Realising Malfoy's ruse, they hide in a forbidden corridor and discover a gigantic three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor. Hermione, unable to stop them, tags along. Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into risking expulsion by leaving their common room after curfew. Harry comes to dislike Potions master Severus Snape, who favours Slytherin while seeking to fail Harry. Harry's broomstick flying ability earns him a place on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the Seeker. Draco joins Slytherin, known for producing dark wizards, while Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted into Gryffindor. At Hogwarts, a magical Sorting Hat sorts the first years among four school Houses ( Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin) that best suit their personalities and talents. Harry runs afoul of Draco Malfoy, the spoiled son of a prominent wizard. On the journey to Hogwarts, Harry befriends fellow first year Ron Weasley and meets Hermione Granger, whom the two boys initially dislike. A month later, Harry boards the Hogwarts Express at King's Cross railway station's secret Platform 9¾. Hagrid gifts Harry an owl as a birthday present. The cores of Harry and Lord Voldemort's wands have feathers from the same phoenix bird, making them "brothers". Harry's parents have left him a fortune kept in Gringotts Wizarding Bank, which he uses to buy school supplies and a wand from Ollivander's. Hagrid escorts Harry to Diagon Alley, the hidden wizard commerce and retail section in London. Unknown to Harry, this act made him famous in the wizarding world. Harry survived Voldemort's killing curse that rebounded and seemingly destroyed the Dark Lord, leaving a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. When Harry was one year old, an evil and powerful dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, murdered his parents.
On Harry's eleventh birthday, a half-giant named Rubeus Hagrid personally delivers an acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, revealing that Harry's parents, James and Lily Potter, were wizards. Harry Potter lives with his abusive aunt and uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, and their bullying son, Dudley.
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The Harry Potter series has been used as a source of object lessons in educational techniques, sociological analysis and marketing. While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues, as well as overcoming obstacles like bullies. The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter and the ancient Greek story-teller Homer. Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters seemed rushed. The novel has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it the third best-selling book of all time. It has been translated into at least 73 other languages and has been made into a feature-length film of the same name, as have all six of its sequels. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 19. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US.
It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school and with the help of his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old. The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J.
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