Harry Potter: Book or Movie Have you ever watched a movie then decided to read the book? Well this is just the case in hand after I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. After reading the first book in the series, by J.K. Rowling's, I was hooked, on the novels that is. The movie lacked many of the key elements that the book offered the reader. Before I read the book, I truly enjoyed the ... those like me, young at heart. As I soon found out it was a movie for those of all ages. While many of the ideas in the movie was drawn from the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, some id...

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... with. The different kinds of character in the story also contribute to making the novel an entertaining book to read. Each character has his own unique traits that we encounter in the real world. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is an enchanting novel by J.K. Rowling and is apparently written particularly ... to help and back up Harry in times of need. And this was how the three friends gained each other's trust. In the end, they all helped each other which enabled them to defeat their greatest enemy , Voldemort. One thing missing, though, in this Harry Potter book was the absence o...

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... is written by J.K. Rowling. It's the third book of the well-known Harry Potter series. Azkaban is a prison in the wizard world. The main problem in this book is that a feared mass murderer escapes out of the prison and that explains the title. The story: Harry Potter is a wizard. He goes to the Hogwarts ... School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this school year will be his third year on Hogwarts. In the summer holidays he lives with the Dursleys, a Muggle family. Muggle is the wizard word used for non-magic people. Harry can't stand ... influence on the ministry of magic and the Hippog...

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... in very strong detail and characteristic. It seems like it would be a children's book, but I believe that the story can be seen from all different views and age groups, and also that the movie was good as well. To story of Harry Potter is Harry's parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby, ... and treat him more like a nobody than like a family member. His fat cousin Dudley, his aunt and uncle's real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,...

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... Sorcerer's Stone The time era Harry Potter was in was in the late 1990's in England, but it was never confirmed in the book. In the beginning the house Harry lives in is on Privet Drive in Surrey, England and the setting is soon transferred to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and ... a very strange castle most likely located in Scotland. It has many changing staircases, secret passages, and hidden doors. It is the school Harry and both of his parents attended. Mrs. Rowling designed the book to be in the third person point of view, it is not being told in the first person ... Voldemort, a b...

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... change his world forever. I think J K Rowling started writing these books because she was bored with the world as it was and thought that Harry's world might be a bit more interesting. Fundamentally Harry Potter is a traditional good versus evil story. Harry is the one who, according to prophecy, can defeat the Dark Lord (Voldemort) an evil wizard who uses his powers to murder hundreds of ... innocent people. Before Harry Potter there were very few books about children who were wizards, this is why it was so successful with young readers: they could relate to someone their age rather th...

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... more than treasure there."    The beginning of the popular Harry Potter series begins with the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," also known as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in countries other than America. One night, a one-year-old Harry Potter is being delivered to Number 4 Pivet Drive. Ten years from that day, Harry Potter finds himself looking at a letter addressed to him:   " ... ;Mr. H, Potter  The Cupboard under the Stairs  4 Privet Drive  Little Whinging  Surrey& ... the setting moves to Hogwarts, a giant of a castle with towers and ti...

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... the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is a children's novel about a young boy, Harry Potter, and his adventures at Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches. The novel is filled with humorous tales of exciting escapades in and around the ... an important role in the book. For example, Draco Malfoy is from a pure Wizard family and he takes great pride in it. He often judges others by this measure. On the train to Hogwarts he says to Harry, "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to ... go making friends with the wrong sort." (p....

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... thing. It is not always good to have a label. A student might only look to a smart kid as an answer book or a cheat sheet. When and if those expectations fall short of reality, the "cheat sheet" is at fault. When Harry loses points for Gryffindor house, he becomes an outcast. The big hero everyone heard about becomes a shunned scrawny git that ... , the hero, the jock, or the nerd becomes just students. They're "that one kid in history class." In conclusion, many people in books of fiction such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and in real life put others into "boxes." Sometimes t...

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... Sorcerer's Stone, written by J.K Rowling, is a fictional adventure story that takes place during the twenty-first century in England. There are five main characters in this book. The first, Harry Potter, is an orphan that lives with his aunt and uncle who are "muggles." He is small and skinny for his age, probably because he sleeps in a dark cupboard under the ... his face. The fifth character is Voldermort. He was the one who killed Harry's parents when Harry was a year old and has been hidden for ten years. He has red eyes and slits for his nose. The story begins on number four Prive...

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... forests of Albania. After Harry's parents had died he had to move in with his only living relatives the Dursleys.The Dursleys despised magic of any kind and it showed in there dreadful attitude to Harry. The Dursleys never told Harry about his magical heritage but he found out near the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone the first book in the thrilling series ... . From there Harry has been through many exciting adventures including two attacks from Voldemort in a different form. This interesting ... story of a world, in which those possessing magical powers live more o...

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... have felt lost and helpless without anyone to turn to. We have all been picked on and wished that things could get better. Harry Potter always wished that things were better and one day they were. Harry Potter is a small and skinny eleven year-old boy that lives with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. His parents were killed when ... wait until they are asleep and sneak into the kitchen to get food. There are pictures of Dudley all over the house, but not a single one of Harry. Harry had no role model to look up to, or no parents that he could talk about his problems with. I think that w...

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... . The author is J.K. Rowling. The setting of the story is in England at a school for wizards called Hogwarts. There are three main characters, Harry Potter; Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry is a skinny boy with dark brown hair (which is always messy) and glasses. Ron is the youngest boy in a family of five, all of ... call a "Mudblood". This means that she is a wizard whose parents are not magical. She however is a very talented wizard. The story is basically all about Harry. He attends Hogwarts School of Wizardry, which is located far away from the rest of civilization, (the Muggl...

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Harry Has Friends In a book about magic and witches and wizards, one wouldn't think friendship would be found as a prevalent theme. That is what sets J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter apart from the rest. The main character in her books, Harry Potter, has two faithful friends who stick with him throughout his adventures. They exhibit what I consider the true characteristics of a true friend. Such characteristics include trustworthiness, loyalty, a sense ... always together, and she helps keep them out of trouble the best she can. Hermione is a good student and helps the boys with their lessons. In ...

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... "? So I guess the religious extremists are currently at an all-out war on crime mysteries novels. No? I thought so. But that's exactly what they are saying about Harry Potter, you know, there's magic involved in Harry Potter, therefore it is evil, so lets bust out our pitchforks and torches. You see, that's also the case with crime fictions; for example, someone got brutally murdered ... the Playstation or computer. This in turn, as research has shown, led to our nation's appaling average literacy rates and climbing obesity cases. Harry Potter was the turning point and if a kid has the p...

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Plot Summary Harry Potter is furious with his friends for not writing him in so long; Sirius hasn't been in touch either. He doesn't know how much more of the Dudley's ... tell people that there nightmares have come true; he who must not be named is back. To make things worse, when Harry gets back to school there is a new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. The old hag makes Harry's life miserable, adds new rules that are outrageous, and helps get Dumbledore kicked out of school. Ron becomes a Perfect ... can achieve more. Rating I gave this book a five because it had lots of action and a ...

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