Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Review

As part of the Potterthon challenge this month, I decided to start over at the beginning of the HP series.  I've recently re-read book 7, and book 6 is my go to audio book when I'm trying to sleep.  Sadly, re-reads of books 2 and 3 have been neglected for a long time.

I'm not going to try to summarize or avoid spoilers in this review.  By now if you're a book blogger who hasn't actually read the series, you no doubt are familiar enough with the storyline.

I wish I'd been blogging back when I first read this book, or at the very least journal writing, but sadly it was about 10 years ago when I started the series.  My friend Jessica innocently passed on a couple of books in a series that her little brother had been reading, simply telling me that I would love them.  How right she was!


Instead of a lengthy review I'm just going to share some of my favorite quotes from the first book:


'I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death-"'
     ~Severus Snape (aka my boyfriend)


'"We could have all been killed- or worse, expelled."'
     ~Hermione


'''Very safe, as they're both dentists."'
     ~Hermione

'"Harry's is better than ours, though," said Fred, holding up Harry's sweater.  "She obviously makes more of an effort if you're family."'
     ~Fred

'"Yeah," said Ron, "and lucky Harry doesn't lose his head in a crisis- 'there's no wood", honestly."'
     ~Ron

'"Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like and overgrown bat."'
     ~Quirrell

'"Alas! Ear Wax!"'
     ~Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone gets a Midnight Book Rating of 11pm- the further the series goes on, the more midnight worthy the books become.  If for some reason you've put off reading the HP series simply because you're one of those people who are turned off by any books that become too popular- fear not.  The series will wait you out patiently, until you finally give in and overcome your Muggleness.


Challenges that I'm participating in that this book qualifies for:

*additional challenges in Labels