Railroad Fever: Songs, Jokes and Train Lore Book

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, written by J.K. Rowling was one of my favorite childhood books. I decided to reread it this year just for fun. In this book, the author wanted to strictly entertain her audience. Rowling imagined this complex wizardly world in her head and made a wonderful story out of it. She makes up this character, Harry Potter, who is introduced in the very first chapter of the book. He is dropped off to live with his wretched aunt and uncle who mistreat Harry and favor their own piggish son Dudley. When Harry turns eleven, he discovers that he is in fact a wizard. He has a hard time believing that he is actually a very important wizard, the boy who lived. After the most powerful dark wizard killed his parents, then tried to kill Harry, but he couldn't.... Harry Potter is very famous in this new wizard world. Rowling does a fantastic job of separating the wizard world and the 'muggle' world. (Muggle is a term used in the book used to describe someone with no magic within them.) Muggles are not supposed to understand the wizard world. Rowling also is very descriptive with the magic used in the book. Reading this again made me wish I could do magic, it seems that life would be easier. Hagrid, in the chapter Diagon Alley exclaims, "I don't know how the Muggles manage without magic." As Harry Potter learns more and more about his past, he gets ready to go to his new wizard school, Hogwarts. Harry is very excited to become a wizard but feels like he is going to be a bit behind because he grew up with a Muggle family. Little does he know, he has a natural talent at a lot of things taught in Hogwarts. As the story unfolds, Harry experiences adventure after adventure, that's why it's so hard to put this book down. Luckily, this is the first book of the series so there is much more to be read.