Children’s Films Featuring Flashbacks
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This film has a flashback sequence showing Willy Wonka discovering the OompaLoompas, a scene which featured in the book, but which was not included in the 1971
film version.
The Incredibles
The movie starts with a flashback sequence showing the Incredibles in action during their
heyday.
Finding Nemo
This film features a sequence showing Dori in a flashback sequence of Nemo being
captured by the scuba diver after she meets him.
X-Men: The Last Stand
This film opens with a flashback sequence showing Magneto and Professor X as they
were 20 years ago.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
This film features many flashback sequences in the form of Harry’s nightmares,
particularly in the first hour! They are used as an explanatory plot device so that
watchers who have seen earlier films can follow the story.
Toy Story 2
Jessie's story and life as a toy is told through a flashback sequence during this film.
Week 1 Monday Spoken language 1
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Flashback?
Read these extracts from Chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Are they flashbacks to Harry’s
earlier life or events that are taking place now? How do we know?
‘It was a very sunny Saturday and the zoo was crowded with families. The Dursleys
bought Dudley and Piers large chocolate ice-creams at the entrance and then, because
the smiling lady in the van had asked Harry what he wanted before they could hurry him
away, they bought him a cheap lemon ice lolly. It wasn’t bad either, Harry thought, licking
it as they watched a gorilla scratching its head and looking remarkably like Dudley, except
that it wasn’t blond.’
‘Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the
front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. The sun still rose on the same tidy
gardens, it crept into their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been
on the night when Mr Dursley had seen the report about the owls.’
‘Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him into a revolting old jumper of
Dudley’s (brown with orange bobbles). The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the
smaller it seemed to become, until it might have fitted a glove puppet!’
‘He’d lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could
remember, ever since he had been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash.’
‘A wild looking old woman dressed all green had waved merrily at him once on a bus. A
bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street. The
weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second
Harry tried to get a second glance.’
‘At that moment the telephone rang and Aunt Petunia went to answer it while Harry and
Uncle Vernon watched Dudley unwrap the racing bike, a cine-camera, a remote-control
aeroplane, sixteen new computer games and a video recorder. He was ripping the paper
off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone, looking both
angry and worried.’
‘Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barber’s looking as though he
hadn’t been at all, had taken a pair of scissors and cut his hair so short he was almost
bald except for his fringe, which she left ‘to hide that horrible scar’. Dudley had laughed
himself silly at Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where he
was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and Sellotaped glasses. Next morning,
however, he had got up to find his hair exactly as it had been before Aunt Petunia had
sheared it off.’
Week 1 Tuesday Comprehension 2
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Relative Clauses (1)
A clause in each sentence is underlined. Tick each sentence where it is a relative
clause that is underlined. If it is not, underline the actual relative clause.
Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.
He was tall, thin and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which
were both long enough to tuck into his belt.
But he did seem to realise that he was being watched, because he looked up
suddenly at the cat, which was still staring at him from the other end of the
street.
Dumbledore slipped the Put-Outer back inside his cloak and set off down the
street towards number four, where he sat down on the wall next to the cat.
Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire and Dundee have been phoning in to
tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they’ve had a downpour
of shooting stars.
A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy
under the inky sky, the very last place that you would expect astonishing
things to happen.
Harry, who could see a huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing down
his bacon as fast as possible in case Dudley turned the table over.
Half an hour later, Harry, who couldn’t believe his luck, was sitting in the back
of the Dursleys’ car with Piers and Dudley, on the way to the zoo for the first
time in his life.
He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and
Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunch-time,
wouldn’t fall back on their favourite hobby of hitting him.
It was worse than having a cupboard as a bedroom, where the only visitor was
Aunt Petunia hammering on the door to wake you up – at least he got to visit
the rest of the house.
Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1
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Relative Clauses (2)
Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.
He was tall, thin and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard,
which were both long enough to tuck into his belt.
But he did seem to realise that he was being watched, because he looked
up suddenly at the cat, which was still staring at him from the other end
of the street.
Dumbledore slipped the Put-Outer back inside his cloak and set off down
the street towards number four, where he sat down on the wall next to
the cat.
Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire and Dundee have been phoning in
to tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they’ve had a
downpour of shooting stars.
A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy
under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing
things to happen.
Harry, who could see a huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing
down his bacon as fast as possible in case Dudley turned the table over.
