Veritas College of Irosin

Irosin, Sorsogon

Subject: Contemporary and Emergent Literature

Course: BSED III – English
Topic: Nature and Essence of Contemporary and Emergent Literature
Instructor: Allan F. Barcelo
Prelims

Task:
Watch the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

The first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his
eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique
magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a
student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends
who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious
deaths

Harry's 11th Birthday

After orphan Harry's home - shared with his unloving Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and cousin
Dudley Dursley - is flooded with letters inviting Harry to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry, the family take a trip to get away from the madness.

Vernon refuses to let Harry attend the school, and as his fury at the bombardment of letters
descends into chaos, the Dursleys and Harry share a run-down cabin in the middle of nowhere,
on what happens to be Harry's 11th birthday. In a life-changing turn of events, Hogwarts'
gamekeeper Hagrid breaks down the door, presenting Harry with a birthday cake and the news
that he will be attending Hogwarts after all.

The First Trip to Diagon Alley

Here, Hagrid introduces Harry to his first experience of the Wizarding World. With the tap of an
umbrella on an unassuming brick wall, Harry first sees Diagon Alley - the go-to place for all
your wizarding needs. It is here that Harry learns of his inheritance at Gringotts Bank, and he
buys his first wand at Ollivander's.

We see the other children preparing for their first year at Hogwarts - staring open mouthed at the
racing brooms on sale, and the animal companions they will choose to accompany them through
their school years. We see Harry meet his beloved owl Hedwig and, most importantly, Professor
Quirrell who he would later face in battle whilst Quirrell was under the possession of Lord
Voldemort.

Harry, Ron & Hermione Meet for the First Time

While Harry and Ron first met on the platform at King's Cross Train Station, as Harry struggled
to find the illusive Platform 9 3/4, the threesome of Harry, Ron and Hermione all meet for the
first time later. Harry and Ron sit together on the Hogwarts Express, and as they tuck into the
banquet of food Harry had ordered from the refreshment trolley, they are met by a mousy-haired
first year named Hermione Granger.

Instantly asserting herself as the intelligent and talented witch we would all come to know and
love, Hermione fixes Harry's crudely broken glasses with the flick of her wand, much to the
amazement of Harry and Ron. Her final words as she leaves the pair will always be a memorable
moment.

Harry and The Sorting Hat

Any Harry Potter fan will be able to tell you their Hogwarts House. It's an important badge of
honour to be associated with one of the four legendary wizards who founded the great school of
Hogwarts.

I'm a Hufflepuff.

And indeed, this is where it all began for Harry and his classmates - eagerly awaiting their
sorting by the magical Sorting Hat, which determines your house by your strength of character
and stand-out personality traits.

As Harry steps up to be sorted, he recalls the terrible things he heard about the Slytherin house,
and mutters under his breath: "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin...". In an unheard-of act of kindness,
the Sorting Hat responds to Harry's desperate plea, and announces with vigour...
"Gryffindor!"
The Troll in the Girls' Bathroom

As a young child watching Harry Potter for the first time, this scene was the first of many nerve-
wracking moments in the series. Watching 11 year-old Hermione come face to face with a huge,
fearsome troll - alone, and accompanied by the lightning of the storm that rages outside - is truly
edge-of-the-seat viewing.

While it may no longer strike fear in our hearts, this iconic scene showcases some of the classic
bravery and camaraderie of the three best friends Harry, Ron and Hermione when faced with
certain danger. And to lighten the scene, watching Harry stick his wand up the troll's nose is
always good for a chuckle.

Harry Catches the Golden Snitch

After showcasing his natural ability for flying, Harry is chosen to be seeker on the Quidditch
team - quite the honour for a first year, especially when raised by Muggles. And so, Harry steps
up for his first game with the entire school watching excitedly in the stands.

During the game, Harry experiences some unusual goings on whilst flying his broom. His
friends, incorrectly, assume that their sour-faced and stern potions teacher Professor Snape is to
blame.

As the match continues, Harry finds the golden snitch and takes a dive for it. In a tense few
moments, it appears Harry is about to be sick - but instead, he spits out the golden snitch,
claiming victory for Gryffindor!

Harry, Ron & Hermione meet Fluffy

Our core characters Harry, Ron and Hermione take it upon themselves to stop Lord Voldemort
from stealing the Philosopher's Stone. In the first of many challenges they face in order to find
Voldemort and the Stone, they come across a large, three-headed dog named Fluffy.

The gang attempt to sneak past the dog, who is sleeping atop the trap door, leading to the Stone.
The scene is one of the most suspenseful in the film, and just as they open the door, Fluffy
awakes! Three heads bark and drool, jaws snapping at the young students. Luckily they slip
through the door without injury, avoiding a punishing bite from Fluffy (but not without leaving
some disgusting dog drool on Ron's shoulder).

Wizard's Chess

They bypassed Fluffy, escaped the Devil's Snare, found the flying key, and yet their final
challenge still awaits. Harry, Ron and Hermione approach a life-sized Wizard's Chess, where the
pieces destroy one another until checkmate is declared.

