Hello, everybody! How is it going? Today I brought you my very first Harry Potter review! As I said before, I'm so not into children books, and even if that is so, I still made myself sink into this book. What am I sayin'? I'm reading all the series! So long I've just started the third book which is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, a book that I'll be giving a review, later on, cause how you know it's on my TBR list of the month.
I read my first Harry Potter book a while ago and even when I didn't like it as much as I was expecting to (because, c'mon, with all those great things people say about it, is hard to think that you will get any less. I don't mean, whatsoever that I disliked it. All I'm saying is that, now that I have read some of the next books that follow the first one, I get to see how things just get better and better, and how the first book worked only as a base to settle the main plot and the story itself) I would totally read it again.
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
CHARACTERS
Let's talk about the characters, shall we? Something I really enjoyed about this book was the characters. Fred and George, especially. They were so funny to read and you could totally see me waiting for their next show-up. They had this thing going on with blowing things up and getting into trouble and they were always laughing and making jokes with everybody... They were also red haired, which if you come to think about it, is kind of a Scottish thing so... Yeah. I'm sorry I have a thing going one with Scotland and Scottish people ever since I read Outlander (a book which you SHOULD ALL READ).
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
But keeping on with the Harry Potter book another of my favorite character in this first book was Draco Malfoy. And yes, I know he really liked making fun of Harry and his friend. But no, I'm not mad. Draco Malfoy had all this cool confidence and he had always amazing replies every single time anyone said something he didn't approve and the thing he had with always wanting his father to know stuff? Oh, boy! The more I think about it, the surer I'm that he's that way because of his father fault. I mean, all those things he kept on telling him about how Mudbloods and Muggles were inferior to them...
“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should, therefore, be treated with great caution.”
And Hermione? Oh my gosh! I swear that for a second I thought that J. K. Rowling had written about me! All that studying and the reading and the don't-break-the-rules... Oh, God.
And now, let's talk about Harry. Harry is this boy who has had this awful Muggle-experience with the only family he has left: the Dursleys. The Dursleys were the worst type of Muggles in the entire world. They made Harry sleep in the cupboard under the stairs and didn't even remembered his birthday. He wasn't allowed to have any friends or to be out of his house. And the worst of everything was his cousin, Dudley. Ohhh, boooy! I wanted to pick his eyes so badly... But anyway, returning to Harry, what I found most admiring about him was that he was such a lovely character. I loved that about him. That was made Harry Potter the Harry Potter.
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
What made the Harry Potter series so great, fantastic and magical was the world J.K. Rowling built. You could sense the magic. While you are reading it, you begin to see things differently. Harry Potter is a time-stoping read. Time is no longer a thing to worry anymore. J.K. Rowling did such a wonderful job describing Harry Potter's world, soo great that you can easy imagine every single thing as if though you were standing right beside Harry's side. And not only that but she also worked her mind out with the system that would make her books have this well-organized logic to all readers. But what really, really gave life to it were all those little, little details that no other author had ever paid attention to, like: the food, the pictures, the sports...
“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid, we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
WHAT I DID NOT LIKED & WHY
Even though Harry Potter was a lovely child and I didn't have any issue with him, what I did not like at all was that I didn't feel that Harry solved the problems that occurred because he actually wanted to but because he felt like he was supposed to. He had all this pressure on his shoulders just for being the famous Harry Potter, the wizard who destroyed Lord Voldemort and the one who ended with the Dark Age. Harry Potter the boy who brought joy to wizarding families all over the Magical Community. Harry Potter, who wore a lighting bolt scar on his forehead, a mark that meant that he had survived one of the most powerful wizards of all times. Harry Potter the son of Lily and James Potter. The Harry Potter. His parents gave their life for him and the thought of that being done for nothing hunted him. Harry never met his parents but he knows sure enough that they both loved him, so everything he does, he does it with the thought of making his parents proud and for proving that he deserves his name.
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
WHAT I DID LIKED
What stunned me most of the book was, I said before, the entire magical world Rowling created, the system she chooses, the sport she came up with (Quidditch, which I would be very pleased to play even though I'm the type of girl who always stays at the bleachers), the houses and their respective songs and personal way to manner. I loved how Rowling makes us feel part of Harry's wizarding world and that you actually start thinking of Hogwarts as your own new home.
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
SO... DO I RECOMMEND IT AT ALL?
Yes! I do recommend it! To be completely honest this book is not my favorite in the Harry Potter series, but they get improving so much that they make you sigh. You learn so many valuable lessons like the perks of being a reader, the true value of friendship, the meaning of love and so many others that you would have to seek by your own because is so magical you should totally do.
“Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.”
Raiting: 4/5