Half an hour later, Harry, who couldn’t believe his luck, was sitting in the
back of the Dursleys’ car with Piers and Dudley, on the way to the zoo for
the first time in his life.
He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley
and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunch-time,
wouldn’t fall back on their favourite hobby of hitting him.
It was worse than having a cupboard as a bedroom, where the only
visitor was Aunt Petunia hammering on the door to wake you up – at
least he got to visit the rest of the house.
Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/-ency
Use -ant and -ance/-ancy if there is a related word with /æ/ or /eı/
sound in the right position; -ation endings are often a clue.
observant, observance (observation)
expectant (expectation)
hesitant, hesitancy (hesitation)
tolerant, tolerance (toleration)
substance (substantial)
inhabitant (habitation)
Use -ent and -ence/-ency after soft c (/s/ sound), soft g (/dʒ/ sound)
and qu, or if there is a related word with a clear /ɛ/ sound in the right
position.
innocent, innocence
decent, decency
frequent, frequency
confident, confidence (confidential)
There are many words, however, where the above guidance does not
help. These words just have to be learnt.
assistant, assistance
obedient, obedience
independent, independence
nuisance
acquaintance
existence
Week 1 Thursday Word reading/ Transcription 1
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
List of words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/-ency
observant, observance
expectant, expectancy
hesitant, hesitancy
tolerant, tolerance
substance
inhabitant
assistant, assistance
nuisance
acquaintance
performance
vacant, vacancy
distant, distance
discrepancy
redundant, redundancy
observant
significant, significance
buoyant, buoyancy
occupant, occupancy
accountant, accountancy
tenant, tenancy
truant, truancy
acceptance
important, importance
instant, instance
relevant, relevance
innocent, innocence
decent, decency
frequent, frequency
confident, confidence
obedient, obedience
independent, independence
fluent, fluency
excellent, excellence
different, difference
currency
urgent, urgency
resident, residence
exist, existence
intelligent, intelligence
proficient, proficiency
preference
absorbent, absorbency
incident, incidence
evident, evidence
adolescent, adolescence
indulgent, indulgence
absent, absence
silent, silence
violent, violence
competent, competence
Week 1 Thursday Word reading/Transcription 1
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Differentiated spelling lists
innocent
innocence
decent
decency
fluent
fluency
assistant
assistance
vacant
distance
excellent
different
inhabitant
substance
expectant
obedient
obedience
frequent
frequency
confident
confidence
currency
performance
urgency
resident
conference
tolerant
tolerance
independent
independence
hesitant
hesitancy
intelligent
intelligence
discrepancy
proficient
redundant
redundancy
observant
preference
absorbent
significance
innocent
innocence
decent
decency
fluent
fluency
assistant
assistance
vacant
distance
existence
excellent
different
inhabitant
substance
expectant
obedient
obedience
frequent
frequency
confident
confidence
conference
currency
performance
urgency
resident
tolerant
tolerance
independent
independence
hesitant
hesitancy
intelligent
intelligence
discrepancy
proficient
redundant
redundancy
observant
preference
absorbent
significance
Week 1 Thursday Word reading/Transcription 1
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
But something odd was happening. An eerie silence was falling across
the stadium. The wind, though as strong as ever, was forgetting to
roar. It was as though someone had turned off the sound, as though
Harry had gone suddenly deaf – what was going on?
And then a horribly familiar wave of cold swept over him, inside him,
just as he became aware of something moving on the pitch below …
Before he’d had time to think, Harry had taken his eyes off the Snitch
and looked down.
At least a hundred Dementors, their hidden faces pointing up at him,
were standing below. It was as though freezing water was rising in his
chest, cutting at his insides. And then he heard it again … someone
was screaming, screaming inside his head … a woman …
‘Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!’
‘Stand aside, you silly girl … stand aside, now …’
‘Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead – ‘
Numbing, swirling white mist was filling Harry’s brain … What was he
doing? Why was he flying? He needed to help her … she was going to
die … she was going to be murdered …
He was falling, falling through the icy mist.
‘Not Harry! Please … have mercy … have mercy …’
A shrill voice was laughing, the woman was screaming, and Harry
knew no more.
Week 1 Friday Comprehension 3 / Composition 2
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Dementors
Professor Lupin explains the Dementors to Harry (excerpt from
Chapter 10 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Harry hesitated, and then the question he had to ask burst from him before
he could stop himself. “Why? Why do they affect me like that? Am I just -?”
