Harry Potter Dark Truth Essay

Since Harry is very skilled at casting spells and charms, he starts teaching the students how to protect themselves against the dark forces. This makes it easy for the students to learn how to protect themselves, since Harry has first hand experience in

Hermione and Harry help each other with their strengths and abilities. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, Hermione always wanted to do everything by the rules. Sometime during the year, she realized that friendship can be more important. Hermione explains, “ ‘Please, Professor McGonagall –they were looking for me. I went looking for the troll because I –I thought I could deal with it on my own…’ ” (120). For the first time ever, Hermione has lied to a teacher. This begins the turning point where Hermione, Harry,

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

The students were not allowed to ask questions or expand on topics. In this time period, children are encouraged to be curious and explore the world around them. In the novel, the word firemen is raised multiple times. In contrast from today’s society, firemen like Montag illustrated stingy people who burnt books for the government and for their well being. The firemen would start fires, not extinguish them as said here, “Is it true that long ago firemen put out fires out instead of going to start them?” (Bradbury 6). The firemen would start fires to burn the outlawed books, and they would burn the houses of people that kept books hidden. Another contrast from today’s society, is displayed when the firemen had hoses that squirted kerosene rather than water as stated here, “With the brass nozzle in his fists. . . the great python spitting venomous kerosene.” (Bradbury 1) The firemen would use this kerosene to start fires by hosing the books and houses down in kerosene. Today’s firemen use water to extinguish the fires rather than kerosene to begin them. Despite the differences between the societies, there exists one essential similarity being

At the age of eight, Harry would begin attending a public school within Independence. Notably, it appears that his mother sent him five weeks late during his first year. Despite this, his teacher,

Soon after entering Hogwarts, Harry must face a road of trials which will eventually lead him to achieve his unlikely treasure. While roaming the halls after curfew, Harry receives detention in the forbidden forest, and comes face to face with the Dark Lord. Other obstacles come to place when Harry travels down the trap door into the chambers; such as devil’s snare, a human wizard’s chess game, and the room of keys (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). The series of tests make Harry’s mission difficult; however, the knowledge he gains from the unsuccessful trials bring him closer to his main goal. These minor bumps in Harry’s journey strengthen him emotionally and physically, readying him to defeat the traitor at the end of his succession of tests. Unexpectedly, the betrayal comes from the quivering Professor Quirrell who voluntarily gives up his body to the Dark Lord. Harry sees himself in the mirror and realizes he is magically in possession of the Sorcerer’s Stone. Shortly

In the book, Harry, Ron and Hermione go to live at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the school year. Firstly, Harry, Ron and Hermione have to adjust to it because they can not go exploring in the middle of the night and can not go into the Forbidden Forest, exceptionally now that a serial killer is out for Harry Potter. “You know what Harry and Ron are like, wandering off by themselves- they’ve ended up in the Forbidden Forest twice! But Harry mustn't do that this year! (Rowling,65)” Secondly, they know they must be careful because every year seems to bring deadly situations the tree need to overcome to stop Voldemort (the most powerful wizard who is off to kill Harry). They also have to adjust to the wizarding world with spells

Growing up, Harry had no idea who he really was, or who his parents were. He was sent to live with his aunt and uncle after his parents were killed by a wizard named Voldemort. On Harry’s eleventh birthday, he is invited to go to Hogwarts School of magic. He is known as one of the most famous wizards for surviving the attack of Voldemort.

