I experienced New Year 9 hours earlier than England due to the time difference.
I thought about facetiming my b-friend JRM but I remembered (damn it, I just remembered the game.) that JRM's FaceTime isn't working at the moment.
My cousins, both girls and aged 5 and 7, are also here at my grandparent's house although they live in a different prefecture/county. They just love playing and showing off how good they are to others and they are so annoying and they get on my nerves. They are out shopping at the moment (thank god) with my grandma, my mum and their mum. My other aunt should be here in a moment.
I'm watching TV right now with my grandpa. Don't undermine how good TV programmes in Japan are! Definitely 10 times better than England at the very least.
Monday 31 December 2012
Wednesday 26 December 2012
Hello All
I've once again felt that international relations are very important.
Also, Japan has had yet another general election.
It seems almost certain that Abe will return as Japanese Prime Minister for his second time in office.
It seems unbelievable that during the time that England have had Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and now David Cameron, Japan have had Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, Aso Taro, Yukio Hatoyama, Naoto Kan, Yoshihiko Noda and soon Shinzo Abe again.
Update: Shinzo Abe is the new Japanese prime minister.
I'm in Japan now at the moment.
It's so far snowed about 50cm.
Also, Japan has had yet another general election.
It seems almost certain that Abe will return as Japanese Prime Minister for his second time in office.
It seems unbelievable that during the time that England have had Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and now David Cameron, Japan have had Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, Aso Taro, Yukio Hatoyama, Naoto Kan, Yoshihiko Noda and soon Shinzo Abe again.
Update: Shinzo Abe is the new Japanese prime minister.
I'm in Japan now at the moment.
It's so far snowed about 50cm.
Thursday 20 December 2012
News
OMG!
What a scary world it is at the moment!
Why do North Korea have to fire missiles?
I don't get how they think they can get away by saying they are artificial 'satellites'.
I would die if I had to live in North Korea.
I mean, everyone is expected to think of firing missiles as an 'amazing achievement' and 'shows that we are an amazingly technologically developed country'.
The news reporters sound so posh and their voice is so so irritating (careful choice of words there). (check out BBC's video online of North Korea's recent missile firing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20690338)
As William Hague and the UN security council said, this completely violates UN security laws and NK should be punished.
I may be biased saying all of this as I am Japanese, but I hope most people see how unacceptable the things North Korea are doing are.
And also the US primary school shootings!
Couldn't security have been better?
I've seen many videos on the BBC website about it, including some interviews, and my heart, along with many others' in the world, has been utterly broken by the incident.
My feelings are with all the family and friends of those affected and sincerely hope that the media will respect their privacy at this time. They will surely need that privacy to get over this terrible event.
Rorry
What a scary world it is at the moment!
Why do North Korea have to fire missiles?
I don't get how they think they can get away by saying they are artificial 'satellites'.
I would die if I had to live in North Korea.
I mean, everyone is expected to think of firing missiles as an 'amazing achievement' and 'shows that we are an amazingly technologically developed country'.
The news reporters sound so posh and their voice is so so irritating (careful choice of words there). (check out BBC's video online of North Korea's recent missile firing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20690338)
As William Hague and the UN security council said, this completely violates UN security laws and NK should be punished.
I may be biased saying all of this as I am Japanese, but I hope most people see how unacceptable the things North Korea are doing are.
And also the US primary school shootings!
Couldn't security have been better?
I've seen many videos on the BBC website about it, including some interviews, and my heart, along with many others' in the world, has been utterly broken by the incident.
My feelings are with all the family and friends of those affected and sincerely hope that the media will respect their privacy at this time. They will surely need that privacy to get over this terrible event.
Rorry
Tuesday 4 December 2012
New intentions
I now feel that as there are not many people following this blog, it would be quite good to go with the blog title 'Help will always be given to those who ask' and have my own opinions on matters in the news, as well as giving homework help.
I don't yet know how I'm going to do this, but my aim is for this blog to become one of the most popular for teenagers and even adults.
I don't yet know how I'm going to do this, but my aim is for this blog to become one of the most popular for teenagers and even adults.
Saturday 24 November 2012
Its been a while
I wonder if any of this blog's followers are still checking up blogs.
Its exactly a month till Christmas and I've already been at school for over 11 weeks.
The first day back at school happened to be (as always) my birthday.
On that morning, I got up as usual and started getting ready for school as usual. It never at all occured to me that it was my birthday so that when I went to the bus stop and my 'friends' shouted Happy Birthday Rorry!, I was quite shocked.
Anyway, what do you want for Christmas?
I'm not so clear but I do have a few hopefuls. I'm spending Christmas and New Year's @ Japan.
Please comment if you see this so I get a rough estimate of who is still paying attention to blogs.
Rorry
PS. I still haven't managed to post pictures of my holiday have I?
