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Dear Students

I enjoyed viewing this site. Thank you for the effort. Careful in some instances you have spelt words and used your english grammar incorrectly. This being a language and literacy module you had to use the english language correctly. That is your spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, etc had to be perfect.
The marks you obtained for this blog is 39/45 = 87%.

Keep the book club spirit alive, continue to read and above all continue to tell your stories.

Regards

Ms Petker

Rapping up Harry Potter.

As Danita has dicussed on those last three chapters about what Harry went through when trying to practise magic portions and the way he, Hamione and Ron got into trouble. And how they saved Hamione from that ugley beast. And the way prof. Snapes gave him tough time. futhermore we also hear about how Harry played quidditch. Now we come to the rest of the book and the difficulties that Harry and his friend went through.

After Harry and Ron saved Hamione they still had more chalenges coming their way. when they accidentally walked inthe room where fluffy was in (the dog with three legs) they saw that the dog was guarding something, which they later found out that it was looking after the phillosophus stone. and they had a wrong idea thinking that Snapes is working for Veldemont.

they rushed to tell prof Mcgonagall that Snapes is trying to steal the philosophus stone and she was shocked tohear that they even know about the stone. and told them that there is no such thing.

Thats when Harry decided he is going to save the stone from prof Snape so that Veldomont wont get hold of it. Both Hamione and Ron offered to help him. they then heard that to keep Fluffy out of the way they have to play him music, then he will fall asleep. But there were already a bit late when they got there because someone had already did that and Fluffy was asleep. They pushed him so that they can get to the trap door,which they managed. fluffy woke up when they were busy trying to get inside. So they had to get in faster. That is when they were trapped by the flower, and Hamione told them to relax and not to fight it. Harry listened and they were both released. Ron was fighting it so he was left behind. But Hamione managed to save him with her spell.

They now had to play chess in order to find prof Snapes as they thought he is the person they are looking for to sop him for giving Veldemont the stone so that he could come back to life again, but we all know that they were wrong. Prof. Quirell was the person to look for.instead Prof. Snapes was protecting Harry all the time.



They entered a room of  a real wizzard chess and as Ron is an expect on it he offered to play in order to save Harry. He wanted to sacrife his life for Harry so that Harry can stop Veldemont from getting the sone.
Ron did his best to win, but by the time he said check mate, he was suppose to be killed by a Queen. The queen hit the night hard as Ron was a Night and he fell hard, he was uncontious, but Harry took over and he won. He was now faced with the demon himself. Veldemont in the body of Prof. Quirell.

Harry was very suprised that Prof Quirell was the one who was working for Veldemont all the time. he was there waiting for Harry. Because he knew he must know where the stone was. But harry did not know. Untill he saw his parents on the mirrow. then he put his hand in the pocket and the stone was there. Prof and Veldemot could not see it but they knew Harry is hiding something. So Quirell forced him to talk by assulting him. But Harry did not say anything. That was when Veldemont showed himself to Harry. They struggled for the stone but Harry fought with everything he got untill he managed to kill them both. But Veldemont spirit tried to enter Harry which it did, for a while though but Harry managed to fight the spirit wih the help of Prof Dumbledore. The incouraging words he got and the fighting spirit he got in him.

Hi ladies this is as far as i can remember and you are welcome to add where i left out . But as we all read the story we can find that ,in this story there is a lot of hate, evil, and bad things happening, because of people like Veldemont, Malfoy and Quiqirell who did not want anything good happening to harry. Nevertheless there is also good people who loved Harry and wanted to protect him, people like his friends who really loved him. And Dumbledore and the others that adored Harry.

At the end their houses were awarded acording to the points that they made during the year, and Gryffindor won because of their honest hard work, Hard work pay's, does'nt it ladies.

ANNY.

Harry Potter 8,9 & 10

Chapter 8 - The Potions Master

Harry and his friends are engrossed in their numerous studies, taking so many courses, including History of Magic taught by a ghost, Charms with Professor Flitwick, Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall (Hermione's favorite and best course), and Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Quirrell. They have some trouble - getting lost in the large halls and hundreds of staircases - and are frightened of the caretaker, Argus Filch and his cat named Mrs. Norris. Professor Quirrell certainly seems to be the most bizarre teacher, as his turban emits a strange odor of garlic and constant movement. Rumors come and go as to Quirrell's necessity of the turban and presence in Hogwarts. With all the courses, Harry is thrilled to discover that everyone in school is just as clueless as he. Harry also learns that Snape is the head of Slytherin.

