First Time Readers

Chapter 6 - Draco’s Detour

• He spent most of his days playing two-a-side Quidditch in the Weasleys’ orchard (he and Hermione against Ron and Ginny; Hermione was dreadful and Ginny good, so they were re…

Chapter 4 - Horace Slughorn

• Despite the fact that he had spent every waking moment of the past few days hoping desperately that Dumbledore would indeed come to fetch him, Harry felt distinctly awkward…

Chapter 2 - Spinner’s End

• The harsh cry startles the fox, now crouching almost flat in the undergrowth. It leapt from its hiding place and up the bank. There was a flash of green light, a yelp, and th…

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 37 - The Lost Prophecy

• It was unbearable, he would not think about it, he could not stand it… there was a terrible hollow inside him he did not want to feel or examine, a dark hole where Siriu…

Chapter 35 - Beyond the Veil

• ʹItʹs time you learned the difference between life and dreams, Potter,ʹ said Malfoy. ʹNow give me the prophecy, or we start using wands.ʹ 

Q1 - Thoughts on this being a pro…

Chapter 33 - Fight and Flight

• ʹCan we have your wand, then, if weʹre going first?ʹ Harry asked her. ʹNo, I donʹt think so, Mr Potter,ʹ said Umbridge sweetly, poking him in the back with it. The Minist…

Chapter 31 - O.W.L.s

Q1 - Have you ever had that moment of euphoria like Ron is at the moment?

Q2 - Were you guys studyers?

•  ʹBut I daresay the Ministry of Magic will track him down soon enough.ʹ  ʹI do…

Chapter 28 - Snape’s Worst Memory

• “Umbridge tried to get back into his office last night after theyʹd searched the castle and grounds for him. Couldnʹt get past the gargoyle. The Headʹs office has sea…

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…

Chapter 22 - St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

• Professor McGonagall rapped three times with the griffin knocker and the voices ceased abruptly as though someone had switched them a…

Chapter 19 - The Lion and the Serpent

• ʹWell, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting,ʹ said Hermione brightly, ʹbut it decided on Gryffindor in the end. So, do…

Chapter 16 - In the Hog’s Head

Q1 - What was the deal with Filch and the dungbombs and Hermione thinking through that story?

• A battered wooden sign hung from a rusty bracket over the door, with a pictu…

 Chapter 13 - Detention with Dolores

Q1 - Why do you think Dumbledore hired Dolores Jane Umbridge?

Q2 - They are writing an essay on moonstones…do you think this will play into the future somehow?

• ʹBowt…

Chapter 10 - Luna Lovegood

Q1 - Was Sirius irresponsible for going with the group to the train station?

• The girl beside the window looked up. She had straggly, waist length, dirty blonde hair, very pal…

Chapter 7 - The Ministry of Magic

• Harry awoke at half past five the next morning as abruptly and completely as if somebody had yelled in his ear. For a few moments he lay immobile as the prospect of t…

Chapter 4 - Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

• The othersʹ hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a dying person.

Q1 - What do you…

Chapter 1 - Dudley Demented

• The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive . . . The only person left outside was a …