J. K. Rowling published the first of the Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. On 26 June 1997. It tells the the story of Young orphan Harry Potter whose parents were murdered by the evil and powerful dark Wizard Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) when he was a child. Since then orphaned Harry has been living with his cold Muggle (non-magic human) uncle and aunt, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, with their spoiled and bullying son, Dudley who treat him more like a servant than a member of the family and force him to live in a cupboard under the stairs.
Things improve for Harry when Shortly before his eleventh birthday, a series of letters arrive, however Uncle Vernon destroys them before Harry can read them. To evade the pursuit of the letters, Vernon first takes the family to a hotel but, when the letters arrive there too, he takes the family to live on a small island. However half Giant Hagrid locates them and bursts through the door to deliver Harry’s letter and tells him what the Dursleys have kept from him: Harry is in fact a wizard and has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, a magically hidden shopping precinct in London. He also discovers a large deposit at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Guided by Hagrid, he buys the equipment he will need for his first year at Hogwarte then catches the Hogwarts Express from King’s Cross railway station. There he meets the Weasley family, who show him how to pass through the magic wall to Platform 9¾, where he boards the train to Hogwarts. During the journey, Harry befriends Ron Weasley, who tells him that someone tried to rob a vault at Gringotts Bank and they also meet Hermione Granger and fellow first year Draco Malfoy
At Hogwarts Harry meets Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape and half-giant Rubeus Hagrid and the first-years are allocated to houses by the Sorting Hat. the Hat suggests that Harry be placed into Slytherin which is known to house potential dark witches and wizards, but when Harry objects, the Hat sends him to Gryffindor, Slytherin’s rival house. Ron and Hermione are also sorted into Gryffindor. While Draco is sorted into Slytherin house. Harry and Ron then visit Hagrid (groundskeeper of Hogwarts), who lives in a cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. There they learn that the attempted robbery at Gringotts occurred the day Harry withdrew money from his vault.
During the first years’ first broom-flying lesson, fellow Gryffindor student Neville Longbottom has an accident and is rushed to the infirmary, meanwhile Draco steals Neville’s Remembrall and Harry Gives chase on his broomstick. Unbeknownst to Harry, Professor McGonagall, who is head of Gryffindor house, sees this and appoints him as the new Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team (Rugby on Broomsticks). Later on Draco then tricks Harry, Ron, Neville and Hermione, into a midnight excursion, and they accidentally enter a forbidden corridor and find a huge three-headed dog which is standing on a trapdoor guarding something. Later At the Halloween Feast, Professor Quirrell reports that a troll has entered the dungeons and Harry and Ron manage to save Hermione from the rampaging Troll. Afterwards Harry sees Snape receiving medical attention from Filch for a bite on his leg caused by the three-headed dog.
During Harry’s first game of Quidditch, Harry’s broomstick goes out of control, endangering his life. Luckily Harry regains control of his broom and catches the Golden Snitch, winning the game for Gryffindor. Hagrid refuses to believe that Snape was responsible for putting Harry in danger, but lets slip that he bought the three-headed dog (named Fluffy) and that the monster is guarding a secret that belongs to Dumbledore and a wizard named Nicolas Flamel. When Christmas break arrives, Harry and the Weasleys remain at Hogwarts while Hermione goes back home. For Christmas Harry receives the Invisibility Cloak which belonged to his father and also a flute from Hagrid. Harry uses the Cloak to search the library’s Restricted Section for information about the mysterious Flamel, and he happens to find a room containing the Mirror of Erised, which shows him his parents and several of their ancestors.
After Christmas During Spring Term Harry finds out that Nicholas Flamel is a 665 year old alchemist who possesses the only known Philosopher’s Stone, from which an elixir of life can be extracted, later on Harry eavesdrops on a private conversation between Snape and Quirrell about the Philosophers Stone. The three friends also discover that Hagrid is raising a baby dragon in violation of Wizarding law and arranges to smuggle it out of the country around midnight. Draco, informs Professor McGonagall and Harry, Hermione, Draco, and Neville are caught breaking their curfew and sent with Hagrid to save a badly injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest. However Harry and Draco find themselves in danger when theycome across a hooded figure drinking the blood of the injured unicorn. Harry is rescued by a centaur named Firenze, who offers to give him a ride back to the school. The centaur tells Harry that drinking a unicorn’s blood will save the life of a mortally injured individual, but at the price of having a cursed life from that moment on. Firenze suggests that it was the Evil wizard Voldemort who drank the unicorn’s blood to gain enough strength to make the elixir of life (from the Philosopher’s Stone), and regain full health by drinking it.
Harry suspects that Snape has tricked Dumbledore in order to steal the Philosophers Stone himself. Then Hagrid, accidentally tells Harry how to get past Fluffy the three headed guard dog. So Harry Ron and Hermione decide to try and stop him themselves, however they find themselves in great danger as they risk life and limb negotiating a series of deadly obstacles before discovering that Quirrell may also be mixed up in something sinister involving The dark Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers stone.
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