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Mr. Vernon Dursley, director of a firm called Grunnings, and Mrs Petunia Dursley live at Privet Drive
no. 4, with their son Dudley.
On his way, to work, Mr. Dursley sees strange events.
During lunch he hears strangers whispering, catching the name "Potter" and "Harry", and someone saying
You-Know-Who has gone at last.
At home he suspects they are talking about his nephew "Harry".
A man arrives in their street late at night. It is Albus Dumbledore. With his Put-Outer he turns off the
street lights. He starts talking to a cat. Suddenly the cat is gone and Professor McGonagall is standing in
its place.
They start talking about what happened that day and saying that even the Muggles must have noticed
something is going on. The muggles had seen flocks of owls and shooting stars; likely brought about by
Dedalus Diggle.
Dubledore states that the night before, Voldemort turned up in Godric's Hollow to find Lily and James
Potter, which are rumoured to be dead.
Dubledore tells the professor that he came to bring the Potter's son (Harry) to his aunt and uncle, the
Dursleys
Hagrid turn's up on a motorbike, borrowed from Sirius Black, bringing Harry. Harry has a lightning bolt
scar on his forehead. They leave him in front of the Dursleys door.
Ten years have passed and Harry is almost eleven. On Dudley's birthday, the family plans an outing to
the zoo. On family outings, Harry would normally be made to stay with a neighbor, Mrs. Figg. But Mrs.
Figg broke her leg, and neither Vernon Dursley's sister Marge or her friend Yvonne can keep Harry so he
has to go with Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, Dudley and Dudley's best friend Piers Polkiss to the zoo.
Harry talks to a boa constrictor (snake) and sets it free, making the glass from it's cage vanish.
School is over for the year and therefore so is 'Harry Hunting', a favourite 'sport' of Dudley's and his
friends Piers, Dennis, Malcolm and Gordon.
It is decided that next year Dudley will go to Uncle Vernon's old school, Smeltings. Harry will go to
Stonewall High.
A letter arrives for Harry in the post, but Uncle Vernon does not let him have it. The next days more
letters arrive. After the letters start coming through the chimney, Uncle Vernon decides they will leave
the house. The letters even arrive at the hotel they are staying in and they end up in a hut on an island.
Harry is counting down the seconds to midnight, his birthday. At exactly midnight someone bangs on the
door to their hut.
Hagrid, a giant man arrives. He introduces himself as the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts.
He finds out Harry knows nothing at all about his past and his parents' world, nor that his parents and he
are magical and he is famous.
In the morning, when Harry wakes up, an owl arrives bringing a newspaper. Harry pays it five Knuts
from Hagrid's pocket.
Hagrid reads in the newspaper that the Ministry of Magic wants Dumbledore for Minister, but as he
would never leave Hogwarts, Cornelius Fudge got the job as Minister of Magic.
On the list of things Harry has to buy are:
And finally
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set of brass scales
Harry and Hagrid arrive at the bar, the Leaky Cauldron, where they meet the bartender Tom, Doris
Crockford, Dedalus Diggle and Professor Quirell, a brilliant man who is said to have met vampires in the
Black Forest.
Through a hidden entrance in the wall behind the bar they enter Diagon Alley.
Harry hears other children talking in front of a store with broomsticks about the new "Nimbus Two
Thousand".
To buy Harry's school supplies, they go to the Wizard's bank Gringotts, where Harry's parents left him
their gold. They are attended to by goblins. They are taken down to the vault by a goblin cald Griphook.
Harry anxious waits for the end of the summer holidays. He names his owl Hedwig.
Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and Dudley take Harry to King's Cross, where he has to go to platform nine
and three-quarters to catch the train that will take him to Hogwarts.
The Dursleys leave, but Harry can't find the platform. Suddely he hears a woman talking about "muggles"
with 4 boys and a girl. The girl's name is Ginny. The boys' names are Percy, Fred, George and Ron. She
explains to Harry that he should 'walk right through the wall'.
