Unibibliophile

Last week I was in a reading slump so I decided to reread Harry Potter after a long time. When I started the second book in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a thought came to me - and to J.K. Rowling, as I just read :) - regarding Tom Riddle's diary and how it "trapped" Ginny Weasley. source Even though the book was written in 2002, when cyber attacks weren't that much of a thing, the diary has many similarities to social media. Many teenagers have started conversations with strangers, opened up to them and at the end they were assaulted, exactly like Ginny Weasley with Tom Riddle's Diary. Those kind of incidents happen usually in girls with low self-esteem or girls who are uncomfortable with opening-up in reality so they find shelter in the unknown person behind their screen or - in Ginny's case - a diary which replies instantly.  It is very difficult to spot cyber attacks, as the victims are, in their majority, already ve...

A few days ago I was just sitting here starting to get bored so I figured I could search all 7 Harry Potter books and find my favourite quotes from each. So today I thought I'd share them with you. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." / This is the phrase that started this story, therefore it is one of my absolute favourites. "Harry - yer a wizard" - Hagrid / I just couldn't not include how Harry learnt that he is a wizard. "The wand chooses the wizard" - Garrick Ollivander " 'Ah, music' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!' " - Albus Dumbledore / I didn't actually remember reading that when I first read the book but I found it now and I loved it. "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you...