Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Research Paper

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The Magical Writer of the Wizarding World Harry Potter a great story for people through the decades that will never get old. That teaches important lessons to kids and adults on important topics in peoples lifes. By looking at Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone you can see that J.K Rowling includes the themes of friendship and loss due to the influential people she has encountered in her life. J.K Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England. She was raised by her two parents and bounced around from school to school around England. The First school she attended was St. Michaels Primary School in Gloucestershire. She was often teased/bullied like most kids being called “Rowling Pin” starting from the early age …show more content…
In their process of uncovering the truth they find a three headed dog laying on top of a trap door in which they soon get down. After a dangerous encounter with devils snare, a potion testing, and a game of wizard’s chess Harry makes it through to the end. He finds there a teacher there but not the one he expected he found the silent and quivering Professor Quarrel. And unknown to Harry for just a little bit Lord Voldemort is attached to the Professer and desires the Sorcerer’s Stone and expects Harry to get it for him. Without knowing Harry has already acquired the stone when he had looked into the Mirror of Elzmired it had appeared in his pocket. Since he wanted to find it but not use it he had gotten in unlike Lord Voldemort. He defeated Lord Voldemort once again but this time it was by just barely touching him he had started to burn as his spirit escaped it knocked him out. When he awoke he was in the hospital with Professor Dumbledore sitting beside him and told him thank you and how great he was. He went back to the Dursleys the next day for the summer on the train till next year came around then he would be back at Hogwartz for his next adventure.
Rowling started writing Harry Potter on a delayed train ride from Londons Kings Cross to Manchester and during the next five years she outlined the plots for every book and wrote the first book. Platform 9 ¾ was where Rowling had thought of the idea of Harry Potter as she was pulling out of Kings Cross station. That Platform would soon be known all over the world due to it being the platform that Harry and all wizarding students must go to get to Hogwartz in this wonderful book series that people of all ages have

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