The book I chose is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, a
story that everyone knows. I have read the translated novels of Harry Potter
years ago, but I can't remember clearly how novels were written, so to me, it
can say that I'm read a new book while I know how the story developed.
The story began with Dursley family rather than introducing Harry
Potter or how amazing this world was with magic, but in the beginning it did
introduce the relationship between the Dursleys and the Potters. Because the
Dursleys are all Muggles, readers who are Muggles as well could understand
story well and felt how amazing that Mr. Dursley felt. Through Mr. Dursley's
eyes, we could understand there was something happened unnaturally, and also
became curious about why these weird things happened, what led to these things.
Follow the story developing, we could understand that there was someone died
and people who different from us were celebrating it. Those celebrations cause
those unnatural things that Mr. Dursley saw. This was a quite happy scene but,
on the contrary, there was a boy who just lose his parents.
I felt so sad when I read these descriptions of how people were
happy, because before the book told us things about this boy, I already knew
that there was a baby who was just born became alone on the day that everyone
celebrating. Only few of these people felt sad for Harry and cared about how to
raise this little boy, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Hagrid.
The conversation of them revealed what the world was like in the
book, as everyone know, it's a world with magic. At first, the cat that Mr.
Dursley noticed which acted unlike a cat became a woman, and the old man turn
off all lights of the street, and a giant(actually half-giant) rode a motorbike
which could fly across the sky. In spite of forgetting how the story began in
the novel, as a Harry Potter fan, I was so excited to knew that the Deluminator
and Hagrid's motorbike appeared so early.
To
the chapter 2, the author started describe the life Harry passed with Dursley
family. I have read an article which said the Dursleys were not bad to Harry.
They didn't like the Potters, not to mention feeding their own son. But the
fact was that Harry wasn't lack of food or clothes in spite of that they were
Dudley's old clothes. However, I recognized that the Dursley was not too bad,
but not good as well. They would bully Harry, especially Dudley. They gave Dudley
too many things and spoiled him. When Dudley was counting his birthday
presents, we couldn’t know how sad Harry would be. Harry was a good boy, once
they accepted him to their home, they needed to love him. I understood that
they were afraid of Harry, because they didn’t understand his power of magic.
That’s Dumbledore’s fault. McGonagall asked him why he let the Muggle family
raise Harry. Dumbledore said that Harry was better to live in the Muggle world
because he had been famous in the magic world since he was born, he was too
little. He said he would tell Harry things about him and his parents, and when
he grew up, he would be older enough to deal with his reputation. However, he
didn’t tell this Muggle family the details of Harry’s magic power, and he didn’t
realize the complex relationship between the Dursleys and the Potters. Petunis
didn’t like Lily, and Mr. and Mrs. Dursley had a bad memory about James. Perhaps
Harry’s bad childhood was Dumbledore’s fault.
After reading the story again and thinking deeply, I have more
thoughts of Harry than me before. He was a tragic character. He lost his
parents and never had memories about them, became arrogant when he understood
he was famous because You-Know-Who couldn’t kill him, be chased and there was
always someone trying to kill him, so some of his friends were killed due to
protecting him. We know that he defeated Voldemort in the end then grew up and
got married, but he lost a lot of things as well. By the way, I always feel so
sad that Snape and Fred were killed.
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