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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

PART 2

#1 Character Reports

Harry Potter -  The main character and the protagonist of the story, who is gradually transformed from timid weakling to powerful hero in a jet black hair with some round glasses. Has a mark on the forehead with a lightning-shaped scar, Harry is marked also by the confrontation between good and bad magic that caused that scar: the standoff between the evil Voldemort and his parents who died to save their son As he matures, he shows himself to be caring and shrewd, a loyal friend, and an excellent Quidditch player as the Seeker.

James and Lily Potter -They are Harry's deceased parents. Harry doesn't know much about his parents, except for what other people remember about them.  When they were young, both attended Hogwarts and were Gryffindors. Voldemort killed them when Harry was a baby, but Harry grows up thinking they died in a car crash. When Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised, it's his parents that he sees reflected there: to know them and to be with them is his heart's desire. Mr. Ollivander tells Harry that his father was good at Transfiguration and his mother was good at Charms; Hagrid tells Harry that his parents were head boy and girl at Hogwarts. James was a little mischievous, since he was the first owner of the invisibility cloak, but brave and good, since he saved Snape's life. Lily's love for Harry was so powerful that it formed a shield that would always protect him, even after her death.

Hermione Granger - An annoying goody-two-shoes who studies too much and obeys the school rules too zealously. She eventually becomes friendly with Harry after she learns to value friendship over perfectionism and obedience. She comes from a purely Muggle family, and her character illustrates the social-adjustment problems that often faced by new students at Hogwarts.

Ron Weasley -  A shy, modest boy who comes from a famished wizard family. Ron is Harry’s first friend at Hogwarts, and they became close. His loyalty and help are useful to Harry throughout their adventures. Ron’s mediocrity despite his wizard background reminds us that success at Hogwarts is based truly on talent and hard work, not on family connections.

Rubeus Hagrid -  A giant who works as a groundskeeper at Hogwarts. Hagrid is a well-meaning creature with more kindness than brains. He cares deeply for Harry, as evidenced by the tears he sheds upon having to leave the infant Harry with the Dursleys. His fondness for animals is endearing, even if it gets him into trouble (as when he tries raising a dragon at home). Hagrid symbolizes the importance of generosity and human warmth in a world menaced by conniving villains.

Albus Dumbledore  -  A thin, tall and very old wizard with a silver hair and beard that is ong enough to tuck into his belt. He has blue eyes that sparkling behind half-moon spectacles. The kind, wise head of Hogwarts. Though he is a famous wizard, Dumbledore is as humble and adorable as his name suggests. While other school officials, such as Professor McGonagall, are obsessed with the rules, Dumbledore respects them (as his warnings against entering the Forbidden Forest remind us) but does not exaggerate their importance. He appears to have an almost superhuman level of wisdom, knowledge, and personal understanding.

Voldemort  -  A great wizard gone bad. When he killed Harry’s parents, Voldemort gave Harry a lightning-shaped sca.Voldemort has thus shaped Harry’s life so that Harry’s ultimate destruction of him appears as a kind of vengeance. Voldemort, whose name in French means either “flight of death” or “theft of death,” is associated both with high-flying magic and with deceit throughout the story. He is determined to escape death by finding the Sorcerer’s Stone. Voldemort’s weak point is that he cannot understand love, and thus cannot touch Harry’s body, which still bears the traces of Harry’s mother’s love for her son.

Draco Malfoy -  An arrogant student and Harry’s enemy. Malfoy, whose name translates roughly to “dragon of bad faith,” is a rich snob from a long line of wizards who feels entitled to the Hogwarts experience. He makes fun of the poorer Ron Weasley and advises Harry to choose his friends more carefully. As the story progresses, Malfoy becomes more and more inimical to Harry and his friends, and there is a hint that he may grow up to become another Voldemort.

Neville Longbottom -  A timid Hogwarts classmate of Harry’s. Neville is friendly and loyal, but like Ron, he lacks Harry’s charisma. Like Hermione, he is initially too obedient, and when the time comes to go after the Sorcerer’s Stone, he fears punishment and threatens to report his friends to the teachers.

Mrs. Weasley - She is the mother of the Weasley children and also acts motherly towards Harry. She helps him find platform nine and three-quarters when he's lost at the train station, and sends him Christmas presents – including a handmade sweater – just like her own children.

Charlie Weasley – He is the older brother of Percy, Fred, George, and Ron Weasley. He's out of school and lives in Romania, where he works with wild dragons.

Percy Weasley - The oldest of the Weasley children and still attending Hogwarts. More stuck up than Fred and George and more established at Hogwarts than Ron, he enjoys being a Prefect and rubs his status in his brothers' faces a bit. Percy seems more rule-abiding and brown-nosing than his brothers do, but he's also proud of them when they do well.

Fred and George Weasley – They are the youngest of Ron Weasley's older brothers and they are twins. They are Gryffindors and both play on their house's Quidditch team. Even though they're only a few years ahead of Ron and Harry, they're already legendary at Hogwarts for their mischievous pranks. They are happy to play jokes on anybody.