“It has nothing to do with weakness,” said Professor Lupin sharply, as though
he had read Harry’s mind. “The Dementors affect you worse than the others
because there are horrors in your past that the others don’t have.”
A ray of wintry sunlight fell across the classroom, illuminating Lupin’s grey
hairs and the lines on his young face.
“Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest
the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace,
hope and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their
presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every
good feeling, every happy memory, will be sucked out of you. If it can, the
Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself
– soulless and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of
your life. And the worst that has happened to you, Harry, is enough to make
anyone fall off their broom. You have nothing to feel ashamed of.”
“When they get near me –” Harry stared at Lupin’s desk, his throat tight, “I
can hear Voldemort murdering my mum.”
Lupin made a sudden motion with his arm as though he had made to grip
Harry’s shoulder, but thought better of it. There was a moment’s silence;
then –
“Why did they have to come to the match? said Harry bitterly.
“They’re getting hungry,” said Lupin coolly, shutting his briefcase with a snap.
“Dumbledore won’t let them into school, so their supply of human prey has
dried up … I don’t think they could resist the large crowd around the
Quidditch pitch. All that excitement … emotions running high … it was their
idea of a feast.”
“Azkaban must be terrible,” Harry muttered. Lupin nodded grimly.
“The fortress is set on a tiny island, way out to sea, but they don’t need walls
and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re all trapped inside their
own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most of them go mad
within weeks.”
Week 1 Friday Comprehension 3 / Composition 2
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Memories as Flashbacks
PAST TENSE
PRESENT TENSE
I ran away quickly but it was
too late, my mother had
seen me knock the glass
over.
I used to love running
through the park, splashing
in the muddy puddles until
my clothes were soaked
through.
It was Christmas Eve and I
remember sitting by the fire
watching A Christmas Carol
on the TV while it was
snowing outside.
My brother and me got into
big trouble as we forgot to
take off our football boots
and walked mud all over the
cream carpets!
I saw the most beautiful
rainbow in the sky and my
dad told me all about how it
was created.
We arrived at the campsite
and my mum had forgotten
the pegs so we had to go to
the local shop on our bikes
to buy some more.
It was my 10th birthday and
I walked in the door and to
my surprise I saw an
adorable puppy!
Week 1 Friday Composition 2
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What is a Pensieve?
A Pensieve is a stone receptacle in which to store memories. Covered in mystic runes, it
contains a type of matter that is described as neither liquid nor gas. A witch or wizard can
extract their own memories or someone else's and store them in the Pensieve and
review them later. It also relieves the mind when it becomes cluttered with information.
Anyone can examine the memories in the Pensieve, which also allows viewers to fully
immerse themselves in the memories stored within, much like a magical form of virtual
reality.
Tom Riddle's diary seems to have this same form of virtual reality. Oddly, users of these
devices view the memories from a third person view. This of course, raises questions of
how they are able to see things beyond what they have remembered. Rowling answered
this question in an interview, confirming that memories in the Pensieve allow one to view
details of things that happened even if they did not notice or remember them, and stated
that, "That's the magic of the Pensieve, what brings it alive”. The ‘memories’ contained in
the Pensieve have the appearance of silver threads.
Pensieve is a mixture of the word 'sieve' (a device used for sifting) and 'pensive'
(thoughtful or full of thoughts).
Dumbledore's Pensieve first appears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, again in Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and plays a pivotal role in Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince. It makes a last appearance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when
Harry uses it to decipher the memories of Severus Snape.
Week 2 Monday Comprehension 3
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Excerpt from Chapter 30 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“What is it?” Harry asked shakily.
“This? It is called a Pensieve,” said Dumbledore. “I sometimes find, and I am
sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and
memories crammed into my mind.”
“Er,” said Harry, who couldn’t truthfully say that he had ever felt anything of
the sort.
“At these times,” said Dumbledore, indicating the stone basin, “I use the
Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours
them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to
spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.”
“You mean … that stuff’s your thoughts? Harry said, staring at the swirling
white substance in the basin.
“Certainly,” said Dumbledore. “Let me show you.”
Dumbledore drew his wand out of the inside of his robes, and placed the tip
into his own silvery hair, near his temple. When he took the wand away, hair
seemed to be clinging to it – but then Harry saw that it was in fact a glistening
strand of the same strange silvery white substance that filled the Pensieve.
