Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter is the most miserable, lonely boy you can
imagine. He’s shunned by his relatives, the Dursley’s, that have
Author J. K. Rowling
raised him since he was an infant. He’s forced to live in the
cupboard under the stairs, forced to wear his cousin Dudley’s Original title (if not in Harry Potter and the
hand-me-down clothes, and forced to go to his neighbour’s English) Sorcerer's Stone
house when the rest of the family is doing something fun. Yes, Country United Kingdom
he’s just about as miserable as you can get. Language English
Series Harry Potter
Harry’s world gets turned upside down on his 11th birthday,
however. A giant, Hagrid, informs Harry that he’s really a Genre(s) Fiction
wizard, and will soon be attending Hogwarts School of Publisher Bloomsbury
Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry also learns that, in the July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2,
Released
wizarding world, he’s a hero. When he was an infant, the evil 1999 (US)
Lord Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to kill Harry Preceded by None
too. What’s so amazing to everyone is that Harry survived, and
'Harry Potter and the
allegedly destroyed Voldemort in the process. Followed by
Chamber of Secrets '
When Harry hears all this, he doesn’t know what to think. However, everything Hagrid tells him turns out to be
true, and with a joyful heart Harry starts wizarding school in September. He quickly becomes best friends with a
boy named Ron Weasley, and before they even make it to Christmas, they break tons of school rules when they
attack a troll and prevent it from killing fellow student Hermione Granger. After the troll incident, the three
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 Sorcerer’s
Stone, is being hidden in the school, although they don’t know why. When one of the professors starts acting as
if he’s 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, he’s
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. He’s able
to save the Sorcerer’s Stone, although he’s 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 Dursley’s for the summer feeling as if he’s finally found a place where he really
belongs.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

It’s been another long summer at the Dursley’s for Harry
Potter. He can’t wait to get back to Hogwarts and is counting
down the days until he can return. He’s surprised when, on his Author J. K. Rowling
birthday, a strange elfish creature named Dobby shows up Country United Kingdom
with dire warnings for Harry: He must not return to Hogwarts! Language English
Series Harry Potter
When Harry refuses to stay home from school, Dobby lands
Genre(s) Fiction
him in heaps of trouble with the Dursley’s, who lock Harry up
in his room and refuse to let him out. Before Harry can sink too Publisher Bloomsbury
far into despair, however, Ron Weasley and his two brothers, Released July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2, 1999 (US)
twins Fred and George, come to his rescue in a flying car and 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Preceded by
spirit him back to their house, where Harry is thrilled to spend Stone'
the remainder of the summer. 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Followed by
Azkaban'
Thus starts an eventful second year for Harry Potter. Between
having to cope with more homework than ever, a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who is vain and
convinced Harry is too, and a mysterious voice he keeps hearing in the walls, Harry’s days are nothing if not
interesting.

As the school year progresses, however, the mysterious voice Harry keeps hearing is getting more and more
menacing, and soon vicious attacks start happening to the students of Hogwarts. When Harry discovers, quite by
accident, that he is a Parslemouth and can speak to snakes, he’s quickly singled out as Slytherin’s 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 they’re disappointed when they find out from Draco that he is not the one they’re 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
Ron’s 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 they’re 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 Slytherin’s 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 can’t 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.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry starts off his third year at Hogwarts rather eventfully
when he inadvertently blows up his Aunt Marge, goes on the
Author J. K. Rowling
run, and is then personally absolved by the Minister of Magic
himself. He then learns that mass murderer, Sirius Black, is Country United Kingdom
intent on killing him, and Mr. Weasley makes him promise a Language English
strange thing, that no matter what he hears he won’t go Series Harry Potter
looking for Black. Confused, Harry agrees.
Genre(s) Fiction
As he heads back to school armed with this knowledge, he Publisher Bloomsbury
learns that dementors, evil, soul-sucking creatures, have been Released July 8, 1999 (UK), September 8,
stationed around Hogwarts to protect the students from 1999 (US)
Black. The dementors affect Harry much more than the other 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Preceded by
students because of his terrible past, and he quickly resolves Secrets'
to learn to defend himself when he begins collapsing every Followed by 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'
time they come near. He finds a willing teacher in Professor
Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, who begins teaching Harry the Patronus Charm, which
is the only spell that will work against the foul creatures.

