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J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone United Kingdom English
Series Harry Potter When Harry hears all this, he doesnt know what to think. However, everything Hagrid tells Genre(s) Fiction him turns out to be true, and with a joyful heart Publisher Bloomsbury Harry starts wizarding school in September. He quickly becomes best friends with a boy Released July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2, named Ron Weasley, and before they even 1999 (US) make it to Christmas, they break tons of Preceded by None school rules when they attack a troll and prevent it from killing fellow student Hermione Followed by 'Harry Potter and the Granger. After the troll incident, the three Chamber of Secrets become inseparable, and Harry is amazed to have found such great friends. He is constantly busy trying to stay on top of the mounds of homework, as well as participating in weekly Quidditch practices. Quidditch is a popular sport among wizards and Harry is the youngest Quidditch player in over a century. It's also a game Harry loves more than anything else at school.
As the year progresses, the three friends set out to solve the mystery of the gigantic three-headed dog that is guarding something in a deserted corridor in the school. They figure out that a very
valuable object, the Sorcerers Stone, is being hidden in the school, although they dont know why. When one of the professors starts acting as if hes trying to steal it, they quickly take action to circumvent the theft. Things come to a head when they sneak past the vicious, three-headed dog and go down into the bowels of the school, determined to save the stone. Ron and Hermione help Harry get through the challenges set forth to stop the thief, but Harry must go on alone to battle the professor. When he finally gets to the last room, however, hes astonished to find someone else entirely. Harry is forced to do battle with the wizard that tried to kill him so many years before, Lord Voldemort. Hes able to save the Sorcerers Stone, although hes almost killed in process. The school headmaster, Dumbledore, arrives just in time to save Harry. The school year ends spectacularly. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are honored for their service to the school, and Harry leaves to go back to the Dursleys for the summer feeling as if hes finally found a place where he really belongs.
J. K. Rowling United Kingdom English Harry Potter Fiction Bloomsbury July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2, 1999 (US)
As the school year progresses, however, the Preceded by 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's mysterious voice Harry keeps hearing is Stone getting more and more menacing, and soon vicious attacks start happening to the students Followed by 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of of Hogwarts. When Harry discovers, quite by Azkaban accident, that he is a Parslemouth and can speak to snakes, hes quickly singled out as Slytherins heir, the person who, according to legend, will open the mysterious Chamber of Secrets and release the monster within. Of course Harry has no idea who is attacking the students, but he quickly resolves to find out who is responsible. He, Ron, and Hermione come up with an elaborate plan to disguise themselves as Slytherin students so they can question Draco Malfoy, whom they believe is the one setting the monster loose in the school. The plan goes perfectly, but theyre disappointed when they find out from Draco that he is not the one theyre looking for.
The quest gets personal when Hermione is attacked and petrified by the monster. Ron and Harry are devastated, and are left on their own to uncover the true identity of the person responsible. Events come to a head when Rons sister, Ginny, is kidnapped and taken down into the Chamber of Secrets, and Ron and Harry discover an important clue that Hermione left for them. They quickly head down into the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny. Harry and Ron get separated once theyre down there and Harry is left to pursue the monster on his own. He quickly finds Ginny, and thanks to some mysterious help from Dumbledore and his pet phoenix, Fawkes, Harry is able to destroy Slytherins heir, who turns out to be a younger version of Lord Voldemort. Voldemort had possessed Ginny through an enchanted diary and was using her to set the monster loose on the students. Harry and Ron are both hailed as heroes when they make it back out with Ginny, and Harry cant imagine a finer end to such an eventful year when Hermione and the rest of the victims are healed and they win Gryffindor loads of House points.
Publisher Bloomsbury As the school year progresses, the third year students are buried under piles of homework. Released July 8, 1999 (UK), September 8, 1999 Hermione is already stressed out due to her (US) enormous course load, and none of them can Preceded by 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of figure out how shes getting to all her classes. Secrets It doesnt help that Hermiones cat, Followed by 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Crookshanks, repeatedly tries to eat Rons rat, Scabbers, causing the two friends to argue ceaselessly about the animals. They stop speaking entirely when its discovered that Crookshanks seems to have eaten Scabbers and Ron is devastated.
