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    While writing the bestseller Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J.K. Rowling was struggling on welfare in a coffee shop. Like Rowling, the heros in her novel are social outcasts. Harry is an orphan; Ron comes from poverty; and Hermione comes from a non-wizard family. Harry grows up in the non-magical world, raised by non-magical folk. He is maltreated because he is different, and to an extent an uninvited part of the family. The real world exhibits prejudice due to race, religion, gender and

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    1a. Harry Potter and the Soccer’s Stone. In the movie the external conflict was between Harry Potter, Professor Quinn, and Voldemort. Professor Quinn is looking for the stone when Voldemort tells him Harry knows where it is. Then Professor Quinn ask Harry where the stone is and Harry looks into the magical mirror is sees that he has the stone in his pocket but tells Professor Quinn nothing. Then Quinn comes at Harry to attacked him but Harry puts his hands up and touches Quinn and he burns. Harry

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    take a different perspective on the view of the world. Three novels show how easily individual choices made out of fear can lead to a repressive government like that of Nazi Germany. The first two novels The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, act as a warning, to show the dangers of a repressive social system and how individuals are conforming out of fear in exchange for stability. The end result is a world with no individuality and free

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    published a series book from 1997 to 2005, which it becomes one of the best selling fiction books in history called Harry Potter. When the book came out for the first time, its story had increased an attractive in reading among people, especially the young adults. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is a first story in a series of the seven books to display about a strong friendship between Harry and several characters happening at Hogwarts because this aspect allows him to ultimately face his battle against

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    ` Read Around The Genre: Wizards and Witches Rowling, J.k, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets -Fiction Whooo! I just finished my first book for Read Around The Genre! That's how I felt this whole entire time writing this summary. O.K., let's get into this summary. Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets is had a lot of things happening and some reveals., well actually all the books have that. Some of the main highlights were that Ginny started attending Hogwarts and opened the Chamber

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    The character I found most intriguing in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was Regulus Black. Regulus Black was the younger brother of Sirius Black, and was quite a minor character in the Harry Potter series. His first appearance was in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, also written by J. K Rowling, in which Sirius showed Harry the Black Family tree. Sirius regarded Regulus negatively, quoted as saying, “…his idiot brother, soft enough to believe [their dark wizard parents]…

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    Harry Potter is the title character in J.K. Rowling's popular series of novels for young adults. In the first book of the series, called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Potter is a ten year old orphan who lives with his mean Muggle uncle and aunt, and their bully son Dudley. Muggles are non-magical people: people who are not born with the natural talents of witchcraft and wizardry as Harry is. Harry's biological parents were famous wizards, who were killed by the evil Voldemort. Voldemort

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    Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowlings and Booked by Kwame Brown are very similar. In Harry Potter, Harry just found out he is a wizard and goes to hogwarts. He make a friend on the train named Ron and both get chosen into house gryffindor. They find out that that there teacher Snape is stealing the sorcerer’s stone and they try to stop him. In Booked by Kwame Alexander. Nick finds out his parents are getting divorced and this shocks Nick’s world. But He has his friends help him through

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    (insert good introduction here). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a good fantasy because it has mythological creatures, an evil force with great magic powers, and some kind of journey that the main character must endure. Mythological creatures are quite common in fantasy movies. When watching a fantasy movie many of the creatures/characters included in the movie are not common in the real world. Mythological creatures are certain beings that don’t actually existence only in an alternate world

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    One of my favourite favourite book series is ”Harry Potter” series.I always liked sci-fiction books and also movies and since I was a child I was interested in magic and supranatural.J.K Rowling is a contemporary writer who has reached a big succes with ”Harry Potter” series.What I like the most about these novels is her fine sense of detailing what is need to be detailed even though it always exists the risk that the reader may become bored if there is no action in the story.She knew thsat, and

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