Book Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Title: Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone Author: J.K. Rowling Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Fantasy Published in: 1997 Rating: 4.5 stars Book Description:

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’. HARRY POTTER has never even heard of Hogwarts when the LETTERS start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in GREEN INK on yellowish parchment with a PURPLE SEAL, they are swiftly confiscated by his GRISLY aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed GIANT of a man called RUBEUS HAGRID bursts in with some ASTONISHING news. Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY. Book Review: Harry Potter is a magical fiction book that is adored by people of all ages. There are seven books in this series. The first one from amongst them is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone. All these seven books have been converted into movies. This Harry Potter book takes you along with it into the magical world of Harry Potter. A boy who has grown up with his aunt and uncle with a whiff of ignorance and prejudice, suddenly discovers on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard! Hard to believe but true. One who hasn't even heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has a place at one of the best magical schools! But this is not all. Aloof from this many mysteries lay hidden, waiting for him. Harry finds his first home and discovers the real joy of friendship. Join Harry along with his mates Ron and Hermione on this incredible journey. Book Excerpt: Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, privet drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion, there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted. But they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs Potter was Mrs Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs Dursley pretended as though she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbours would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a child like that. AudioBook: Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone: https://youtu.be/nIWzWWJUmQE Watch Movie: Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone: https://youtu.be/IpYHbdh9yTM Get Free E-book: To get the free downloadable PDF of this book, subscribe our blog at and email us at bookishwayblog@gmail.com Happy Reading! :)