devastated. He stares at the locket in his hand that he and Dumbledore stole and realizes that it is not a Horcrux‚ but that inside the locket is a note addressed from someone named “R. A. B.” Harry tells his friends he will not be coming back to Hogwarts next year but instead will search out and kill Voldemort by destroying all of the Horcruxes‚ then Ron and Hermione vow to join
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Exam period during Hogwarts not only includes essays‚ but also other practical tests. "Professor Flitwick called them one by one into his class to see if they could make a pineapple tap-dance across a desk. Professor McGonagall watched them turn a mouse into a snuffbox -- points
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While writing the bestseller Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J.K. Rowling was struggling on welfare in a coffee shop. Like Rowling‚ the heros in her novel are social outcasts. Harry is an orphan; Ron comes from poverty; and Hermione comes from a non-wizard family. Harry grows up in the non-magical world‚ raised by non-magical folk. He is maltreated because he is different‚ and to an extent an uninvited part of the family. The real world exhibits prejudice due to race‚ religion‚ gender and
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Number Four‚ Privet Drive The name of the street where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant‚ the privet bush‚ which makes neat hedges around many English gardens. I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure‚ the Dursleys being so smugly middle class‚ and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. The name of their area is ’Little Whinging’‚ which again sounds appropriately parochial and sniffy‚ ’whinging’ being a colloquial term for ’complaining or whining’
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spoiled‚ while Harry is forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Letters begin arriving for Harry from Hogwarts but Mr. Dursley keeps hiding them. After fleeing to a deserted island house‚ Hagrid finds them and tells Harry about his powers. The next day‚ Hagrid takes Harry to London to shop for school supplies. A month later‚ Harry goes to the train station and catches his train to Hogwarts on track nine and three quarters. On the train‚ Harry meets his new best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione
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"Severus! What is she still doing up her nap was supposed to be an hour ago!" Lily scolded her husband as she walked into her home in Godrics Hallow and saw her husband and their year-old child lying on his chest watching a quiditch game Severus smirked as he shut the television and walked up to his slightly angry wife and gave her a peck on the lips. “What is she still doing up.” Lily said looking towards her baby who was snuggled up close to her Daddy’s chest “She didn’t want to sleep
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The Harry Potter universe is a magical one filled with strange and unbelievable things. Among these things are the magical creatures strew throughout the series. Some of these creatures are peaceful or helpful to Harry‚ while others are the very opposite. ”Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land‚ there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk‚ known also as the King of Serpents.This snake‚ which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years‚ is born from
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words on the page; it’s another to have those images backed up by a multi-million dollar Hollywood budget. And from the gripping very first sight of an owl perched on the Privet Drive road sign to the cheeky happily ever after closing shot of the Hogwarts Express pulling away from the station with the majestic school sitting high on the hills behind‚ we know that every golden galleon has been well spent. Thriving on audience recognition; is why this faithful adaptation won’t fail to win over the book’s
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many super-natural figures. According to Albus Dumbledore‚ the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry‚ “‘[p]hoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes’” (Rowling‚ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 207). Dumbledore refers to the usual grandeur of the phoenix and his
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allowed him to combat an abusive upbringing and maintain a normal development. Although Harry does not necessarily qualify as a resilient child‚ he embodies several characteristics of one and attracts numerous adult mentors throughout his time at Hogwarts that play important factors in his successful development. Observing loving interactions between his parents while they were still alive and then later seeing his aunt and uncle‚ Vernon and Petunia Dursley’s loving
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