Harry Potter

BY: MUHAMMAD WAJID SIPRA

 About the Author
So basically if we talk about the book our first thought goes to its author that who is
the mastermind that wrote this book. The Author’s is known by many people as J.K
rowling. So basically these are some of the information about her and her life.
• Her real name is Joanne Rowling. She is is a British author, philanthropist, film
producer, and screenwriter.
• Her famous Harry potter series has won multiple awards and sold more than
500 million copies and is the best selled book in the history.
• She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher
and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived
the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to
London.
• Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage
her name was Joanne Rowling. Her publishers asked that she use two initials
rather than her full name, anticipating the possibility of the target audience of
young boys not wanting to read a book written by a woman.
Main theme of the book
The main theme of the book is the Value of Humility. Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone emphasizes the virtue of
humility by showcasing the extraordinary modesty of its hero
and by making this modesty an important part of Harry’s
success in obtaining the Philosophers Stone also, known as the
elixir of life. Harry’s humility is no doubt ingrained in him
during his ten miserable years of neglect and cruelty with the
Dursleys. But Harry does not stop being humble when he
gains fame, wealth, and popularity at Hogwarts. His reaction
to the discovery that everyone seems to know his name on the
train to Hogwarts does not make him primp and pose, but
rather only makes him hope that he can manage to live up to
his reputation.
Main Characters
Harry Potter
Harry James Potter was born on 31 July 1980, at Godric's Hollow in the West
Country, England. He was born to lily and James potter. He lived his life
normally until Voldemort who had heard a prophecy about a kid who would
be his rival is born in Godric Hollow and that it was harry. Voldemort sets out
to kill him. He kills all of Harry’s family but is unable to kill harry as his
mother put a protective charm and died to save him. This made the killing
curse backfire and hit Voldemort himself. This incident of his life was very
important as it got him very famous. As, he was the first boy to have survived
the killing curse and made Voldemort vanish. However, Harry knew none of
this as he was given to his muggle uncle and aunt, that wanted harry to never
become a wizard. However, he founds out all of this when Rubeus Hagrid, the
keeper of key at Hogwarts, come to give him his letter of admission to
Hogwarts. In Hogwarts he was very famous however, he did not like it as it
reminded him of what he lost at godric hollow. There he again fought
Voldemort and defeated him again by preventing him from using the elixir of
life , the philosopher stone.
 RONALD WEASLEY
Ronald Billius Weasley was an English pure-blood wizard, the sixth and youngest
son of Arthur and Molly Weasley. Ron began attending Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. Ron began
attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 at the customary
age of eleven. He was Sorted into Gryffindor House, like every other Weasley. On
his first trip on the Hogwarts Express, Ron met and became friends with the famous
wizard Harry Potter. Harry let him share his carriage on the Hogwarts Express and
purchased a large amount of wizarding snacks from the Hogwarts Express food
trolley to share with him. Later on, Harry would stand up for Ron against Slytherin
bully Draco Malfoy and Ron would elect to be his second for a midnight duel. He
also helped harry to keep the philosopher’s stone from Quirrel.
 Hermione Granger
Hermione Jean granger was a muggle born and was born to two dentists. At the age
of eleven, she learned about her magical nature and was accepted into Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hermione began attending Hogwarts in 1991
and was Sorted into Gryffindor House. She possessed a brilliant academic mind
and proved to be a gifted student in almost every subject that she studied.
Hermione first met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley aboard the Hogwarts Express,
who found her unfriendly and somewhat of an "insufferable know-it-all", an
impression reinforced by her constant correct answers and eagerness to please the
professors. However, she stepped in to take the blame from the boys after they had
saved her from a troll on Hallowe'en in 1991, surprising them in a grateful way,
which led to them quickly becoming friends. She later played a crucial role in
protecting the Philosopher's Stone from Voldemort.
Draco Malfoy
Draco Lucius Malfoy was a British pure-blood
wizard and the only son of Lucius and Narcissa
Malfoy (née Black). The son of a Death Eater,
Draco was raised to strongly believe in the
importance of blood purity. He attended Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1991-
1998 and was sorted into Slytherin House. During
his years at Hogwarts, he became friends with
Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Pansy Parkinson,
and other fellow Slytherins, but he quickly
developed a rivalry with Harry Potter.