In this brutal and tense game, Ron proves himself a worthy opponent and a loyal friend,
sacrificing his piece in the game in order for Harry to declare checkmate. As Ron is thrown to
the ground, we see the first in many examples of the unbreakable friendship these three have
established.

Harry Defeats Quirrell

The first Harry Potter film culminates with the revelation that Professor Quirrell had long since
been under Lord Voldemort's control, conspiring to steal the Philosopher's Stone - not, as the
children had thought, Professor Snape.

Harry is trapped in a room surrounded by flames, with Quirrell and the Mirror of Erised. The
scene is touching and intense - with Harry seeing visions of his deceased parents in the Mirror of
Erised, and finding the Stone in his trouser pocket.

As Voldemort attempts to kill Harry in order to get the Stone, Harry's touch burns Quirrell,
eventually turning him to dust. While Quirrell's body perishes, Voldemort's spirit lives, fleeing
the castle.
Gryffindor Win the House Cup

The winning of the House Cup is how each school year comes to an end at Hogwarts.
Throughout the year, students earn points for good behaviour. The house that earns the most
wins the prestige of the House Cup.

Gryffindor trail behind at the end of Harry's first year. It appears that their bitter rivals Slytherin
are about to take the glory. However, due to acts of bravery from Harry, Ron, Hermione, and
Neville Longbottom - who attempted to stop the threesome from pursuing Lord Voldemort -
Gryffindor gain a slim lead, and take the cup

At the end of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, good conquers evil on many levels. Most
obviously, Harry – with the help of his friends – keeps Voldemort from taking the Sorcerer's
Stone. By doing so, they stop the Dark Lord from getting eternal life. Phew! While not a full,
resounding defeat of the bad guy, it's a new victory for the good guy. Harry is rewarded with the
knowledge that his parents' love will protect him, even though he never got the chance to know
them. He also learns more about his parents and even gets magic photographs of them.

In addition, because of this triumph, Harry and the other first-year Gryffindors propel their house
to success in the race for the house cup. This second triumph is particularly sweet because Harry,
Ron, Hermione, and Neville regain the points that they (with the exception of Ron) had lost
sneaking around the castle. Not only do they make up for this loss, they catch up to and pass the
house with the most points: Slytherin. Gryffindor victory over Slytherin is as innocent and
glorious as Harry's temporary victory over Voldemort is solemn and foreboding. Next year there
will be another house cup to win, and other battles to be won. Challenges and troubles lurk on
the horizon, but so do new enchantments, potential victories, and hope.
 Veritas College of Irosin
Irosin, Sorsogon

Subject: Contemporary and Emergent Literature

Course: BSED III – English
Topic: Nature and Essence of Contemporary and Emergent Literature
Instructor: Allan F. Barcelo
Prelims

Task:
Watch the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Eleven years ago, wizards rejoiced all over the world, and Muggles (non-magic folk) were confused.
They celebrated because He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was defeated. In other words, Voldemort (the
evilest wizard around) killed Harry Potter's parents, but for some strange reason, he couldn't kill little
baby Harry. Now Voldemort seems to have disappeared. Overnight, baby Harry has become a hero –
"The Boy Who Lived." Having lost his family and home, Harry also has become an orphan. Dumbledore
(the principle of Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft), Professor McGonagall (a teacher at
Hogwarts), and Hagrid (a groundskeeper at Hogwarts) find a home for baby Harry with his Muggle
extended family, the Dursleys.

Cut to present day, when ten-year-old Harry lives with his super-mean aunt and uncle and their son
Dudley. When they go to the zoo for Dudley's birthday, Harry encounters a sympathetic snake. He's able
to speak to the friendly reptile and somehow seems to have removed the glass from its cage, so it can go
back to Brazil. After the trip to the zoo, mysterious letters start arriving for Harry. His uncle, Mr. Dursley,
is furious and tries to keep them from Harry. But the letters keep arriving at such a rapid rate that, the
evening before Harry's eleventh birthday, his uncle takes the whole family to a deserted island to escape
all of the mail.

They can't hide for long, though; Hagrid shows up on Harry's birthday to deliver the letter, and the news
that Harry's a wizard and has been admitted to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The next
day he takes Harry to shop for school supplies at Diagon Alley, where Harry learns more about the
wizarding world. He meets Malfoy (a bully) and Hogwarts' new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor,
Quirrell. Harry also buys his first wand. Sweet. Hagrid also picks up a mysterious package at Gringotts,
the goblin bank.

Later that summer, Harry travels to Hogwarts. He must take a train from platform nine and three-quarters,
a magical platform! A family called the Weasleys helps him find his way, and he begins to make friends
with one of their sons, Ron. He meets other first-year students like Hermione Granger and Neville
Longbottom.

Upon their arrival at Hogwarts, the first years are Sorted into one of four houses (think dormitories).
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville are all Gryffindors (a house known for bravery); Malfoy is a Slytherin
(a house known for ambition, and infamous for producing dark wizards). They begin taking all kinds of
classes in magic. Harry dislikes the Potions teacher, Snape, who is unfair and kind of mean.

