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to. We can see our own reflection in the characters and experience the growth with them. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer?s Stone, is the story of a young boy who finds out he is a wizard. Harry Potter loses his parents when he is one year old. Then his aunt takes him into her family. But Harry Potter does not have a happy childhood there. His aunt and cousin treat him very hard. It a kind of unfortunate. When Harry Potter turns 11 years old, he meets something amazing happens to him. He gets a letter from

know a lot about. For me, that subsection is Harry Potter. While I am quite friendly with many people who are well versed in the fiction and mythology of the book series, I myself have never gone deep into this world of fans. Yet, there is a major group of my fellow students who identify as “Potterheads.” Not knowing a great deal about this community and their ways of interacting with one another, I decided to go to a meeting of Chapman University’s Harry Potter club, the Chapman Marauders to answer

HARRY POTTER—MORE THAN A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON What makes a book a classic? What is it about a book that will have generation after generation reading it? English Literature majors could spend hours theorizing the answers to this question. One series of texts that has received publicity and wide-spread acclaim over the past seven years is the Harry Potter collection. J.K. Rowling could never have possibly imagined how her little book about a boy with broken glasses and a scar on his forehead

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair” (pg 46). The previous passage is a wonderful and tasteful description of the first introduction of Hagrid from J. K. Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This book gives intimate detail and overwhelming amounts of vivid description

Harry Hopkins was one of the many of the social workers who have changed the United States. Hopkins went to New York to become a social worker where he resided there for twenty years and accomplished to help Americans. After the great depression the United States was in a very bad situation where many people seeked hope. This left Americans homeless, jobless, and hopeless. Harry Hopkins alongside president Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed to take part of The New Deal, which provided many relief

In the year 1999 the series of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling were challenged. A year later in the 2000’s it would officially be banned. The reason for its removal was because of some controversial topics such as religion and setting a bad example for children and young adults, but others think otherwise (Maughan). Mainly the parents of the children, who choose to read these series, have questioned Harry Potter. One of the biggest reasons why is because of religion. For those have read the books we

colors of Christmas, and they represent joy and happiness. However, in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, these colors mean something entirely different. The two colors completely contrast, and they represent good and evil. The Harry Potter Series is about a young magician, Harry Potter, who fights the most evil wizard in the world, Voldemort. These two characters are represented by red and green. Red being Harry, and green being Voldemort. Not only do these colors directly represent the

1997, a new children’s author, J.K. Rowling, released a book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and took the world and the wizarding world by storm. The Harry Potter franchise, which later went on to include seven books and eight movie adaptations, tells the story of a young wizard, named Harry Potter, and his rag-tag group of friends as they battle Lord Voldemort and his loyal followers of Death Eaters. The books follow Harry, who at first did not know he was a wizard and had to adapt to

and read in books. Within my own life, one person that stuck out to me was Harry Potter. We are similar to an extent, yet also very different due to our families and friends, situations growing up, and characteristics. Harry Potter had to grow up with his aunt and uncle whereas I grew up with my mom and dad. We had two different lives at home growing up; he was an outsider looking into a family while I was in a family. Harry had no direct family except for his aunt who did not care for him, while

Harry Reid was born on December 2, 1939 in Searchlight , Nevada. Reid grew up in a small cabin with no indoor plumbing or running water. Reid had three other brothers . Reid’s father was a gold miner and his mother did laundry for Searchlight Bullous(Harry Reid). Searchlight was a small town that had no high schools. Reid had to hike forty miles to the next town to attended their high school. After High School Reid attended Utah University to get his B.A. Then Reid went on to get his J.D at George