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Comparing Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone

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In the Book Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling is a book about a boy named Harry Potter who learns who he is. When Harry turns eleven he finds out that he is an orphan and also who his parents are and how they died. When Harry knows that his parents are wizards. Hagrid, who is one of the staff members at Hogwarts invites him to a school for Wizard, Hogwarts. This school Hogwarts has many similarities and differences from my school, and I don’t think I would really want to go to Hogwarts. First, Hogwarts is like my school, Kingsview because like Kingsview, Hogwarts has different classes they go to. For example, I go to Math first and after math, science. In Hogwarts they may go to potions and then flying. The classes are

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