Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1st Novel in Harry Potter Series!!!
By kreizhy
@kreizhy (111)
Philippines
August 21, 2007 12:20am CST
Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful wizard, has just been defeated. When he tried to kill a one-year-old boy, Harry Potter, the killing curse rebounded upon him, destroying his body. Harry is left in orphan with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, Voldemort having killed his parents Lily and James Potter. Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall and Gamekeeper Hagrid leave him on a doorstep of his ultra-conventional, insensitive, negligent Muggle (non-magical) relatives, the Dursley family, who take him in. Harry's relatives decide to conceal his magical heritage from him and maki him live in a cupboard (closet) under the stairs for ten years. Shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, he receives a letter addrerres specifically to him. His outraged uncle, reads and burns it before Harry has a chance to look at the contents. The sender does not give up, and the Dursleys receive successively larger number of the same correspondence, Soon, his uncle becomes so paranoid that the Dursley, with Harry in tow, hide in a hut on a small island to escape. That night (which happens to be before Harry's birthday), he is visited by an enormous man named Hagrid who bursts through the locked door of the hut. With Hagrid holding the Dursley at bay, harry finally reads his letter, in which he learns he has been invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The next day Harry and Hagrid leave the hut and head to Diagon Alley in London (the secret magical lcation hidden behind the famous wizarding pub, The Leaky Cauldron). Harry enters the wizarding world for the first time, learns to his surprise that he is famous, and meets the new Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Quirrell. He takes the train to Hogwarts from Platfoem Nine and three-quarters, befriending Ron Weasley, and meeting Hermoine Granger, a Muggle-born witch. Upon arrival, the Sorting Hat places Harry, Ron and Hermoine in Gryffindor House. Draco Malfoy, an arrogant and elitist student whom Harry had met at Diagon Alley, gets placed in Sltherin. At the end of his first wee at Hogwarts Harry and Ron discover the Gringotts, the wizarding bank, was broken into and a vault that Harry and Hagrid visited had been the subject of the robbery. Later, Harry discovers he has a talent for riding broomsticks, and after an incident with Malfroy, is recruited to join Gryffindor's Quidditch team as a Seeker. He is the youngest Quidditch palyer at the school in a century, much to Malfroy's displeasure. Harry, Ron and Hermoine are out in Hogwarts' halls late at night because of a duel thatw as supposed to take place between Harry and Malfoy and they accidentally stumble across the door to a corridor. A three-headed dog, christened Fluffy by Hagrid, guards a trapdoor. On Halloween, Quirrell informs everyone that a troll has entered the castle; it gets locked in the girls' bathroom by Ron and Harry, where Hermoine is crying after Ron has insulted her. When they realize their mistake, Harry and Ron fight the troll to save Hermoine, and the three become best friends.
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