Becoming Harry Potter: Slytherin’s heir
Labels. At one point or another we have all either given one to someone or received one. Some labels can be good and encouraging: youngest Seeker in a century, the Chosen-One, the Boy-Who-Lived, etc. Others are not so good and very discouraging: attention seeker, lousy boyfriend, Mudblood, etc….
Harry is labeled a Dark wizard because of an “inherited” skill. Ernie Macmillan is essentially saying the skill makes the person and not the other way around. Hopefully most of us know not to take Ernie seriously in forming our opinion of Harry’s character, but how many of us take Ernie-like judgment statements as fact rather than prejudice (pre judgment)? How many things do we believe about others just because someone says they are so without getting to know the person ourselves?…
Becoming Harry Potter: Friend of house-elves. How are you going to become a friend of house-elves? …
This Halloween don’t just trick-or-treat. Make this year a year of adventure–a Harry-sized adventure…
“The happiest man on Earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is…” – Albus Dumbledore. Share with us what you see in the Mirror of Erised using #MNBHP.
“Give it here,” Harry called, “or I’ll knock you off that broom!”
“Oh, yeah? […] Catch it if you can, then!” he [Malfoy] shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and streaked back toward the ground.
… A foot from the ground he [Harry] caught it, just in time to pull his broom straight, and he toppled gently onto the grass with the Remembrall clutched safely in his fist. – SS/PS.
If we want to become Harry Potter we have to stand up for others, not to the point of becoming bullies ourselves but to show the Nevilles that they do matter, that they don’t have to be picked on. That we are on their side even if they are a bit strange or uncool or whatever.
If you want to become Harry Potter, you’ve got to be more that what is expected – you have to be unexpected. And here’s how…
Once you’ve joined your world, it’s time to jump in and find your place. Let us know your place in your “magical” community along with your Hogwarts house in the discussion section or on Twitter with #BHPSorted.
Once we discover our magic and believe in our magic, it is time to find our magical world. For Harry, that world lay beyond a brick wall on a street called Diagon Alley.
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