After going through the wall he arrives on the platform where the Hogwarts Express is already waiting.
He hears a boy called Neville telling his grandmother that he lost his toad again.
Fred and George help Harry with his trunk. They realise who Harry is because of his scar.
Percy, with a silver badge on his chest with the letter "P" on it, can't stay long because he has to go to the
prefect's compartments.
Ron joins Harry in his compartment and they start talking. Harry learns Ron has 2 other brothers, Bill and
Charlie. Ron got Percy's old rat Scabbers.
During their trip a women comes by selling Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing
Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and other strange things.
Harry buys them both some of everything.
The chocolate frogs have collectors cards in them featuring Famous Witches and Wizards. Ron's still
missing Agrippa and Ptolemy.
Harry has gotten a card with a photo of Albus Dumbledore. The card reads:
Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his
defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945 , for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood,
and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music
and tenpin bowling.
They finally enter Hogwarts and are greeted by Professor McGonagall. In the Great Hall they will first
undergo the Sorting Ceremony using the Sorting Hat, an old wizard's hat.
While they wait, about 20 ghosts pass by; among them the "Fat Friar", an old Hufflepuff student, talking
about "Peeves", the poltergeist.
The students notice the strange ceiling of the Great Hall, dotted with stars. Hermione tells those around
her that the ceiling was bewitched to look like the sky outside. She read it in Hogwarts, a History.
Harry, Ron and Hermione are all sorted into Gryffindor, along with Lavender Brown, Seamus Finnigan,
Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas. Sorted into Hufflepuff are Hanna Abbott, Susan Bones and
Justin Finch-Fletchley. Sorted into Ravenclaw are Terry Boot, Mandy Brocklehurst and Lisa Turpin.
Slytherin House's new students will be Millicent Bullstrode, Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Blaise
Zabini.
During dinner they meet Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, also known as Nearly Headless Nick,
resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower, who tells them about the Bloody Baron, the Slytherin House ghost.
Neville tells a story about how he learned to fly, taught by his Great Auntie Enid and Great Uncle Algie.
Hermione is talking to Percy about Transfiguration.
Seated at the head table are Hagrid, Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Quirrell,
and a teacher with a hooked nose, named Professor Snape, who teaches Potions and who knows a lot
about the Dark Arts.
Dumbledore tells the students that he was asked by Mr. Filch, the caretaker, to remind them that no
magic may be used between classes in the corridor.
After dinner, going to Gryffindor Tower, they are harassed by Peeves the poltergeist. They have to enter
Gryffindor Tower through a portrait of a Fat Lady by saying the password, "Caput Draconis"
During breakfast, Harry gets his Nimbus Two Thousand by owl-post. Draco, seizing the package, is
startled to find out from Professor Flitwick that Harry is allowed a broom, while no first year is allowed
to have one at school. He himself has a 'simple' Comet Two Sixty at home.
At night Harry has his first Quidditch training. Oliver wood teaches Harry the rules: There are seven
players on each team. Three of them are Chasers. The chasers have to throw the Quaffle, a large ball,
through one of the hoops to score a goal, getting ten points for every goal. There's one Keeper on each
Harry is scheduled to play in his his first Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Hermione
lends him the book Quidditch Through the Ages. Professor Snape takes away his book. When they want
to get back the book, they find out that one of his Snape's legs is bloody and mangled. They suspect that
he tried to get past the three-headed dog.
Quidditch starts in the afternoon. Lee Jordan is doing the commentary for the match. Marcus Flint is the
captain and chaser of Slytherin's team. Adrian Pucey is also a Slytherin Chaser. Terence Higgs is the
Slytherin Seeker and Bletchley is Keeper. For Gryffindor, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet and Katie
Bell are Chasers. Oliver Wood is Keeper and Fred and George Weasley are the team's Beaters. Harry has
his first live match experience with it's Bludgers, Quaffle and the Snitch.
