Thursday 26 April 2012

Harry Potter - Main characters AND purpose




Harry Potter is the famous eleven year old child of Lily and James Potter, who is the only known wizard to have survived any attack from the evil Voldemort.
Harry has lived with his mean aunt and uncle Dursley since his parents were killed. When he turns eleven, he is taken away to Hogwarts: the wizard’s school where he learns to fly and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
 Hermione Granger

 
When we first meet Hermione, Harry and Ron think she is super annoying. She is your typical know-it-all, does-her-homework-perfectly-all-the-time, and always-follows-rules-kind of girl.
We can tell that she is genuinely excited about learning magic and has incredibly strong work ethic
Hermione always knows all the answers to the leader’s questions she become a Gryffindor.
Hermione puts lots of people off by working so hard and being so smart. She is very loud and bossy.

 
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is the youngest son of the enormous Weasley clan of boys with red hair and freckles
He is one of Harry Potter’s friends
His family has little money, but still manage to send Ron to Hogwarts and gave Harry Christmas presents

 

Ron Weasley is the youngest son of the enormous Weasley clan of boys with red hair and freckles
He is one of Harry Potter’s friends


His family has little money, but still manage to send Ron to Hogwarts and gave Harry Christmas presents



Rubeus Hagrid
Hagrid is the groundskeeper at Hogwarts.
He is pretty much the friendliest, trustworthy, and most loving authority figure at Hogwarts.
He previously attended Hogwarts and was expelled during his third year. Hagrid tries to keep secrets, but he is constantly letting things slip.
Hagrid can also be seen as the gatekeeper between Magic and Muggle worlds. He collected Harry from the Muggles and brought him to Hogwarts.
Hagrid is Harry’s friend and also in the movie you can see that he also starts to be friends with Ron and Hermione. (Most of the time he invites them to drink tea at his house when it is their days off.) Hagrid also got a special relationship with animals.

 Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore is the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizards and pretty much the coolest wizard around. Harry first learns about Dumbledore through his biography on a chocolate frog card (chocolate frogs are a delicious kind of wizard candy).
According to the card, he is interested in music and bowling. The card also says that Dumbledore is “considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times”.
He has a kind and humble heart!!
His speeches to the Hogwarts student body show that he is a good humoured guy. He is also pretty level-headed.
Dumbledore especially kind to Harry, looking out for him in a way a cool uncle or grandpa might.


Throughout the novel, Rowling shows how Dumbledore plays a prenatl role in Harry's life. He like a farther-figure in Harry's life because Harry looks up to him whenever he needs someone to talk to. Dumbledore's parental role towards Harry are a protector, guardian and counselor, as well as its significance in Harry's life.




Minerva McGonagall

The first time when we see/ or got introduced to her in the movie, we saw her as a tabby cat, though waiting outside the Dursley’s home for the arrival of baby Harry Potter.

We do not see Mcgonagall transform herself into anything other than human for the remainder of the book. As a professor, she is extremely strict but fair. Though she works hard not to play favourites, she does show her pride in her house and bend the rule a little when she made Harry the Gryffindor seeker instead of punishing him for unlegislated flying.
She is also tough on harry and his friends when they go out at night. They had to sit for detention.
is tougher on the Gryffindor students, because she wants them to achiev even higher grades.















Severus Snape


Professor Snape teaches Potions at Hogwarts.
He does not like Harry, and Harry does not like him.
Snape is mean in the movie towards Hagrid and the other Gryffindors and love the Slytherin students overall others. He is the Head of the Slytherin house. He is very strict in a crueller way then Professor Mcgonagall is and he is also not very fair.

We learn from Dumbledore that Proffesor snape has a reason for disliking Harry. Harry's father saved Snape's life once, and Snape never forgave him for doing so. So,now Snape is taking it out on Harry by making potions class a lot harder than it needs to be.
It was a surprise to see that Snape helps to save Harry’s life and not end it. He performs charms to save Harry and not harm him at the Quidditch game

Professor Quirrel

Professor Quirrel is new to Hogwarts

He is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher.
He always wears a turban, he smells funny and he stutters. He seems too weak to be a threat to anyone, and many of the students consider his presence as Dark Arts instructor a kind of joke.


Underneath that turban, is a deep dark secret: voldemort himself. The dark lord is actually living in Quirrel like a paraside.












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