The Portrait of Friendship in Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

The friendship among Harry, Ron, and Hermione in Harry Potter and The
Sorcerer’s Stone is very interesting to be discussed. This study is aimed to describe about
the friendship process and what are the advantages that could be get by forming a
relationship such a friendship. This study is focused on the analysis of friendship of
Harry, Ron, and Hemione. Psychology of literature especially theory of friendship is used
as the basic theory to analyze the friendship in this novel.
The nature of this study is qualitative research. The data are the characters
utterances and narrations that related with the friendship among Harry, Ron, and
Hermione. The data collected after the writer read the novel several time and classify it
base on the research problems.
The result of this study argued that in forming a special relationship such as
friendship among Harry, Ron, and Hermione, it needs a process and stages those are
contact, involvement, and the last is close and intimate friendship. In addition, the
friendship among Harry, Ron, and Hermione also give them so many advantages; such
as, utility, affirmation, ego support, stimulation and security.