I cannot possibly list my choices in order by favourite (that's way too hard!), so in random order, my top tens for each book are (and beware spoilers!):
#1- The Philosopher's Stone:
1) The budding friendship between Harry, Ron & Hermione
2) Owl Post addressed to "the Cupboard Under the Stairs" & everywhere else Harry specifically lived.
2) The Sorting Hat
3) Chocolate Frogs and Every Flavour Beans
4) The lifesize wizard chess board
5) The Invisibility Cloak
6) Peeves :D
7) McGonagal recruiting Harry as Gryffindor's Quidditch team Seeker
8) Hagrid & his delightful Cockney accent
9) Shopping in Diagon Alley
10) The Weasley family
#2- The Chamber of Secrets:
1) Harry's escape in the flying car
2) The Deathday Party :D
3) Neville Longbottom & his grandmother's Howlers
4) Dobby :D
5) The Burrow
6) Fawkes
7) The rescue of Ginny Weasley
8) Harry & Ron disguised as Crabbe & Goyle
9) The anagram of I Am Lord Voldemort
10) Moaning Myrtle & Gilderoy Lockhart...just kidding, I couldn't stand either :D
#3- The Prisoner of Azkaban:
1) Time-travelling
2) A tie between Snape floating unconscious and Aunt Marge's flying trip :D
3) Harry informing Uncle Vernon & Aunt Petunia that his godfather is a criminal :D
4) The anonymous Firebolt gift
5) Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Art lessons
6) Patronuses
7) Breaking Sirius out of Azkaban
8) Ron's first use of the telephone :D
9) The Marauder's Map
10) The Quidditch Cup match
#4- The Goblet of Fire:
1) The Prefect bathtub
2) Quidditch World Cup
3) Hagrid's crush on Madame Maxime
4) The Pensieve
5) Fred & George's career goal of opening a joke shop
6) Hogsmeade
7) SPEW
8) The Marauder's Map
9) Mad-Eye Moody
10) The international schools of witches & wizards
#5- The Order of the Phoenix:
1) Luna Lovegood and her crazy hats :D
2) Neville saving Harry
3) Dumbledore's Army
4) Fred & George's escape
5) Flying memos at the Ministry of Magic
6) McGonagal implying that Umbridge is incompetent :D
7) Sirius Black
8) The Advance Guard, especially Tonks :D
9) Grawp
10) Dumbledore & his fatherly wisdom
#6- The Half-Blood Prince:
1) Professor Slughorn
2) The Prime Minister's meeting with Cornelius Fudge
3) Dumbledore's visit to Privet Drive
4) Fleur's nickname, Phlegm :D
5) The Half-Blood Prince's textbook
6) Felix Felicis
7) Harry saving Ron from the poisoned mead
8) Roonil Wazlib, especially when Snape says it :D
9) Dumbledore's funeral
10) The phoenix's cry
#7- The Deathly Hallows:
1) Professor Snape--I actually liked him despite his treatment of Harry in all the books, but no one can hate him in this book
2) Draco Malfoy--a surprising turn of events for him!
3) Gringotts
4) The Silver Doe
5) Ron saving Harry from the icy water--"Are you mental?" :D
6) The Lovegood's house
7) Aberforth & the Hog's Head secret passage
8) Battle of Hogwarts--sad but honourable scene
9) Harry and Dumbledore at King's Cross
10) The epilogue--so lovely to see how Harry, Ron, Hermione & Ginny grow up :)
What are some of your favourite HP characters and moments? Please share in the comments!
The independent learnings of a new teacher in love with books.
Beginnings
Welcome friends! I have started this entry in the global technosphere because I have been in love with books since the age of 2. Among the busy business of being a new teacher, this is my outlet for sharing thoughts on a love of reading a wide variety of books. My inspiration can be summed up with a yearbook quote from a teacher written when I was 8: "To the only girl at recess I see reading a book. Good for you!"
My blog title is quoted from a classmate who asked me this once. Believe it or not, I've also heard it as a teacher :D
My blog title is quoted from a classmate who asked me this once. Believe it or not, I've also heard it as a teacher :D
Friday, August 12, 2011
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Awesome list.
ReplyDeleteI would add Ron/Hermione bickering for the 3rd book
Cedric and Krum on the 4th.
But everything else you mentioned here, I agree!
I love this list! I would add the flashback trips thru Voldemort's memories in book six.
ReplyDeleteJillian & Melissa~ Thanks! I like both your additions. There is so much to love in this series, it's hard to narrow it down. That's why I kept some items deliberately short, like "Dobby" :D
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