Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first book in the Harry Potter series written by JK Rowling and released in the UK on June 26, 1997, published by Bloomsbury. In the USA, it was released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on September 1, 1998, with minor changes in grammar (British English to American English) and the addition of Seamus Finnigan, published by Scholastic, inc.
Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
Chapter 2: The Vanishing Glass
Chapter 3: The Letters From No One
Chapter 4: The Keeper of the Keys
Chapter 5: Diagon Alley
Chapter 6: The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
Chapter 7: The Sorting Hat
Chapter 8: The Potions Master
Chapter 9: The Midnight Duel
Chapter 10: Hallowe'en
Chapter 11: Quidditch
Chapter 12: The Mirror of Erised
Chapter 13: Nicolas Flamel
Chapter 14: Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
Chapter 15: The Forbidden Forest
Chapter 16: Through the Trap Door
Chapter 17: The Man With Two Faces
Foreign Editions
- Finnish - Harry Potter ja viisasten kivi
- French - Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers
- Gaelic - Harry Potter agus an Orchloch
- German - Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
- Italian - Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale
- Reconstructed Latin - Harrius Potter Et Philosophi Lapis
- Spanish - Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
- Urdu - Harry Potter Aur Paras Pathar
- Ancient Greek - APEIOΣ πOTHP καì η τον φιλοσóφον λíθος (as it appears on the cover)
Plot
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The book starts with a younger Vernon Dursley and what sets out to be an ordinary day at work. However, peculiar things happen- an unnatural amount of owls in the daytime, cloaked people in the streets, and a cat which "reads" a street sign. He goes home to tell his wife about the strange day.
Next, each of the lights on the street go out, unbeknownst to the inhabitants of the houses- Albus Dumbledore is using the Put-Outer. He approaches the cat, which transforms into Minerva McGonagall, and advises Dumbledore 'not to choose this family'. An extremely large man called Hagrid arrives on a gigantic motorbike (which we learn belongs to Sirius Black) with a baby, who he is tearful to let go and leave at the doorstep of the Dursley house. The baby, who has a scar on his head, is left there with a note.
The baby has grown up to be eleven years old and lives in the cupboard under the stairs in the Dursley home. The Dursleys abuse Harry, treating their son Dudley far better. Harry is a strange child- in one instance, Aunt Petunia shaved most of his untamed hair off, but it all grew back the next morning. And on a trip to the zoo, Harry finds he can talk to a snake. As if to complete these strange goings-on, the Dursley home is constantly bombarded by mysterious letters, which Vernon burns and destroys. To escape the letters, the Dursleys move to an island in the middle of the sea. However, the giant Hagrid arives, to the family's horror, and tells Harry he is a wizard.
Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, where he is fascinated by all the wizarding items. He gets all his school things, including a magnificent owl named Hedwig. When the school year comes, the Dursleys dump him off at the station, laughing at his instructions to go through Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Harry follows a red-headed family through the wall between platforms 3 and 4, and boards the Hogwarts Express, where he makes a friend, Ron Weasley.
Upon leaving the train, Harry crosses the lake to the castle, and there he is sorted into the house of Gryffindor. Once he enters his common room, Harry never feels more at home. In his classes he tries to get to grips with magic- with Charms and Transfiguration he has difficulty, like most of the class, except Hermione Granger- the class swot. He has a nasty experience in Potions, where the teacher Professor Snape looks down his hooked nose at him. However, in Broom practice, he excels, being the first to summon his broom, and he heroically saves Neville Longbottom's Remembrall from his new rival and enemy, Draco Malfoy. Professor McGonnagall spots him doing this however, but instead of punishing him, makes him Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team- the first first-year to do so in a century.
Professor Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, announces that a mountain troll has broken lose in the school. Harry and Ron suspect Professor Snape is the culprit. The two boys rush to save Hermione, who is trapped in the girl's bathroom with the troll. Harry sticks his wand up the troll's nose while Ron performs a perfect Wingardium Leviosa Hover Charm, clonking the troll on the head with it's own club. Hermione saves the boys from getting into trouble, saying she thought she could handle the troll herself. From then on, a friendship is formed between Harry, Ron and Hermione.
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