I'll seriously start thinking about doing it once I know how many people are still reading.
Its exactly a month till Christmas and I've already been at school for over 11 weeks.
The first day back at school happened to be (as always) my birthday.
On that morning, I got up as usual and started getting ready for school as usual. It never at all occured to me that it was my birthday so that when I went to the bus stop and my 'friends' shouted Happy Birthday Rorry!, I was quite shocked.
Anyway, what do you want for Christmas?
I'm not so clear but I do have a few hopefuls. I'm spending Christmas and New Year's @ Japan.
Please comment if you see this so I get a rough estimate of who is still paying attention to blogs.
Rorry
PS. I still haven't managed to post pictures of my holiday have I?
I'll seriously start thinking about doing it once I know how many people are still reading.
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Olympics
The summer olympics finally brought fun and excitement to the summer holidays.
The opening ceremony was one to remember with history of England all etched in within a couple of hours of Danny Boyle's masterpiece.
Usain Bolt managing to strike a double triple, smashing the previous world record into pieces in the 4X100m relay with a ridiculous time of 36.84 seconds.
Michael Phelps became the best olympian of all time, winning a total of 22 olympic medals throughout his career, an achievement Ian Thorpe was quick to praise.
Congratulations must go to Team GB, but it is sort of unfair that they should be considered 3rd best. This is because olympics has 3 medals not just golds, and in no. of total medals they are 4th. They also had massive home support which obviously made a difference. Plus the only medals Team GB ever manage to get are in sports that hardly mean anything, in other words, sports which I personally think should not be considered very proffesional. These include Sailing, Canoeing, Cycling, Boxing, Shooting and Equestrian. Without these, 11 golds, 8 silvers, 14 bronzes, 33 total.
They would be 6th or 7th place in no. of golds and 9th place or so in no. of total medals.
USA and china once again proved their part in the olympics.
Japan did fairly well, with a total of 38 medals to their name, but they seemed to have found a new love for silvers and bronzes.
The opening ceremony was one to remember with history of England all etched in within a couple of hours of Danny Boyle's masterpiece.
Usain Bolt managing to strike a double triple, smashing the previous world record into pieces in the 4X100m relay with a ridiculous time of 36.84 seconds.
Michael Phelps became the best olympian of all time, winning a total of 22 olympic medals throughout his career, an achievement Ian Thorpe was quick to praise.
Congratulations must go to Team GB, but it is sort of unfair that they should be considered 3rd best. This is because olympics has 3 medals not just golds, and in no. of total medals they are 4th. They also had massive home support which obviously made a difference. Plus the only medals Team GB ever manage to get are in sports that hardly mean anything, in other words, sports which I personally think should not be considered very proffesional. These include Sailing, Canoeing, Cycling, Boxing, Shooting and Equestrian. Without these, 11 golds, 8 silvers, 14 bronzes, 33 total.
They would be 6th or 7th place in no. of golds and 9th place or so in no. of total medals.
USA and china once again proved their part in the olympics.
Japan did fairly well, with a total of 38 medals to their name, but they seemed to have found a new love for silvers and bronzes.
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Early summer days
I can describe the early days of the summer holidays for me in one word...BORING!
Not going anywhere (dad in Japan), and no entertainment in the form of the all mighty Homework.
So far, I've had to resort to watching DVDs and TV.
Its been a couple of warm days in the South East however, and no-one can deny the weather at least has been beginning to seem like summer.
The English may say its warm, but for me, as I have been to many countries in the world, one over 20 times, and got used to high temps and adverse weather, its really nothing. 72 plane journeys + 2 7,8 day cruises.
But all this is to end come the 2012 Olympics.
I, personally am expecting a wet Olympics, probably the wettest yet.
I can see someone slipping on the tracks in the track events.
Funny if it was someone like Yohan Blake or Usain Bolt, but I would like to see Bolt break some WRs.
Anyway, good luck to Team GB, Team Japan, and Bolt.
Wishing all the best.
Rorry
Not going anywhere (dad in Japan), and no entertainment in the form of the all mighty Homework.
So far, I've had to resort to watching DVDs and TV.
Its been a couple of warm days in the South East however, and no-one can deny the weather at least has been beginning to seem like summer.
The English may say its warm, but for me, as I have been to many countries in the world, one over 20 times, and got used to high temps and adverse weather, its really nothing. 72 plane journeys + 2 7,8 day cruises.
But all this is to end come the 2012 Olympics.
I, personally am expecting a wet Olympics, probably the wettest yet.
I can see someone slipping on the tracks in the track events.
Funny if it was someone like Yohan Blake or Usain Bolt, but I would like to see Bolt break some WRs.
Anyway, good luck to Team GB, Team Japan, and Bolt.
Wishing all the best.