On Fridays all the owls bring the students their mail. Since Harry has no wizard family, he never expects any mail. However, on Friday he receives a letter from Hagrid, written in untidy handwriting, asking to have afternoon tea. Harry is thrilled to meet with Hagrid, for he is frustrated after his Potions class with Snape. He realizes that Snape hates him for being a celebrity, among other unknown reasons. Snape looks at Harry with his slanted menacing eyes and continues to ask him detailed questions, despite his blank answers. Hermione is the only person with her hand in the air, knowing the answer; however Snape continues to pick on Harry. He even docks Gryffindor several points because Harry cannot answer his questions. Harry wonders why he hates him so much.
After class, Ron goes with Harry to visit Hagrid. They are comforted by Hagrid's information that Snape projects a desolate and mean image to everyone. Hagrid recognizes Ron by his hair and freckles and inquires as to his brothers' well being, for he remembers them from years past. Hagrid is reading a story from The Daily Prophet about a break-in at Gringotts. The break-in Ron had mentioned on the train is this same break-in, which he sees occurred on his birthday, while they were at Gringotts. Harry thinks about the empty vault and the small package that he and Hagrid removed from the bank. He also wonders if he should tell Hagrid about Snape's suspicious nature. Harry and Ron leave Hagrid's shack, trying to piece together the puzzle.
Topic Tracking: Friendship 5

Chapter 9 - The Midnight Duel

Harry realizes that he hates Draco Malfoy even more than Dudley Dursley - a sentiment he previously thought impossible. When notices for flying lessons appear, everyone realizes that Slytherin and Gryffindor will be competing. Harry worries about flying in Quidditch tournaments because he has no idea how to do so, while Ron reassures him that Draco is just bragging about his flying abilities. Neville is such a klutz, that he has never been allowed to fly before, while Hermione recites rule after rule about flying and Quidditch from various texts she has read in the library. Neville receives a package from home called a Remembrall, a ball that tells you if you've forgotten something. Draco walks by and snags Neville's Remembrall, hoping to start a fight between the two houses. Professor McGonagall stops Draco returns the Remembrall.

Madame Hooch, the flying teacher, gathers the students together and teaches them the intricate method of mounting their brooms and lifting up into the air. When Neville attempts to fly, his broom zooms into the forest, leaving him fallen flat on the ground with a broken wrist. Madame Hooch tells everyone to stay put still while she takes him to the hospital. However, as soon as they are gone, Draco Malfoy steals the Remembrall and flies into the air alone, teasing Harry and his friends. An enraged Harry mounts his broom and flies after Malfoy, realizing the simplicity, joy, and wonder of flying through the air on a broom. He informs Malfoy that he is alone without his gang and catches the Remembrall as Malfoy flies down to the ground. Suddenly Professor McGonagall screams Harry's name in outrage, as he has flown in the air without permission and may now be expelled from Hogwarts. She leads him through the school to seek a boy named Oliver Wood, the head of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. After seeing Harry dive fifty feet and catch the Remembrall his first time on a broom, she realizes his power and skill, and gives him the position of Seeker on the Quidditch team. He is the only first year to ever have this honor and place. Ron is shocked to hear of such amazing news for his friend.
Topic Tracking: Good vs. Evil 5
Topic Tracking: Friendship 6
The older boys on the Quidditch team come up to Ron and Harry, who are eating in the banquet hall, excited to meet their new teammate. Malfoy and his gang also speak to Harry, wondering when he will be expelled. They are surprised to learn that he has been rewarded instead of punished for flying on his broom, and invite him to a midnight wizard's duel. Ron claims that Harry will accept and that he will be his second. Harry doesn't understand anything that is going on, but accepts to fight, nonetheless. After they have left, Hermione walks up to Harry and Ron, upset that they will fight. She thinks it selfish and unfair for Harry to go around at night losing points for Gryffindor.
When Ron and Harry exit Gryffindor Tower at approximately 11pm, Hermione is waiting for them near the exit to stop them from risking a loss of valuable points. She follows them out, and is locked out of the tower, for the hole through which they climbed - with the fat lady - is no longer there, and she must wait for her to return to the painting in order to go through the painting and into the Tower.
Topic Tracking: Magic 7
Hermione follows them to the duel. They walk through the classrooms and hope to find Malfoy. They find Neville waiting outside the Tower, healed from his arm injury, but confused as to the password to get back inside. Instead of finding Malfoy the four stumble across Filch speaking to his cat, Mrs. Norris. They fear getting caught and run through the trophy room. Ron realizes that they must return to Gryffindor as soon as possible. Hermione informs them that Malfoy had tricked them into venturing into the Trophy room against the rules. Filch chases them until they find themselves lost in a corridor - the forbidden corridor on the third floor. It is guarded by a large animal with three heads over a trapdoor.
"They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog which filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; thee drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs." Chapter 9, pg. 119
The kids run as fast as they can to escape death, this monstrous animal guarding, what Hermione reveals, is a trapdoor. The fat lady in the portrait has returned and Harry tells her the secret password of "pig snout." Her door opens and the kids climb through and fall asleep. Harry realizes that the only place more secure and safe than Gringotts is Hogwarts. Now, he realizes where the little package from the vault is located: under the trapdoor.

