![]() ‘He caught that thing in his hand after a fifty-foot dive… Didn’t even scratch himself…’ ( PS9) Was that your first time on a broomstick, Potter?’ ‘Absolutely,’ said Professor McGonagall crisply. Wood’s expression changed from puzzlement to delight. ‘Never – in all my time at Hogwarts –’ Professor McGonagall was almost speechless with shock, and her glasses flashed furiously, ‘– how dare you – might have broken your neck –’ Professor McGonagall was running towards them. His heart sank faster than he’d just dived. They were half hoping for a reason to fight Malfoy, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble quicker than any teacher in the school, was there in a flash. ![]() ‘Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. ‘Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts,’ she said. ‘When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted,’ she said. ‘The Sorting Ceremony’s about to start.’ Professor McGonagall had returned. ‘I will return when we are ready for you,’ said Professor McGonagall. Harry nervously tried to flatten his hair. I suggest you all smarted yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.’ Her eyes lingered for a moment on Neville’s cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and on Ron’s smudged nose. ‘The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the House Cup, a great honour. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. ‘The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common room. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. ‘The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. ‘Welcome to Hogwarts,’ said Professor McGonagall. ‘The firs’-years, Professor McGonagall,’ said Hagrid. Professor Duffy is currently working on two projects: a cultural history of modern Ireland, and a book on energy in modernist culture.From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone He is the founding director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature and Culture in the English Dept. ![]() 21, 2011), of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, and of numerous articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. Duffy is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies, Vol. The Speed Handbook was co-winner of the Modernist Studies Assocaition Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses (U of Minnesota P, 1994), and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Duke University Press, 2009). His central interests include modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies and critical theory, and James Joyce. from Harvard University, where he won a Whiting Fellowship, and taught at Reed College and Wesleyan University before coming to UC Santa Barbara. Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara.
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