Rorry
Friday 13 July 2012
Randomness
I found this blog, and it was quite a good poetic read.
http://www.freewebs.com/randomstuffs101/poems.htm
Rorry
http://www.freewebs.com/randomstuffs101/poems.htm
Rorry
Poem
Don't know where this came from, but I somehow managed to write 3 verses about my home staircase.
Into the night and I climb upstairs.
1 step, then 10 steps
and finally 2 steps.
Wanting to use my right
as the pivot on the 11th,
Left foot one step,
Right foot, Left foot 2 steps at a time.
Why I care about this I do not know.
Only yesterday I almost lost my balance,
Topple, topple, I would have gone.
I'm quite glad I'm typing this today.
RANDOM!
Rorry
Into the night and I climb upstairs.
1 step, then 10 steps
and finally 2 steps.
Wanting to use my right
as the pivot on the 11th,
Left foot one step,
Right foot, Left foot 2 steps at a time.
Why I care about this I do not know.
Only yesterday I almost lost my balance,
Topple, topple, I would have gone.
I'm quite glad I'm typing this today.
RANDOM!
Rorry
Tuesday 3 July 2012
HI
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I've started reading the Harry Potter series again, for something like the 17th time.
Harry Potter is the perfect book, which you can read over and over again without getting bored.
HI HI HI
HI HI HI
HI HI HI
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HI HI HI
HI HI HI
HI HI HI
HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI
I've started reading the Harry Potter series again, for something like the 17th time.
Harry Potter is the perfect book, which you can read over and over again without getting bored.
Friday 22 June 2012
GREAT BOOK!
A few days ago, I finished reading a right big book, called 'The Elements - A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe' by Theodore Gray.
I have to say, I wasn't at all interested at first, but, having read it, I found that it was a fantastic book. I learnt loads from it, much to my parent's joy.
Other than science, you also get lots of new interesting facts.
Forget that its about the Elements, just read every single page, and look at all the pictures. The pictures are outstanding.
I have to say, I wasn't at all interested at first, but, having read it, I found that it was a fantastic book. I learnt loads from it, much to my parent's joy.
Other than science, you also get lots of new interesting facts.
Forget that its about the Elements, just read every single page, and look at all the pictures. The pictures are outstanding.
Friday 1 June 2012
Thursday 31 May 2012
Impossibles
What shape is infinity?
The most obvious answer would be a circle, with an infinite number of sides, and also a infinite number of lines of symmetry.
A long line, stretching continuously as long as one does not give up, the moment he or she gives up, the line stops and disapears, leaving no trace of it behind.
People may argue that a line is not a shape, but as far knowledge goes, it is still a shape, a shape drawn by the fingertips of our hand.
Where do numbers end?
The infinite number will also be as far as you can go without giving up.
Also, even after this, if you just put a 10 and put the huge number as a power on top, the number will suddenly become even bigger.
What is nothing? What does nothing look like?
Some people, when they enter a newly built room, they say 'there's nothing here' without even stopping to think what the word 'nothing' actually means.
On earth, there is always gas, always sound, always some source of light.
In space, there may be no gas, but it will always look black, maybe even some speck of light, signalling another far away galaxy.
Anyone with better answers?
The most obvious answer would be a circle, with an infinite number of sides, and also a infinite number of lines of symmetry.
A long line, stretching continuously as long as one does not give up, the moment he or she gives up, the line stops and disapears, leaving no trace of it behind.
People may argue that a line is not a shape, but as far knowledge goes, it is still a shape, a shape drawn by the fingertips of our hand.
Where do numbers end?
The infinite number will also be as far as you can go without giving up.
Also, even after this, if you just put a 10 and put the huge number as a power on top, the number will suddenly become even bigger.
What is nothing? What does nothing look like?
Some people, when they enter a newly built room, they say 'there's nothing here' without even stopping to think what the word 'nothing' actually means.
On earth, there is always gas, always sound, always some source of light.
In space, there may be no gas, but it will always look black, maybe even some speck of light, signalling another far away galaxy.
Anyone with better answers?
Near and Far
Following Flash Fiction, this time it is Near and Far, looking at one object first from a close perspective and then from far away.
I have chosen to look at the details of a fold on a piece of paper-and also the paper in general.
Lots of scrunch marks. The ink lines on the paper uneven, the surface of the line of fold rough and yet soft like the very top layer of a carpet, like the carpet's hairs. If you look even closer, you can almost see that some areas of the paper is turning yellow, from where you hold it.
Far away it all changes, all the lines are as straight and smooth as the edge of the paper.
Choose any straight line, any point on it, and it will always look as 180.000000 degrees on either side.
Everything seems perfect, except for the occasional folded corners.
Just thought, what would it be like to cut a paper in half, so that it becomes 2 very thin A4 pieces.