As the school year progresses, the third year students are buried under piles of homework. Hermione is already
stressed out due to her enormous course load, and none of them can figure out how she’s getting to all her
classes. It doesn’t help that Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks, repeatedly tries to eat Ron’s rat, Scabbers, causing the
two friends to argue ceaselessly about the animals. They stop speaking entirely when it’s 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, Ron’s 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. He’s 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, Harry’s favorite teacher, ends up resigning his post when it’s discovered that he’s a werewolf.
He narrowly avoids attacking the kids, and it’s Sirius that saves their lives when he turns into a huge shaggy dog
to protect them.

It’s an action-packed year to be sure, but Harry is very happy that Sirius makes it out safely and is finally free from
Azkaban. He’s comforted by the fact that he finally has a family-member, so to speak, out there watching over
him.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry can’t believe it. The Weasley’s have invited him to the
Quidditch World Cup, which means he’ll get to leave the
Author J. K. Rowling
Dursley’s house early and go see a game that anyone would
kill to see. Country United Kingdom
Language English
The game is intense, but not just because of the stellar players Series Harry Potter
and non-stop action. Voldemort’s servants, the Death Eaters,
Genre(s) Fiction
make an appearance and the wizarding world is shocked when
Voldemort’s sign appears in the sky after the game. Publisher Bloomsbury
Released July 8, 2000
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione finally make it back to 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Hogwarts a few weeks later, they’re shocked to find that the Preceded by Azkaban'
school is the host of the Triwizard Tournament this year. That's 'Harry Potter and the Order of the
a competition between the three wizarding schools of Followed by Phoenix'
Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbatons. The goblet of fire
choses one champion for each school. There, they also learn, that there is an new teacher for the subject Defence
Against the Dark Arts. It´s Mad-Eye-Moody, an ex-auror. When the students from the other schools arrive in
October, the students begin putting their name in the Goblet of Fire in order to be chosen at Halloween as their
school's champion. The champion of Hogwarts is Cedric Diggory, the champion of Durmstrang is Victor Krum, a
famous Quidditch-player and the champion of Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacour. Harry is shocked beyond belief
when, in spite of his inability to compete because of his age, he’s chosen as the fourth school champion.

What’s even worse is that Ron doesn’t believe that Harry didn’t 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 Harry’s side is Hermione.

In the tournament, the champions must steal a golden eye from a dragon. Harry accomplish this task and the
hazard of the fight against the dragon convinces Ron, that Harry had always told the truth and he reconcile with
him.

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, he’s 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 doesn’t find
a way to accomplish what he’s 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.

In the final task of the tournament, the champions are in a knot garden, they need to look for the Winner´s Cup.
The plants which build the maze caught Cedric, the other champion of Hogwarts, but Harry helps him. Harry and
Cedric decide to be jointly the winner, so they put their hands on the winner´s cup, but in this moment they are
transported to a graveyard where Cedric is killed by Wormtrail. Harry witnessed Voldemort’s return to power,
and barely makes it back to Hogwarts alive, clutching Cedric’s body.

