The story Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling, has both explicit and implicit themes present in the story. Some explicitly expressed themes are good and evil, with the clash of different groups within the story, mostly between Slytherin House and Gryffindor, because the way the author describes the characters on each side, as well as the ever-present theme of the young and innocent against the old generation which is evil and destructive. There is also implicitly theme of social class antagonism between the families. The level of didacticism in the work is slightly overpowering, with the lesson being that good conquers evil, and it happens multiple times throughout the story. There is still didacticism done properly throughout
