He wears round glasses, and, when not in the school uniform of black robes and a pointed wizards cap, wears clothes that are to large for him, secondhand items that are given to him by his horrible and magic fearing family, the Dursleys. Harry Potter himself is a wiry youth, with knock knees and messy, jet-black hair. Harry Potter has shown himself adept however, at getting into all the hijinks that normal, growing boys are expected to indulge in, being caught out of bed, out-of-bounds, and generally being a teenager. They practice dueling with magic wands and play their very own wizarding sport, Quidditch, on flying broomsticks. Except that instead of learning their letters and arithmetic, they attend Potions class and Transfiguration lectures.
It is described as a fantastical and wondrous castle, filled with talking portraiture, moving staircases, ghosts and of course, normal, everyday children going to school. The books primarily take place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for magic that children are preselected to attend, somewhere on the Scotland/England border.
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The series captures all the mystery and romanticism of a much more mature author, but makes it accessible and easy for young adult readers to comprehend and enjoy. Riddled with all the feelings of angst and inadequacies of childhood, and saddled with the uncertainties of a world on the cusp, he goes from being an average eleven year old boy to a wizard, and not only a wizard, but a famous wizard. Rowling, a native of the U.K., Harry Potter is far from the classical idea of the hero.
The story centers around the trials and lessens of a young wizard named Harry Potter, the victim of an unspeakable tragedy and unlikely hero at his school, Hogwarts. Comprised of seven novels, eight movies, and a slew of add ons and tie-ins including video games, toys, and clothing, it is a classical coming of age story, a bildungsroman that transcends age and generations to tell a sometimes funny, oftentimes sad, yet always entertaining. The series combines a sense of wonder, adventure, and magic that matures with its audience, against a backdrop of one of the greatest stories of good and evil ever told. You never know - being a lifelong bibliophile might literally pay off.Harry Potter has been called the greatest childrens book series ever to have been printed. Check out 11 of the most collectible books of the decade below and then troll your own shelves or set your folks back home on a scavenger hunt through those dusty boxes of old books in their garage. Sounds a lot more likely, right? According to Abe Books, if you were lucky enough to score any of these books between the years of 20, you might just be in for a pretty decent payday. Sure, most of the books described below are still signed first-editions, but instead of something totally unaccessible like Shakespeare's Folio think more along the lines of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight or Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. OK, so you probably don't have a super rare Harry Potter book sitting in your parents' attic, but you might be surprised to know some books sitting on your shelves can be resold for anywhere from $300 to $10,000. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, of which only seven gem-covered, leather-bound editions were made. You've probably read articles about all those insanely expensive and incredibly rare, collectible books - like the highly covetable first edition of J.K.
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