Anyone who's had experience coming close to that feat, please leave a comment.
I have chosen to look at the details of a fold on a piece of paper-and also the paper in general.
Lots of scrunch marks. The ink lines on the paper uneven, the surface of the line of fold rough and yet soft like the very top layer of a carpet, like the carpet's hairs. If you look even closer, you can almost see that some areas of the paper is turning yellow, from where you hold it.
Far away it all changes, all the lines are as straight and smooth as the edge of the paper.
Choose any straight line, any point on it, and it will always look as 180.000000 degrees on either side.
Everything seems perfect, except for the occasional folded corners.
Just thought, what would it be like to cut a paper in half, so that it becomes 2 very thin A4 pieces.
Anyone who's had experience coming close to that feat, please leave a comment.
Sunday 20 May 2012
YES!
Tremendous!
Chelsea won the UEFA Champions League for the first time yesterday!
I went frantic in front of the TV when Drogba scored the decisive penalty.
But I did want the Chelsea players to show more organisation when they lifted the famous trophy. Some people couldn't see Frank Lampard and John Terry when they lifted the trophy. Just the Cup floating above the players and 2 hands.
Chelsea won the UEFA Champions League for the first time yesterday!
I went frantic in front of the TV when Drogba scored the decisive penalty.
But I did want the Chelsea players to show more organisation when they lifted the famous trophy. Some people couldn't see Frank Lampard and John Terry when they lifted the trophy. Just the Cup floating above the players and 2 hands.
Monday 14 May 2012
Flash Fiction
The author of one of the blogs that I am a member of, Atticus McAristotle, wrote a post a while ago on flash fiction. I've been postponing writing this post because I hadn't been able to think of one straight away.
The title is 'Trapped'
Quickly I grabbed the cheese and scampered off home it, was a good life.
Exunctly 100 words. Whoopy!
A mouse trapped in a mouse trap. Get it? Hahaha
PS. you can see the post by Atticus on http://setthedarknessechoing.blogspot.com
The title is 'Trapped'
I got home after school as usual. As I entered the living
room, I heard a soft bang, the sound of something dropping. I went upstairs to
my room, searching for the cause of the disruption. I opened the door. Then…
The next thing I knew was that I was trapped in something. I heard whispering
around me. I couldn’t understand what was going on as I had closed my eyes when
I realised that I was trapped. I looked…
A mouse trap for the cat.Quickly I grabbed the cheese and scampered off home it, was a good life.
Exunctly 100 words. Whoopy!
A mouse trapped in a mouse trap. Get it? Hahaha
PS. you can see the post by Atticus on http://setthedarknessechoing.blogspot.com
Sunday 13 May 2012
Incredible
As a Chelsea supporter, I was watching the last day of the season as a neutral, with Chelsea destined for sixth place.
What an end to the season! Two stoppage time goals from Man City denying United their 20th premier league crown.
Managed to turn the TV on just in time to see the city fans flooding the pitch.
Quite happy to see united end the season trophyless.
Note
I've just realised that there was something that I forgot to write in the post 'Starting Off' It was the fact that despite still being engaged in the Harry Potter series, I have now grown to love the Japanese manga/comic titled Meitantei Conan or Detective Conan or Case Closed, with the latter being the title for the English translated version.
This manga has also been transformed into an animation and I strongly recommend this to people of all ages. Full of suspense.
You should be able to find most of the over 650 episodes on youtube, of which some should have english subtitles.
Give it a try.
This manga has also been transformed into an animation and I strongly recommend this to people of all ages. Full of suspense.
You should be able to find most of the over 650 episodes on youtube, of which some should have english subtitles.
Give it a try.
Thursday 10 May 2012
Please look
This is our wiki that our class made on wikispaces about Shakespeare's much Ado about nothing
http://www.wikispaces.com/t/c/3GehpWJIXWwIa6Th4gMmjC
Hoping it comes in handy when you are looking for things to do with Shakespeare
It is only the beginning, having only started a while ago and we hope that the wiki will become better and more detailed as time goes by.
It is not necessary to login to view our wiki.
Please let me know if you have passed by our website.
Rorry
http://www.wikispaces.com/t/c/3GehpWJIXWwIa6Th4gMmjC
Hoping it comes in handy when you are looking for things to do with Shakespeare
It is only the beginning, having only started a while ago and we hope that the wiki will become better and more detailed as time goes by.
It is not necessary to login to view our wiki.
Please let me know if you have passed by our website.
Rorry
Friday 4 May 2012
Starting off...
I think my reading career started when I was 2 or 3 with those little square books of Thomas and the Tank Engine. I used to be so into these! I even memorised all the characters. After this huge rush of Thomas had passed, Peter Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh took over my world.
During reception and Year 1 at school, I started reading biff and chip books.