Chapter 10 - Hallowe'en

When Malfoy sees Harry and Ron the following day alive and well, he is shocked. Harry informs Ron of the mystery behind the object that was moved from Gringotts to Hogwarts, and the two spend the remainder of the day trying to decipher what it is. Neville and Hermione do not care what the mysterious object is. At lunch that day, the owl drops a package for Harry with a letter from McGonagall explaining what is inside. It is a Nimbus Two Thousand broom, the highest speed and latest model, given to Harry by the Gryffindor Quidditch team. McGonagall wants to keep this news quiet, since first years are not allowed broomsticks. Nonetheless, Harry is to meet Woods that afternoon for the team's first practice. Malfoy grabs Harry's package, realizes what it is, and is prepared to turn him in. However, Professor Flitwick suddenly appears, inquiring as to the chatter, congratulating Harry on his new broom and position on the Quidditch team. Malfoy is appalled and confused, wondering how Harry could be in such good standing with the professors. Harry informs Malfoy that it is all because of him that he is so lucky. Hermione walks up behind Ron and Harry, upset about them breaking the rules, yet again. She still does not care about the package or the broomstick and leaves in a huff with her nose in the air.

Harry finds his first Quidditch practice on the field with the older boys and Woods. Woods explains the entire game to him, that with seven players on each time, there are the positions of Chaser, Keeper, and Seeker, the ball is called the Quaffle, and the team hopes to snag the Snitch. Harry comments that the sport seems like basketball, only with broomsticks and six hoops. Harry flies in the air and catches so many balls that he impresses Woods and the rest of the teammates. He is compared to the great Quidditch player,
Charlie Weasley, one of Ron's older brothers.
Two months goes by and Harry can hardly believe how comfortable he feels at Hogwarts. He is busy with classes, Quidditch practice, and mastering all the magic. One day in Charms class, the students begin to make feathers fly. Ron has difficulty pronouncing a spell and Hermione helps him. Hers works perfectly and her feather flies, causing the teacher to congratulate her in public. Ron makes a derogatory comment behind her back to Harry about her lack of friends and pompous attitude. Harry sees Hermione leave the class in tears. They find out that she is absent for the rest of the day, crying in the bathroom.
Topic Tracking: Magic 8
Topic Tracking: Friendship 7
Later, that day, Professor Quirrell runs down the hall frantically claiming that there is a monstrous troll loose in the basement. At Dumbledore's request, the older kids lead everyone out to safekeeping. Ron and Harry, however, remember that Hermione doesn't know about the troll. They decide to leave the group to find her and save her. They see Snape roaming the campus outside the group, away from where he should be. In their search, they begin to smell something foul and find themselves in direct contact with the troll.
"It was a horrible sight. Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite grey, its great lumpy body like a boulder with its small bald head perched on top like a coconut. It had short legs thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet. The smell coming from it was incredible. It was holing a huge wooden club, which dragged along the floor because its arms were so long." Chapter 10, pg. 129
Harry and Ron decide to lock it inside the chamber. Yet, when the walk away, they hear a high-pitched scream that belongs to Hermione, also locked inside the women's bathroom chamber with the giant troll. They go back inside to save her in an enormous fight against the monster. Harry jumps on its neck and sticks his wand inside one of its nostrils, causing it severe pain, while Ron uses his wand to retrieve Harry's. Eventually, they overtake the troll through magic and survive unscathed. Professor McGonagall finds the three students and is furious. Hermione lies to her, claiming that she wanted to go and fight the troll on her own, and Ron and Harry found and saved her. McGonagall is infuriated with Hermione, for she cannot believe that such a perfect girl has suddenly done something horribly wrong. She docks Gryffindor five points for Hermione's behavior and adds on ten points for Harry's bravery. They return to Gryffindor through the fat lady's picture and become three musketeers - an inseparable trio of friends.
Topic Tracking: Friendship 8
Topic Tracking: Good vs. Evil 6

Regards Danita

Harry potter Chapter 7

introducing them to the school. It is an enormous building with torches and miraculously high ceilings. They are about to have their start-of-year banquet, in which they must pass a test to sort them into one of the four houses. Harry is terrified of performing magic that he does not know - especially in front of the entire school. As he enters, a line of nostalgic wizard ghosts suddenly frightens him. They quickly leave when they discover the commencement of the opening banquet. The first years enter the banquet hall, lined with glittering goblets and golden table-settings and a ceiling that seems to stretch to the heavens.

