CONDELIZA JEWEL S.

ESPIRITU

HARRY POTTER
and the Philosopher’s Stone
A BOOK REVIEW

HOME AUTHOR CHARACTER SETTING PLOT LESSONS

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AUTHOR

J.K.
ROWLING
-Born in Yate, England, on July 31,1965.

-Real name is Joanne Rowling. The ‘K’

stands for Kathleen, her paternal
grandmother’s name.
- Creator of the Harry Potter fantasy
series, one of the most popular book and
film franchises in history.

- She  first had the idea for Harry

Potter while delayed on a train travelling
from Manchester to London King's Cross
in 1990. Her books were highly inspired by
mythology and her favorite books and
plays.
SETTINGS
 MUGGLE WORLD
 The Dursley's House in Surrey

 WIZARDING WORLD
 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry
 Diagon Alley
 Forbidden Forest
 The Quidditch Pitch
 Hagrid's Hut
 Hogwarts Express
GENRES

Fantasy
Children Literature
Adventure
Quest
CHARACTERS

HARRY
POTTER
PROTAGONIST

- A. K.A. 'The Boy Who Lived‘

- a half-blood wizard who grew up with

Muggles and studied at Hogwarts in
Gryffindor House.
CHARACTERS

THE
DURSLEYS
ANTAGONISTS

-the Muggles that took in Harry Potter

after Voldemort killed his parents.
-Petunia Dursley (née Evans) was the
older sister of Harry's mother, Lily Potter
(née Evans), but took the surname Dursley
when she married Vernon Dursley. They
had a son named Dudley.
CHARACTERS

DRACO
MALFOY
ANTAGONISTS

-a pure-blood wizard in Harry Potter's

year belonging in the Slytherin House.
CHARACTERS

PROFESSOR
SNAPE
ANTAGONISTS

- professor of Potions at Hogwarts.

CHARACTERS

PROFESSOR
QUIRRELL
ANTAGONISTS

-is the Defence Against the Dark Arts

teacher at Hogwarts during Harry Potter's
first year.
CHARACTERS

VOLDEMORT
ANTAGONISTS

-A. K. A. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

- a half-blood wizard who is known to

be the most powerful dark wizard of all
time.
CHARACTERS

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS HERMIONE

GRANGER

- a brilliant muggle-born witch sorted

into Gryffindor.
CHARACTERS

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS RONALD

WEASLEY

-a red-haired wizard from the Weasley

family who is also sorted into Gryffindor.

-Harry Potter's best friend.

CHARACTERS

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

HAGRID

- a giant who works as a

groundskeeper at Hogwarts.
CHARACTERS

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

DUMBLEDORE

- the kind, wise Headmaster of

Hogwarts and the most powerful in the
wizarding world.
PLOT SUMMARY
-> Harry Potter has been living an
ordinary life, constantly abused by his
surly and cold aunt and uncle, Vernon
and Petunia Dursley and bullied by their
spoiled son Dudley since the death of his
parents ten years prior.
-> His life changes on the day of his
eleventh birthday when he receives a
letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, delivered by a
half-giant named Rubeus Hagrid after previous letters had been destroyed by
Vernon and Petunia.
-> Hagrid details Harry's past as the son of James and Lily Potter, who were a
wizard and witch respectively, and how they were murdered by the most evil and
powerful dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, which resulted in the one-year-
old Harry being sent to live with his aunt and uncle.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Voldemort was not only unable to kill Harry, but his powers were also destroyed in
the process, forcing him into exile and sparking Harry's immense fame among the
magical community.

-> Hagrid introduces Harry to the

wizarding world by bringing him to
Diagon Alley, a hidden street in London
where Harry uncovers a fortune left to
him by his parents at Gringotts Bank,
receives a pet owl, Hedwig, school
supplies, and a wand. There, he is
surprised to discover how famous he truly
is among witches and wizards.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> On the train, he quickly befriends fellow first-year Ronald Weasley

and the two boys meet Hermione Granger, whose snobbiness and
affinity for spells initially causes the two boys to dislike her.

-> There, Harry also makes an enemy of yet another first-year, Draco
Malfoy, who shows prejudice against Ron for his family's financial
difficulties.

-> Arriving at Hogwarts, the first-years are assigned by the magical

Sorting Hat to Houses that best suit their personalities, the four
Houses being Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Harry hears from Ron about Slytherin's dark reputation which is known to
house potential dark witches and wizards, and thus objects to being sorted
into Slytherin despite the Hat claiming that Harry has potential to develop
under that House.
-> He winds up in Gryffindor with Ron and Hermione, while Draco is sorted
into Slytherin like his family before him.
-> As classes begin at Hogwarts,
Harry discovers his innate talent for
flying on broomsticks despite no
prior experience, and is recruited
into his House's team for Quidditch as
a Seeker.
PLOT SUMMARY
-> He also comes to dislike the school's Potions master, Severus Snape, who
is also the Head of Slytherin House who acts with bias in favour of members
of his House while perpetually looking for opportunities to fail Harry and his
friends.

-> Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into a duel in the trophy room to get them out
of their rooms at night and secretly tells Filch, the school's caretaker, where
they will be.

-> Hermione unintentionally is forced to come along after her failed attempts
to stop them, and they find Gryffindor student Neville Longbottom asleep
outside the common area because he had forgotten the password to get in.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> After realizing the duel was a set-up to get them in trouble, they run
away. They then discover a huge three-headed dog standing guard over
a trapdoor in a forbidden corridor.
-> The school's Halloween celebrations are interrupted by the entrance
of a troll into the school, which enters the girls' bathroom where
Hermione was. However, she is saved by Harry and Ron and, as a
result, Hermione is grateful and the three become best friends.
-> Coupled with Snape's recent leg injury as well as behaviour, the
recent events prompt Harry, Hermione and Ron to suspect him to be
looking for a way to enter the trapdoor.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Hermione forbids the boys from

investigating for fear of expulsion,
and instead makes Harry direct his
attention to his first ever Quidditch
game, where his broomstick begins
to lose control and threatens to
throw him off.

-> This leads Hermione to suspect that Snape had jinxed Harry's
broom, due to his strange behaviour during the match.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> After the excitement of winning the match has died down,
Christmas arrives and Harry receives an invisibility cloak from an
anonymous source claiming that the cloak belonged to Harry's
father.

->Using the cloak to explore the school at night to investigate

what is under the trapdoor, he discovers the Mirror of Erised, in
which the viewer sees his or her deepest desires come true.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> A visit to Hagrid's hut at the foot of the school leads the trio to find a
newspaper report stating there had been an attempted robbery of a
Gringotts vault—the same vault that Hagrid and Harry had visited
when the latter was getting his school supplies.
-> A further indiscretion from Hagrid allows them to work out that the
object kept under that trapdoor is a Philosopher's Stone, which grants
its user immortality as well as the ability to turn any metal into pure
gold.
-> Harry is also informed by a centaur named Firenze in the forest that
a plot to steal the Stone is being orchestrated by none other than
Voldemort himself, who schemes to use it to be restored back to his
body and return to power.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Climax: When the school's

headmaster Albus Dumbledore is
lured from Hogwarts under false
pretences, Harry, Hermione and Ron
fear that the theft is imminent and
descend through the trapdoor
themselves.

-> They encounter a series of obstacles, each of which requires unique

skills possessed by one of the three, one of which requires Ron to
sacrifice himself in a life-sized game of wizard's chess.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> In the final room, Harry, now alone, finds Quirinus Quirrell, the
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, who reveals he had been the
one working behind the scenes to kill Harry by first jinxing his broom
and then letting a troll into the school, while Snape had been trying to
protect Harry instead.

-> Quirrell is helping Voldemort, whose face has sprouted on the back
of Quirrell's head but is constantly concealed by his oversized turban,
to attain the Philosopher's Stone so as to restore his body.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Quirrell uses Harry to get past the

final obstacle, the Mirror of Erised, by
forcing him to stand before the Mirror.

-> It recognises Harry's lack of greed

for the Stone and surreptitiously
deposits it into his pocket.

-> Resolution: As Quirrell attempts to seize the stone and kill Harry,
his flesh burns on contact with the boy's skin and breaks into blisters.
Harry's scar suddenly burns with pain and he passes out.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> Three days later, he awakens in the school's infirmary, where

Dumbledore explains his survival against Voldemort is due to his
mother's sacrificing her life in order for him to live.

-> This left a powerful protective charm on Harry that lives in his
blood, which caused Quirrell's hands to burn on contact with Harry
due to him being possessed by hatred and greed.

-> He also reveals himself as the one who sent Harry his father's
invisibility cloak, while Quirrell has been left to die by Voldemort, who
still lives, and the Stone has now been destroyed.
PLOT SUMMARY

-> The eventful school year ends at

the final feast, during which
Gryffindor wins the House Cup.

-> Harry returns to Privet Drive for

the summer, neglecting to tell the
Dursleys that the use of spells is
forbidden by under-aged wizards and
witches and thus anticipating some
fun and peace over the holidays.
LESSONS LEARNED

Love conquers
hate.
MEMORABLE LINES

Friendship and loyalty

beats wealth and status.
MEMORABLE LINES

You never know what

you are capable of until
you try.
MEMORABLE LINES

 "You're a wizard, Harry."

-Hagrid

 "It's Levi-o-sa, not Levio-

sar."
-Hermione
MEMORABLE LINES
 "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand
up to our enemies, but just as much to
stand up to our friends."
- Dumbledore

 “It does not do to dwell on dreams and

forget to live.”
-Dumbledore

 “To the well-organized mind, death is

but the next great adventure.”
–Dumbledore
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