... Magic, Cornelius Fudge. He had come to take Hagrid away to Azkaban since Hagrid's record was against him. Before leaving Hagrid told Harry and Ron to follow the spiders if they want to find out some stuff and remember to feed Fang. In addition, Dumbledore was suspended from his job ... by the twelve governor including Lucius Malfoy. So with Dumbledore gone, Harry and Ron are determined to solve the mystery. They took Hagrid's advice and followed the spiders into the Forbidden Forest where they met Aragog. They learned that ... out that a student was taken down to the chamber itself and t...

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... and mythical creatures. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2003) is about Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Over the summer holiday his friends Ron and Hermione have been very inspecific in their letters and Harry is dying to get back and find out why they were being so secretive. Harry is unaware that what ... death eaters, (Voldemort's evil wizards) Harry fights the best he can to make sure they all get out alive. Next there is Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend. All of the Weasley family have messy red hair, freckles and a sort of carefree atti...

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... what I consider the true characteristics of a true friend. Such characteristics include trustworthiness, loyalty, a sense of humor, and a listening ear. Ron Weasley was the first person Harry met on the train to Hogwarts. Ron and Harry hit it off immediately, and soon became very close friends. The friendship was given a chance to prosper when Harry and ... out of trouble the best she can. Hermione is a good student and helps the boys with their lessons. In the end of the book Harry, Ron and Hermione go to try to save the sorcerer's stone from being captured by Professor Quirrell who wou...

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... could talk about his problems with. When Harry went to school he never had a friend. He meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. He becomes friends with them and for the first time in his life is really happy. Ron and Hermione are there for Harry when he needs them. Harry has never had an experience like that ... He wins the first game for his team and becomes a hero. Some one lets a giant troll into the school grounds and it tries to kill Hermione. Ron and Harry capture the enormous creature and rescues Hermione. They are known by everyone as being courageous and brave for fighting the ...

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... Draco Malfoy and the disciplinarian teacher Severus Snape-Harry finds life at Hogwarts idyllic and makes two more firm friends in the bookish Hermione Granger and the hapless but willing Ron Weasley. Initially, the only strong evidence of Harry's talent is provided on the sports field, where he becomes an expert player of quidditch, a game played on flying broomsticks. Voldemort, however, is ... of his nemesis. Voldemort also wants to get hold of the philosopher's stone, which was entrusted by the famous alchemist Nicholas Flamel to Dumbledore. With the aid of Hermione and Ron, and enco...

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... him a small fortune; which he uses to prepare for his trip to Hogwarts, and in a month, gets on the train and goes. On the train, he meets his first friend, Ron Weasley, and his soon to be friend, Hermione Granger.    The days past as the school year begins, and he discovers his natural talent for Quidditch. Draco Malfoy soon challenges him to ... friends easily when he is able. Harry's success at making true friendships and overcoming his early loneliness shows great character development, and shows more to come. Other important characters include Ron Weasly, Hermione G...

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... when he receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardly. He then learns of his parent's demise at the hands of evil Lord Voldemort. While at school, Harry befriends Ron Weasley and the know-all Hermione Granger. With these two friends by his side, Harry faces the challenge of keeping the sorcerer's stone from falling in the wrong hands, Lord Voldemort ... the ending, but remember good always prevails over evil. This movie introduces the audience to many new-comers to the big screen. Daniel Radcliffe, is Harry Potter, Rupert Grint, as Ron, and Emma Watson, as Hermione. ...

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... Harry. Voldemort, whose name in French means either "flight of death", is determined to find The Sorcerer's Stone to escape death. He has a very hard time trying to understand love. Ron Weasley is Harry's best friend. He comes from a lower-middle class wizard family with four brothers and a sister. He is extremely loyal to Harry and aids in his adventures. He helps ... Harry with his knowledge of chess, in a life sized chess match where he sacrificed himself to help Harry obtain the Sorcerer's Stone. Ron is often lived in the shadows of his older brothers. Hermoine Granger is the annoyi...

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... ; Quirrell, professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry also befriends and is befriended by two special schoolmates: Hermione Granger, a delightful young lady with the gift of intellect and study; Ron Weasley, not talented in much of anything. Harry also gains a new enemy, fellow schoolmates Draco Malfoy, a young man with a quite nasty tattle telling, conniving personality. Harry, Hermoine and ... Ron belong to one of four houses of the school. Malfoy belongs to a rival house. Part of the rivalry is expressed in broom riding. Harry Potter has never been the star ... ...

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... . 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 whom are wizards. He has lots of freckles and red hair - this ... ...

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... herself to be a squib, a non-magical witch or wizard. Harry wishes to leave Privet Drive for fear of having his wand revoked but he stays and the advisal of Arthur Weasley. After spending much time alone in the house, eight wizards show up when his aunt and uncle are out. They help Harry pack and usher him off by broomstick to ... students how to properly use the spells. The group is named Dumbledore's Army, or DA for short. Harry later has a dream that he is a snake that bites into a man -- Arthur Weasley. Harry learns that the black door at the end of the corridor in his dream is at t...

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... Potter books. One author says that the Harry Potter books are a fine addition to English children's fantasy literature. 3 November 2001 http://danny reviews.com/h/Harry_Potter.html. Another author feels like it is enough to make you choke on your fava beans (Stuttaford 59). I could not understand ... but at the same time exotic setting of an English public school, complete with houses and schoolboy adventures (in which Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione struggle to save the world and win the house cup.) To highlight the limitations of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ... compar...

