HARRY POTTER E A PEDRA FILOSOFAL

It was supposed to be just a children’s book. But around the world, people of all ages read Harry Potter—a global literary phenomenon that continues to capture new generations and remains the most widely read children’s series in history.
Harry Potter tells the story of a boy whose wizard parents were murdered by a powerful dark sorcerer when he was just a baby. He was taken to live with his aunt and uncle, who had no connection to the magical world—quite the opposite. Until the age of ten, Harry lived like a modern-day Cinderella: mistreated by his relatives, wearing his chubby cousin’s hand-me-downs, sporting broken glasses, and generally being treated like a burden.
On his 11th birthday, however, he seems to fall down a rabbit hole—much like Alice in Wonderland—that leads him into a magical world. He discovers his true story and his destiny: to train as a wizard until the day he must face the evil force that killed his parents. The skinny, awkward boy with green eyes, so used to rejection, also finds out he is a hero in the wizarding world. Harry learns he is the only person to have survived an attack from that dark sorcerer, and this is the reason behind the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. He is no ordinary boy, not even an ordinary wizard—he is Harry Potter: a symbol of power, resilience, and a natural leader among the supernatural.
The book, filled with ghosts, talking walls, cauldrons, frogs, unicorns, dragons, and giants, is not merely entertainment. Harry Potter prompts metaphysical discussions, tackles the eternal struggle between good and evil, and highlights some of society’s ailments—such as prejudice, class division by wealth or birth, envy, selfishness, excessive competitiveness, and the pursuit of ideals. It reminds us of the need to learn—sometimes the hard way—that life is made up of both losses and victories, and that this is essential to becoming a well-rounded adult.