Philosopher's stone

He's coming back home one day from the grocery store when he hears a meow and when he looks down there's a tiny fluffy white kitten looking at him from between the bushes. He snorts and thinks that Harry would love that innuendo as he kneels down on the floor. The kitten takes a few steps back but keeps looking at him. "Are you hungry?" He asks with a baby voice. "I only have bread and milk with me now, I'm not sure I should give this to you." Meow. "Right." He looks around and sees no…

In the novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling uses characterization to show the amount of loyalty that several of the characters have towards Harry Potter, and to prove that sometimes friends, even those thought to be enemies, can sometimes be more loyal than one’s own blood. J.K. Rowling shows the loyalty that Harry Potter’s friends have towards him through characters like Albus Dumbledore, Ron Weasley, and Dobby. Rowling also shows that even those who are understood to be…

In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the setting takes place in a magical world in London, England where the main characters attend a school named Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the film numerous characters and moments embody the theories Malory Nye point out in his book Religion: The Basics. Essentially, rituals and beliefs are prevalent in this film and the use of the theories can analyze such things. Examining Harry Potter using Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of…

Friendship Since J.K Rowling wrote the world of Harry Potter children all over the world have been fascinated with this imaginary world. The world of Harry Potter is filled with lots of magic, spells, wizardry, and magical wands, the world is a fantasy. The series is for children and kids of all ages, and they have taken this world and embraced it. Rowling created a magical world but in creating this world she also created learning aspects that some find as fundamentals for children to learn.…

nor the joy of companionship; it 's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship”-Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the story Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone by Jk Rowling, many friendships are woven together to tell an amazing tale of intrigue and adventure. Three specific friendships define the novel and are developed through the characters: Harry Potter, an abandoned young orphan; Ron Weasley, an…

Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. As Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has shown us, love is only truly beautiful when it includes the key element of respect and mutual improvement. In the well known Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, she unveils two spellbinding relationships between the main characters: Hermione Granger with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter with Ginny Weasley. Their bond is present from the first book to the last. Though J. K. Rowling has expressed…

While writing is painful, agonizing, and time-consuming work it is all worth it once the words pull together to create a story. I had only realized the joys of writing in my senior year of high school. It was only after hundreds of intellectually stimulating conversations with books. Conversations that took me into lands of imagination; eventually sending me off to write stories and essays of my own that led me to appreciate literature as a whole. The love of literature is a slow nourishing bond…

himself. The sacrifice Aslan makes to save Edmunds life represents the sacrifice Jesus made to save humankind. Having a central figure like Aslan represent Christ makes a huge impact on the books religious standpoint. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, there is no obvious representation of Christ as Aslan was in his novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Though this may be not a complete dismissal of the novels being religious, it helps…

My mom taught me how to read and writer and I ended up switching my name School started and I was able to sound things out phonetically but my spelling and handwriting were ass I later figured out that reading bigger books could help me become better with literacy so I jumped from Geronimo Stilton to Harry Potter I got a literacy handbook in my English class in high school that I still keep with me to help me remember key concepts I’m terrible at 3rd person writing and making things unbiased…

When the world consists of the sand box in the backyard, the park down the road, the elementary school classroom, and maybe a couple local grocery stores, it’s easy to ignore the injustice in the world. Children are often removed from the realities of discrimination. However, JK Rowling sought to first address discrimination and then take a clear stance against discriminatory practices in her Harry Potter book series. By embarking on this mission on behalf of her readership, Rowling impacted the…