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Harry Potter sighed sullenly as he plopped himself on his bed at the sixth year dorms in Gryffindor tower while thoughts about the events that transpired in the few weeks that have passed since the start of his sixth year rushed through his mind. It seems that like every year since he started his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when he was at the tender age of eleven his upcoming sixth year would not be uneventful as he hoped. The raven-haired boy came to this conclusion when Professor Dumbledore himself came to visit him at the Dursleys' during the summer to take him to the Burrow.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire is one of the most successful publications of modern times. Majority of readers and movie watchers like an unlikely hero as portrayed by Harry in the book and the movie. With his broken glasses and skinny frames accompanied by his late learning of the wizard world, Harry comes out as an exceptional hero. His success can be attributed to his courage, good friends and enthusiasm. With his companionable and complex personality he overcomes and triumphs people and creatures much bigger and powerful than him.

The idea of overcoming hardships in life presented in Charlotte Brontë’s novel is also apparent in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stone written by J.K. Rowling. Through the novels’ idea of orphans who overcome hardships in their lives and creating a new and better life for themselves, the author is conveying the message of not giving up and pushing through any negative circumstance. To begin with, an obvious similarity between the novels is the life stories of the two orphaned children. Jane’s father and Harry’s parents died while helping and protecting someone they cared about.

Harry is still only 12 years old and growing up, and in the end he’s a bit worried about some similar traits between him and Voldemort, the most evil wizard during this time. But at page 245 Dumbledore, the headmaster at school tells him that ”It is our choices, Harry, that shows what we truly are, fare more than our

They argue that such themes are not relevant for child readers, who "may be more preoccupied with Harry's use of the Top-Secret Marauders Map to sneak into Hogsmeade, Hermione's use of the Time-Turner to rescue the Hippogriff Buckbeak, the details of the various tests Harry faces as Hogwarts champion, and (for teen readers) Harry's and his friends' preliminary interest in members of the opposite sex." (-----). One such theme which is explored in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the question of the desirability of immortality. A central aspect of the first Harry Potter book is Voldemort's desire to be immortal at all costs, attempting to obtain the philosopher's stone and drinking unicorn blood, even if it means killing pure, innocent creatures and as a result living "a half life, a cursed life" (----).

The Harry Potter series have been an interesting series for me ever since I have enrolled in Professor Fox’s class. I personally have not read any of the Harry Potter series during my childhood, but once I have enrolled in Professor Fox’s class I have recently just finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Throughout my readings of these two books I have had many observations on certain aspects of the story that I would not have noticed when I was younger. These three aspects that I can’t imagine as a child noticing is how the Dursleys abused Harry, the stance on gender, and prejudgement based on appearance.

Harry is brave and fearless. This was Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, and all was going well. Later in the year, however, he learns Voldemort is looking for the Sorcerer’s Stone. A magical object that produces the “Elixir of Life”. While there, he meets Professor Quirrel, the Dark Arts teacher, who in the end is with Voldemort.

Harry’s friends are important parts of the series, and the power of friendship can be seen throughout the series. The three friends conquer numerous challenges in each novel from: winning a game of massive Wizard’s Chess, defeating the Basilisk, saving an innocent man’s life, competing in the Triwizard Tournament, and conquering an evil force known to them as Voldemort. Rowling began the last installment of the Harry Potter series with the following quote from William Penn about friends: “This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal” (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows xi). Without his friends and their relationships, Harry would have never been able to be as successful as he was in defeating

Harry has a different life at his new school, Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his friendship with two good friends named Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. The different