British schoolboy Harry Potter loathes summer vacations. Stuck in his lonely room, forbidden to do anything fun by his ghastly aunt and uncle, the Durstleys, and constantly teased by his obnoxious cousin Dudley, he longs for the schoolyear to start. But Harry doesn't go to just any school -- he attends Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. His adoptive family hates magic and anything to do with it, and finds Harry to be nothing but an embarrassment to them. When Harry accidentally inflates his horrible Aunt Marge into a balloon, he runs away, sure that he will be expelled from his beloved school for the misuse of magic in the Muggle (non-wizard) world. But instead, he receives a mere slap on the wrist and a wizard escort back to school

Harry Potter, a normal 11 year old boy, learns that he is really a wizard and has been accepted into the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft

Harry Potter as a young boy was left on his aunt's doorstep, and was given a scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. He had got scar when someone named Voldemort, tried to murder someone, but ended up failing to do so, and had struck Harry with the killing curse. Harry is the only person to survive the killing curse because of his mother's loving sacrifice. Harry Potter inside of the book gets all these notes from owls that Hogwarts had sent over to invite him to go to the school, but his aunt continues to hide, and rip the notes.

Soon after realizing his legacy that was left over for him by his parents, Harry dreams of attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft where he can learn of the wonders in wizardry, and learn the hidden story of his parents life and death. Harry’s personal life was one that everyone knew about but never spoke about. Just by walking down the street whispers grew of the notorious Potter family, because of this Potter was expected greatly from once enrolled into Hogwarts. School studies did not interest Harry as much as real dark magic did. When together with his two best friends, Hermione and Ron, the three young wizards always found trouble waiting for them among the castle of Hogwarts, from discovering the Sorcerer’s Stone to defeating Lord Voldemort, the three students never at any time experienced a dull moment. Harry, who was always the dominant

The first weekend of the year the third years and older are allowed going to Hogsmeade, wizard village, but Harry couldn’t go because of what happened at his aunt and uncle’s house. While everyone is at Hogsmeade, Harry goes to Professor Lupin’s room to practice defeating the Boggart. After that night on the way back to Gryffindor Tower, the house Harry was placed into, the fat lady, one who guards the tower, was missing because Sirius Black is in the school looking for Harry. Professor Dumbledore made all the students sleep in the great hall where they are all safe and the teachers are watching the door to make sure Sirius Black doesn’t come back. The next visit to Hogsmeade, Harry still can’t go, Fred and George Weasley, Ron’s older twin brothers, show Harry Marauder’s map who was written by Moony, Prongs, Wormtail and Padfoot who were all students at Hogwarts. The twins that the map can lead Harry to Hogsmeade with the secret passages.

Harry tries to locate the diadem and Ron and Hermione who had gone missing. Thinking that the diadem had not been seen in living memory, he speaks with the Grey Lady and surmises that Tom Riddle had learned of the diadem's location from her. Shortly after the battle begins, Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement and meets up with Ron and Hermione, who had disappeared in order to retrieve Basilisk fangs from the Chamber of Secrets to destroy the next two Horcruxes. They re-enter the Room of Requirement, and Ron remembers all about the house-elves in the kitchens. He does not feel that it is right to order them to die. With a clatter, Hermione drops all the basilisk fangs she is holding, and she and Ron share a deep, meaningful kiss, completely forgetting that Harry is there and that there is a war going on. After being reminded, they search the Room of Hidden Things, a version of the Room of Requirement that students have used to hide things like brooms, books, potions, etc, over the centuries. Once they are inside, they are confronted by Malfoy and his sidekicks Crabbe and Goyle. They were waiting by the room of requirement. During a short duel in which Crabbe aims to kill, Crabbe mishandles the Fiendfyre spell, causing a huge fire. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy, and Goyle escape on two old brooms, and the diadem is destroyed by the fire, along with Crabbe. Soon after, Fred and Percy Weasley, who had just came back with his family, are seen duelling with two Death Eaters one of who is Minister. After they defeat them, there is an explosion in the corridor, and Fred is killed, deeply affecting his parents, sister and brothers, as well as Harry and

In the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling Harry starts of in the unfamiliar wizarding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents he is sent of to his aunt and uncle's house as a baby. Harry does not like living with them but eventually at age 12 he gets a letter to attend hogwarts which he will soon find out that he is a wizard. After being sorted into one of the four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin)he gets sorted into gryffindor and finds friends in his house(Ron and Hermione). They have to stick together and work together to defeat him. This leads to one of the themes for this book series being that “You are much stronger when with friends”.