Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: First Impressions

Chapter 5

Oh, God. I am so sorry for the long wait in between chapters. I was so gutted after the loss of the beautiful Dursleys, I couldn't go on. I admit, I wept bitter tears and couldn't read any further. After talking with my therapist and later with my psychiatrist, they assured me things were not as bad as I thought. They had read the books but had a completely different view on what happened. They actually side with the little Harry monster. As they are terrible at both understanding people and agreeing with me, I fired them and now have to find new ones that that are able to see my perspective. Third time this year...

I steeled my courage and resumed the book. The chapter opened with Harry waking after taking a sweet happy nap after his family slaughter. The imaginary Hagrid is still there and now he says they're leaving. There was a massive storm earlier; now it's all bright and sunny. Harry's rich, apparently, so then it's off to the bank. They're going to leave the island. Harry notices that there is only one boat. Harry asks how Hagrid how he got there. There's only the boat that Harry showed up in. Hagrid says he flew; that's why there's no other boat. No, It's because he doesn't exist. Rowling could have easily had Hagrid arrive in a second boat, since they left the island in a boat. She is trying to tell the reader something.

So now they return to the real world. This is where I feel Rowling tangented off of her story. There is an odd little series of moments in the book. First, her character is reading a newspaper, complaining about the Ministry of Magic, what ever that is. I'm not British. I know they have a Primed Minister, but I don't know what all the governmental cabinets are. Then Hagrid starts bitching about the fact parking meters exist. Finally, he complains because he has to walk his fat ass up a broken escalator at the train station.

Complaining about the seat sizes makes sense for a supernaturally large character. I can see putting that in a book, but the other three are irrelevant to comparing the supernatural world to the so-called magical world. What they all share is that they are related to the government. I don't think this was something relevant to the story. I think the author got a bug up her ass about the government and went on a min-rant about it.

Next, they are now in a dive bar. No one has a problem with a little kid in a bar. Everyone acts so happy to see Hagrid except one, Professor Quirrell, who is stammering and stuttering. None of this is making sense.

Oh, I just realized something. This is so crazy. I don't think that Hagrid is a manifestation of Harry anymore.

I think Harry is now a manifestation of Hagrid.

As I said before. Goddamned Harry and Hagrid are the same person. To remind you:

H A G R I D

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H A     R I

In Chapter 4, Harry lets the Dursleys' say hello to his little friend and then he goes to sleep. Since the next chapter is in the same building with the same people, we assume it is the next morning. It isn't. That's why it was storming so fiercely at midnight, but bright and sunny in the morning. It wasn't a drastic weather change, but an actual time period shift. Hagrid is the older version of Harry. The earlier chapter is where Harry imagines a strong figure to protect him.

Time has passed. Does anyone else think that after slaughtering an entirely innocent family that Harry grew up to be a normal person. No, he embraced the Hagrid persona, probably joining a motorcycle gang and growing out his hair. Chapter 5 does not happen the next night. It's thirty or so years later. Harry joined an MC, got his top rocker, and is now one of the baddest m-f-ers out there.

Like a lot of psychopaths, there is a part of him that still covets that innocence, that wants to embrace that little boy that he feels is still inside him, so he now manifests that little boy and imagines that he is now there to protect Harry. He returns every now and again to his kill shack, perhaps to relive that happy memory, or else it is a place where he brings more victims. I don't know. That's why there's only one boat.