo and we get this delightful exchange:
D-Malfs continues to be a bullying little shit to Neville, who is given a pep talk about how he’s awesome and should stand up to Malfoy by Ron and Harry.
Neville’s got one of the best written but roughest journeys in the books to me. He starts off meek and bullied, and it’s got to be a very hard to be the odd one out in his dorm. Ron and Harry and Dean and Seamus pair off as friends, and Neville’s left out. Who does he hang out with? Who does he confide in? I suspect no one, which is terribly sad to think about.
Harry finally finds the info on Flamel that they have been looking for on a chocolate frog card, and we get a good bookworm problems joke about light reading.
Harry kicks butt at Quidditch, and Malfoy gets smacked around deservedly by Ron for making one too many horrible comments. Neville proves he’s a Gryffindor by taking on the twin lumps of Crabbe and Goyle single handedly as Hermione obliviously cheers for Harry to catch the snitch and I weep that this hilarious scene was cut for time from the movie. It entertains me to wonder how many hours D-Malfs must spend obsessing over ways to insult Gryffindors. Are there diagrams? Does he keep a list of potential insults? Does he practice his sneers and rude impressions on Crabbe and Goyle? Because it’s that kind of devoted pettiness I can get behind.
So Harry wins the game, Snape is visibly pissed, and Harry stumbles upon Snape and Quirrelldemort having a highly suspect conversation in the woods of all places, catapulting Harry onto volume 4 of Snapedunnit: No Reason to Look Further, Case Closed, Yes?
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Does Malfoy spend a lot of time thinking up ways to insult Gryffindors in his free time? Or does he do it on the fly?
Were you as proud as I was of Neville for standing up for himself and Ron?
Do you think the Quidditch fight scene should’ve been included in the movies?
How did Snape end up reffing?
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