Harry learns that there was an attempted robbery at Gringotts bank, but nothing was taken. He guesses
that the robbers were after what Hagrid picked up. Hagrid lets it slip that it has something to do with
someone called Nicolas Flamel.

Malfoy becomes a big bully. During their first broom-flying lesson, he teases Neville. In defending
Neville, Harry realizes he's a natural at flying. He's a superstar on a broomstick. Although Harry's broken
rules by flying unsupervised, Professor McGonagall rewards him by putting him on the Gryffindor
Quidditch team as Seeker (a very important position on the team).

Later, Malfoy and Harry have a fight, and Malfoy challenges Harry to a wizard duel at midnight.
Hermione and Ron accompany Harry, but Malfoy doesn't show – he was trying to get them in trouble for
roaming the school while they should be in bed. As they hurry to get back to the dorm, the three friends
stumble into a forbidden part of Hogwarts, where they bump into a three-headed monster dog. Luckily,
they escape in the nick of time.

Harry and Ron aren't getting along with Hermione, but make up when they rescue her from a troll that's
terrorizing the school. Though they get in trouble to taking on the troll alone, they also show their
bravery. Now the three are inseparable.

As the first Quidditch match approaches, the three friends suspect Snape of wanting the package from
Gringotts. During the game, Harry's broom acts weird and seems to be hexed. Harry's saved, but his
friends blame Snape for putting him in danger.
During the winter break, Harry stays at Hogwarts and is given an invisibility cloak that once belonged to
his dad. He uses it to sneak around the castle and discovers the Mirror of Erised in one of Hogwarts' many
secret rooms. When he looks into the mirror he sees his parents, but when he shares the mirror with Ron,
Ron sees himself as a hero. Dumbledore catches Harry at the mirror and explains that the mirror shows
you your heart's desire. The wise old wizard then says he's going to take the mirror away because it's
dangerous.

When classes resume after winter break, Harry, Ron, and Hermione figure out who Flamel is – an
alchemist and the only person in the world to have the Sorcerer's Stone, which can provide immortality.
They decide the Stone must be what was hidden at Gringotts and is now being guarded by the three-
headed dog.

When not trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas Flamel, Harry is trying to balance Quidditch and school
work. Gryffindor wins another Quidditch game, which Snape referees, and then Harry hears Snape and
Quirrell arguing.

Meanwhile, Hagrid adopts a dragon, which is illegal. Ron, Hermione, and Harry have to convince him
that's it's just not practical to raise a baby dragon, and find a way to smuggle the dragon out. Malfoy spies
on them and tries to turn them in. When Harry and Hermione have successfully sent the dragon out in the
middle of the night, they're caught by McGonagall – along with Neville, who was trying to warn them,
and Malfoy, who tattled – and are given really big detention. Gryffindor moves to the last place in the
house cup contest, and everyone is mad at them.

Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Malfoy have detention with Hagrid in the forest at night. They are
supposed to figure out what's killing unicorns and drinking their blood. Harry runs into some centaurs
who see trouble ahead in the stars. They all realize that Voldemort is trying to return and that he's the one
killing unicorns.

After the first-year exams, Harry, Ron, and Hermione talk with Hagrid and realize that he said too much
about the Sorcerer's Stone to the mysterious stranger who gave him the dragon. Harry, Ron, and
Hermione suspect that Snape is after it. That night they try to retrieve the Stone. Neville attempts to stop
them, so they must temporarily paralyze him with magic. They pass by the three-headed dog by playing it
music, only to meet with another series of challenges. First, they're trapped by a Devil's Snare plant, then
they must catch a flying key, and then they have to play a life-size game of wizard chess. The chess game
takes Ron out, leaving Harry and Hermione to solve a logic puzzle and drink potions to go forward.
There's only enough for one, so Harry moves on and sends Hermione back for help.

To Harry's surprise, he runs into Quirrell, not Snape like he thought he would. Quirrell reveals that
Voldemort is living in him like a parasite. (Eek!) He tries to use Harry to get the Stone. He makes Harry
use the Mirror of Erised, and Harry finds himself holding the Stone and lying about it. Quirrell/Voldemort
tries to kill Harry, but when he touches Harry, he burns. Harry blacks out.

When Harry comes to, he's in the infirmary with Dumbledore, and Quirrell is dead. Dumbledore explains
that Harry defeated Quirrell/Voldemort through the protection of his mother's love. He also mentions that
the Stone has been destroyed.
Later, at the end-of-year banquet, Dumbledore praises Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Neville for the parts
they played in defeating Quirrell. He rewards them by giving Gryffindor house tons of points. They win
the house cup for Gryffindor, and even pass all of their exams. Then, they leave Hogwarts for the summer
and part ways at the train station. Though it stinks to be returning to the Dursleys, Harry explains how
much easier his time with them will be now that he can do magic.