CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 17, The Man with Two Faces

[Megan Real]

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CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Philosopher's Stone
Chapter Seventeen, The Man with Two Faces

 
Harry has made it into the final chamber, where he discovers that Professor Quirrell had been the one trying to get the stone all along, not Snape, and that Quirrell is being directed by Voldemort. Quirrell is unable to get the stone out of the Mirror of Erised, so Voldemort tells him to use Harry to do it. When Quirrell tries to take the stone from Harry, he realizes that he is burned when Harry touches him, so Harry is able to hold him off by grabbing his face - but Harry blacks out from the pain in his scar.
 
Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, where Dumbledore updates him that he (Dumbledore) arrived in time to save Harry and the stone, and the stone will now be destroyed. At the end-of-term feast, some last-minute points to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville give Gryffindor the house cup, and everyone heads home for the summer. 
 
Questions:
 
1. The first time you read the chapter, were you surprised that it had been Quirrell trying to knock Harry off his broom back at the Quidditch match?
 
2. What kind of spell do you think Quirrell used to get the rope to tie Harry up?
 
3. I can't recall exactly where I read the following argument (searching previous discussions on here turned up far too many results to be sure), so I apologize if this is redundant, and if you know who brought this up, please give them credit - but it has been suggested (somewhere) that Quirrell should have been able to get the stone from the mirror, since he wanted it not for himself, but for Voldemort. What do you think?
 
4. Do you think that Voldemort was able to read Harry's thoughts at all during this chapter?
 
5. What do you think would have happened if Voldemort had gotten the stone?
 
6. In an alternate universe, if this book hadn't sold well, there might not have been any more published. If this had been a stand-alone book, with no sequels, would you have found it to be satisfying? 


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