Harry Potter And The Sorcers Stone

The first harry potter book is called Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, it is a really good book and it is written by J.K Rowling. At the begging of the book the dursley’s (which are Harry’s aunt, uncle and Cousin Dudley). Anyway, uncle Vernon is looking outside and he sees a cat just sitting there the cat is still there yesterday and uncle Vernon has seen some weird things. At that night the cat sees a old looking man with weird clothes on and the cat turns itself into a witch and them there comes a motorcycle flying out of the sky this big tall man gets off and is holding something in a blanket he sets the blanket on the dursleys door step then you see it is a baby boy named harry who has a lightning shaped scar. Then it brings you like 12 years into the future and harry has round glasses and he still has the scar his room is a cupboard under the stairs full of spiders. And his aunt and uncle hate him they only give him a little food and make him get up early and cook breakfast, and his cousin is always beating him up a little down the road harry has gotten the mail and he has a letter and it does not say who it is from.  He tries to open it but his uncle snatches it and harry starts to fight him for it and harry loses and is sent to his cupboard after a while his uncle has had time to calm down and calls harry out to talk to him. He tells him that harry can have Dudley’s old room which now holds a bunch of broken toys and stuff that’s never used. He walks in to the room and there is a book shelf with a lot of broken toys and old books there camera Dudley wanted for Christmas its lens is all broken and the thing you flip out to film is torn off. After that a lot of letters keep coming and on Sunday they flood the house so uncle Vernon takes them to a hotel and another letter comes so he takes them some place where no one will find them and it is on an island and harry has to sleep on the floor with a moth eaten blanket that is really thin. After everyone goes to bed a loud knock is on the door uncle Vernon is holding a gun and the person kicks the door down. He says his name is Hagrid and he takes harry away after he spends the night and makes him and harry breakfast (I forgot to mention this was on Harry’s birthday) After that he takes him to a place called the leaky caldron and meet professor Quirell . And takes him behind the building and taps on some bricks and a place named diagon ally appears out of nowhere and hagrid takes out his need-list and he buys everything he needs and gets some wizard money and then goes to the train station where hagrid has to go and he meets the Wesley’s a wizard family who aren’t that rich the mother shows him how to go to platform nine and three quarters. And he goes onto the train he meets one of the youngest Wesley brothers named Ron and buys the whole trolley of snacks and also meets a very smart girl named Hermione granger.  After a long ride to the school and it is a huge castle and the only way to get to the castle is by boat and when they get in the castle they go to the main hall and get sorted into their house the houses are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. And harry and his new friends all get put to Gryffindor and eat like kings and then head off to bed. After that they realize there new teacher snape is like evil and is making quirrell and Hermione harry and Ron start trying to get snape caught. After that they have their first flying class and harry is chasing malfoy and gets caught by professor McGonagall and is put onto the Gryffindor house quid ditch team which is against the rules but she made an exception. And after that it is Halloween and they see this huge dog with three head and see it is guarding something under a trapdoor so they ask hagrid. It turns out this dog is named fluffy and they find out a little more inform that the gringotts vault that was almost robbed hagrid took the things that were in the vault before so it is kind of a good thing hagrid did or else this whole book wouldn’t be that good. So anyways at the Halloween dinner quirrell announces that there is a troll in the dungeon. So harry and Ron realize Hermione is super sad and is staying in the bathroom locked in a stall and the troll is going into the bathroom that she is in so harry and Ron use ,magic and kick his butt and earn points for Gryffindor. And then the find out about this guy and keep searching for him they find something about him and it tell them he created something called a sorcerer’s stone and he had been Dumbledore’s partner and that is what fluffy is guarding. So they think snape wants it so they plan to get it first. They sneak out of bed and go through the trap door ad get trapped in like these vine things and they get out and then they have to catch as key and harry has to like capture it while flying after he gets it a giant chessboard is the next room. Ron sacrifices himself so they can all move on then they get to the room with the stone. Harry finds out that quirrell is the evil one and lord valdemort is a part of his head and he defeats him and quirrell and saves the day thus ending the book.

History of Hampton

The city of Hampton was founded in 1610. The first continuous English-speaking settlement was established here, America’s first free public education was offered there and NASA trained its first astronauts in Hampton. 

Fort Monroe, in 1607, the English explorer Captain John Smith came ashore near Fort Monroe. In 1609, colonial settlers built a wooden structure large enough to hold 50 men and seven mounted cannons, and called it Fort Algernourne. In 1619, it would serve as a landing place in the New World for Africans brought in as slaves.  Work on the fort began in 1819. Named for James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, Fort Monroe took 15 years to build. Among those who directed construction of the fort was a young lieutenant, Robert E. Lee. Fort Monroe remained in the hands of the U.S. Army. Although situated in Virginia and surrounded by Confederate forces, the fort did not fall to the Confederacy.

On May 23, 1861, three Virginia slaves escaped from Norfolk at night and rowed a small boat across the harbor to Hampton. They arrived at Fort Monroe, which had remained under Union control, and asked for asylum. Post commander Major General Benjamin Butler met with the three, Frank Baker, Sheppard Mallory, and James Townsend and determined he would not return them. When a Confederate officer requested their return under the Fugitive Slave Act, Butler refused, declaring the three to be "contraband of war." (Contraband means Goods that have been imported or exported illegally.) General Butler's contraband decision propelled slavery to the forefront as a wartime concern. By the end of the war, more than 10,000 former slaves were living in large tent cities outside the fort. Many of them stayed in the area, starting businesses and rebuilding Hampton. Thousands of African-Americans today trace their heritage to the slaves who escaped to “Freedom’s Fortress.”

