Harry Potter has been a phenomenon for many years now. J.K. Rowling is a very passionate writer and very descriptive. Harry Potter in her stories is like a symbol of J.K. Rowling herself. She shows a lot of emotion in all her writing. J.K Rowling has been through a lot of situations in her lifetime, she has transformed them into the character Harry Potter. In the book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry is a symbol of J.K. Rowling in her childhood life.
In the Story “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, J.K. Rowling expresses many feelings about the characters and also about how Harry Potter feels about his mother's death:
“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin,” (Rowling 299).
Harry Potters mom died in the story and J.K. Rowling shows much emotion with this subject. Around the time J.K. Rowling started writing the book her mother died, it had a very devastating impact on Rowling's life. She …show more content…
Rowling shows many different ways of Harry being just like her. For instance, J.K. Rowling did a lot of traveling and commuting on trains from places like Portugal to the U.K. In “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Harry travels to hogwarts, that’s where the wizards live, he enjoys doing this because it is a way to escape from his aunt and uncle. “Er - I need to be at King’s Cross tomorrow to - to go to Hogwarts,” (Rowling 89). Harry travel back and forth many times to Hogwart’s, just like J.K. Rowling had done when she had been traveling from the U.K. to all over, then back to the U.K.. Rowling had travel to the U.K. to attend School and become a teacher which Harry in the story had done to attend Hogwarts