Comparison Of Harry Potter And The Sources Stone

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While reading Harry Potter and The Sources Stone made realize how important it is to know who you and who the people are that you can trust. The first book of this wonderful series starts off with an English baby named Harry Potter whose parents died from a mysterious death while he was still in his crib years. As a tragic result of his parents death Harry had to go live with his strict aunt, fat uncle, and spoiled son. Harry hated it there. He wished that he had real friends that treated him right. One day while they were on vacation a giant man named Hagrid showed up to the front door step and told Harry how he was a wizard. Harry was very taken back to this statement but later questioned if he really needed to be living with this horrible …show more content…
While waiting for his letter to come in the mail they went on a trip to the local zoo. There harry used the magic he didn’t know he had and got his cousin trapped in a giant tank with an enormous python. That’s when Harry knew the wizarding world was for him. Once his letter came in he packed his bags and moved out of there as quick as possible. Harry’s new friend Hagrid drove harry to the train station and told him that his platform for the train was 9 ¾ which seemed very odd to harry since he’s never heard of a platform like that. While at the train station he ran into another future wizard named Ron Weasly. Ron would soon find he and harry would be lifelong friends. Both Ron and Harry looked all over the station looking for the strange platform of 9 ¾. They soon realized that the place they were looking for was in a brick wall between platform 9 and 10. To get through the wall they had to charge at it with full speed and they would be able to make it through. As Ron and Harry traveled to Hogwarts they made a new friend named Hermione Granger. Hermione soon found out she would be the smartest of them …show more content…
Harry was deemed “The Boy who lived.” They had given Harry that name because the reason Harry’s parents died was because of Voldemort. While Harry’s parents died Harry was mysteriously the only one who lived. Even though Harry didn’t died Voldemort made sure that he left a mark on him. Literally. Voldemort left a lightning bolt on his forehead. One day Harry was eating a sweet that has old wizards on them. The card he had the wizards name was Flamel who was an alchemist. Flamel had the sorcerer’s stone about 655 years ago. A teacher at Hogwarts named Quirrell who was new was suspicious of Harry having the stone in his possession. To take matters into his own hands Quirrell traps Harry in one of the dungeons under Hogwarts to take back “what was his.” Once Harry realized he was trapped he tried finding a way out running into Quirrell but thought his life was over. After minutes of talking Quirrell took off the head piece he was wearing only to reveal that he had another face on the back of his head. That other face turned out to be Voldemort himself. Harry working his magic was able to defeat Voldemort and send him back to where he came

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