I read the first three books in the Harry Potter series at least once a year. They're part of my comfort-books collection - the books I read when I am ill or unhappy or just suffering from an overload of world misery. I keep it to the first three because nothing really bad happens in them. My favourite characters aren't culled from the plot and the stories are more about fun than saving the world.
I love the imagination that went into creating the wizard world - pumpkin juice, butter beer, every flavour beans, pictures that move and owl's delivering mail. I know there are similarities between this series and Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch, but it doesn't make their world's any less enjoyable. I love them both.
In this book Harry Potter learns he's a wizard, gets sent off to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, makes friends, eats lots of good food, makes enemies, flies on a broom and encounters
