As the first book in British author JKRowling’s fascinating series, the fantasy work, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, also retitled “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” in the United States, has received critical acclaim and a huge commercial success all over the world. wide, and has also invariably captured the hearts of young and old. With the story centered on the boy named Harry Potter and his adventures in a totally anomalous world of wizards and in the quest to ruin his revenge against the Dark Lord of wizards Voldemort, discovering his ruthless hand (wand!) behind death from his parents, the The History Conduit dives into Harry Potter’s interesting fact-finding.
The author deserves your applause for her exceptional talent for molding the characters in and around Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, consisting of teachers, students, partially transparent ghosts, subjects, and last but not least, the Hogwarts headmaster. The author has many imaginary elements such as the non-existent “Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross railway station in London, with “Muggles” (non-magical people), and the “sorting hat” that daintily sits on the stool and waits for each new Hogwatarian for the selection ceremony with his melodious song.
Harry Potter’s expedition to save the Philosopher’s Stone from the nefarious Voldemort forms the main crux of the story. Harry Potter’s lightest moments begin when he meets his new friends Ronald Wesley and Hermione Granger at the atypical school that he later loves more than anything. This book has made its mark, and it stands firm in advocating the next six sequels online.
For anyone reading the book for the first time, you are sure to take a journey to the land of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and its well-furnished dormitory for girls and boys.
Harry’s experience in busy Diagon Alley, where people are rushing to buy new spellbooks, robes, wands and his owls, and the feeling of warmth when he first holds his phoenix feather wand makes the reader feel the same lurch in the stomach as Harry.
The wizarding game “Quidditch” rides a creative wave through those warm Hogwarts grounds. Those score boards in appropriate shades of red and green that usually have a lion or snake as their emblem, a loquacious comment (from a Hogwarts senior) with the description of players swarming through the air on their broomsticks has let the story win its brownie points in the list of the best sellers in the world.
The entire story line is beautifully woven together to produce a tapestry of miraculous incidents that is somewhat akin to the Invisibility Cloak that Harry Potter is gifted with. As such, the story does not resort to any rudiments and is uniformly connected to the sequels. The filming of the Warner Bros movies based on the story is one more credit that the long-awaited Bloomsbury publication has by its side. This book is just as fabulous as the others, with new surprises waiting on every page.
The book is worth reading a thousand times and will leave the reader with the indelible image of the boy who bore the lightning scar.
