Sorcerer's Stone Symbolism

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Main characters in JK Rowling’s The Sorcerer’s Stone
The characters of the novel possess qualities that symbolize history and have important hidden meanings. Symbolism plays a big role in the novel.
“J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles dominated the fiction hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists in 2000 at Barnes & Noble's superstores” (“Potter”). Harry Potter, being the focus of the novel, “represents a new soul force in the seeker who wants to go the Path of Alchemical Transformation resulting in total liberation” (Hans). The novel has many symbolic meanings, “Yet the popularity of the Harry Potter books actually has everything to do with our symbolizing tendency itself” (Siegel). JK Rowling uses many styles of writing, especially with

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