Rubeus Hagrid
Hagrid attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in
1940 and was sorted into Gryffindor house. In Hagrid's third year,
he was framed by Tom Riddle for the crime of opening the Chamber
of Secrets and using his pet Acromantula to attack several Muggle-
born students and eventually kill one of them. Though Hagrid's
wand was snapped and he was expelled, he was trained as
gamekeeper of Hogwarts and allowed to live on the school grounds
at the request of Albus Dumbledore.
 Summary of the story
Ten-year-old Harry Potter is an orphan who lives in the fictional London suburb of Little Whinging, Surrey, with the Dursleys: his uncaring Aunt Petunia, loathsome
Uncle Vernon, and spoiled cousin Dudley. The Dursleys barely tolerate Harry, and Dudley bullies him. One day Harry is astonished to receive a letter addressed to
him in the cupboard under the stairs (where he sleeps). Before he can open the letter, however, Uncle Vernon takes it. Letters for Harry subsequently arrive each day,
in increasing numbers, but Uncle Vernon tears them all up, and finally, in an attempt to escape the missives, the Dursleys go to a miserable shack on a small island.
On Harry’s 11th birthday, a giant named Hagrid arrives and reveals that Harry is a wizard and that he has been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry. He also sheds light on Harry’s past, informing the boy that his parents, a wizard and a witch, were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort and that Harry
acquired the lightning-bolt scar on his forehead during the fatal confrontation. Upon arrival at the school, the students are sorted into one of four houses—Gryffindor,
Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. Harry ends up in Gryffindor, and during his eventful first year at Hogwarts he becomes close friends with two other members of
the house, Ron Weasley, who comes from an old wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, whose parents are Muggles (those who are not magical). Harry also finds
that he has an enemy in Draco Malfoy (Slytherin). In addition, Harry’s prowess in flying on a broomstick makes him a star of Gryffindor’s Quidditch team. Hoping
to get Harry and his friends into trouble, Draco tricks them into leaving their rooms one night, a violation of school rules. While trying to avoid being caught, they
discover a three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor. Harry gradually comes to the conclusion that Professor Snape, who teaches Potions, dislikes him intensely and is
trying to get hold of whatever is behind the trapdoor. Harry receives his father’s cloak of invisibility as a Christmas gift, and, while exploring under the cloak’s cover,
he finds the Mirror of Erised, in which he can see his parents. Later, headmaster Albus Dumbledore explains that the mirror shows the viewer’s deepest desire.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione deduce that the treasure under the trapdoor is the Philosopher’s Stone, which can transform metal into gold and can also confer
immortality. They later discover that Voldemort has been killing unicorns in the Forbidden Forest and drinking their blood, another way to achieve immortality. The
trio comes to believe that Snape is in league with the evil wizard. After learning that Hagrid revealed the secret way to lull the three-headed dog to sleep to a
suspicious stranger, whom they believe to be either Snape or Voldemort, they are certain that the Philosopher’s Stone is in danger. The three classmates use the cloak
of invisibility on a secret mission to get the Stone themselves to keep it from Voldemort. After getting past the dog and defeating various protective spells, Harry
reaches the room in which the Stone is hidden and is surprised to find the perpetually nervous Professor Quirrell there. Quirrell fails to figure out how to retrieve the
Stone from the Mirror of Erised (the final protective measure) and forces Harry to try. When standing in front of the mirror, wishing only to protect the Stone and not
use it for himself, Harry feels the Stone’s weight in his pocket but refuses to tell Quirrell that he has it. Quirrell unwraps his turban, revealing Voldemort’s face on the
back of his head. Voldemort explains that he has been sharing Quirrell’s body until he can get to the Stone and become fully alive again, and Voldemort/Quirrell and
Harry fight for possession of the Stone, until Harry blacks out. He awakens in the infirmary and learns that Dumbledore saved him, the Stone is to be destroyed, and
Voldemort
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