Imagination In Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

Imagination is an important part of growing up for children, and books that explore magical lands encourage the reader to use their imagination and create the world he or she is reading about. From a young age, children use their imagination to create worlds or places to play games. According to the Childtime Learning Center, “[c]hildren today desperately need time and space to develop their creative imaginations free from adult agendas,” This article encourages parents to let their child be creative on their own, whether it would be through reading or creating a world on their own. The article also explores the idea that children not using their imagination are “being fed someone else’s story.” A child’s imagination helps shape them and his

Without imagination, children would not be able to picture Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, or Hogsmeade. These places are similar to our world, but they are located in a world filled with magic. The book starts by following what seems to be a normal family, and follows the husband, Mr. Dursley through his workday, during his day he encounters people dressed in strange clothes, and strange events happen around him. This leads to the introduction of a magical world beneath the surface of our world. The book focuses on a young boy named Harry Potter, and how he survived the attack by the evil wizard, Voldemort. Of course readers do not get the whole story of what happened when Harry’s parents died until the end, but readers are given clues about the magical world from the very beginning of the book. Readers follow Harry’s life throughout the book, and experience magic with him for most of the story. Harry experiences magic for the first time in chapter five on page 85, “Harry took the wand. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wand above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls. Hagrid whooped and clapped…” In the

Of course readers are given small amounts of information about the evil in the world, but as far as the reader knows, the evil has been defeated. Chapter nine of the book is the first time readers are introduced to the trapdoor guarded by the three-headed dog. This leads to a lot of questions about what is being guarded, and why was it important. The storyline of the book is then centered on the trapdoor, and the sorcerer’s stone that is being guarded. When someone tries to break into the trapdoor to get the stone, Harry and his friends believe it to be Professor Snape, as Harry saw him being patched up from what seemed like a dog bite. For the last chapters of the book, readers believe that Snape is bad guy in this story, but when Harry and his friends follow “Snape” down the trap door to protect the stone from being taken, they find out that they were wrong about their suspect. Finding out the Professor Quirrell was the one trying to take the stone, seemed like the biggest reveal of the story, but it was just one of them. When readers’ find out the Voldemort is trying to return, and that he plans to harm Harry when he is back, readers are intrigued by the storyline. Although Quirrell tries to make Harry understand that there was no good and evil in chapter seventeen, “’I met him when I traveled around the world. A foolish young man I was then, full of