“Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’.”
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his … confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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Love the characters, love the challenges, and love the solutions. And of course — I’ve always loved magic.
I have read this book and have read it to my children, I think their interest in it is partly why it was such fun.
I loved this book and it was an awesome introduction for both Harry and me into this world
Harry is not a hero. This is why I don’t give this books more stars. It is well written and it got a lot of kid’s to read. Harry comes up against problems but you can not says he grows. He reacts to all that is going around him, but he doesn’t become a better person. He is a good guy and he ends a good guy. I was never emotionally invested in him. …
Who doesn’t love a bit of magic? Or a lot of it?!
Well, J.K Rowling, one of my fav authors did a wonderful job with this book.
I feel as if the book was boring a little in the beggening.
-ari
If you have not read this book or it’s series, then I don’t know what you are doing with your life. This book series was everything and more than I could ask for in a book. It has an intense plot with a wide array of fantastic characters that you can just fall in love with effortlessly. I admire how J K Rowling was able to world build so well …
Seriously, has anyone not yet read this book? This is one of the few titles I read every year. Something I started doing when our son was younger. Each time I’m struck by the pure simplicity of the writing. There really is magic woven into each sentence.
Although he begins as a friendless and miserable subject of his family’s torture, Harry Potter was always destined for something greater. It all began with a letter in the mail and fear in his aunt and uncle’s eyes. Soon he meets the groundskeeper of a place called Hogwarts, who tells him that Harry Potter is a wizard.
That is not his only …
My daughter and I read it together and enjoyed it, but we did not think it was amazing, like so many people do. We didn’t.t finish the series because it is very repetitive and we got bored reading Book 5 in the series.
The book that set the world on fire featuring The Boy Who Lived. It’s amazing how one book can change the course of the world, but this one did.
I loved this book! It made me want to go on, and read the rest of the Harry Potter series. At first I was hesitant to read the book, but after my friend recommended it, I finally tried it. Harry Potter is a series about witches and wizards, who go to a school for magic. Though it seems like a children’s book, Harry Potter is entertaining for …
I first read this after seeing several of my “I hate to read” male students carrying it around and opening their copies whenever they had a chance. Then I fell into Harry’s world and read each subsequent one in the series as soon as it came out. Now, I’m be of the first questions I ask of new “I hate to read” kids is, “Have you met Harry?”
Awesome reading!! You will want to keep reading through the series and will not be disappointed.
One of my favorite series of all times! Age old battle of good vs. evil.
The Harry Potter books are some of the best books I’ve read…ever!
C’mon, it’s Harry Potter. If you don’t know these books are wonderful, then I just don’t know what I can do for you. 😉
This book changed my life it affected me as a person it is absolutely wonderful highly recommended I loved the plot the characters I am a huge Potterhead and this is surely my favorite book ever it’s AMAZING!!!!
I enjoyed all of the Harry Potter series. J.K. Rowling has a wonderful sense of fantasy.
Lovely book about friendship. How they develope,. It teaches about trust,about developing our strenghts. It is a good book overall,I Truly loved it. This book allowed our imagination a to soar with possibilities.