Boekverslag J.K. Rowling

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Titels van J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets / Harry Potter en de geheime kamer (24)

  1998

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / Harry Potter en de relieken van de dood (15)

  2007

• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire / Harry Potter en de vuurbeker (27)

  2000

• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince / Harry Potter en de halfbloed prins (45)

  2005

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / Harry Potter en de Orde van de Feniks (24)

  2003

• Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone / Harry Potter en de steen der wijzen (50)

  1997

• Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Harry Potter en de gevangene van Azkaban (20)

  1999

This book report is on the first of the famous novel serie by J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

The title is not very original but well chosen. Many writers name their books after the main character(s) in the story. This doesn't make the title very original or catchy and it won't in make you interested in the novel.
The second part of the title, 'and the philosophers stone', explains a bit more of what the story is about, not just the main person. It is well chosen because in the novel the most important thing that causes Harry's adventures is this stone.

There are many characters in this book. Some are very important to Harry, like his friends Ron and Hermione. Others appear once or twice in the story line but have no influence in what happens and aren't close to him.
The first major characters you meet are the Dursley's. As they are Harry's only remaining family they have to take care of him. Before the Dursley's found out Harry Potter had magical powers they were mean and unkind towards him but after that they changed and became afraid of him and tried to be nice to Harry.
The person that tells Harry he has magical powers is Hagrid. He is a 'gamekeeper' at Harry's new school. During the story his main characteristics don't alter but he becomes friends with the young wizard.
Another important character is Ron Weasley. He's Harry's first ever friend. In the story he doesn't change a lot but he shouldn't be left out as he helps Harry and Harry trusts him the most.
Hermione Granger is introduced as an important character in the middle of the novel. She is very keen at school and is a great help for Harry. During the rest of the story she starts to break school rules which, at the beginning she would have never done. This is because she had to help Harry Potter fight an evil wizard.
The first and foremost character I would sympathise with at the beginning of the book is Harry himself. There he tells you how he is beaten up all the time by his nephew Dudley Dursley, how he had to do nearly all of the housekeeping and that he got all the leftovers and had to sleep in an attic.
But when Harry turns out to be very famous at his new wizard school, then I would sympathise with Ron who has five brothers and a sister. As he is nearly the youngest he never gets anything new but old and broken down things that have already been used over and over again by his brothers.

The book is a fiction story based on magic and it is happening now, not a historical or science fiction account.
There is no particular theme in this book. It is presumably written for your amusement, not to teach you something or to share an experience. On the other hand it has roughly the same plot as a fairy tale: good defeats evil and lives happily on. So this might be a theme J.K. Rowling is trying to get over to the reader.

The story is about a young boy called Harry Potter. He lives together with the Dursley family who treats him badly. On the day he finds out he is a famous wizard his life changes. Before he knew it he got moved from his 'guardians' and sent to the best school of magic in England: Hogwarts.
There he meets a boy who is part of a whole magical family, Ron. They become friends and luckily Harry got sent to the same to the same schoolhouse as him. Although Harry knew nothing about magic, after a couple of months of lessons at the school he soon caught up and got the know more about his famous past.
When Harry Potter was born his real parents who were both good wizards, were attacked and killed by the most evil wizard of all times, Lord Voldemort. The thing that made Harry famous is that the evil wizard (whose name most magicians dare not to say) failed in killing him and fled.
After Cristmas Harry started noticing strange things happening. On several occations it seemed like someone wanted to kill him. He blamed professor Snape, his least favourite teacher at the school. Also Harry got more and more interested in what was behind the locked door in the corridor, the only room that pupils weren't allowed in with the exception of the teachers'.