Dumbledore added this fresh thought to the basin, and Harry, astonished, saw
his own face swimming around the surface of the bowl.
Dumbledore placed his long hands on either side of the Pensieve and swirled
it, rather as a gold prospector would swirl for fragments of gold … and Harry
saw his own face change smoothly into Snape’s, who opened his mouth, and
spoke to the ceiling, his voice echoing slightly. “It’s coming back … Karkaroff’s
too … stronger and clearer than ever …”
“A connection I could have made without assistance,” Dumbledore sighed,
“but never mind.” He peered over the top of his half-moon spectacles at
harry, who was gaping at Snape’s face, which was continuing to swirl around
the bowl. “I was using the Pensieve when Mr Fudge arrived for our meeting,
and put it away rather hastily. Undoubtedly I did not fasten the cabinet door
properly. Naturally, it would have attracted your attention.”
“I’m sorry,” Harry mumbled.
Dumbledore shook his head.
“Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution with our
curiosity … yes, indeed …”
Week 2 Monday Comprehension 3
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Prepositions
A preposition links a following noun, pronoun (replaces a noun, e.g.
she, him, they, who, his, yours, this) or noun phrase (a phrase with a
noun as its head, e.g. some witches, witches with green flashing eyes)
to some other word in the sentence.
Prepositions often describe locations or directions, but can describe
other things such as relations of time.
Examples:
He’ll be back from Privet Drive in two weeks.
Harry waved goodbye to Ron and Hermione.
Some words like before or since can act either as prepositions or
conjunctions.
Examples:
He hadn’t seen Hagrid since last term. (preposition)
The witch was going, since no-one wanted her there! (conjunction)
A preposition phrase has a preposition as its head followed by a
noun, pronoun, noun phrase or even an adverb. These preposition
phrases are acting as adverbials.
Examples:
Harry lay in bed.
Until recently, he thought he was a normal boy.
We met them after the Dark Arts class.
Hagrid was always ready for food.
Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Adverbials (1)
Underline the adverbs or preposition phrases that modify the verb telling us when, how or
why something happened or was done. The numbers tell you how many there are!
After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing
fainter in the corridor below. [2 preposition phrases]
Suddenly, he found himself sitting on a bench at the end of the room inside
the basin. [1 adverb, 3 preposition phrases]
He had fallen through a page in an enchanted diary, right into somebody
else’s memory. [3 preposition phrases]
Karkaroff’s eyes darted towards the door in the corner. The Dementors
undoubtedly still stood waiting behind the door. [2 preposition phrases, 2 adverbs]
He was wearing a look of deep scepticism behind Dumbledore’s back.
[1 preposition phrase]
Dumbledore drew his wand from the inside of his robes, and placed the tip
into his own silvery hair, near his temple. [3 preposition phrases]
Naturally, it would have attracted your attention. [1 adverb]
Frequently, he placed his wand tip to his temple, removed another shining
silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. [1 adverb, 2 preposition phrases]
The attacks on them came after Voldemort’s fall, just when everyone thought
they were safe. [1 preposition phrase]
Unfortunately, the Longbottoms’ evidence was, in view of their condition,
none too reliable. [1 adverb, 1 preposition phrase]
Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Answers to Adverbials (1)
Underline the adverbs or preposition phrases that modify the verb telling us when, how or
why something happened or was done. The numbers tell you how many there are!
After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing
fainter in the corridor below. [2 preposition phrases]
Suddenly, he found himself sitting on a bench at the end of the room inside
the basin. [1 adverb, 3 preposition phrases]
He had fallen through a page in an enchanted diary, right into somebody
else’s memory. [3 preposition phrases]
Karkaroff’s eyes darted towards the door in the corner. The Dementors
undoubtedly still stood waiting behind the door. [2 preposition phrases, 2 adverbs]
He was wearing a look of deep scepticism behind Dumbledore’s back.
[1 preposition phrase]
Dumbledore drew his wand from the inside of his robes, and placed the tip
into his own silvery hair, near his temple. [3 preposition phrases]
Naturally, it would have attracted your attention. [1 adverb]
Frequently, he placed his wand tip to his temple, removed another shining
silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. [1 adverb, 2 preposition phrases]
The attacks on them came after Voldemort’s fall, just when everyone thought
they were safe. [1 preposition phrase]
Unfortunately, the Longbottoms’ evidence was, in view of their condition,
none too reliable. [1 adverb, 1 preposition phrase]
Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Adverbials (2)
Underline the adverbs or preposition phrases or other adverbials that modify the verb
telling us when, how or why something happened or was done.