Harry has a few close calls with Black when he breaks into the castle, but Black is not apprehended. Things come to a climax as the school year ends when a number of events occur. First, Rons rat, Scabbers, turns out to still be alive and is really a wizard in disguise. This wizard, Peter Pettigrew, has chosen to hide himself in this way so that he can spy on Harry and his friends on behalf of Lord
Voldemort. Harry learns that it was Peter, and not Sirius Black, that betrayed his parents to Voldemort. Just when Harry is sure Peter is finally going to be punished for his crimes, he escapes into the night. Sirius, long thought to be a mass murderer and Voldemort supporter, turns out to be innocent. Harry also learns that Sirius is his godfather. Hes overjoyed when, for a moment, he thinks he might be finally free of the Dursleys and able to live with Sirius, but Sirius has to go on the run from the Ministry to avoid being apprehended. Professor Lupin, Harrys favorite teacher, ends up resigning his post when its discovered that hes a werewolf. He narrowly avoids attacking the kids, and its Sirius that saves their lives when he turns into a huge shaggy dog to protect them. Its an action-packed year to be sure, but Harry is very happy that Sirius makes it out safely and is finally free from Azkaban. Hes comforted by the fact that he finally has a family-member, so to speak, out there watching over him.
J. K. Rowling United Kingdom English Harry Potter Fiction Bloomsbury July 8, 2000
Preceded by 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Followed by 'Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix Whats even worse is that Ron doesnt believe that Harry didnt put his name in the goblet. They get into a huge fight, and Ron stops talking to Harry. The rest of Hogwarts is also incensed that Harry is "looking for more fame", and the only person who stands by Harrys side is Hermione.
In the tournament, the first task of fighting dragons goes great for Harry, and whats even better is that it convinces Ron that Harry was telling the truth all along, and they become friends again. As the school year progresses Harry is beset with troubles. Snooping journalist, Rita Skeeter, continues to publish gossipy articles about Harry that alienate him from the rest of the school, hes turned down by his crush, Cho Chang, when he asks her to the Yule Ball, and in the days leading up to the second task of the tournament, which involves retrieving something important from the bottom
of a lake filled with mer-people, he almost doesnt find a way to accomplish what hes got to do. Saved at the last minute, however, Harry again gets almost full marks and is tied for first place. Sirius returns to keep an eye on Harry, as well as the mysterious happenings that keep taking place at Hogwarts. There is someone at the school who wants Harry dead, but no one knows who it is. During the final task of the tournament, Harry and Cedric both tie for first place, but as soon as they grasp the winner's cup, they are transported to a creepy graveyard where Cedric is immediately killed and Harry tied up by Wormtail. He witnesses Voldemorts return to power, and barely makes it back to Hogwarts alive, clutching Cedrics body. When he gets back he discovers that "Professor Moody",the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, was the traitor all along. Hes a magically disguised Death Eater who risked everything to kidnap Harry for Lord Voldemort. Harry tells Dumbledore what happened with Voldemort, and although the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, doesnt believe Harry, Professor Dumbledore begins to take steps to mobilize against Voldemort.
Author
J.K. Rowling
Cover Artist Jason Cockcroft (UK), Mary GrandPr (US) Language Publisher English Bloomsbury (UK), Scholastic Press (US) Released Media Type June 21, 2003 Hardback
Preceded by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Followed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
With only Ron and Hermione standing by his side, Harry is hard-pressed to stay in a good mood and often lashes out at the ones he is closest to. His defiant behavior lands him in detention for weeks at a time with Professor Umbridge, who soon rises to the status of Hogwarts High Inquistor and revels in sacking teachers and keeping the entire school under the control of her stubby, ugly-ringed fingers.
