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Chapter 8 The Potion's Master

There, look! Where? Next to the tall boy. With the red hair. Wearing the glasses. Did you see his face? Did you see his scar? From the moment Harry leaves his dormitory the next morning, he hears the other students whispering.  

People stare at him as he walks down the corridors. Students look through the classroom windows and point at him. Harry wishes they wouldn't do these things. He already feels very nervous about being a new student.  

He is not even very sure how to find his way to his classrooms yet. Hogwarts is full of strange corridors and moving staircases. Some doors open to nowhere, and other doors are not doors at all. They are just stone walls that look like doors.  

It is very hard to remember where everything is because even the people in the paintings move around and visit each other in other paintings. The many ghosts who live in the school also terrorize the students. They appear suddenly, scare the students, then disappear.  

But the school caretaker, Argus Filch, and his ugly cat, Mrs. Norris, is worse than any ghost. Harry and Ron discover this one day when they are lost in a corridor that is forbidden. Filch finds them and does not believe they are lost.  

He thinks they are trying to steal something. He says he will put the boys in the dungeons. But they are rescued by Professor Quirrell, who is passing by at the moment. Harry quickly discovers that there are many things to learn in his classes, besides waving a magic wand and saying some funny words.  

Professor McGonagall's class is an interesting one. She teaches transfiguration. She is strict and very severe. And Harry is correct to think it is dangerous to make her angry. Their first challenge in class is to change a matchstick into a pin.  

Harry and Ron have no luck at all. But, of course, only Hermione is able to get close. She is able to turn her matchstick gray. Professor Quirrell's class, Defense Against the Dark Arts, is a silly class, Harry thinks. The students ask him why he wears the purple turban.  

And Professor Quirrell responds that it is a present from an African prince for helping him defeat a zombie. The students think he is lying. Also, there is a bad smell around the turban. The students think it is full of garlic to protect him from vampires.  

Harry is very relieved to discover that he is not the worst in his classes. There are many students from muggle families, like him, who did not know that they were witches or wizards. There is a lot to learn. And even people like Ron are not much more prepared than the other students.  

One morning, while Harry is having breakfast in the great hall, the room fills with flying owls. It is letter day. Since Harry has been at Hogwarts, he has not received a letter. But today is different. His owl, Hedwig, flies into the hall with a letter in her beak.  

Harry quickly opens the letter. The handwriting is childish. It is from Hagrid. Dear Harry. I know you do not have classes on Friday. Would you like to come to my house and have a cup of tea with me at round three? You can tell me all about your first week at Hogwarts.  

Send your answers to me. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. I will read them to you. Sir suburbs your owl. Hagrid.  

Harry quickly takes out a quill and writes a simple sentence on the back of the letter. Harry is excited about having tea later in the week with Hagrid because he is not excited at all about having potions class with Professor Snape.