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| | PhoenixNet :: Better Than All The Rest |
 | | In her debut effort, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Rowling crafts a tale of magical mayhem truly worthy of the often over-used phrase, "a contemporary classic." Harry, like many orphans of literature, must fend for himself among dim-witted relatives who neither understand nor appreciate him. |
 | | Harry perceives that things are often more than they appear to be, that friends will often show themselves when least expected, and that smarts and courage are, indeed, components of a young boy's destiny. |
 | | Harry is as dear a boy as anyone could hope for, and the characters who support, confound, and downright threaten his life at Hogwarts are engaging and utterly believable. |
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