Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: First Impressions

Chapter 5 (cont.)

I have returned. I am resuming the tale in the hopes that this little monster gets his justifiable comeuppance.

To continue, we left Harry at the bank. He sees goblins behind desks, which are obviously tellers. He is told of dragons protecting the vaults; of course, these are the security guards. Anyways, he collects some of his inheritance and goes shopping for school supplies while Hagrid leaves to get his drink on.

On the list provided by Hagrid is getting a robe. He goes into a clothing shop where another boy is present. The new character is polite, saying hello to Harry and getting shit back in return from the insolent little brat. Later, when asked about his family, Harry states that his parents are dead, to where the boy says, "Sorry." Harry doesn't like the way he said 'sorry,' thinking that the new kid really wasn't sorry for Harry's plight.

I'm sorry, too. I'm sorry that Harry went and approached someone he didn't know stating his parents were dead and the boy didn't fall to the floor, belly to ground, pounding his fists into the rug while screaming, "NO, GOD! NOT STRANGER'S PARENTS! WHY THEM AND NOT MINE?" I get that the second he enters the wizard world, everyone is fawning over him, so I suppose he would have a big head, but does he really expect an outpouring of emotion from people that don't know him? I can see now why Dumbledore didn't want Harry raised by people who weren't wizards. He probably left Harry with the Dursleys because they practiced tough love so he wouldn't become an egomaniac. Too late.

Draco, as he introduced himself despite Harry refusing to reciprocate, also tells Harry that Hagrid is a drunk, which seems right, as the first place he went in the wizard's world was a bar and he ditches a child in a strange place to go back to drink. He says that regular people (Muggles) are terrible, which is also true and can't be argued. They depart, with Draco saying he hoped to see Harry at school. Harry offers no kindness back.

When Draco leaves, Hagrid takes Harry to a bookshop with thousands of works. Does he try to find tomes that will uplift, enlighten, and provide good for the world? No. He spends all his time searching for the wizard's version of the Anarchist's Cookbook so he can find new ways to do harm to poor Dudley.

His next stop is to a wand store to find one "suited" to him. When the shopkeeper finally finds one that works with him, it turns out that it is the only match to the one used by Voldemort, the person everyone considers to be a murderous psychopath. When writers do this, showing comparisons between characters, they are attempting to show the parallels and how each is a reflection of the other. This was Rowling's way to hint that Harry was a lunatic killer as well, which should have been obvious to all readers by now.

I looked through his school supply list and found something horrifying. On his list of wants in a pair of gloves made from dragon hide. Also, Harry heard someone trying to sell dragon livers, I assume for eating. We have already definitely established that dragons are merely regular security guards at a bank. What this seems to imply to me is that Harry is looking to make clothing out of the bodies of people and eat their livers. I feel Rowling read Silence of the Lambs before writing the book and compiled Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill into one character, that of an entitled, snotty brat. Brilliant, but terrifying. I'm scared to go on...