First Blog Post

Book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pages: 200-305
In these pages, Harry finally is back at Hogwarts and was not expelled by performing magic in a muggle community. Every year the sorting hat, sorts the first years (Hogwarts students who are in their first year of attending the school)into four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Before the sorting, the hat always sings a song about the different houses and how people are divided. This year though, the sorting hat conveyed an unusual message through his song, very different from the usual. I was very surprised that the sorting hat told the students danger was coming and everyone had to come together and unite, even though they were separated into different houses. Not only that was different at Hogwarts this year. A new teacher, Professor Umbridge was a staff member at Hogwarts and was sent in by the Ministry of Magic. When I read this I thought that could not be possible. First, the Ministry of Magic accuses Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts, that he is crazy. Then, they send in a teacher to spy on him, and all the student, at Hogwarts. This is what I think, of course.
On Harry's first week of the term, he had a lot of homework already. I can relate to that because in my past years at school, some teachers liked to get started teaching at the very beginning of the year. I had a lot of homework the first week of school, not this year, and I know what it's like to feel stressed out. I spend a lot of my time in the theatre after school and sometimes I get home and find out I have a lot of homework to do and stay up late to finish it. Harry was very stressed his first week back at Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and Professor Umbridge aren't the best of friends. In the middle of class, Harry was arguing with her about his views on Lord Voldermort. Umbridge gave Harry detention and was sent to Professor McGonagall who told him to be careful around her. During detention, Professor Umbridge made Harry write "I will not tell lies" as many times as she wanted him to with one of her special quills. At first the words wouldn't show up on his page, then all of a sudden his hand hurt really bad and the words "I will not tell lies" was printed on the back of his hand. Once it was printed, the skin healed it's self again, until he wrote "I will not tell lies" again. He soon realized that the ink he was writing with was his own blood. I could not believe this. It must have hurt extremely bad, I would never be able to do that. Harry had to go to detention every single day of that week and by the end of the week, he thought his hand would be permenatley scarred. I can not even picture what that must have been like. Seeing your own hand being scraped. I'm looking forward to see if Harry will tell his friends what happened.