I read this series for the first time in 2010 (quite late as I was starting college at that time) and watched all the movies later, which was a great move as books did a very good job in explaining things and it kind of made me understand the movie more (for later books ). Philosopher's (sorcerer's) stone was my second least favourite in the whole series but still I consider it one of my favourites of all time and it's also have been a very long time since I read this series. So I decided that now is a perfect time to re-read this whole series and revive all that moments which made me actually fall in love with Fantasy genre in general.
The fun part of rereading this book was that I was able to picturize every character with every actor's face who played it. This actually made all scenes very real to me.
It is quite a formality to summarize this (since everyone knows the basic premise) , but stilI I am going to give a brief about this to all those who do not know anything about this. This is about a boy named Harry who survives an encounter with world's most evil wizard ever born and probably the only to survive such direct encounter and hence is given the name 'The Boy who Lived' when he is one year old. Fast forwarding to ten years later when he is eleven, living a miserable life with his uncle and aunt and do not know anything about his parents, his growing fame or his status as wizard. All of it ends, on his eleventh birthday when he gets a letter from the world's most prestigious university for wizard school admission. From there on starts a new life and eye opening world experience for Harry and us as a reader!
Apart from the school setting,magic system and awesome world building what really make it a great read to me is the friendship between our trio. Apart from being so different from each other they actually give the meaning of being a family away from home.In this reading I also noticed secondary characters which I failed to notice the first time, especially Neville.
I know he is the favourite character of many book readers out there and I too love him to pieces!
Apart from that, all the classes and nerdy stuffs were so awesome. This is also the first book I have ever read with school setting ,so many thanks to JK Rowling to make me introduced to one of my favourite trope!
Overall It was an awesome reading experience for me and I am going to pick 'Chamber of Secrets' right away!
Awesomely nostalgic 5 Stars!!
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