Back at Hogwarts, Professor Moody comforts him, but then Harry discovers, that he is a traitor, who infiltrated
Hogwarts in order of Voldemort. He’s a Death Eater who transmuted his body with Polyjuice Potion. Harry warns
Dumbledore and the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge about the occurrence wit Voldemort, but only
Dumbledore believes him. He starts to arrange the defense for the return of the dark lord.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It's been another long, hot summer at the Dursleys' for Harry
Potter. Having spent most of it in an adolescent "funk" of
Author J.K. Rowling
depression and bitterness over the lack of informative letters
from his friends about Voldemort's return, he's suddenly Jason Cockcroft (UK),
Cover Artist
jolted out of his bad mood when two Dementors show up in Mary GrandPré (US)
the town of Little Whinging and attack Harry and his cousin, Language English
Dudley. When Harry uses magic to drive them off, however, Bloomsbury (UK),
he quickly receives a succession of owls from the Ministry, Publisher
Scholastic Press (US)
requiring him to attend a disciplinary hearing. His heart sinks Released June 21, 2003
when he reads that the question of whether to expel him from
Hogwarts will be decided at the hearing. Media Type Hardback
Preceded by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry is exonerated at the hearing but when Harry finally Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
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manages to make it back to school, he finds things are Prince
different than when he left. Hagrid's missing, there are skeletal
horses pulling the school carriages that only he can see, and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is
none other than toadlike, repulsive Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry representative whom Harry is all too familiar
with.

Even worse is the constant mutterings of the other students. Having spent all summer discrediting both Harry
and Dumbledore, the Ministry has succeeded in convincing everyone they're both crazy and that Voldemort's
return is nothing but a figment of their imagination.

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.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts opens to find him more mellow
and grown up than ever. The death of Sirius Black has left an
Author J. K. Rowling
indelible mark on him, and he's more determined than ever to
put an end to Voldemort and his Death Eaters. He's happy to Country United Kingdom
escape the tyranny of the Dursley's early in the summer when Language English
Dumbledore picks him up to attend to a mysterious errand, Series Harry Potter
which ends up in Harry's persuading ex-professor, Horace Genre(s) Fiction
Slughorn, to come out of retirement to teach at Hogwarts
again. Publisher Bloomsbury
Released 16 July, 2005
When the day finally arrives, Harry is as usual overjoyed to be ISBN ISBN-0747581088
back at school. He's been made Quidditch Team Captain. Harry Potter and the Order of the
However, Harry and his friends are dismayed to find out that Preceded by Phoenix
Professor Severus Snape has finally achieved his burning
Harry Potter and the Deathly
desire to become Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Followed by
Hallows
Harry is excited to be taking private lessons with Dumbledore
this year, who is showing him all about Voldemort's past. Dumbledore hopes that knowing as much as he can
about Voldemort will help Harry in his final battle with the Dark Lord.

A mysterious book previously owned by the Half-Blood Prince comes into Harry's hands early on during his Potions
class and changes the course of his school year by giving him a 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 Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
journey to defeat Voldemort for good. The Dursely’s are
forced to go into hiding so that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will
Author J. K. Rowling
not torture them for information, and Harry sets off with Ron
and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last Country United Kingdom
of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been Language English
destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed. Series Harry Potter
Genre(s) Fiction
It’s not easy. Harry is plagued with rumors of Dumbledore’s
past, and begins to wonder if the Headmaster he so long Publisher Bloomsbury
revered might have had a much darker past than he ever let Released 21 July, 2007
on. The three are frequently without food, and with winter ISBN ISBN 0545010225
coming their journey is no day at the beach. Because of their Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
lack of plan, lack of food, and lack of progress, their spirits are Preceded by
Prince
often low, and Ron especially becomes argumentative. One
night he and Harry get into an epic fight and Ron leaves to go back home.

Harry and Hermione are devastated that he’d abandoned them. They finally decide to revisit Godric’s Hollow in
search of clues, and once again they’re almost caught by Voldemort. Every step they make, it seems, he is there
anticipating them. They’ve 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 Harry’s life in the nick of time. They manage
to destroy another Horcrux with Gryffindor’s 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, it’s his one chance to beat Voldemort and live to tell the tale.

As his adventures and the danger he’s 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.

It’s 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 he’s been given at life, and love.