Harry potter book chapter no1

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00:00We know that Harry Potter book chapter 1 is where it all began, but did you know that there's an

00:04earlier part of the story? A prologue that sets up the stage for everything that's to come? That's

00:08right. In today's video, we're gonna read and explore J.K. Rowling's original Harry Potter

00:13prologue. This is chapter 0. Enjoy, the mountain sea. Erdi was the son of Peter the miner. He lived

00:19with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father inside

00:23the mountain. A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of

00:27their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then

00:32somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them.

00:36And what people hate, they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration,

00:40perhaps we do not always feel quite awe, enough of them. To me, they are beautiful terrors. I will

00:46try to tell you what they are. They are portions of the heart of the earth that have escaped from

00:49the dungeon down below, and rushed up and out. For the heart of the earth is a great wallowing mass,

00:54not of blood, as in the hearts of men and animals, but of glowing hot melted metals and stones. And

01:01as our hearts keep us alive, so that great lump of heat keeps the earth alive. It is a huge power

01:05of buried sunlight. That is what it is. Now, think out of that cauldron, where all the bubbles would

01:11be as big as the Alps. If it could get room for its boiling, certain bubbles have bubbled out,

01:15and escaped up and away. And there they stand in the cool, cold sky. Think of the change,

01:20and you will no more wonder, that there should be something awful about the very look of a mountain,

01:24from the darkness for, where the light has nothing to shine upon. It is much the same as darkness from

01:29the heat, from the endless tumult, of boiling unrest up, with a sudden heavenward shoot, into the

01:34wind, and the stars shine, in a cloak of snow that lies like ermine above the blue-green mail of the

01:40glaciers, and the great sun, their grandfather, up there in the sky, and their little old cold anthem moon,

01:45that comes wandering about the house at night. An everlasting stillness, except well, when the

01:50heart of the earth has thus come rushing up among her children, bringing with it gifts of all that

01:54she possesses, then straightway into it rush her children to see what they can find there.

01:59With pickaxe, and spade, and crowbar, with boring chisel and blasting powder, they force their way

02:04back. Is it to search for what toys they may have left in their long-forgotten nurseries? Hence the

02:09mountains that lift their heads into the clear air, and are dotted over with the dwellings of men,

02:14are tunneled and bored in the darkness of their bosoms, by the dwellers in the houses which they

02:18hold up to the sun, and air? Kirti and his father were of these. Their business was to bring to light

02:23hidden things. They sought silver in the rock and found it, and carried it out. Of the many other

02:28precious things in their mountain, they knew little or nothing. Silverer was, what they were sent to find,

02:33and in darkness and danger they found it, and carried it out. But oh, how sweet was the air on the

02:38mountain face when they came out at sunset to go home to wife and mother. They did breathe deep then.

02:43The mines belonged to the king of the country, and the miners were his servants, working under his

02:47overseers and officers. He was a real king that is one who ruled for the good of his people,

02:52and not to please himself, and he wanted the silver not to buy rich things for himself,

02:56but to help him to govern the country and pay the armies that defended it from certain troublesome

03:00neighbors, and the judges whom he set to portion out righteousness amongst the people,

03:04that so they might learn it themselves, and come to do without judges at all. Nothing that could be

03:08got from the heart of the earth could have been put to better purposes than the silver.

03:11The king S. miners got for him. There were people in the country who, when it came into their hands,

03:16degraded it by locking it up in a chest. And then it grew diseased and was called mammon,

03:20and bred all sorts of quarrels. But when first it left the king's hands it never made any but friends,

03:25and the air of the world kept it clean. About a year before this story began,

03:29a series of very remarkable events had just ended. I will narrate as much of them as will serve to show

03:34the tops of the roots of my tree. Upon the mountain, on one of its many claws, stood a grand old house,

03:39half farmhouse, half castle, belonging to the king. And there was only child. The princess Irene,

03:45had been brought up till she was nearly nine years old, and would doubtless have continued much

03:49longer. But for the strange events to which I have referred, at that time the hollow places of the

03:53mountain were inhabited by creatures called goblins, who for various reasons, and in various ways made

03:59themselves troublesome to all, but to the little princess dangerous, mainly by the watchful devotion

04:03and energy of Kurdi. However, their designs had been utterly defeated, and made to recoil upon

04:08themselves to their own destruction. So that now there were very few of them left alive, and the

04:13miners did not believe there was a single goblin remaining in the hole inside of the mountain.

04:17The king had been so pleased with the boy then approaching thirteen years of age that, when he

04:21carried away his daughter he asked him to accompany them. But he was still better pleased with him when

04:25he found that he preferred staying with his father and mother. He was a right good king, and knew that

04:29the road to the next duty is the only straight one, and would doubtless lead to the path of knighthood.

04:34He therefore accepted Kurdi's answer and told him he would come again for him when the time came.

04:38As for Kurdi, he returned to his work in the mine with a light heart, feeling that he was exactly

04:42where he ought to be. And now I will return to the beginning of the world.

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