Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Chapter Two: The Vanishing Glass

1. How much time had passed from the Dursleys finding Harry on their doorstep, and the present day?
2. What special day did Harry realize he’d woken up to?
3. What color is Dudley’s hair that made him look, to Harry, like a pig in a wig?
4. True/False: Dudley thought received only thirty-six presents for his birthday, but then is shown a thirty-seventh that slightly pacifies him.
5. What did Mrs. Figg, their old neighbor who usually baby-sat Harry, do that allowed Harry to come to the zoo with the Dursleys?
6. Mr. Dursley’s complaints while driving reminded Harry of a dream he had had about what?
7. At the zoo restaurant, Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory lacked enough what on top?
8. What kind of snake does Harry begin to talk to in the reptile house?
9. True/False: Dudley punched Harry while trying to look at the snake, causing him to make the glass of the cage vanish, and then reappear after Dudley had fallen in and the snake escaped.
10. What is the only thing Harry can remember seeing when he thinks of the time his parents died?

For Your Reflection: The word ‘glass’ is an archaic English word for ‘mirror’. How does Harry’s misadventure with the ‘glass’ and snake at the story’s beginning parallel or reflect, inversely, his trial in front of the mirror at the story’s finish?

Answers: 1. (Nearly) 10 years( 18); 2. Dudley’s birthday (19); 3. Blonde (21); 4. True (21); 5. Broke her leg (22); 6. A flying motorcycle (25); 7. Ice cream (26); 8. A boa constrictor (28); 9. False: he only made the glass disappear (28); 10. A blinding flash of green light (29).

Please, Can We Just Stop The ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Now?

There is no greater demonstration that the global effort — especially by the leaders of Harry Potter fandom — to cancel and forever defenestrate J. K. Rowling in the Trans Panic Years has failed than the HBO+-Bronte Studios adaptation of the Hogwarts Saga for television. Their Confundus Charm (curse?) has all but lifted and the world is recognizing at last that Rowling is not and was never a transphobe bigot but a sacrificially courageous defender of young confused people and of women. Just as in a Rowling novel (or two), it turns out that the mob whipped up by the Daily Prophet Regime Media attacked the hero of the story and lionized the villain.

I’m confident that the Elle piece, an article which pro forma repeats the shibboleths of Rowling’s defamers as undisputed facts without any mention of the Cass Review, etc. that upset their narrative-cart of spoiled fruit, is not the last we will see in the popular press. But it is the first one I saw outside of the project’s announcement stage. Please let me know of other Potter holdouts on the losing side of the Trans Wars that you spot decrying the new teevee programs. I suspect, given the intense ideological indoctrination of these SJWs on this particular progressive partisan talking-point, there will be remnant Gender Extremist soldiers in the jungles of far-off internet islands for as long as there were Japanese soldiers who fought on despite their Emperor’s surrender in 1945.