Novel Analysis of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter is a little different than the rest of family he’s known throughout his life. Harry is thin, and the only clothes he has to wear are his cousin’s old hand me downs, which are 6 sizes too big because Dudley is overweight. Harry wear’s glasses that are taped together due to the fact that his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon refuse to spend any money on him whatsoever. Harry’s hair is always messy despite any efforts to make it look neat. He also has a lightning bolt scar on his forehead that he is always trying to hide.

Harry’s personality could be described as quiet, apprehensive, lonely, and cast out. He lives with his aunt and uncle because his parents are dead and knows nothing about his parents or their way of life because his aunt and uncle won’t answer any questions he my have about his parents. Harry is also bullied by his cousin Dudley until he goes to Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He has no friends to speak of until he meets Hagrid, Hemione Granger, and Ron Weasley.

Harry deals with conflict by a series of unexplainable occurrences. In one instance, his cousin’s group of friends were ch

The climax is in chapter 16 Harry, Hermione, and Ron discover the night when Snape was going to try to steal the stone. They went to the third corridor to where the three headed dog was guarding the trapdoor to already find him asleep. While deciding on a plan the dog wakes up and Harry pulled out a flute that Hagrid gave him for Christmas and started to play, then handed the flute off to Hermione so if anything happened to him the other two could go get help. They landed in Devil’s Snare, a plant that will kill you if you struggle and doesn’t like fire. Hermione, being so book smart immediately cast a fire spell so they could pass the challenge. Next they came into a chamber with hundreds of flying keys with wings. Harry spotted the one that would work because it had a broken wing. They all grabbed brooms that were already in the chamber, surrounded the key, captured it, and unlocked the door to the next challenge. The next challenge was a game of chess, only if you lost you were as good as dead. Chess was Ron’s specialty and he played a spectacular game but sacrificed himself to allow Harry and Hermione to go on. In the next chamber all Hermione and Harry found was an unconscious troll, so they ran on to the next chamber. Here they found a row of potions and a piece of parchment paper with a riddle on it. They had to figure out which potion would take them on to the chamber with the stone in it, but there was only enough for one person to take. So Harry took the potion to go forward and Hermione took one to take her back to Ron. In the next chamber Harry comes face to face not with Professor Snape, but with Professor Quirell.

The theme in this story is that friends are the most important asset you have. Harry would never have been able to get through all the chambers to get to the Sorcerer’s Stone without his friends.

Hagrid is asked my Dumbledore to retrieve a package from vault 713, which turns out to be the sorcerer’s stone, but Harry doesn’t know that yet.

One setting in this book is the Dursley’s house. The house appears to be normal and cozy, but the inhabitants are nothing like that at all. Dudley has two bedrooms, one for him and one for all his unwanted toys. Harry sleeps under the stairs in a cupboard until letters start arriving from Hogwart’s, then he is permitted to inhabit Dudley’s spare room. The furnishings are all very nice and from the pictures in the house you would never even know that Harry has lived there for most of his life.

asing Harry, he tried to hid behind a trash can but then found himself sitting on t

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