Chapter 7 - The Sorting Hat

When the children enter Hogwarts, they are greeted initially by Professor McGonagall

The ceremony begins with the sorting hat, a large black, pointed, dirty hat that is laid in the front of the banquet hall on a chair. Each first year must place it on his or her head and it shouts out the name of the hall that suits the personality. The hat opens with a little song and proceeds through the list of new years. Harry is terrified of not being selected at all, but is eventually placed in Gryffindor with Neville, Ron, and Hermione. Draco is placed in Slytherin. When Harry's name is called, there is a loud hush of whispers among the students wondering if this is The Harry Potter.
Topic Tracking: Magic 6
When the sorting is complete, Dumbledore addresses the students as they begin to eat. Dumbledore says four silly, meaningless words, and the feast commences. Harry wonders if Dumbledore is mad. Ron claims that he is the most brilliant wizard, and yes, he is a bit mad. The food is miraculous and plentiful. At the meal, friendly ghosts from years past, including Nearly Headless Nick, join the students at the tables. They speak and reminisce and give advice. Harry looks around at the different professors, and sees Professor Quirrell, the stutterer in the turban. He also sees a new menacing-looking man named Professor Snape, who teaches Potions and glances morbidly at Harry. When he looks at Harry, Harry feels a striking pain in his scar. After the meal, Dumbledore leads the students in a rendition of the Hogwarts school song. Afterward, the children run off to their new respective houses and fall asleep. Harry dreams an unusual story in he sleep:
"He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didn't want to be in Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it tightened painfully - an there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he struggled with it - then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold - there was a burst of green light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking." Chapter 7, pg. 97
When Harry awakens, he remembers nothing from his dream.

Regards Danita

Refelection

As a group i believe we really enjoyed blogging, it has been an amazing learning experience for us. We all worked well together and everybody done their part.
The power of learning from your peers is amazing and indescribable.
By doing the book club we gained more experience and knowledge about the books as well as how the authors have written them we have learned that there is much more value in reading than we would have expected before this assignment. The blog also helped us as members to broaden our understanding on the different stories, as we clarified one anothers uncertainties through posting.

 Dislikes there may not be many but one would be the difficulty with internet accessibility at home or university. For some we had internet at home and others did not and this made it difficult for us all to  co-operate at online all the time.
 We believe that this may be the beginning of a new era in teaching and learning

Monique,Kamo,Anny,Danita,Faustina

harry potter book review- by Kamogelo Kekana

The novel is filled with magic and fantasy, J.K Rawlings out did herself on this one. Harry Potter and the philosopher stone is the first of this series. The book is about a young boy who is orphaned at infancy by an evil dark magic wizard. He grows up knowing his parents died in a car crash while he lives with his maternal aunt and uncle and their spoilt brat son who happens to be the same age as Harry. They treat him very badly but it seems Harry is quiet content with it, He does not complain, he is barely visible as a family member; it is so bad they make him sleep in the cupboard under the stairs. If one was to go through the house you would find no evidence of another boy in the family but Dudley.

Strange things Happen when Harry is around and his aunt and uncle know this, that he is a wizard. Harry only finds out about his capabilities on his eleventh birthday, Hagrid the caretaker at Hogwarts school of Wizardry appears on that night and reveals this to Harry. Then Harry is enrolled into the school and the adventures begin… with his new found friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly. Together they embark on a number of adventures and set the climax of the story when they try to save the philosopher stone from being stolen by a presumed evil teacher Snape at the school.

The stone has magical powers to make an elixir of life that can make a person immortal and the three try very hard to keep the stone from the wrong hands, like the hands of the one who should not be named- Voldermont-The Wizard that killed Harry’s parents and attempted to kill Harry when he was still a boy.

At the end good prevails and the stone is destroyed with the help of Dumbledore, the Head master at the school and also a good wizard.

The book is a great read, all age groups will be intrigued by its adventure, how well it’s written and the coherent style of writing that (figuratively) won’t allow you to put the book down. I like how Harry grows within the story, from a young boy who has no clue how much power and fame he possesses to a self-made Hero. He follows instinct throughout the story no one tells him how to do things but he stands for what is right and somehow that leads him to do the right thing. Like when the children where on the field for their first flying lesson and he stood up against Malfoy, he did it because it was wrong he stood up against a bully and the end he was spotted flying and that led to his position in the quidich team as the sneaker.