J.K. Rowling published the very first Harry Potter book in 1997 called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The book is a first part of the sevenfold book series.
The book represents outstanding fantasy with incredibly discriptive and ingenious telling. I think there is no book similar to this.
The story begins only with Harry Potter and later on Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger enters also in. Harry’s mom and dad died when he was just a baby. He became orphaned and moved in to his relatives house with no idea who he really was. On his eleventh birthday he was told he was a wizard and he is going to Hogwarts to study wizardy.
Harry, Ron and Hermione meets the first time in Hogwarts which is a school for wizards. During their first year they get in many complicated situations together and become bestfriends. Harry is prestige by his name and every one in the wizard world knows him, or at least his last name. Hermione has always known that she is gifted and maybe that’s why she is a bit arrogant. Ron, well Ron, he is a kid who has no survival instinct and always gets in trouble.
Naturally Harry himself is telling the story from his perspective. The language of the book is very easy to read exept spells are a bit hard to understand at a time ”Accio Horcrux books!”. The spells are mostly derived from Latin.
I enjoyed reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in English. Notice that I am not a book worm and I haven’t red Harry Potters even in Finnish at all. I really don’t know why because I liked it very much this time! But I bet the books are better in English than in Finnish so I think I am going to continue further in English. Reading in English was not a problem, ofcourse there was words I did not understand but it didn’t bother me that much.