Everyone had to read these. The books were colour-coded, depending on how hard they were to read. As I was one of the cleverest and fastest at reading in the class, I was always the first or second at moving up a colour. I don't really remember them much, but I remember that they were the sort of books that were dominated by bright bold pictures and one or two sentences per double page. Books that were designed to help children learn to read.
I didn't ever have any bedtime stories like everyone else, partly because of my Japanese background. I usually used to say goodnight and go to bed. When I went to Japan, my grandparents used to sing songs to get me to sleep, or otherwise read children's magazines which I used to love.
As I got into Year 2 and 3 in primary school, I started reading 'proper' medium-long books like the ones by Roald Dahl.
As I got into Year 3 or 4, I found the books that would take up my life up to now. One day my friends Little Specs and Siwil Bestend recommended the Harry Potter series. Up to then, I had heard of the books slightly but I hadn't really thought about reading them because of the title, just like the reason the Harry Potter film series producer David Heyman had doubted making the books into a film first.
I would be shocked to hear that there was anyone who had not had the ultimate pleasure of reading them, but here is a 'brief' summary of what happens.
(Note: Please feel free to skip this bit if you already know what the story is about.)
Decided to do it in note form as an attempt to minimise length.
OK, hold on tight, this could go on for long...
Overall: Harry Potter is about Harry Potter going to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, after Lord Voldemort kills his parents, and learning more about his past and Voldemort's past as he aims to avenge his parents' death by killing Lord Voldemort.
One down, 7 to go...
Philosopher's Stone:
Harry Potter left on Aunt and Uncle's doorstep by Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid after his parents are killed by Lord Voldemort. He too disappears after somehow failing to kill Harry. Harry is left unharmed apart from a scar on his forehead.
Lets a boa constrictor out at the zoo.
Letters are sent consistently to Harry.
Harry is not allowed to read the letters.
The moment Harry turns 11, Hagrid, a half-giant from Hogwarts comes to tell him he is a wizard.
Gives Harry the letter, which turns out to be an invitation to Hogwarts.
Harry goes with Hagrid to Diagon Alley.
In the pub, he meets other witches and wizards who all know him.
He finds a small fortune of wizard money which enables him to buy what he needs to go to Hogwarts.
Hagrid also takes small bag from a different vault.
He does not tell Harry the content of the bag.
He buys a wand, the brother of the wand that gave Harry his lightning shaped scar on his forehead.
Hagrid tells Harry about his past.
He is handed a ticket to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross Station.
It is from Platform 9 3/4.
Finds way in through barrier with help from the Weasley family.
Sits in a compartment with Ron, the youngest of the weasleys.
Soon becomes enemies with Draco Malfoy.
Led to castle by boat by Hagrid.
Takes the Sorting Ceremony.
Sorted into Gryffindor along with Ron, despite the hat telling him he would do well in Slytherin.
Shows unexpected talent during flying lesson and is put into the house Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall.
Meets different teachers, evil Snape, plump Sprout, dwarf Flitwick, nervous Quirrell, strict McGonagall, hooty Hooch and ghost Binns. (They don't actually have these names but they are just one word descriptions that I came up with for each professor.
Becomes to hate Snape.
Wins first quidditch match on a Nimbus 2000 broom, the best yet, a present from Professor Dumbledore.
Becomes friends with Hermione Granger after saving her from a troll.
Receives an Invisibility cloak from someone at Christmas.
Discovers secret mirror.
Caught out of bed by McGonagall, total of 150 house points deducted between Harry, Hermione and Neville.
Discovers about Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone.
Goes to the entrance to find stone.
Ron helps them past giant chess set and Hermione uses cool logic.
Harry goes on.
He meets Quirrell instead of the expected Snape.
Quirrell is discovered to be sharing a body with Voldemort, who is in need of a body.
He is wanting the Stone because it will produce the elixir of life, making him immortal.
Harry finds the stone in his pocket, and is helped out alive by Professor Dumbledore.
Ron and Hermione are awarded 50 points apiece and Harry 60, and Neville 10, meaning that Gryffindor won the House cup.
Chamber of Secrets:
Harry is warned by Dobby the house-elf not to return to Hogwarts.
Harry receives a warning from the Ministry of Magic for using magic in front of Muggles after Dobby uses the Hover Charm on a cake and crashing it on a Dursley guest to stop him from going back to Hogwarts.
Uncle Vernon puts bars on his window and forbids from going anywhere other than his room and the bathroom.
Harry is rescued from his room by Ron and his twin brothers Fred and George via a flying Ford Angelia car.
Arrives at Ron's house and goes to Diagon Alley with his family.
Meets Gilderoy Lockhart in Flourish and Blotts and is taken for a picture with him.
Confronts Draco Malfoy and his father at the back door of the shop.
Barrier between platforms 9 and 10 (the only way of getting onto Platform 9 3/4) seals itself for some reason.