During the game Harry's Nimbus Two Thousand is going crazy, almost throwing Harry off. Meanwhile,
Hermione discovers Snape muttering words and believes he must be jinxing the broom. She speeds over
to Snape to prevent Harry falling, knocking Professor Quirrell head first into the row in front of him. She
sets fire to Snape's robes, managing to distract Snape and thereby getting Harry safe to the ground.
Hagrid accidently tells them that the three-headed dog, which he had named Fluffy, is his. He tells them
that Snape would never try to steal what Fluffy is guarding and that "it's none of their business; that all of
this is between Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel". Then he realizes he told them more than he had
intended to.
During the Christmas holidays, Harry will stay at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione are trying to find
more about Nicolas Flamel in books like "Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century", "Notable Magical
Names of Our Time", "Important Modern Magical Discoveries" and "A Study of Recent Developments in
Wizardry".
They do not find him in any of the common books. Students are not allowed to look in the Restricted
Section of the library without special permission in the form of a signed note from one of the teachers.
Without this, the librarian, Madam Pince will never let them look there.
During holiday Ron teaches Harry Wizard Chess.
Harry has nightmares about his parents disappearing in a flash of green light, while a high voice cackles
with laughter.
Harry finds out that Snape will be referee for his next Quidditch match. He tells Ron and Hermione, who
tell him he should not play. At that moment Neville topples into the common room, his legs stuck
together by a Leg-Locker Curse, put on him by Draco Malfoy. Comforting him, Neville gives Harry back
a Famous Witches and Wizard card from one of the chocolate frogs they gave him to comfort him, and
suddenly Harry reads and remembers he saw Flamel's name on this card before.
Hermione gets a book from her room and they read about Flamel. He is the only known maker of the
Sorcerer's Stone which can transform any metal into pure gold and also produces the Elixer of Life,
which will make the drinker immortal. Flamel's wife's name is Perenelle. They suspect that the three-
headed dog must be guarding Flamel's Sorcerer's Stone.
Harry, Ron and Herminone practice the Leg-Locker Curse ¤ Locomotor Mortis in case they need to use it
on Professor Snape.
During a Quidditch match Ron and Neville have a fight with Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle.
After the match he follows Snape sneaking into the forbidden forest and listens to him talking to Quirrell.
Harry, Ron and Hermione study for their final exams. While looking up Dittany in One Thousand
Magical Herbs and Fungi they meet Hagrid in the library, hiding something behind his back. Trying to
figure out what he's hiding, Ron looks in the section where Hagrid was looking, and comes back with
books like Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland, From Egg to Inferno and A Dragon Keeper's
Guide. They suspect that Hagrid wants to have a Dragon. It is against the law to keep a Dragon, as
dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlock's Convention of 1709. Ron says there's still Dragons in
Britain, two known species being the Common Welsh Green and the Hebridean Black.
Apparently Neville heard Malfoy's story and told Professor McGonagall. She is furious, leading Neville
with her. She takes fifty points per student from Gryffindor House and gives them detention. Everybody
in school is angry at them (exept the Slytherin students) because they all wanted one of the three other
houses to win the House Cup, and Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville has lost Gryffindor a great deal of
points at one time.
About a week before exams, Harry overhears Quirrell and Snape talking, and they suspect that Snape
now knows how to get by all the obstacles that are protecting the Sorcerer's Stone.
The next morning they are told that their detention will be at eleven o'clock at night. Harry, Neville,
Hermione and also Malfoy who got detention earlier have to go with Hagrid and Fang into the forbidden
forest. They start following a trail of silver Unicorn blood. A unicorn has been hurt badly, the second
time in one week since Hagrid found one dead last wednesday.
Draco and Neville go with Fang, while Harry and Hermione go with Hagrid. Harry wonders if a
werewolf could be killing unicorns but Hagrid says they're not fast enough.
