Harry Potter and the stone of wisdom

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Veröffentlicht am 01.06.2018

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Zusammenfassung

Dieses Referat beinhaltet die Geschichte von "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen" (J.K. Rowling) in englischer Sprache. Zuerst wird kurz über die Autorin gesprochen, anschließend findet man eine übersichtliche Zusammenfassung des Buchs.

Title: The book is called “Harry Potter and the Stone of wisdom” and is the first one of seven books. It was published in 1997 in its original language, English, and then translated into 72 other languages.

Author: Joanne K. Rowling is about 50 years old and was born in Yade, England. With her husband Neil Murray and her children, the author lives in Edinburgh. At the age of 25, Rowling started to write about the little wizard Harry Potter, with whom she became a successful and famous writer. She has written many popular books, especially Harry Potter’s books.

Summary:
The story takes place in the 1990s in London, England. Harry Potter is an orphan child, who lives in the house of his uncle Vernon and his aunt Petunia. There Harry gets mistreated, his birthdays aren’t celebrated, he always has to do housework and his silly cousin Dudley is always in the foreground. But the fact that Harry doesn’t know is that he’s actually a wizard, and his parents didn’t die in a car accident, as his uncles have always told him: When Harry was a few months old, his parents were killed by Voldemort, who is a powerful and evil wizard and who killed many other people as well. But by miracle, Harry survived. Only one scar remained on his forehead. Since that day, Voldemort has disappeared and no one knows where he is now.

On the day of his eleventh birthday, Harry gets visited by a half giant named Hagrid, who tells him the whole truth. So Harry is allowed to attend the Wizarding School, Hogwarts. In this school there are many interesting school subjects, for example, transfiguration, potions, flight and defense against the dark arts. At the beginning of the school year, each first class magician gets chosen to go to one of the four houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Each student can earn points with good school performences, and at the end of the year, the house with the most points, wins a trophy. Harry is classified as a Gryffindor. He meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who become his best friends. Over time, Harry becomes a good magician and even in the most important sport of the school, Quidditch, he becomes a very experienced and beloved player. Harry and his two best friends are doing very well in Hogwarts.

But after a few months, Harry, Ron and Hermione notice, that something in the school is strange. They suspect that Professor Severus Snape has stolen the stone of wisdom, which is a stone with which one can obtain immortability and power. They think that Severus collaborates with Voldemort, then they scrutinize professor Snape and investigate the stone of wisdom. They discover that in the school there is an arcane corridor that is pioneered by a dog with three heads. Hagrid tells Harry that the dog falls asleep when hears a certain melody, so the three friends manage to pass this obstacle. In the maze they discover that Snape isn’t guilty - it’s Quirrel, another professor. Quirrel is a man who after all seems sympathetic and shy. He speaks little, and when he speaks, he stutters a lot. No one has ever suspected him, but Quirrel is actually bad and works for Voldemort. Voldemort is actually too weak, for that reason he exists only in the body of Quirell and his face is embodied on the occipital of the professor. This is hidden by a turban, which he normally always had on his head.

(That’s why Voldemort wants to find the philosopher’s stone: He wants to be more powerful and he wants to have enough strength to live in his own body again.)

When Harry meets Quirrel in the hallway, he removes his turban and turns around. So Harry sees the horrible face of Voldemort for the first time. He wants to kill Harry and catch the stone, but Harry manages to find it first. Then he fights with Quirrel/Voldemort but loses consciousness. When he comes round, he is in a bed in the infirmary, and near him is sitting Albus Dumbledore, the principal of Hogwarts. He immediately asked him what had happened, and Dumbledore told him everything: The stone of wisdom had been destroyed to avoid other problems; and Voldemort escaped.
The book ends with the honor of the house with the most points than any other. Gryffindor, who was the home of Ron, Hermione and Harry, won the trophy.