Ron flies himself and Harry to Hogwarts using the car.
The car breaks seconds before landing and they crash straight into the Whomping Willow, which breaks Ron's wand.
They are caught by Snape and are put in detention by McGonagall and Dumbledore.
Discovers that his arch rival Draco Malfoy has been put into the Slytherin Quidditch team as seeker.
The whole Slytherin team are playing on Nimbus 2001s, the newest and best broom out yet.
Malfoy calls Hermione mudblood, a nasty word meaning a witch or wizard who do not have a witch mother and/or wizard father.
Ron threatens Malfoy but his curse backfires due to his broken wand and slugs come out of his mouth as he throws up.
Harry hears talking from inside walls.
Mrs Norris is found frozen close to Harry, Ron and Hermione and they are the first to be put under suspicion.
TBC...
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Uncle Vernon's sister Marge comes to visit.
Harry loses his temper and makes Aunt Marge inflate like a balloon.
He runs away and gets on the Knight Bus, an emergency bus service for witches and wizards only.
He hears about a mass murderer who has broken out of the wizard prison Azkaban, Sirius Black.
He is found in the Leaky Cauldron by Cornelius Fudge, the minister for magic, and is told not to leave Diagon Alley.
There, he greatly admires the Firebolt, a new international level broom.
He meets Ron and Hermione and arranges to go to King's Cross together.
Finds out that Sirius Black is looking to kill Harry.
TBC...
Goblet of Fire:
Harry dreams an old Muggle man being killed by Voldemort, Wormtail and another man.
Ron's family comes to take Harry away from his uncle's house and they go to watch the Quidditch World Cup Final.
Bulgaria vs Ireland ends with Krum of Bulgaria catching the snitch but Ireland winning by 10 points.
Death Eaters, a gang of Lord Voldemort's supporters, sets the whole campsite in panic as they set tents on fire and kill Muggles.
The Dark Mark appears in the sky.
TBC...
Order of the Phoenix:
Two Dementors attack Harry and Dudley in Little Whinging.
Harry rescues himself and his cousin using the Patronus Charm.
He receives a letter from the Ministry of Magic that informs him that he has been expelled from Hogwarts.
TBC...
Half Blood Prince:
Fudge is replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour as Minister for Magic, and meets with the Muggle Prime Minister.
Snape makes the unbreakable vow with Narcissa Malfoy, promising that he will do anything to protect her son Draco.
TBC...
Deathly Hallows:
Voldemort and his Death Eaters hold a meeting on how to capture Harry Potter.
The Dursleys and Harry separate forever with the help of Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones before Mad Eye Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Arthur Weasley, Bill Weasley, Hagrid, Ron, Hermione, Fred and George Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Fleur Delacour come to help Harry escape No.4 Privet Drive without being killed by Voldemort.
Ron, Hermione, Fred and George Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Fleur Delacour all take a dose of polyjuice potion which transforms them immediately into so many doubles of Harry.
Harry goes by motorbike with Hagrid and head towards Tonks' parents' house.
TBC...
When I started reading them, I couldn't stop and quickly I had already taken over Little Specs, nothing was going to stop me. 1, 2, 3, 4 I read until when I was halfway through book 5, I heard that book 7 would be coming out soon. When it came out, I dashed to the closest supermarket to buy it.
I remember queueing at the counter, just behind a man who had also got hold of the book and put it into his shopping basket.
As I was only halfway through the series when I bought the 7th book, I remember not being able to understand the blurb at the back of the Deathly Hallows. "Why has Dumbledore left Harry?" was what I always thought to myself, never ever realising that Dumbledore could have been killed.
I soon finished the 6th book and I finally realised what the blurb meant!
I finished the final book, slightly behind Siwil, yet my love for the books is now a hundred, if not a thousand times more than his.
Anyway, Harry Potter books and films, I still love, having read each book in the series over 15 times each and knowing probably half the lines in selected films.
So, judging by this fact, I probably love Harry Potter more than anyone I know.
On the other hand, I feel that my writing started off pretty slowly.
Before school, I did no writing at all, except for maybe learning to write my name.
However, I was always on the top table in English. At the end of primary school, I had achieved a 5a in English writing and a 5c in English reading. I was never good at reading comprehension, I'm still not that good.
I haven't actually written something that I'm really proud of. Maybe because I'm that thought of person that gets bored of things I do pretty easily and quickly.
Actually, I've just completed my end of KS3 English exam, and I feel I did amazingly at the reading bit of it, but did rubbish on the writing. My only excuse for this is that the writing was about describing your favourite sweet, when the food I hate more than anything else is sweets, chocolate and all that sort of stuff.
Anyway, I might stop there for now.
Rorry
During reception and Year 1 at school, I started reading biff and chip books.
