Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Research Paper

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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the middle of the novel contains many plot twists and significant events. Harry begins his first year at Hogwarts wizarding school. To help Harry, Hagrid takes him to Gringotts, a wizard bank, to retrieve some of the money his parents had left him. He uses this money to buy his school supplies, which includes an owl, a school uniform and his very own wand. This wand however, was a rarity. It consisted of Phoenix feather and unicorn hair, the Phoenix from which the feather was produced had only shed one other hair. This hair had been put into the wand of Lord Voldemort, the man responsible for the murder of his parents, and his attempted murder. In the middle section of the novel, we’re introduced

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