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... shops for his schoolbooks and materials, including wizard robes, a wand, and an owl. When Harry finally leaves for school, he meets other students, including Ron, Hermione, and Neville, on the train. At school, Harry meets his new professors, fellow students, and the resident ghosts. He is relieved to be ... him broomstick skills. As a result, he becomes the seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and even gets a Nimbus 2000 broom. One night he and Ron, Neville, and Hermione accidentally discover a three-headed dog guarding a trap door in the forbidden corridor. Harry is sure the dog is...

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... 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 he can handle. Mean while Hermoine, Ron, and the Order of the Phoenix are trying to plan against Lord Voldmort. Dumbledore's losing respect because he trying to tell people that there nightmares have come true; he who ... 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 and Harry gets jealous, to make things worse...

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... friends instead of accepting Malfoy's offer to be with his group? And when Voldemort tempted him to give him the Sorcerer's Stone and join the side of evil? And when Ron chose to sacrifice himself in the living chess game so Harry and Hermione could go on? Lesson Theme: Friendship Scene ... : Ron sacrificing himself in the living game of wizard's chess; Harry and Ron risking their lives to save Hermione. Lesson Theme: The power of love. Scene: Dumbledore explaining why Voldemort couldn't destroy Harry. Harry's mom sacrificed her life to save him. That act ... ...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first in a series of books by J.K Rowling. They follow the adventures of the young wizard, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione, at Hogwarts - The school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book was first published in 1997 and the film has been long awaited in coming. I first read Harry Potter ... to direct the film, which would have almost guaranteed a huge success. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry, is flanked by partners in crime Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as Hermione and Ron. This is the first major film that they have all worked on, and al...

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... Witchcraft and Wizardry. At school, Harry meets his new professors, fellow students, and the resident ghosts. He is relieved to be chosen by the sorting hat for Gryffindor, along with Ron and Hermione. At the opening banquet, Dumbledore warns students to stay away from a corridor on the third floor. Harry is disconcerted that so many students seem to know who he ... Life from the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry realizes that Voldemort is close to reaching the stone despite all the charms keeping it safe. He also thinks Snape is helping Voldemort. Harry, Ron, and Hermione get past the three-head...

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... Witchcraft and Wizardry. At school, Harry meets his new professors, fellow students, and the resident ghosts. He is relieved to be chosen by the sorting hat for Gryffindor, along with Ron and Hermione. At the opening banquet, Dumbledore warns students to stay away from a corridor on the third floor. Harry is disconcerted that so many students seem to know who he ... Life from the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry realizes that Voldemort is close to reaching the stone despite all the charms keeping it safe. He also thinks Snape is helping Voldemort. Harry, Ron, and Hermione get past the three-head...

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... anything but common! Much of the story is plan "hang on to your seat" excitement. Throughout this story Harry Potter learns many lessons along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. The major theme is Good over Evil with another theme being you should not judge someone by what another person says. The background for the story is that for twelve ... in his ability to move about campus as he has had the freedom to do so in the past. This frustrates Harry tremendously and places a strain on his friendships with Ron and Hermone. Further, Harry's safety is even more at risk as there is a st...

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... book is love, because Harry Potter was blessed with such an incredible love by being accepted into the magical world. Another awesome theme is the trust between Harry, Hermoine and Ron, because they always stick together no matter what and defend each other to the fullest. There are also many hidden secrets in this big magical world of Harry's. Some so ... break up because there is no slight care about the other person. But in this book you can tell that Harry and Hermoine have a bond a little different from his and Ron's, but nothing too romantic. When Harry was going to fail his O.W.L...

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... climax by having the ability to hear the culprit's voice and find where the Chamber of Secrets is located, which is in moaning Myrtle's bathroom. He slides down to find Ron's sister Ginny almost dead. He then sees the face of his enemy and a battle rises. The headmaster Dumbledore sends Harry a Pheonix and the sorting hat, which doesn't look to be ... a hard blow and feels that it's about over the Pheonix's healing tears revive him. He then pulls a sword out of the sorting hat and defeats his enemy. Harry, Hermione and Ron's intuition and motivation solve the minor and major conflicts. ...

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... from his cruel family who would much rather have him gone anyways. He has lots of friends at Hogwarts but he only has two best friends. One of them is Ron Weasly. Ron is a red headed boy from a very large family. Although his family is not the richest in the wizarding world, they are very kind, and deeply care about Harry and ... ...

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... the sorcerer's stone, even if he could get expelled for it. This is a quote from the book that proves that he is adventuress: Indeed, by the next morning Harry and Ron thought that meeting the three-headed dog had been an excellent adventure and they were quite keen to have another one. They sure did have a lot more adventures after the ... afraid of. He was also brave when he stood up to Malfoy (his rival who made fun of him and his friends) countless times. This quote was when Harry and Ron where saving Hermione from the mountain troll in the girls bathroom: Harry then did something t...

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... Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry travels into a deep cave in order to get information from a large spider, and even though the spiders try to eat both Harry and Ron, Harry is able to keep his cool and bring himself and his friend to safety. Another example of his bravery is in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone when a troll ... ...

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Website Review: "The Great Harry Potter Debate" I reviewed a website entitled, "The Great Harry Potter Debate." (http://www.elycia-webdesign.com/harrypotter/debate/) The website discussed the censorship of children's literature. It focused on the Harry Potter series. The series tells the story of a young boy, Harry Potter, whose parents are ... ...

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