Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

My book report is on the book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone' by J.K.

Rowling. The main character Harry Potter, discovers that he not an ordinary boy, he is in

fact, a wizard. Harry soon discovers that he is famous, famous for the downfall of a

corrupt wizard, Lord Voldemort. Harry finds out that he has been accepted into a school,

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for young witches and wizards.

While in school, he becomes friends with another wizard named Ronald Weasely and

witch, Hermione Granger. Not to soon after starting school, Harry becomes the youngest

Quidditch Seeker of the century after an incident during flying class. Harry, Ron, and

Hermione discover that Lord Voldemort is trying to get something hidden beneath the

school. The Sorcerers Stone, is a stone created by Nicholas Flammel, the stone was

created to made into a potion for immortality. These three friends think that Professor

Snape is trying to get the stone for Lord Voldemort. Halloween Night, Harry and Ron

fight a troll that was let loose in the castle, we find out later that it was Professor Quirrell

who let him loose. Harry, Ron and Hermione discover that a large three-headed dog

named Fluffy is guarding the Sorcerers Stone underneath a trap door. To get to whoever

was beneath Fluffy, they had to get the dog to fall asleep. Harry played the flute as they

went through the trap door. But when they landed, they discovered they had fallen into

Devil's Snare, a crushing plant. After getting past the first and second task, they came to a

room where they had to fly a broom and catch the right flying key to unlock the door to

the next obstacle. After unlocking the door, they found themselves on a large chessboard.

They had to play through the game in order to move on. They played and they succeeded,

except Ron got hurt, so Hermione and Harry moved on to the next room. They found

seven different shaped bottles and a riddle on a table. They had to find the bottle and

drink the potion that would let them through the last door. Hermione helped solve the

riddle, Harry drank the potion and went through the door. Harry discovers that it was

Professor Quirrell the whole time and that Lord Voldemort had been on the back of

Quirrells head acting as a parasite, trying to keep alive. They get into a large fight, and

Harry en...

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... get the right key to unlock a door, play across a

chessboard, and find the right potion to get passed the flames blocking the door to the

room with the Stone and Professor Quirrell.

The setting of the story is in London. Places like the Leaky Cauldron, Gringotts

Bank, Ollivanders, and other places. Also takes place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft

and Wizardry. Attending classes, making friends, the dining hall, dungeons, and on the

Quidditch Field. The Quidditch field is where certain team members from the houses

compete in a game flown on brooms.

The point of view is told in third person. I think Rowling chose third person to

help show what was going on. To help us understand what was going on with each

person. For more of an in-depth look at the students and teachers so that we know what

they are thinking and feeling.

I thought the book was awesome. I couldn't put it down from the moment I picked

it up. Filled with magic, friendship, loyalty, betrayal, fighting and many twists and turns.

The unexpected happening around every corner. So intriguing that you don't even want to

blink until you're done. I could read it over and over again.