Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Orphaned Harry Potter has been dwelling a canine’s lifestyles together with his horrible loved ones. He sleeps in the broom cupboard under the stairs and is treated as a slave through his aunt and uncle. On his eleventh birthday, mysterious missives start arriving for him, culminating sooner or later in the appearance of a large named Hagrid, who has come to escort him to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that his mother and father died saving him from an evil sorcerer and that he himself is destined to be a wizard of fantastic power. Harry’s astonished advent to the existence of wizardry begins with his purchase, under Hagrid’s steerage, of all the tools of an aspiring sorcerer: wand, gowns, cauldron, broomstick, owl. Hogwarts is the typical British public college, with lots emphasis located on video games and the respect of the Houses. Harry’s residence is Gryffindor, the time-commemorated rival of Slytherin: he becomes a star at Quidditch, a really complicated recreation played with four different balls even as the whole group swoops approximately on broomsticks. He studies Herbology, the History of Magic, Charms, Potions, the Dark Arts, and different arcane subjects, all of the whilst getting closer to his destiny and the name of the game of the sorcerer’s stone. He makes buddies (and enemies), goes via dangerous and thrilling adventures, and justifies the hopeful predictions approximately him. The light-hearted caper travels through the territory owned with the aid of the overdue Roald Dahl, especially in the treatment of the horrific guys — they are uniformly as unshadedly awful as viable — however the tone is a extremely good deal more affectionate. A fascinating and readable romp with a maximum sympathetic hero and full of pleasant magic details.
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