As the school year progresses Harry and Umbridge frequently lock horns, and she retaliates by taking away everything he cares about: Quidditch, letters from Sirius, and visits with Hagrid. So Harry fights back the only way he can, by forming a secret defense group, known as Dumbledore's Army, and teaching his friends how to fight properly. In spite of the frantic workload in preparing for their OWLs (tests that determine the student's future career choices), the tyranny of Umbridge, and Harry's unbearable crush on Ravenclaw seeker, Cho Chang, Harry keeps having tantalizing dreams of dark corridors and locked doors that are distracting at best. His scar prickles constantly and he soon finds he's turned into a tiny antenna for Voldemort's mood swings, which certainly doesn't help his own temper. Things take a disastrous turn when Dolores Umbridge finds out about Harry's secret defense group. Harry is filled with guilt when Dumbledore, claims credit for the group in order to protect Harry, and has to flee the school to escape arrest. This installment ends with an epic battle of good and evil, resulting in a devastating loss to Harry when his godfather Sirius Black is killed, and the full revelation that his destiny lies intertwined with none other than Voldemort himself. In the end, Dumbledore reveals the lost prophecy to Harry: either Harry will kill Lord Voldemort or Voldemort will kill Harry.
J. K. Rowling United Kingdom English Harry Potter Fiction Bloomsbury 16 July, 2005
A mysterious book previously owned by the ISBN ISBN-0747581088 Half-Blood Prince comes into Harry's hands Preceded by Harry Potter and the Order of the early on during his Potions class and changes Phoenix the course of his school year by giving him a Followed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reputation for Potions brilliance that baffles everyone. Harry quickly grows to depend on the information he gets from the Half-Blood Prince's book and uses some of his spells outside of class, much to Hermione's displeasure. Harry also keeps an increasingly close eye on Draco Malfoy. Convinced that Malfoy has replaced his father as the head of the Death Eaters, Harry believes Malfoy is constructing a dark plot inside the school but can't for the life of him figure out what it is. Between Ron and Hermione's skepticism, and Malfoy's disappearances from the school grounds, Harry has his hands full trying to uncover what Malfoy's up to.
As the year speeds by, Harry and Ron are both amazed at their blossoming love lives. Harry especially falls hard for someone he knows he shouldn't, his best friend Ron's sister, Ginny. His lessons with Dumbledore continue sporadically, and he's excited to hear that he might be able to go with Dumbledore on a dangerous mission to help destroy a horcrux that contains a part of Voldemort's soul. Things reach a frantic pace when several things happen all at once. Harry and Dumbledore leave on their mission, Malfoy's dark plot finally works and he is able to sneak in Death Eaters to attack the school, and a fierce battle takes place between the students, members of the Order of the Phoenix, and the Death Eaters. Having succeeded in their mission to recover the horcrux, Harry and Dumbledore return only to get trapped on the Astronomy Tower where, to Harry's dismay, Professor Snape kills Dumbledore. Dumbledore's death is a terrible blow to Harry, but it enables him to see clearly what his true mission is. He resolves that he will not return to Hogwarts, but instead sets off to destroy the remaining fragments of Voldemort's soul. He is bolstered by Ron and Hermione's insistence on going with him, and as soon as Dumbledore's funeral is over, they agree to start their journey together.
Harry and Hermione are devastated that hed Publisher Bloomsbury abandoned them. They finally decide to revisit Released 21 July, 2007 Godrics Hollow in search of clues, and once ISBN ISBN 0545010225 again theyre almost caught by Voldemort. Every step they make, it seems, he is there Preceded by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince anticipating them. Theyve almost died too many times to count, and their spirits sink even lower when Harry discovers his wand was broken in the battle. Ron redeems himself a few weeks later by coming back and saving Harrys life in the nick of time. They manage to destroy another Horcrux with Gryffindors sword, and they become excited again as they begin to learn about a mysterious trio of magical objects called the Deathly Hallows. Whomever possesses the three objects will be a master of death, and to Harry, its his one chance to beat Voldemort and live to tell the tale. As his adventures and the danger hes in increases, Harry begins to truly understand what Dumbledore intended him to do. He realizes, almost at the last minute, that his own life will have to
be sacrificed in order for Voldemort to truly be vanquished. Filled with love for his friends, he willingly gives his life so that they may live. His last act of heroism, however, saves his life. He meets Dumbledore again in death, and Dumbledore answers many of his questions. He is given a choice to stay or to go back, and he chooses to go back and fight. Its all over between Harry and Voldemort with just one spell. Harry is left alive, the true master of the Hallows, and Voldemort is killed for good. He now understands more than he ever has about love (which he loves Ginny), and life, and sacrifice, and in spite of the loss of many of his friends during the last battle, is grateful for the second chance hes been given at life, and love.