Leanne Tough's story about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Author: J.K. Rowling
SynopsisHarry Potter is living with his horrible relatives in dreary middle England, believing that his parents were killed in a car crash when one night he is visited by a man-giant named Hagrid who escorts him off to wizard school where Harry discovers that there is a whole other side to the world and that his past is shrouded in mysteries. He makes friends with the class swot Hermione and Ron Weasley, the good sport and sets about his adventures.
My Story
At primary school, I was never one for reading books at all, even the little ones with lots of pictures. Reading and writing in class bored me, I had no motivation for learning to spell or use grammar correctly. However, when I was ten, in year six, my teacher read a chapter from the first Harry Potter: The Sorting Hat. I found myself fascinated, and excited and nervous for the characters! A book had never made me 'feel' before. By the end of that school year, not only was I thrilled about being put into my own house at secondary, but I was also immersed in reading more and more books, and creating my own stories and little worlds. If it wasn't for that book, I certainly wouldn't be taking English and Creative Writing at degree level today.
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