Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Prejudice and its resultant problems are present across many genres. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice showcase how prejudice negatively affects those being prejudiced, as well as those around them. Frankenstein’s creature becomes a killer due to the prejudice of others, Snape misleads Harry Potter and Harry’s friends due to his prejudice, and the entire town in Pride and Prejudice is enveloped in gossip…

In the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone” Harry Potter show these three acts lies, disobedience and curiosity as a bad morality and sanity to learns his surroundings in the world of magics and makes him trust more Ron, Hermione and the school heads. Harry’s journey is doing bad habits to learn loyalty, who is the enemy and protect what’s important to him. Lies makes three of them strong about loyalty. After knocks out the troll Professor McGonagall scolds Harry and Ron, but Hermione…

After five years Rowling finished the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the first book of the series. She had a very hard time finding a publisher for her book. Twelve publishers turned back her manuscript. Finally, Bloomsbury agreed to publish her book, but they asked Rowling to write her initials and last name to attract more male readers. She didn’t have a middle initial so she used the name of her favorite grandmother creating her pen paper J.K. Rowling. After a year the book was…

Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. As the story draws to a close, the ‘Golden Trio’ of Harry, Ron, and Hermione successfully complete their quest – namely to discover and protect the Philosopher’s Stone. In the same manner as The Hobbit, tangible rewards are distributed to our heroes at the completion of this quest; alongside Neville Longbottom, the…

Prejudice and its resultant problems, are present across many genres. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice showcase how prejudice negatively affects those who are being prejudiced, as well as those around them. Frankenstein’s creature becomes a killer due to the prejudice of others, Snape misleads Harry Potter and Harry’s friends due to his prejudice, and the entire town in Pride and Prejudice is enveloped in…

wouldn't make a lot of money from her first book since it was a children’s book (“Biography.” IMDb). Twelve publishers rejected the story of Harry Potter before it was finally accepted (Farr). Bloomsbury Publishing was the publishing house that finally decided to accept the book under their children’s book division. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone began to be published in the United Kingdom during 1997 (Steffens 54). The American publishing rights were then sold to the publishing house,…

Hermione Granger: The Badass Heroine We All Want To Be Let’s face it. Without Hermione Granger, Harry Potter would be a footnote in Voldemort: Rise to Power, and we muggles would be little more than subservient house elves to our magical overlords. Hermione Granger, for anyone who’s been living on Mars for the past two decades, is one of the three central characters in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. If you haven’t read them/seen the movies and plan to, stop reading now and instead check out…

got out of welfare, got over her divorce, and became the 13th richest woman in Britain (richer than the queen). J.K. Rowling had a lot of things that were difficult to get over in her life. She was trying to publish her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" but she got rejected many times (J.K. Rowling). When Rowling first came up with the…

In 1997, nobody knew that the new book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone by J.K. Rowling would change society forever. The first edition was rejected by twelve publishers until Bloomsbury Publishing paid her £1,500, equivalent to $2,247.93 in the United States. Now Rowling herself has a net worth of one-billion dollars and the Harry Potter brand is said to be worth about fifteen-billion dollars (“J.K. Rowling Net Worth”)! The topics that Rowling wrote about caused her…

of J.K Rowling. I. Introduction: Chances are you already know who J.K. Rowling is. Even if you don’t know of her, you probably know of her work. J.K Rowling is the very successful author of the Harry Potter series. But she wasn’t always so successful. II. Body: A. Rowling lived in poverty before Harry Potter 1. Rowling’s mother died in 1990, which inspired J.K.’s writing the most 2. She had a child with her Portuguese husband while living in Portugal 3. She later divorced her husband, was now…