Harry Potter Readalong - CoS part 2
Hooray, new brushes for speed sketches!
Quick thoughts:
Rogue bludger: another reminder of why the entire first half of the book was annoying. This chapter just drove the point home, thanks to a "joint effort" between Dobby and Gilderoy Lockhart's "help".
Dueling club: reminded me of my Tae Kwon Do days where we partnered up and sparred each other. It's scary enough thinking about kids being paired up to fight... now stick a magic wand in each hand and hope that no one loses an eye. Cheers!
Polyjuice potion: Hermione, if it weren't for the fact that you turned into a cat, kudos for brewing such a complicated potion at 12 years old! As a former chemist, my respect flew up +1,000,000 points for her.
The Very Secret Diary: how cool would it be to have a diary that you can completely confide in, one that could even show you flashbacks... on second thought, that would be a terrible idea. Mainly because I don't want to get sucked into flashbacks of my awkward high school years. *shudder*
Aragog: blegh. spiders. moving on.
The Heir of Slytherin: OH SNAP. I love that letter switching part, which is why I drew it. JKR, YOU GENIUS. I love anagrams. First the mirror of ERISED, and now this. You will end up double-guessing every single made up spell, and name for the rest of the series, won't you.
Dobby's reward: presented with clothes as a kid = lame. presented with clothes as a teen = cool. presented with clothes as Dobby = asdfhgjkhrejkghjk!!
So glad I'm not the only one who still digs the anagrams! Kudos to JK because it's not easy to just create fake name anagrams and still have the names sound okay.
ReplyDeleteOh Dobby. When he catches that sock - I could just FEEL his excitement when he realized what it meant. How quickly my feelings changed towards him after that moment.
ReplyDeleteThat is an amazing drawing, by the way.
Thanks for your kind comment! So true - I hated Dobby all the way up until that moment. His joy at getting a filthy sock was so precious :)
ReplyDeletePolyjuice potion: RIGHT? That is some tough stuff - Hermione is a freaking genius. (By the by, if I had gone into chemistry I totally would have pretended I was in Potions. Like, the entire time.)
ReplyDeleteThe Heir of Slytherin: Holy CRAP. ERISED IS DESIRE BACKWARDS! I must have known that/noticed that before, right? Right?! Sometimes I worry about my brain.
There did not seem to be a lot of supervision over the dueling club. I know they TOLD each other just use disarming spells and they're young so they don't know the dangerous ones. But that doesn't mean they couldn't accidentally shoot each other with some dismemberment spell
ReplyDeleteTrue! It reminded me of that part in Book 1 where they were warned to be careful in pronunciation for charms in class. They'd end up giving each other third ears or something!
ReplyDeleteIn my inorganic chemistry class, we played around with nickel and cobalt... which meant those most beautiful (and harmful) emerald-green and rich blue liquids in test tubes. TOTES pretended I was brewing glory, stoppering death, and whatnot.
ReplyDeleteWHAT? I'm so glad that I inadvertently spelled that out for you, LOL
I love that anagram part...very clever. I also totally agree that the first part of the book = annoying. The second part is also part annoying, part awesome.
ReplyDeleteTom Riddle completely redeems the second half of the book! JKR is awesome with anagrams :)
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