Independent Reading Response #1

Name: Devon Jasmine Lee
Date: October 8th, 2010
Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Time Read: 2 hours
Pages Read: 1-60
Total Pages This Week: 60 pages

Harry is a boy that is disliked by the only family that he has left. His only family is his Uncle Vernon, his Aunt Petunia and his cousin Dudley. Uncle Vernon is a round man that works in an office. His son Dudley is also very round and likes to bully Harry with his gang at school. Aunt Petunia is a skinny tall lady with no heart. She only has a heart for her husband and for Dudley. Harry always gets the worst of everything and he wished that everything will somehow go his way for once. One day, everything does. One day, a letter comes. It says it is for Harry. But Uncle Vernon doesn't let Harry open it. Instead, he opens it hmself and he reads it to himself. His is petrified and he tell Harry and Dudley to leave the room. Aunt Petunia also reads it, and she is also surprised. For a long time, the letters have come and said that they are for Harry. Harry never gets to see these letters. Until one day, a bunch of letters come flying in. Uncle Vernon gets very mad and tells eveybody to pack some clothes and get to the car. Uncle Vernon drives to a harbor and rents a boat. He thinks that if they are in a boat, the people that are mailing Harry will not get the letters here. Because all of the letters konw where Harry are. They tell the reader on the postal address. That night, these was lightning and it was also Harry's 11th birthday. There was a loud boom at the door. It turns out that the loud boom was Hagrid. Hagrid is the key holder at Hogwarts. Hargid finds out that the Dursley's have not been giving Harry his letters Hagris was furious when he found out. That night, Harry also found out that he was a wizard. And that his parents were also and this parents never died in a car crash. They had died because of He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named.

I think that Uncle Vernon shouldn't have hid the letters from Harry. They should have told him, so at least he would have known how his parents died. I also think that the Dursleys should treat Harry like a human being. Not like that dirt that they walk on. If only they had a piece of heart. If only they would think of anything else besides themselves. They would be much better people.