Everyone had to read these. The books were colour-coded, depending on how hard they were to read. As I was one of the cleverest and fastest at reading in the class, I was always the first or second at moving up a colour. I don't really remember them much, but I remember that they were the sort of books that were dominated by bright bold pictures and one or two sentences per double page. Books that were designed to help children learn to read.
I didn't ever have any bedtime stories like everyone else, partly because of my Japanese background. I usually used to say goodnight and go to bed. When I went to Japan, my grandparents used to sing songs to get me to sleep, or otherwise read children's magazines which I used to love.
As I got into Year 2 and 3 in primary school, I started reading 'proper' medium-long books like the ones by Roald Dahl.
As I got into Year 3 or 4, I found the books that would take up my life up to now. One day my friends Little Specs and Siwil Bestend recommended the Harry Potter series. Up to then, I had heard of the books slightly but I hadn't really thought about reading them because of the title, just like the reason the Harry Potter film series producer David Heyman had doubted making the books into a film first.
I would be shocked to hear that there was anyone who had not had the ultimate pleasure of reading them, but here is a 'brief' summary of what happens.
(Note: Please feel free to skip this bit if you already know what the story is about.)
Decided to do it in note form as an attempt to minimise length.
OK, hold on tight, this could go on for long...
Overall: Harry Potter is about Harry Potter going to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, after Lord Voldemort kills his parents, and learning more about his past and Voldemort's past as he aims to avenge his parents' death by killing Lord Voldemort.
One down, 7 to go...
Philosopher's Stone:
Harry Potter left on Aunt and Uncle's doorstep by Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid after his parents are killed by Lord Voldemort. He too disappears after somehow failing to kill Harry. Harry is left unharmed apart from a scar on his forehead.
Lets a boa constrictor out at the zoo.
Letters are sent consistently to Harry.
Harry is not allowed to read the letters.
The moment Harry turns 11, Hagrid, a half-giant from Hogwarts comes to tell him he is a wizard.
Gives Harry the letter, which turns out to be an invitation to Hogwarts.
Harry goes with Hagrid to Diagon Alley.
In the pub, he meets other witches and wizards who all know him.
He finds a small fortune of wizard money which enables him to buy what he needs to go to Hogwarts.
Hagrid also takes small bag from a different vault.
He does not tell Harry the content of the bag.
He buys a wand, the brother of the wand that gave Harry his lightning shaped scar on his forehead.
Hagrid tells Harry about his past.
He is handed a ticket to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross Station.
It is from Platform 9 3/4.
Finds way in through barrier with help from the Weasley family.
Sits in a compartment with Ron, the youngest of the weasleys.
Soon becomes enemies with Draco Malfoy.
Led to castle by boat by Hagrid.
Takes the Sorting Ceremony.
Sorted into Gryffindor along with Ron, despite the hat telling him he would do well in Slytherin.
Shows unexpected talent during flying lesson and is put into the house Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall.
Meets different teachers, evil Snape, plump Sprout, dwarf Flitwick, nervous Quirrell, strict McGonagall, hooty Hooch and ghost Binns. (They don't actually have these names but they are just one word descriptions that I came up with for each professor.
Becomes to hate Snape.
Wins first quidditch match on a Nimbus 2000 broom, the best yet, a present from Professor Dumbledore.
Becomes friends with Hermione Granger after saving her from a troll.
Receives an Invisibility cloak from someone at Christmas.
Discovers secret mirror.
Caught out of bed by McGonagall, total of 150 house points deducted between Harry, Hermione and Neville.
Discovers about Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone.
Goes to the entrance to find stone.
Ron helps them past giant chess set and Hermione uses cool logic.
Harry goes on.
He meets Quirrell instead of the expected Snape.
Quirrell is discovered to be sharing a body with Voldemort, who is in need of a body.
He is wanting the Stone because it will produce the elixir of life, making him immortal.
Harry finds the stone in his pocket, and is helped out alive by Professor Dumbledore.
Ron and Hermione are awarded 50 points apiece and Harry 60, and Neville 10, meaning that Gryffindor won the House cup.
Chamber of Secrets:
Harry is warned by Dobby the house-elf not to return to Hogwarts.
Harry receives a warning from the Ministry of Magic for using magic in front of Muggles after Dobby uses the Hover Charm on a cake and crashing it on a Dursley guest to stop him from going back to Hogwarts.
Uncle Vernon puts bars on his window and forbids from going anywhere other than his room and the bathroom.
Harry is rescued from his room by Ron and his twin brothers Fred and George via a flying Ford Angelia car.
Arrives at Ron's house and goes to Diagon Alley with his family.
Meets Gilderoy Lockhart in Flourish and Blotts and is taken for a picture with him.
Confronts Draco Malfoy and his father at the back door of the shop.
