Book 1 question

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 84437

--- kewiromeo wrote:
> I am taking a Litterature for children class and the teacher has us 
read SS. > Now, as we have all read the book a million times I feel 
we are the experts. > My teacher tells us, "I only read the book for 
this class, and I only read the > first book." Would you want your 
children having a teacher like this? a) > Whether you like it or not, 
you read all 5 books and b) you are supposed to like > the books, but 
no one is forcing them down your throat. She says shes trying to > 
get a few children books published, but if she thinks she knows 
anything then > I'd suggest reading the books. I think it is 
disgraceful of her to act so > nonchalantly about this.
> 
> Now here is my question, and I think a direct response to me would 
reach me > better, but this is what I wanted to know. At what point 
does Harry enter the > magical wold? My teacher (the expert) seems to 
think that it was when he steps > onto the platform 9 3/4. I wrote a 
23 page paper on this book for my Comp 2 > class and I wrote that 
Harry's crossing of the threshold was the opening of the > door in 
Diagon Alley. A stupid sorority girl yelled at me when I suggested 
> this and said, "I read all the books, and I know what I'm talking 
about." Maybe > there are some people that shouldn't read the book.
> 
> Tzvi of Brooklyn

The question should be, re-introduced to the WW. He was raised by 
wizard and witch till he was about 14 months old. We now know that 
Mrs Figg was from a wizarding family, so apart from his "...making 
things happen when he was scared or angry", the magical world was 
never far away.

Harry's personal conscious experience with magic by his own hand was 
buying his wand. He witnessed WW activities as the letters arrived. 
But his first best personal experience, was mounting his broomstick. 
He felt most comfortable then.

Go easy on your teacher. PS/SS was recommended to her as another 
example of a successful children's writing style. That is what 
appeals to her, not the Hagrids and Hermiones that we yearn to 
encounter as we pick up the next in the series.

Even if she read all 5 books several times over, she would never get 
close to your depth of understanding of HP.   ~aussie~