Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…

Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, and John Tiffany’s playwright Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows up on the wizarding world and Harry Potter’s life. Throughout this intriguing story, Harry and Ginny’s youngest son, Albus Severus Potter, and his best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, attempt to rebel against Harry and his past. A conversation between Harry and Amos Diggory sparks an idea in the two boys that Cedric Diggory, a boy who was previously murdered by Voldemort, shouldn’t have been killed and…

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an outstanding movie! There was tons of action, the magical creatures looked very realistic, and the movie had amazing actors! In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione quest to find the heir of Slytherin. For the heir has opened the chamber and muggle borns of Hogwarts are being found petrified, forcing them to close the school. In the end, Harry is able to get into the chamber and defeat the basilisk, who was responsible…

Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts more isolated from others than ever before. After witnessing the murder of his classmate and the rebirth of Voldemort, Harry is sent back to live with the Dursleys at the end of the school year. When we see Harry for the first time in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix he is once again alone, in the bushes outside of the Dursley's home (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix pg 3). Harry has received very little information from his friends about…

In both Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Star Wars our protagonists Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker can each be considered a “chosen one” due to their characterizations. Each creator has followed a similar framework that structures their emergence to becoming a chosen one which results in noticeable parallels between the two. Neither of the boys have a comprehensive understanding of their own history, as they are both considered orphans who were raised by extended family, they also…

J.K. Rowling is a famous author that wrote many award winning book series. One of these series is the famous Harry Potter series. Also J.K. Rowling is a single jobless mother with a daughter when she was writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Shields 40). Her life, divided into three parts, consists of before and during university, after university, and during Harry Potter. The first part of J.K. Rowling’s life is before and during university. In a hospital, near the city of…

Kathleen Rowling wrote the Harry Potter Series; the beloved book of Harry Potter also helped her to progress through her hard times by providing a source of safety by living through her book. After she wrote Harry Potter, the genre of fantasy was improved. Books such as Twilight, Hunger Games, and Divergent came out at a later date("J. K. Rowling", 2000). Rowling published her first Harry Potter book The Philosopher's Stone in 1997 when she was 32. The Philosopher’s Stone was a popular book…

statement: The human nature to engage in prejudice and it leading to problems detriment to certain characters is present across many genres, despite their vast differences. More specifically, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice display the human nature that is prejudice. Topic sentence: The novel Frankenstein displays prejudice, which is something that all humans possess, towards the monster through…

RQ: How is the feminism reflected in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? Hypothesis: It is reflected by describing the scene of gender equality and creating female characters. Working Topic: Feminism in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Topic outline I. Introduction II. The embodiment of gender equality A. Female’s status a) Female’s family status b) Female’s social status B. Women’s right a) Educational right b) Reproductive right III. The creation of positive female images A.…

The first mythological reference that provides a new perspective for the reader to look at the story from is when Dumbledore mentions in the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to not enter the 3rd floor because it is extremely dangerous and might lead to their deaths. But when Harry and his compatriots find themselves in the out-of-bounds corridor by mistake, they come face-to-face to a three-headed monstrous dog guarding what it seemed like a trapdoor, drooling from all his mouths. (PS, p…