The numbers tell you how many there are!
After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing
fainter in the corridor below. [2 preposition phrases]
Suddenly, he found himself sitting on a bench at the end of the room inside
the basin, a bench raised high above the others. [1 adverb, 4 preposition phrases]
That time, he had fallen through a page in an enchanted diary, right into
somebody else’s memory …. Unless he was very much mistaken, something of
the sort had happened again. [1 adverbial, 3 preposition phrases, 1 adverb]
Karkaroff’s eyes darted towards the door in the corner, behind which the
Dementors undoubtedly still stood waiting. [2 preposition phrases, 2 adverbs]
He was wearing a look of deep scepticism behind Dumbledore’s back.
[1 preposition phrase]
Dumbledore drew his wand out of the inside of his robes, and placed the tip
into his own silvery hair, near his temple. [3 preposition phrases]
Naturally, it would have attracted your attention. [1 adverb]
Every now and then, he placed his wand tip to his temple, removed another
shining silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. [1 adverbial, 2 preposition
phrases]
The attacks on them came after Voldemort’s fall from power, just when
everyone thought they were safe. [1 preposition phrase]
Unfortunately, the Longbottoms’ evidence was, in view of their condition,
none too reliable. [1 adverb, 1 preposition phrase]
Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Answers to Adverbials (2)
After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing
fainter in the corridor below. [2 preposition phrases]
Suddenly, he found himself sitting on a bench at the end of the room inside
the basin, a bench raised high above the others. [1 adverb, 4 preposition phrases]
That time, he had fallen through a page in an enchanted diary, right into
somebody else’s memory …. Unless he was very much mistaken, something of
the sort had happened again … [1 adverbial, 3 preposition phrases, 1 adverb]
Karkaroff’s eyes darted towards the door in the corner, behind which the
Dementors undoubtedly still stood waiting. 2 preposition phases, 2 adverbs]
He was wearing a look of deep scepticism behind Dumbledore’s back.
[1 preposition phrase]
Dumbledore drew his wand out of the inside of his robes, and placed the tip
into his own silvery hair, near his temple. [3 preposition phrases]
Naturally, it would have attracted your attention. [1 adverb]
Every now and then, he placed his wand tip to his temple, removed another
shining silver thought, and added it to the Pensieve. [1 adverbial, 2 preposition
phrases]
The attacks on them came after Voldemort’s fall from power, just when
everyone thought they were safe. [1 preposition phrase]
Unfortunately, the Longbottoms’ evidence was, in view of their condition,
none too reliable. [1 adverb, 1 preposition phrase]
Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2
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Y5/6 Spr F Plan 3B
Excerpt from Chapter 28 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry gazed at the Pensieve, curiosity welling inside him … what was it that
Snape was so keen to hide from harry?
The silvery lights shivered on the wall … Harry took two steps towards the
desk, thinking hard. Could it possibly be information about the Department of
Mysteries that Snape was determined to keep from him?
Harry looked over his shoulder, his heart now thumping harder and faster
than ever. How long would it take Snape to release Montague from the toilet?
Would he come straight back to his office afterwards, or accompany
Montague to the hospital wing? Surely the latter … Montague was Captain of
the Slytherin Quidditch team, Snape would want to make sure he was all right.
Harry walked the remaining few feet to the Pensieve and stood over it, gazing
into its depths. He hesitated, listening, then pulled out his wand again. The
office and the corridor beyond were completely silent. He gave the contents
of the Pensieve a small prod with the end of his wand.
The silvery stuff within began to swirl very fast. Harry leaned forwards over it
and saw that it had become transparent. He was, once again, looking down
into a room as though through a circular window in the ceiling … in fact,
unless he was much mistaken, he was looking down into the Great Hall.
His breath was actually fogging the surface of Snape’s thoughts … his brain
seemed to be in limbo … it would be insane to do the thing he was so strongly
tempted to do … he was trembling … Snape could be back at any moment …
but Harry thought of Cho’s anger, of Malfoy’s jeering face, and a reckless
daring seized him.
