JK Rowling is the author of harry potter and the sorcerer's stone ,and is
a genius in the way
that she sets out storylines which carry you through the books entwining around
the characters and settings. This story introduces us
to Harry Potter, an orphaned boy sent to live with his "horrible"
Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and their fat, obnoxious son, Dudley. Since
Harry's parents were powerful witches before they were killed by an even more
powerful witch, Harry has Generational Witchcraft in his background, making it
very likely that he will be a wizard when he grows up. Vernon and Petunia
know this, and since they hate Witchcraft and anything to do with it, they
determine to try to raise Harry in such a way as to deny him any knowledge of
his parent's proclivities.
Therefore, they do not tell him the truth
of his parent's death, telling Harry they were killed in an auto
accident. They also force Harry to live in a closet underneath the
stairs, even though they have a perfectly good extra bedroom upstairs.
Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia deny Harry any parental love and compassion; in
fact, all through this book, any non-witch folk -- like Vernon and Petunia --
are depicting in disgusting language. Non-witch people are known as Muggles ,
and they are depicting as being "dumber than a box of rocks", of
being physically obscene, and of living the most boring, unimaginative lives
possible. Witches, on the other hand, are depicted as being very smart,
very "with it", of being physically normal, and of living wonderfully
exciting lives, especially when they are in their Fantasy Reality, explained
below.
In a flashback scene to the time 10 years
earlier when Harry's Mom and Dad were psychically murdered by evil Lord
Voldemort on Halloween night, we learn that, instead of Voldemort's curse
killing Harry as it had done to his parents, he was merely permanently scarred
with a lightning bolt right in the middle of his forehead. Of course, a
Christian would be immediately alerted to this turn of events because soon a
supernaturally powerful global leader will demand everyone on earth take some
sort of a mark in exactly this place on the body.
Harry spends his first ten years totally
unaware that he has Witchcraft in his background and that he might possess inherent
"special powers". Suddenly, a letter arrives from the Hogwart
School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, telling Harry that he has been accepted as a
student, and informing him as to when classes begin. Of course, Uncle
Vernon intercepts and destroys the letter. On the next day, two letters
arrive, and Vernon destroys them. On the next day, many more letters
arrive, this time coming in through windows, doors, and cracks. Finally,
after the most stupid flight possible to avoid the letters, enough letters
arrive at the boat on which Uncle Vernon has taken Harry that Harry finally
gets his hands on one of the letters.
Harry is totally dumbfounded with the news
that he is a Wizard, but he has to get free of the physical clutches of Uncle
Vernon and Aunt Petunia. They have Harry on a boat headed for nowhere and
they had every intention of keeping Harry from ever attending Hogwarts
School. However, Harry receives supernatural assistance. A very
huge man suddenly appears on the boat, out of nowhere, and forcibly removes
Harry from the clutches of Uncle Vernon. His name turns out to be Hagrid,
and he is the groundskeeper of Hogwarts School of Wizardry and
Witchcraft.
Soon, Harry finds his way through the
dimensional portal at the train station, and on board the Hogwarts train, on
his way to discovering new friends, and an entirely new, exciting life in the
Fantasy Reality of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Suddenly, Harry finds himself
and his friends in the exciting race to discover the Sorcerer's Stone, the
occult symbol of reaching the final stage in the quest for eternal
life.
By
NIKHIL P SASI
NO : 34
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