First Time Readers

Chapter 29 - The Lost Diadem

• “Alecto, Amycus’s sister, teaches Muggle Studies, which is compulsory for everyone. We’ve all got to listen to her explain how Muggles are like animals, stupid and dirty, …

Chapter 24 - The Wandmaker

• “I want to do it properly,” were the first words of which Harry was fully conscious of speaking. “Not by magic. Have you got a spade?” And shortly afterward he had set to wo…

Chapter 21 - The Tale of the Three Brothers

• “ ‘There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight —’ ” “Midnight, our mum always told us,” said Ron, who had str…

Chapter 17 - Bathilda’s Secret

• Harry, stop.” “What’s wrong?” They had only just reached the grave of the unknown Abbott. “There’s someone there. Someone watching us. I can tell. There, over by the bus…

Chapter 13 - The Muggle Born Registration Commission

• Beneath the title was a picture of a red rose with a simpering face in the middle of its petals, being strangled by a green weed with fangs and a s…

Chapter 9 - A Place to Hide

• “When you say you’ve got the Cloak, and clothes . . .” said Harry, frowning at Hermione, who was carrying nothing except her small beaded handbag, in which she was now rumm…

Chapter 5 - Fallen Warrior

Q1 - How convinced were you that this was Hagrid?

• No sooner had Mrs. Weasley bent over her son than Lupin grabbed Harry by the upper arm and dragged him, none too gently, bac…

Chapter 1 - The Dark Lord Ascending

• The dedication of this book Is split seven ways: To Neil, To Jessica, To David, To Kenzie, To Di, To Anne, And to you, If you have stuck with Harry until the very e…

Chapter 28 - The Flight of the Prince

Q1 - What are your thoughts on Dumbledore’s death?

Q2 - Who do you think has died so far?

• “Cruc —” But Snape parried the curse, knocking Harry backward off his feet…

Chapter 25 - The Seer Overheard

• Harry found himself newly and happily impervious to gossip over the next few weeks. After all, it made a very nice change to be talked about because of something that w…

Chapter 21 - The Unknowable Room

• Harry fully expected to receive low marks on his, because he had disagreed with Snape on the best way to tackle Dementors, but he did not care: Slughorn’s memory was t…

Chapter 17 - A Sluggish Memory

Q1 - At the beginning of this chapter, Harry gives Hermione the details about what happened with Malfoy…do you have any other theories or thoughts on that?

• ‘He accused me…

Chapter 13 - The Secret Riddle

• ‘Ah,’ said Dumbledore, ‘perhaps she could. But it is my belief – I am guessing again, but I am sure I am right – that when her husband abandoned her, Merope stopped usin…

Chapter 9 - The Half-Blood Prince

• Hermione’s remonstration was drowned by a loud giggle; Lavender Brown had apparently found Ron’s remark highly amusing. She continued to laugh as she passed them, gla…

Chapter 5 - An Excess of Phlegm

Q1 - Tonks seems really sad and out of it at the beginning of this chapter…why?

• ‘What do you like me to call you when we’re alone together?’ Even by the dim light of the…

Chapter 1 - The Other Minister

• It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest tra…

Chapter 34 - The Department of Mysteries

• This is mad,ʹ Ron murmured, moving his free hand gingerly up and down his horseʹs neck. ʹMad… if I could just see it ‐ʹ  ʹYouʹd better hope it stays invisible,…

Chapter 30 - Grawp

• Eventually the area was roped off and Filch, gnashing his teeth furiously, was given the task of punting students across it to their classrooms. Harry was certain that teachers like…

Chapter 25 - The Beetle at Bay

Q1 - What do you think of this mass breakout at Azkaban?

Q2 - Why was Bode assassinated? And who killed him?

• This latest Decree had been the subject of a great number of j…