Museum Of Hampton. Hampton has a museum telling about the 400 years that have passed and the city of Hampton is still named Hampton. I am sure I have at least driven through it or maybe even have done something there. 

History Of The Portsmout Naval Shipyard

Basic History: The Portsmouth Naval shipyard was established by the Federal Government in 1800, it launched its first product, the 74 gun warship USS Washington, in 1815.  During World War I, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workforce expanded to nearly 5,000.  At this time, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard took on a new and important role the construction of submarines in addition to the overhaul and repair of surface vessels.  World War II saw the civilian employment rolls swell to over 25,000.  Over the course of World War II over 70 submarines were constructed at Portsmouth Navy Shipyard, with a record four submarines launched on one day.  Following World War II, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was the Navy’s center for submarine design and development.  The research submarine, USS Albacore, with its revolutionary “tear drop” shaped hull and round cross section, set the standard for all subsequent submarine hull design worldwide. , Portsmouth Naval Shipyard continued to build submarines until 1969, when the last submarine built in a public shipyard, the nuclear powered USS Sand Lance, was launched.  Today the Shipyard continues the tradition of excellence and service to the Navy and the nation by supplying the U.S Navy's submarine fleet with high quality, affordable, overhaul, refueling and modernization work.

The Prison: In 1898 a Prisoner of War encampment named Camp Long was established on Seavey’s Island where the former Naval Prison now stands. It was established to house over 1,600 Spanish Prisoners of War that were captured during the Spanish-American War. Ten years later the Portsmouth Naval Prison was opened on the same site. At its construction, the prison was considered the largest poured concrete building in the world. Over the years the Prison had an illustrious career and was known for its progressive and innovative efforts in the rehabilitation of naval personnel. The facility closed in 1974.

Quarter A: In 1724 William Fernald Jr. built the original house known as Quarters “A’.  Before the Navy acquired the property, both Dennett and Seavey Island were privately owned.  Families farmed the land and used the location as a base for fishing operations.  At this point in time, the Yard was not conducted as a military command. Until the War of 1812, the Shipyard was under the supervision of the “Naval Agent”, a civilian position.  This first military commandant was Commodore Isaac Hull, who assumed command of the Shipyard on March 31, 1813. Due to a lack of “suitable” housing on the Shipyard for a commandant, Commodore and Mrs. Hull resided in a house in Portsmouth.  Due to the nature of his job it is rather inconvenient for a commandant to live off the Shipyard.  For this reason Commodore Hull requested permission from the Secretary of the Navy to build a “modest home” suitable for a commandant of a naval facility.  On February 3, 1814, Hull received permission and funding to build a home, providing that the cost did not exceed $5,000.  He immediately employed John Locke, a joiner from Portsmouth, to design and to build the new Commandant’s house.  The home was completed the following fall at a cost well below the $5,000 limit.  With the remaining funds, Commodore Hull ordered that a small hospital be constructed on the installation.  The house and surrounding grounds of Quarters “A” have survived in this manner, with a few minor alterations, throughout the years. Quarters “A” has been visited by many important individuals throughout its life.  Important visitors were generally entertained by the commandant in his home.  On August 14, 1870, Admiral Farragut, the first Admiral of the Navy, was at the Shipyard visiting his brother-in-law, Commodore A.M. Pennock, then the Shipyard Commander.   During his stay, the Admiral died.  In 1908, a bronze plaque was placed on the front of the house, in a panel to the left of the main entrance to honor his memory.  It was later removed and mounted on the iron fence in front of Quarters A, where it remains today.  In its present state, Quarters “A” now measures 140 feet long, 69 feet wide, and 39 feet high.  The house has 8.700 square feet of living space and is classified as a two-story dwelling.  The front and face of the quarters at its upper corners peak displays a handsome, sixteen-radii-paned, rosette window of scalloped design.  Two triangular, handcrafted, wooden, bias relief ornaments adorn each side of the window.  Quarters “A” is surrounded by the Shipyard industrial and administrative complex, yet gives the impression of being remote and sedate.

National Children's Museum Of Virginia

After we left the beach we headed to a unknown destination we went to a town called Portsmouth, we went through this huge tunnel that was like two miles long. After that we arrived at a stoplight and parked near the side walk, we had to walk some until we got where we were going. We went into The National Children Children’s Museum of Virginia. We went inside and this place was huge it seemed way bigger than two floors; we first did this thing were you loaded things of crates onto trucks. Then we went into a store were you could play a cashier harvest eggs and vegetables and take one of those pictures with your face in a hole. Then we went on a boat and fished and steered it, .After that we went to like a bank and wrote checks went into the vault acted like a bank and sent money through the tube to a car on the other side. After that we went to the doctors and the dentist and then ton a library where we got to take one book home each. After that we sat on a motor cycle and saw a cool train set after that we went up to the second floor and went inside this house and felt things in a box and guessed what they were after that we went to this crime scene you could solve I would’ve done it but we didn’t have time. After that there was this section called creativity but we only had like five minutes left so we sat in the biggest chair ever. After that we left and headed back to Virginia.

I had a fun time at the museum my mom and dad wants to go back so we can solve the crime and I accidentally forgot to mention the fun bubble part wear we stood in a bubble and made bubble sheets. I hope we can go back soon.