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Rowlings digital company pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features, and articles, as well as original content from j. The books in the series just get better and better. I got this book, harry potter and the sorcerer s stone, after my old copy got lost during a move. The book sold off the shelves leading to more books in the series. But her efforts were soon rewarded with an award from the scottish arts council enabling her to finish the novel.
A harry potter and the sorcerers stone is indisputably one of the best fantasy books that have ever been written. The story starts with number 4 privet drive about a boy called harry potter who lives in the. Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry imaginary organization page. The philosophers stone, chapters 3 and 4 emmet asherperrin. It was the first book written by rowling, and she was praised for creating wellrounded characters and a fully realized wizard universe that. When this book was published children were queuing in front of bookstores to buy it. Harry potter has never even heard of hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, privet drive.
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