**TASK 8

The story that I want to retell is Harry Potter and the philosopher stone. It was the first episode of Harry’s adventure and journeys. The story begun shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, he receives a letter addressed specifically to him. His bad uncle, however, reads and burns it before Harry has a chance to look at the contents. The sender, which is a Hogwarts owl, does not give up, and the Dursleys receive continuously larger numbers of the same letter. Soon, his Uncle Vernon becomes so paranoid and brought his family and Harry to hide in a hut on a small island to escape. That night exactly a few minutes before Harry’s birthday, he was visited by an enormous man name Hagrid. With Hagrid present Harry finally reads his letter, in which he learns he has been invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He takes the train to Hogwarts from Platform Nine and three-quarters, befriending Ron Weasley, and meeting Hermione Granger a Muggle-born witch.

      Upon arrival to the Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat places Harry, Ron and Hermione in Gryffindor House. Different to the Draco Malfoy, an arrogant and bigheaded student, gets placed in Slytherin. At the end of their first week at Hogwarts, Harry and Ron discover that Gringotts, the wizarding bank, was broken. Later, Harry discovers he has a talent for riding broomsticks, and after an incident with Malfoy, he was chosen and recruited to join Gryffindor's Quidditch team as a Seeker of a tiny, golden snitch.

      Harry, Ron, Hermione explore Hogwarts late at night and accidentally stumble across the door to a corridor. They found a three-headed dog, christened Fluffy by Hagrid, guards a trapdoor. On Halloween, Quirrell informs everyone that a troll has entered the castle; Harry and Ron fight the troll to save Hermione, who is trapped in the girls' bathroom, and the three become best friends.

       At Harry's first Quidditch match, Harry's broom becomes possessed, nearly knocking him off. Hermione sees Professor Severus Snape, the sinister Potions master and head of Slytherin House, staring at Harry and mouthing words, making her believe that Snape has caused the broom to misbehave with a dark curse. Hoping to save Harry, Hermione sets Snape's on fire, distracting him and others and allowing Harry to survive.

      At Christmas, Harry receives an Invisibility Cloak, once belonging to his father, which makes its wearer invisible. Harry uses it to explore the Restricted Section in the library to research information on Nicolas Flamel, the only known maker of the Sorcerer's Stone, which produces the Elixir of Life which will make the drinker immortal.

      Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco are caught out late at night they visited Hagid in his hut, and are forced to serve detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest. Harry sees a hooded figure drink the blood of an injured unicorn, which makes Harry's forehead scar start burning. Firenze, a centaur, tells Harry that it is a monstrous thing to slay a unicorn, let alone drink its blood. He also tells Harry that unicorn blood will keep one alive, and that the hooded figure is in fact Voldemort.

     They set out to reach the stone first, navigating the security system set up by the school's staff, which is a series of complex magical challenges. The three make it through together until finally, Harry must enter the inner chamber alone. There he finds that Professor Quirrell, not Snape, is attempting to steal the Stone. Realizing that Snape was trying to protect him from harm all along, Harry confronts Quirrell and survives a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who has possessed Quirrell and appears as a ghastly face on the back of Quirrell's head. Quirrell crumbles when he touches Harry's skin, and Harry passes out because of his close proximity to Lord Voldemort. Voldemort then pitilessly abandons Quirrell, who dies in the aftermath of his possession.

      If I was Harry Potter, I certainly made the same decision as he was. It was the right choices to get the opportunities of Hogwarts invites instead of having a worst time with Dursley family. Ron and Hermione absolutely a true friend and I should make friend with them. I am agree with what exactly Harry’s done except for this one time, when they made decision on visiting Hagrid in his hut at midnight. I think they should not do that as broken school’s rule was not the way to get answer of something. I love challenges, but it must be at the right path to be settled down and with the best idea to get rid from any danger. Instead of these, I got a moral value of not to be confidently trust someone that seems kindly so what he really was. May be and perhaps someone that hate us much are truly our defender. So in here the phrase of ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ are finely demonstrated.