Monday, February 19, 2007

Harry Potter Part I: The Sorcerer's Stone

Year 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Series: Harry Potter
Author: J.K. Rowling

Part 1 finally helps me understand the meaning of some of the words used in part 2 like Quidditch (a game), defense against the dark arts, baslik, etc.

Harry Potter escaped a pure evil lord nicknamed "he who must not be named" when he was a baby. All he had left was a lightening shaped scar, which made him famous for wizards. Harry gets hundreds of cards from Hogwarts but the people he lives with don't like wizards and burn all the cards he gets. They move very far away and the wizards still deliver cards.

Then finally a wizard from the school comes to take Harry. He tells him what wizard books he needs and supplies. When Harry goes to Hogwarts he gets sorted into a house. There are 4 houses Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff and Harry gets sorted into Gryffindor. To get inducted he had to sing a song: “Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts……..” Everyone started the welcoming feast. Percy the prefect told everybody inside Gryffindor the password to get into the common room. He whispered “pig snout”.

After a month strange things start happening at Hogwarts and Harry figures out that Prof. Quirell is trying to get the Sorcerer’s stone to make gold. Although before he thought it was Prof. Snape because he was always bad to Harry.

Before Slytherin had won the house cup but then Neville, Harry, Hermoine and Ronald got extra points for guarding the stone. So Gryffindor won the house cup instead.

I liked this book because I was interested in how Harry escaped he who must not be named and got to Hogwarts. I also got lots of ideas for my own book.

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