Chapter 8, deals with Harry adjusting to his unknown fame as well as the teacher who holds him responsible for it. Featured bands include: the Pumpkin Pasties, Hollow Gordic, Voldemort, Gred and Forge, the 8th Horcrux, Harry and the Potters, Eyes Like Mine, Ollivander, The Hermione Crookshanks Experience, Seamus and the Finnigans, Siriusly Hazza P, The Bandon Banshees, and Muggle Snuggle!

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Harry finds life at Hogwarts unfamiliar and strange. Everyone talks about him, and an adult always seems to be around when he is doing something wrong. It is hard to find his way to classes due to the one hundred and forty-two changing staircases and tricky doorways. [“142 Staircases” by The Pumpkin Pasties] The people in the Hogwarts portraits have been no help to him, for they ignore some students and visit each other, nor have the ghosts, whom always scare Harry when they glide through a door he is trying to open. [“Portraits” by Hollow Godric] Only Nearly-Headless Nick points new Gryffindors in the right direction, but Peeves is worth two locked doors and a tricky staircase whenever Harry runs into him when late for class. Even worse than Peeves if anyhow possible is the school caretaker Argus Filch, who both Harry and Ron get on the bad side of on their very first morning, when he finds them trying to force their way through a door which turns out to be entrance of the out-of-bounds third floor corridor. [“Cradle of Filch” by Voldemort] He threatens to lock them in the dungeons, but the two boys are luckily rescued by Quirrel, who is passing by.

All the classes become very interesting to Harry, with the only exception being History of Magic, and he learns that there is a lot more to magic other than waving his wand and saying a few funny words. [“History of Magic” by Gred and Forge] In his first Transfiguration class on Thursday, Professor McGonagall transfigures her desk into a pig and then back again while explaining how Transfiguration itself is some of the most complex and dangerous magic to be learned, and anyone who will get caught messing around with it will have to banned from the class. [“Wizarding Skillz” by the 8th Horcrux] The entire class is very impressed, but soon realise that they are not gonna be changing furniture into animals. Only Hermione is able to make any progress at turning a match into a needle, for which MacGonagall gives her a rare smile, but Harry is relieved to see that his peers are just as lost as he is. When time comes to transition to Defence Against the Dark Arts class (the class everyone is looking forward to) every morning, the lesson turns into more of a joke, as Quirrell keeps going on with stories about his travels in the year prior, such as when he had ward off a vampire in Romania (whom he is afraid will come back and get him), and when he had earned his turban from an African prince for saving him from a troublesome zombie. [“My New School” by Harry and the Potters] 

During breakfast the first Friday, Hedwig arrives with a tea invitation from Hagrid. [“The Lonely Half-Giant” by Hollow Godric] Later, in his Potions class, Harry discovers that Professor Snape hates him, mocking Harry as “our new celebrity” and then humiliating Harry for his ignorance of potion-making materials.[“I Didn’t Ask To Be No Celebrity” by Eyes Like Mine]; [“Potions Is My Worst Class” by Ollivander]; [“Pick Me! In the Classroom” by The Hermione Crookshanks Experience]; [“Potions With Neville” by Seamus and the Finnigans] Harry brings Ron with him to Hagrid’s shack for tea. Harry and Ron are disconcerted by Hagrid’s huge and fierce-looking dog, Fang, but discover that he is gentle. [“Fang” by Siriusly Hazza P] Hagrid tells Harry that he is overreacting to Snape’s treatment, asserting that Snape would have no reason to hate him. Harry happens to notice an article from the wizard newspaper, the Daily Prophet, detailing a break-in that occurred at Gringotts bank in a vault that had been emptied earlier in the day.[“Wizard Rock Cake” by The Bandon Banshees] He realises that it happened on his birthday, the day he and Hagrid went to Gringotts. Furthermore, he remembers that Hagrid emptied vault seven hundred and thirteen, taking a small package with him as he left. Harry leaves Hagrid’s, his mind filled with questions. [“Gringotts Banksters” Polka by Muggle Snuggle]