Ginny Weasely - She is the youngest Weasley child and the only girl but in this book she is still too young to attend Hogwarts.

Oliver Wood - He is the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He teaches Harry the rules and rudiments of the game.

Professor McGonagall -  A severe-looking woman that wears square glasses and has a black hair drawn into a tight bun. She is the head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts and a high-ranking woman in the wizard world. Minerva McGonagall is fair but extremely stern and severe in her punishments. Her devotion to the letter of the law is impressive but a bit cold, and we constantly feel that she could never become a warm and wise figure like Dumbledore. But she eventually became fond of Harry. Rowling named her after a notoriously bad nineteenth-century Scottish poet named William McGonagall who was nevertheless highly confident of his own talents.

Professor Snape  -  A professor of Potions at Hogwarts. Severus Snape dislikes Harry and appears to be an evil man for most of the story. His name associates him not only with unfair snap judgments of others but also with his violent intentions to snap the bones of his enemies. Snape’s grudge against Harry, which is nevertheless far from a murderous ill will, helps us remember the difference between forgivable vices and unforgivable evil intentions.

Professor Quirrell -  A stuttering and seemingly harmless man, and a professor of Defense against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Quirrell appears as nervous and squirrelly as his name suggests for most of the story. It is he, for example, who nearly faints when announcing the news that a troll is loose in the school. It turns out later, however, that Quirrell has faked his withdrawing meekness and is actually a cold-blooded conniver.

Professor Flitwick - He teaches Charms at Hogwarts.

Madam Hooch - She is the professor of Flying (on broomsticks) at Hogwarts.

Vernon Dursley -  Harry’s rich uncle, a director of a firm called Grunnings which made drills, with whom Harry lives for ten miserable years. He is big,beefy man with hardly any neck although he did have a very large mustache. Dursley symbolizes the Muggle world at its most silly and mediocre. It is through Mr. Dursley’s jaded Muggle eyes that we first glimpse wizards, and his closed-mindedness toward the colorful cloaks and literate cats that he meets emphasizes how different the human and wizard worlds are.

Petunia Dursley -  Mr. Dursley’s wife. A thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck. It is because she spent so much time craning over garden fences,spying on the neighbors. Petunia is an overly doting mother to her spoiled son, Dudley, and a prison-keeper to Harry. She is arrogant and excessively concerned with what the neighbors think of her family. She is somewhat humanized for us when we discover that she was always jealous of the magical gifts of her sister, Lily, Harry’s witch mother. Perhaps her hatefulness towards Harry springs from an earlier resentment of her sister.

Dudley Dursley -  Harry’s cousin, a spoiled, fat bully. Annoying and loud, Dudley manipulates parental love to get what he wants—his outrageous desires for multiple television sets foreshadow the important scenes involving the Mirror of Erised and the wrongful desire for eternal life that motivates Voldemort. Dudley’s agonizing of Harry foreshadows Malfoy’s later bullying tendencies at Hogwarts, though he is less gifted than Malfoy.

Argus Filch – He is the caretaker of Hogwarts. Most of the students don't like him because he's weird and creepy. He's always looking to catch kids breaking the rules and get them in trouble. He and his freaky-looking cat (Mrs. Norris) are unforgiving.

Mr. Ollivander - He is the old owner of the wand store, Ollivanders, in Diagon Alley. Harry finds him a little intimidating, and thinks that his silvery eyes are bit creepy. Mr. Ollivander can remember every wand he's sold. He knows what each one was made of and to whom he sold it. He tells Harry, for example, the kinds of wands each of Harry's parents had.

Nicolas Flamel and Perenelle – married couple who are really, really old like, in their six hundreds. They are the keepers of the Sorcerer's Stone and Flamel is a former colleague of Dumbledore's. 

Hedwig -She is Harry's owl. She's a white snowy owl, and one of her tasks is to fetch and carry wizard mail. Hagrid buys her for Harry as an eleventh birthday present – the first and best present Harry's ever had.

Nearly Headless Nick - He is one of the ghosts who live at Hogwarts and affiliated with Gryffindor.

 #33 If you could change places with one of the characters, who would it be? Why?

If I could change places with one of the characters in this novel, it would be Harry Potter himself. Harry Potter was known as "The Boy Who Lived" , which means that he was lucky that he has survived against Voldemort's spell and I want to be as lucky as him. And because he was the boy who lived,he became famous without knowing the reasons behind and I quite want to be famous as him. He also possessed braveness even though he is still 11 years old and I want to be as brave as him to take all the challenges that may come to me. He also have the ability to be a great wizard because of the fact that Voldemprtwas afraid totpuch him considering that Voldemort is a powerful villain in the story and I want to be great as him. I want to be Harry to experience the feeling of being a hero in making just simple ways. I want Harry's place to be in a magical world and experience the wonder bought magic.

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