A review by schumachr
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

2.0

i (re)read this for my british cultures seminar. i don’t remember what my first impressions of this book and universe were since it’s been almost a decade since i read it for the first time. however, it’s definitely not as good as i remember it being. it’s not a bad book by any means, but i do think it’s interesting (and something that we discussed in my seminar) how rowling simultaneously tries to be progressive while also creating new ways of discrimination and tradition keeping (ex. why can’t hermoine be a wizard? how does the inherent classism effect the rest of the story? etc). i probably won’t read the rest of the series again, because i forgot how annoying ron is lol.