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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling,

Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Start date: December 1, 2015

Finish date: December 31, 2015

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HARRY POTTER ILLUSTRATED

HARRY POTTER ILLUSTRATED
By April (Aprili… · 7 posts · 101 views

last updated Dec 20, 2015 02:51PM

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Jun 15, 2015 Antonio { ManiacWithBooks } rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this book even more the second time. Im so glad i decided to reread it Its an amazing novel and definitely my favorite series. I loved to go with harry in his adventures all over again, bcs its so fun. I definitely recommend this book if you havent read it yet, which is kinda impossible. Yes, i will be rereading the second book in the series, i just dont know when. Hopefully next month

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Dec 13, 2015 Sanni (Book Lion) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-books, favorites, books-as-a-portal-towards-magicland

I love this book! This book is more than witches, wizards and witchcraft. It goes way beyond that! It deals with lost, pain, love, friendship, hatred, enemies, bravery, fear, bullying,...
'He'll be famous - a legend - i wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!' 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!'
Is J.K. Rowling a genius or what??? She did not only write a masterpiece, but has I love this book! This book is more than witches, wizards and witchcraft. It goes way beyond that! It deals with lost, pain, love, friendship, hatred, enemies, bravery, fear, bullying,...
'He'll be famous - a legend - i wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!' 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!'
Is J.K. Rowling a genius or what??? She did not only write a masterpiece, but has successfully predicted the future.
As the story begins, the reader is introduced with a boy named Harry Potter with a lightning scar on his forehead who has lost his parents in “a car-crash” (according to his aunt and uncle). So far, Rowling deals with several themes: lost of parents, lies and torture. Yes, I dare say so! What kind of a human being (regardless of the fact whether that person or people are connected with the individual by blood or not) puts a little boy inside the cupboard under the stairs? Where do I even begin with explaining you the characters of Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and Dursley?
One thing they have in common with every (or almost every) parent is that they would do ANYTHING to satisfy their child (even if it sometimes means spoiling it and making him greedy and bad-humored if things don’t turn out the way he wants them to).

I am so very grateful to Joanne for writing about bullying. We live in the 21st century, but let’s not get carried away, people seem to be downgrading on the scale of evolution. A lot of kids are being bullied nowadays. So, I love Joanne even more for standing up and fighting against it. Cause writing about it brings awareness to people. The book is translated in 77 languages and sold in more than 450 million copies and I believe that people are familiar with the book, or at least, the movie. I can only hope that when kids and adults read/see it, it will point out to them how hurtful it is being bullied and as such they will “ripe-it-off-themselves”.

Yet, another thing I love: the characters evolution through the story, especially Hermione’s. She is a bossy little know-it-all, who is not afraid to stand up to whosoever and is comfortable being who she is. And yes, it means that at the very beginning, Ron and Harry (but especially Ron) disapprove of her and find her annoying. And as if it wasn’t enough that she is the brightest witch of her age, she is a logical one as well (something that is not so common for witches and wizards).
‘Books! And cleverness! There are more important things – friendship and bravery.’
P.S. She consults books for literary EVERYTHING! Need I say how much that makes me admire and love her???
And yes, she is my all time favorite book character!

Oh, and let’s not forget to mention clumsy little Neville and the fact that he goes from being scared and petrified in front of the face of the “bad-guys” (like Malfoy) to being able to stand up against his friends (if that is what it takes to protect them).

How about Hagrid? Ah, my heart melts whenever he enters the scene. His character is like a big huggy bear. He is tall and big, with hair all over his face, but has a good, tender heart.

As, for Harry and Ron… Thank you Rowling for creating them. Thank you for showing us that not all heroes are know-it-all when it comes to standing up against their enemies. Thanks for showing us that true bravery means being scared all the way till facing your deepest nightmare!!!
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Aug 04, 2015 Julia Sapphire rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, 2015, fantasy-urban-fantasy

4.25

I may raise this rating, I want to think about it a little more but for right now, 4.25 is were I am rating this.
This was really great though. I heard as the series goes on the books get darker, because sometimes I found that I just wanted it to be darker. So yes... But this was great!(:

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Dec 30, 2015 Jen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Amazing. This just gets better every time I read it. I have seen the movie so many times and I was actually surprised at how often I was finding small details that were altered for the movie or left out altogether.

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Mar 19, 2018 Jen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-reads

I seem to love these books more with each reread! And each time I still manage to forget about the extra details in the book that were left out or changed for the movie.

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Apr 30, 2019 Abigail Escobar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

¡SORPRENDENTE!
Me ha gustado mucho, he sido fan de las películas por muchos años por lo mismo nunca me quise leer los libros ya que ya había visto las películas, si si soy culpable...
La escritura de la autora es genial y el desarrollo de la historia es ágil, nunca te aburres, la sensación que me provoco es esa añoranza nostálgica de la niñez.
En fin, hay que aplaudir lo fiel de las adaptaciones al libro.

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