Think... Vacation (#3)

Vacation Destination: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  

by J.K. Rowling

Please hold while I take a moment to step back in time. 

To a place where young kids run through brick wall, fly on broom sticks, and all the kids that go to Hogwarts are all cute and tiny rather than falling off buildings and slicing snakes to pieces. 

Okay, so here's the deal, you cannot do a series of blog posts about great travel scenes and not include the very first time a young Harry Potter firsts boards the Hogwarts Express.

This is normally where I say SPOILERS AHEAD, but I feel as if Harry Potter's secrets have all been so widely exploited that there really is no reason to. So, if you've been living under a rock for the past ten years STOP READING HERE.  

Chapter 6: The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters

       Harry Potter is really the bar set for the 21st century's young adult fantasy book series. Does this series go above the bar (Ha. No.) or below the bar (yup)? It really is one of the best young adult series I've ever read. All of the books are well written, extremely creative, and brilliantly captivating. This chapter, The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters, is where you first ride the Hogwarts Express, where you first meet Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and where you first really see the super star effect Harry has on his peers. So, here's an excerpt of greatly written, super amazing awesomeness:

"He stopped a passing guard, but didn't dare mention platform nine and three-quarters. The guard had never heard of Hogwarts and when Harry couldn't even tell him what part of the country it was in, he started to get annoyed, as though Harry was being stupid on purpose. Getting desperate, he asked for the train that left at eleven o'clock, but the guard said that there wasn't one. In the end, the guard strode away, muttering about time wasters. Harry was now trying hard not to panic. According to the large clock over the arrivals board, he had ten minutes left to get on the train to Hogwarts and he had no idea how to do it; he was stranded in the middle of a station with a trunk he could hardly lift, a pocket full of wizard money, and an owl."

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

        Okay, there is no way you can possibly tell me you are not already intrigued. I've read that book too many times and I still want to know what happens next!

  -Sarah Elisabeth          

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               (When the world stops spinning... We're still reading)