Harry Potter: Book One

So this a book I have read around 10 times. Not exaggerating, my first punishment I remember was my parents taking away my Harry Potter books. I really think that this book is amazing. I admire how Jolene passes time in this novel. I always think I have to explain every little thing, but that isn't what she does several months pass in a sentence. A wonderful evening is a paragraph. The more important scenes have more focus on them. I have read books where they describe things that seem very unimportant. She develops characters pretty well, even in the first book. I think that Hermione and Neville developed the most. I feel as though Harry and Ron stayed the same through the book with slight variations but not as much as Neville or Hermione. I have a skewed look on this because I have read all of the books beforehand. In the book a centaur says that Mars is bright tonight, and then (firenze?) laid it out more basically so Harry could understand him. I liked that that she decided to differentiate the centaurs because that pushed Harry to want to fight Voldemort. In the fifth book it is specified that Mars being bright means that war is coming, I paraphrase.  I love dumbledore in this one, he is portrayed as a crazy but wise man and in the other ones he is portrayed as a very powerful wizard.   Okay have a good day darlings.  

Sidenote, I had my copy of this book since I was in 8th grade almost a decade ago!