Most of the novels that Rowling had written have fantastic genre. Apart of Harry Poter's novels, she had written The Casual Vacancy (2011) and The Silkworm (2014).
The Background: The origin of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone is closely linked to the events that took place in the life of its author since 1990. The author moved with her then partner to Manchester. After a week Rowling returned to London by train and that was where it all began. The author decided that the story would be divided into seven novels.
That same night he began writing the first novel, which would take five years to finish
In the late 1990s, Rowling's mother died; this event explain that Harry is an orphan
Nine months after his mother , he moved to Porto to teach English. In Portugal he devised one of the aspects of the work such as the philosopher's stone. At the end of 1993, the writer returned to the United Kingdom because she had divorced and her work did not work; Rowling went to live with his daughter at his sister's house and brother-in-law in Edinburgh. He had great difficulties since he was going through a ddiedepression. In order to continue with the writing of his novel, he began to frequent his brother-in-law's coffee, where he could sit quietly and in that place he could complete the writing of the book.
Characters:
- Harry Potter: as the name of the novel says, is the main character
- Ron Weasley: is Harrys's best friend and all the members of his family are wizards
- Hermione Granger: Harry and Rons's friend and she come from a muggle family.
- Rubeus Hagrid: is an half-giant and Hogwarts' gamekeeper
Plot and opinion: Harry Potter grows up in the Dursleys' house, who hide his true family
history. When Harry turns eleven years old, letters from unknown sender begin
to arrive that bring the news that the boy has been admitted to the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is then discovered that the Potter had been
killed on Halloween night by Lord
Voldemort. However, that night: Voldemort finally killed the Potter marriage
but he couldn’t kill the baby, and left the boy a permanent lightning-shaped
scar on his forehead. Rubeus Hagrid appears to take Harry one night. Later, the
man helps Harry buy his school supplies in Diagon Alley and there he discovers
that he is famous among wizards for survived the attempted murder. Later, the
boy takes the train that takes him to Hogwarts and there he meets Ron Weasley
and Hermione Granger. The three become friends and later, during their school
year, they are involved in a series of episodes related to an object hidden in
the depths of the building: the philosopher's stone . After confirming that the
spirit of Lord Voldemort rounds the castle and the stone is in danger, Harry,
Ron and Hermione alert the teachers, but they dismiss that possibility, since
the object is protected by various traps in an underground chamber at school.
The three children alone go through the door guarded by a firefighter and are
confronted to different tests until they reach the bedroom where the stone is
located. Harry discovers that Professor Quirrell was the one who tried to steal
it from the beginning. Harry gets the stone and Quirrel tries to kill him, but
fails to survive contact with the boy and dies when Voldemort leaves his body.
After talking with Albus Dumbledore, Harry with his friends and goes to his
uncles' house.
Although I didn’t read the novel, according to the film it has been fantastic.
When they decided to enter the place where the Philosopher’s stone is located I
get goosebumps because that scene is very frenetic. In general, it is an
excellent novel