He took a great gulp of breath, and plunged his face into the surface of
Snape’s thoughts. At once, the floor of the office lurched, upping Harry headfirst into the Pensieve …
He was falling through cold blackness, spinning furiously as he went, and
then –
He was standing in the middle of the Great Hall, but the four house tables
were gone. Instead, there were more than a hundred smaller tables, all facing
the same way, at each of which sat a student, head bent low, scribbling on a
roll of parchment. The only sound was the scratching of quills and the
occasional rustle as someone adjusted their parchment. It was clearly exam
time.
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Sunshine was streaming through the high windows on to the bent heads,
which shone chestnut and copper and gold in the bright light. Harry looked
around carefully. Snape had to be here somewhere … this was his memory …
And there he was, at a table right behind Harry. Harry stared. Snape-theteenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a plant kept in the dark. His
hair was lank and greasy and was flopping on to the table, his hooked nose
barely half an inch from the surface of the parchment as he scribbled. Harry
moved around behind Snape and read the heading of the examination paper:
DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS – ORDINARY WIZARDING LEVEL.
So Snape had to be fifteen or sixteen, around Harry’s own age. His hand was
flying across the parchment; he had written at least a foot more than his
closest neighbours, and yet his writing was minuscule and cramped.
“Five more minutes!”
The voice made Harry jump. Turning, he saw the top of Professor Flitwick’s
head moving between the desks a short distance away. Professor Flitwick was
walking past a boy with untidy black hair … very untidy black hair …
Harry moved so quickly that, had he been solid, he would have knocked desks
flying. Instead he seemed to slide, dreamlike, across two aisles and up a third.
The back of the black-haired boy’s head drew nearer and … he was
straightening up now, putting down his quill, pulling his roll of parchment
towards him so as to reread what he had written …
Harry stopped in front of the desk and gazed down at his fifteen-year-old
father.
Excitement exploded in the pit of his stomach: it was as though he was
looking at himself but with deliberate mistakes. James’s eyes were hazel, his
nose was slightly longer than Harry’s and there was no scar on his forehead,
but they had the same thin face, same mouth, same eyebrows; James’s hair
stuck up at the back exactly as Harry’s did, his hands could have been Harry’s
and Harry could tell that, when James stood up, they would be within an inch
of each other in height.
James yawned hugely and rumpled up his hair, making it even messier than it
had been. Then with a glance towards Professor Flitwick, he turned in his seat
and grinned at a boy sitting four seats behind him.
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbsup. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. He
was very good looking; his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual
elegance neither James’s nor Harry’s could ever have achieved, and a girl
sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn’t seem to have
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noticed. And two seats along from this girl – Harry’s stomach gave another
pleasurable squirm - was Remus Lupin. He looked rather pale and peaky (was
the full moon approaching?) and was absorbed in the exam: as he reread his
answers, he scratched his chin with the end of his quill, frowning slightly.
So that meant Wormtail had to be around here somewhere, too … and sure
enough, Harry spotted him within seconds: a small, mousy-haired boy with a
pointed nose. Wormtail looked anxious; he was chewing his fingernails,
staring down at his paper, scuffing the ground with his toes. Every now and
then he glanced hopefully at his neighbour’s paper. Harry stared at Wormtail
for a moment, then back at James, who was now doodling on a bit of scrap
parchment. He had drawn a Snitch and was now tracing the letters ‘L.E.’.
What did they stand for?
“Quills down, please!” squeaked Professor Flitwick. “That means you too,
Stebbins! Please remain seated while I collect your parchment! Accio!”
Over a hundred rolls of parchment zoomed into the air and into Professor
Flitwick’s outstretched arms, knocking him backwards off his feet. Several
people laughed. A couple of students at the front desks got up, took hold of
Professor Flitwick beneath the elbows and lifted him back on to his feet.
“Thank you … thank you,” panted Professor Flitwick. “Very well, everybody,
you’re free to go!”
Harry looked down at his father, who had hastily crossed out the ‘L.E.’ he had
been embellishing, jumped to his feet, stuffed his quill and the exam paper
into his bag, which he slung over his back, and stood waiting for Sirius to join
him.
Week 2 Wednesday Comprehension 4
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PLANNING SHEET FOR MY ADULT’S MEMORY
What were they like? (Describe character)
Where did the memory take place? (Setting)
My Adult
What happened? (Describe incident and what
was said)
Other information. What were they feeling?
Who else was there? What was the weather
like? Which other people were involved?
Week 2 Wednesday Composition 3
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