Report #3 (book club)

I’m so busy this week with a lot of midterm tests, so I want to post my book club report today. I have just read one chapter already:(.

Title of book: HARRY POTTER 2

Pages in the book: 341. I am now on page 85

I understand 90% what I read

SUMMARY

Chapter 5: THE WHOMPING WILLOW

The end of the summer vacation came quickly. Harry, Ron, Percy, George, Fred, and Ginny had to go to school. They went platform nice and three-quarter but Harry and Ron couldn’t get through. They were late, so they couldn’t go to school on the Hogwarts Express. Harry and Ron decided to go to school by a car, it was enchanted to fly. Unluckily, when they could see the castle, the car dropped straight for the solid castle wall and hit the thick tree trunk. That was a whomping willow and it attacked back Harry and Ron. After struggling with the tree, Harry and Ron came to school. Then, they met Snape who teaches Potions at Hogwarts, Snape knew how Harry and Ron went to school, so he talked this thing to McGonagall, head of Gryffindor House. She didn’t take any punishment but Harry and Ron had to get detention. They reached the dormitory and met friends in their house. A new semester began…

SETTING

Time: The day began a new semester

Place: The Ron’s house, the station and the school

PREDICTION

Harry will make many interesting things at Hogwarts during the semester and the story which Dobby said that “it’s very dangerous with Harry”, it’ll gradually open…

VOCABULARY

1/ shrug (v): to raise and then lower your shoulders in order to show that you do not know something or do not care about something

2/ cajole (v): to persuade someone to do something by praising him/her or making promises to him/her

3/ dungeon (n): a prison under the ground, used in past time

4/ torch (n): a long stick that you burn at one end for light or as a symbol

5/ mystify (v): to make someone feel confused and unable to explain or understand something

6/ plummet (v): to suddenly and quickly decrease in value

7/ uppercut (n): a short swinging punch directed upward, as to an opponent’s chin

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EDITED

The process that Harry and Ron used the car to go to school and met some troubles with the tree attack is the most significant thing that impressed me on chapter 5. All words describes about it are very interesting for me “Ron gasped, staring through the windshield, and Harry looked around just in time to see a branch as thick as a python smash into it”. I predicted Harry and Ron couldn’t get out of there and I was eager to read more. Not like my thinking, the car went backward suddenly and they got release of the tree.

Besides, the author named this chapter “The Whomping Willow”. It was also the reason I chose the most significant thing that is the process Harry and Ron hit the tree.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ON THE MIDTERM TESTS!!!