| | Harry Potter reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Harry learns that his parents died saving him from an evil sorcerer and that he himself is destined to be a wizard of great power. |
 | | Once again, Harry’s school experiences are colored by encounters with genial ghosts and antagonistic teachers, by the rivalry between good-guy Gryffindor House and slimy Slytherin House, and by an ominous mystery to be solved involving Harry’s archenemy, the dark sorcerer Lord Voldemort. |
 | | Before and in between the book’s major action (the tournament is not announced until page 186, and Harry’s involvement not until page 271), Rowling explores her major theme of good vs. evil and her minor themes of the value of loyalty and moral courage and the evils of yellow journalism, oppression, and bigotry. |
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