Question

What about the "Setting" in Harry Potter and the Sorecer's Stone? Consider the wolrd as presented by the author. Does setting have a significant impact on your response to the book?

Answer 1

Srtting in the Harry potter an the Sorecer;s stone does play an impactful role in the minds of the readers. Harry spends most of his time at Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in the book while in teh beginning we find him stuck at the Dursleys' house in Little Whinging: the Muggle world. One of the coolest aspects of the Harry Potter series is that we get access to two worlds. And all for the price of one. By setting the Wizarding World up as a kind of parallel universe, the movie gives us sense of sharing a secret with the characters. Hogwarts is somewhere wonderful, somewhere most people can't access.

Hogwarts is hidden which improves secrecy because it needs to be hidden, which means it could be endangered if the movers and shakers in the Wizarding World don't mind their p's and q's. That makes Harry's role all the more important. With the stakes in place, we can then move to Hogwarts, which is pretty much an enchanted medieval castle. The setting never ventures past the traditional era we associate with wizards and witches.