Harry can fly!

Well...not really, but he rides a broom really well! We're now seeing the students at Hogwarts get involved in fun activities, and even cause a little bit of mischief at school! It's funny to hear about all of the trouble that Ron and Harry are causing! Poor Hermione! She;s just trying to make sure that Gryffindor keeps all of their points, but she ends up in trouble too! I hope they learn their lesson sometime soon!

This week's poll question was submitted by T.M. and I think it is very interesting. I know that if I saw a 3 headed dog I would run away as fast as I could! That dog sounds really big and scary to me! What do you think you would do?

Harry starts his classes

I am very happy to see that so many of you answered last week's poll question! Unfortunately, there was not one house where everyone responded which means that none of the houses will get 5 extra points. I hope I'll be able to give those points this week!

Now that Harry is at Hogwarts, and has been placed into his house, we are seeing him in his classes. He has some pretty interesting ones! Transfiguration sounds like it will be pretty tough, and I think Harry better watch out in potions! Who knows what Professor Snape will ask him to do!

The poll question for this week was created by M.T. and I think it is an excellent one. This goes back to when Harry was being placed into his house.

I think that the other kids wanted Harry in their house because of his scar. Even though Harry doesn't realize how famous he is, all the other kids have known about him for their entire lives! I think they are amazed to see Harry Potter in school with them, and only want him in their house because he is famous, and his scar made him famous.

What do you think?

The Sorting Hat

I read your comments last week and they were all fantastic! I'm so excited to see the creative responses you have! We have now finally read about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and have begun to hear about the amazing things that happen inside! It's so exciting!

We have been introduced to the sorting hat, who sorts each student into their house. We saw that Harry becomes a Gryffindor! We also found out what houses a lot of the other characters were placed into. Do you remember any?

This week's poll questions is from R.M. I think she came up with an excellent one.

If Harry were to be in a house other than Gryffindor I think it would be Hufflepuff. I think that the students placed in Hufflepuff are very kind. Harry tends to help people out when he can which I also think is kind. He also seems a little shy, which I think might be another quality of a Hufflepuff. What do you think?

How would you feel if you were Harry?

I was SO excited to see how many of you responded to last week's post! Let's keep it up again this week! I would like us to think about what it would be like to be in Harry's shoes. He's just left the only family he's ever known, and while they definitely were not the best, they were still family. How would you feel if it was you?

I think I would feel very lonely. It is very hard to go to a new place knowing absolutely no one! Think about what it was like when you started at a new school. You had no idea what to expect, and I'm sure if you had friends or family to turn to it definitely helped. What do you think?