Barrier between platforms 9 and 10 (the only way of getting onto Platform 9 3/4) seals itself for some reason.
Ron flies himself and Harry to Hogwarts using the car.
The car breaks seconds before landing and they crash straight into the Whomping Willow, which breaks Ron's wand.
They are caught by Snape and are put in detention by McGonagall and Dumbledore.
Discovers that his arch rival Draco Malfoy has been put into the Slytherin Quidditch team as seeker.
The whole Slytherin team are playing on Nimbus 2001s, the newest and best broom out yet.
Malfoy calls Hermione mudblood, a nasty word meaning a witch or wizard who do not have a witch mother and/or wizard father.
Ron threatens Malfoy but his curse backfires due to his broken wand and slugs come out of his mouth as he throws up.
Harry hears talking from inside walls.
Mrs Norris is found frozen close to Harry, Ron and Hermione and they are the first to be put under suspicion.
TBC...
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Uncle Vernon's sister Marge comes to visit.
Harry loses his temper and makes Aunt Marge inflate like a balloon.
He runs away and gets on the Knight Bus, an emergency bus service for witches and wizards only.
He hears about a mass murderer who has broken out of the wizard prison Azkaban, Sirius Black.
He is found in the Leaky Cauldron by Cornelius Fudge, the minister for magic, and is told not to leave Diagon Alley.
There, he greatly admires the Firebolt, a new international level broom.
He meets Ron and Hermione and arranges to go to King's Cross together.
Finds out that Sirius Black is looking to kill Harry.
TBC...
Goblet of Fire:
Harry dreams an old Muggle man being killed by Voldemort, Wormtail and another man.
Ron's family comes to take Harry away from his uncle's house and they go to watch the Quidditch World Cup Final.
Bulgaria vs Ireland ends with Krum of Bulgaria catching the snitch but Ireland winning by 10 points.
Death Eaters, a gang of Lord Voldemort's supporters, sets the whole campsite in panic as they set tents on fire and kill Muggles.
The Dark Mark appears in the sky.
TBC...
Order of the Phoenix:
Two Dementors attack Harry and Dudley in Little Whinging.
Harry rescues himself and his cousin using the Patronus Charm.
He receives a letter from the Ministry of Magic that informs him that he has been expelled from Hogwarts.
TBC...
Half Blood Prince:
Fudge is replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour as Minister for Magic, and meets with the Muggle Prime Minister.
Snape makes the unbreakable vow with Narcissa Malfoy, promising that he will do anything to protect her son Draco.
TBC...
Deathly Hallows:
Voldemort and his Death Eaters hold a meeting on how to capture Harry Potter.
The Dursleys and Harry separate forever with the help of Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones before Mad Eye Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Arthur Weasley, Bill Weasley, Hagrid, Ron, Hermione, Fred and George Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Fleur Delacour come to help Harry escape No.4 Privet Drive without being killed by Voldemort.
Ron, Hermione, Fred and George Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Fleur Delacour all take a dose of polyjuice potion which transforms them immediately into so many doubles of Harry.
Harry goes by motorbike with Hagrid and head towards Tonks' parents' house.
TBC...
When I started reading them, I couldn't stop and quickly I had already taken over Little Specs, nothing was going to stop me. 1, 2, 3, 4 I read until when I was halfway through book 5, I heard that book 7 would be coming out soon. When it came out, I dashed to the closest supermarket to buy it.
I remember queueing at the counter, just behind a man who had also got hold of the book and put it into his shopping basket.
As I was only halfway through the series when I bought the 7th book, I remember not being able to understand the blurb at the back of the Deathly Hallows. "Why has Dumbledore left Harry?" was what I always thought to myself, never ever realising that Dumbledore could have been killed.
I soon finished the 6th book and I finally realised what the blurb meant!
I finished the final book, slightly behind Siwil, yet my love for the books is now a hundred, if not a thousand times more than his.
Anyway, Harry Potter books and films, I still love, having read each book in the series over 15 times each and knowing probably half the lines in selected films.
So, judging by this fact, I probably love Harry Potter more than anyone I know.
On the other hand, I feel that my writing started off pretty slowly.
Before school, I did no writing at all, except for maybe learning to write my name.
However, I was always on the top table in English. At the end of primary school, I had achieved a 5a in English writing and a 5c in English reading. I was never good at reading comprehension, I'm still not that good.
I haven't actually written something that I'm really proud of. Maybe because I'm that thought of person that gets bored of things I do pretty easily and quickly.
Actually, I've just completed my end of KS3 English exam, and I feel I did amazingly at the reading bit of it, but did rubbish on the writing. My only excuse for this is that the writing was about describing your favourite sweet, when the food I hate more than anything else is sweets, chocolate and all that sort of stuff.
Anyway, I might stop there for now.
Rorry
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