Meals rarely are included in a novel if they are lacking a crucial reason, so when J.K. Rowling chose in include the description of a so-called “Great Feast” in her first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997), the second chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, written by Thomas Foster, helped make it clear that there was a definite symbolic meaning behind the scene. In his publication, Foster teaches the true reason this type of meal scene was included, bluntly writing that “whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion” (Foster 8). This communion can undoubtedly be identified at the Great Feast. In the first few pages, the novel introduces the protagonist, a young boy named Harry Potter, who has grown up
