![]() ![]() Harry immediately rocketed to fame in the wizard world. Only he doesn’t quite know how magical he is because while still an infant his parents were killed by the evil Lord Voldemort, “the greatest dark and brilliant sorcerer of all time.”īut baby Harry survived, and in doing so, rid the world of its nemesis. As we learn in the first book, Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone,” that young Harry is a skinny, bespeckled boy with spectacular powers. ![]() His history is what makes this novel so engaging for readers eight to 80. The 11-year-old hero is a wizard-in-training hunting for the identity of the Heir of Slytherin-an evil creature literally petrifying the students at the thousand year-old Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which Harry attends.īut Harry’s story begins long before the slimy Slytherin enters his life. He isn’t in search of a tesseract in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” the second installation of seven planned by J.K. Like Meg Murry and Charles Wallace in Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” Harry Potter is a quirky kid wise beyond his years. HARRY Potter has arrived and is destined for a spot among the classics in children’s literature. ![]()
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