the book i have read is ' harry potter and the philospher's stone ' (the first book) by J. K. Rowling, This is a story about Harry Potterand his two new friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley settling down for their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry only to discover that they have a part to play in the downfall of the evil You-Know-Who.
Harry Potter is a shy, self-doubting person who has had to put up with a lot by his only family, his awful aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon and his big cousin Dudley. Poor Harry lost his parents, supposedly in a car crash, when he was a baby and that was when he received the strange lightning-shaped scar across his forehead.Ever since then he has slept in the cupboard under the stairs at the Dursleys' perfectly normal house in Privet Drive and the best thing he has to look forward to is starting at the local secondary school next term - well away from Dudley who bullied Harry at his old school. He will be going to his father's old, expensive school, Smeltings.
other people in the wizardery world know a lot more about Harry than Harry does himself. That lightning-shaped scar is a matter of enormous interest and Harry is about to discover that he has a lot of friends, and enemies, in a rather different kind of world from the one he was brought up in.
This is a book about magic, but there's plenty of reality. Settling into a new school, making friends, learning who to trust and who not to trust and when to obey school rules and when to overlook them. There's a great deal of humour in the book. You might find the magic funny - visit Diagon Alley to purchase all your Hogwart's kit - but there is strong evil magic too and you won't doubt the courage that Harry has to show in the final chapter.
a good part of this book is: chapter two, the vanishing glass, page 27
Harry lay in his dark room much later, wishing he had a watch. he didn't know he didn't know what time it was and he couldn't be sure the dursleys were asleep yet. Untill they were, he couldn't risk sneaking to the kitchen for some food.
he'd lived with the dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever scince he'd been a baby and his parents had died in a car crash. He couldn't remember being in the car when his parents died. Sometimes when he strained his memory during the long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead. this, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn't imagine where all the green light came from. He couldn't remember his parents at all. His aunt and uncle never spoke about them, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. There were no photographs of them in the house.
When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; the Dursleys were his only family. Yet sometimes he thought (or maybe hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him. Very strange strangers they were, too. A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without buying anything. A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word. The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.
At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.
I think this page is very useful as it sums up and reveals what has happened to him the past ten years.
Overall this is a fantastic book and sets your imagination wild i would rate this book a 4/5 because of it's vocabulary and it sets your imagination wild.
publishers write up: Harry potter is an ordinary boy- untill he is rescused by a beetled-eyed giant of a man, enrols at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does a battle in a deadly duel. the reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!
