Oct 18 2009
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, a review
So this was a re-read for me but hey, what the heck. Right now, my life won’t let me focus on anything BUT re-reads like Harry Potter! The story is simple enough and starts simply enough. Harry Potter is orphaned as an infant by Voldemort - He Who Shall Not be Named to most of the wizarding folk - and is brought to live with his aunt’s family. The Dursleys are a non-wizarding, Muggle family who live on Privet Drive. Harry is offered a spot at Hogwarts, the school that his parents attended, because he apparently will follow in their footsteps into the wizarding world. On his first night in Hogwarts, he is sorted into Gryffindor and within his first month, he has two best friends (Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger), becomes the seekr of the House’s Quidditch team, and realizes that there is a mystery surrounding one of the wings of the castle, which stands protected by a three headed dog named Fluffy.
The last few days of reading this novel were really entertaining. Ms. Rowling provided me with an escape - that involved simple reading and some predictability but a wonderful, escapist world. The character development was very, very subtle; however you could tell that the characters had changed immensely if you compared the people that they had become at the end to the people that they were at the beginning. The book moved very quickly and had a pretty decent, if somewhat predictable plot (but maybe that’s because I know all of the Harry Potter books and movies so well by now). The shortness and quickness of the chapters make this a good book to read to young children (OK maybe not your toddlers) at bedtime.
I generally thought that this book was a good first time or re-read.
Book 70/100
