The Early Life of Harry Potter
Uploaded by sls465 on Apr 18, 2007
The Early Life of Harry Potter
Have you ever dreamed of saving a prince or princess? Dreamed of a land of magic and wonder or ever thought you had magical powers that you are not fully aware of? Well if you have you might want to look in the exciting and magical book Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone. “After reading this entrancing fantasy, readers will be convinced that they, too, could take the train to Hogwarts School, if only they could find Platform Nine and Three Quarters at the King's Cross Station (School Library Journal).” This book will take you through the life a small boy named Harry Potter and his quest to understand himself and his journeys at Hogwarts school of Wizardry. The book will show his battle with the Dursleys and his cousin Dudley, and with an arrogant boy at school named Draco Malfoy. At the end he will untimely have to face the very person that killed his parents and tried to kill him, but you will need to read the book to find this out. This book can be classified as a quest because in this book Harry does not fully understand himself, his past, and what he truly will become. Harry also battles between the forces of good and evil; Harry also has a desired goal for himself that he must reach.
The opening of this book is when Harry is just a baby, right after the evil dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, killed his parents. Albus Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Hagrid took the infant Harry to his aunt and uncle, the Dursleys, house where he grew up for 11 years not knowing that his parents were murdered, and that his parents were both a witch and a wizard. Since both of Harry’s parents were magical he also is a wizard but he does not know this un-till his eleventh birthday. Strange things happen to Harry when he was a child that nobody could explain why these strange things would happen. One time when Harry received a hair cut that made him look hideous he was afraid to go to school the next day, but by the time he woke up the next morning his hair was back to its original uncut shape. Another time he was at the zoo with the Dursleys for...