They encounter Ronan and Bane, centaurs. They do not respond to Hagrid's inquiry of the wounded
unicorn
They see red sparks in the sky, meaning the others are in trouble, and Hagrid speeds over there while
Harry and Hermione wait on the spot. It only was Malfoy frightening Neville who shot the sparks. Now
Harry has to go with Draco and Fang, while Hermione and Neville go with Hagrid.
They find the dead unicorn. Suddenly, out of the shadows, a hooded figure comes crawling across the
ground, and starts to drink the unicorn's blood. Malfoy screams, the creature comes quickly toward Harry
who is transfixed to the spot. Harry feels a screaming pain in his forehead, as if his Scar was on fire.
After a while he comes to and finds a centaur standing over him. His name is Firenze.
While he takes Harry back to Hagrid he explains that drinking unicorn blood is a monstrous thing to do.
That from the moment the blood touches the lips of the one who slayed the beast, he will lead a cursed
life. He goes on to tell Harry that only someone who is desparate and needs the blood to stay alive long
The final exams of the first year begin. They have been given special new quills for the exam, bewitched
with an Anti-Cheating spell. Professor Flitwick has them make a pineapple tapdance across the desk, and
Professor McGonagall has them turn a mouse into a snuffbox and Professor Snape has them make a
Forgetfulness potion.
Their last exam is History of Magic. Hermione complains she needn't have learned about the 1637
Werewolf Code of Conduct or the uprising of Elfric the Eager.
Harry is worried about his hurting scar and restless, feeling he forgot something. Suddenly he
remembers. he wants to ask Hagrid about the dragon-egg. They hurry over to Hagrid's hut and start
questioning him about how, where and from who he got the egg. In the middle of the story Hagrid
mentions that he told the stranger, from who he won the egg in a bar, that it's easy to calm Fluffy down
by playing music.
Hurrying to tell everything to Dumbledore they run into Professor McGonagall who tell's them
Dumbledore was called to the Ministry of Magic and left.
Harry decides that he has to get to the Stone first. He will go that night. Ron and Hermione tell him they
will go with him. They wait until everybody has left the common room. Harry gets the Invisibility Cloak
and his flute from his room. When he gets back to the common room, Neville tries to prevent them from
going and breaking the school rules which would cost Gryffindor more house points. Hermione freezes
him with a full Body-Bind spell ¤ Petrificus Totalus.
They go to the forbidden room. The door is already open, meaning that Snape already got past Fluffy.
They manage to get past Fluffy, the three-headed dog, playing music on the flute, and enter through the
trap door. After a long fall they land on a bed of Devil's Snare, a plant. It is trying to entrap them.
Hermione sends a jet of bluebell flames on the plant to make it let go.
Next they come to a room with a locked door. Hermione tries an Alohomora charm but it does not work.
They see what appears to be birds flying abound them and then realize that what they see are winged
keys. Harry manages to catch the correct one and open the door.
After the key-room, they need to get through a room with life-sized chess pieces. Here they must play
real-time Wizard Chess. Ron has to sacrifice himself as a player in the game to get Harry and Hermione
to the other side.
Fluffy was Hagrids obstacle, the Devil's Snare was Professor Sprouts, The keys were Professor Flitwicks,
the chess Professor McGonagalls, leaving Quirrell's and Snape's obstacles still to be tackled.
Quirrell's turns out to have been a Troll blocking the way, but it already had been knocked out. Snape's
obstacle to guard the Stone is a set of potions, coming with a riddle to define the working of them.
Hermione unravels the logic, giving the potion that allows you to continue to Harry, and taking the potion
that allows her to go back. Harry takes the potion and steps through the fire-portal to enter the next room.
Quirrell, not Snape, turns out to be in the room. He has been the one going after the Sorcerer's Stone the
whole time. By magic, out of nowhere ropes spring out of thin air and wrapping Harry tightly. Behind
Quirrell is the Mirror of Erised.