Ms. Rowling lives in Edinburgh with her girl.III. Synopsis ( Summary )Before the start of the novel. Voldemort. considered the most evil and powerful dark ace in history. putting to deaths Harry’s parents but cryptically vanishes after seeking to kill the baby Harry. While the wizarding universe celebrates Voldemort’s ruin. Professor Dumbledore. Professor McGonagall and Rubeus Hagrid topographic point the one year-old orphan in the attention of his inattentive and opprobrious Muggle ( non-wizard ) uncle and aunt: Vernon and Petunia Dursley. who besides have their ain boy. Dudley. a spoilt and selfish male child.
For ten old ages. Harry is repeatedly tormented by the Dursleys. Shortly before Harry’s 11th birthday. a series of letters addressed to Harry arrive. but Vernon destroys them before Harry can read them. To acquire off from the letters. Vernon takes the household to a little island. As they are settling in. Hagrid explosions through the door to state Harry what the Dursleys have kept him from happening out: Harry is a ace and has been accepted at Hogwarts. Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley. a magically-concealed shopping precinct in London. where Harry is bewildered to detect how celebrated he is among aces as “the male child who lived” . He besides finds that he is rather affluent. since a legacy from his parents has remained on sedimentation at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Guided by Hagrid. he buys the books and equipment he needs for Hogwarts. At the wand store. he finds that the wand that suits him best is the twin of Voldemort’s ; both wands contain plumes from the same Phoenix. [ 1 ]
A month subsequently Harry leaves the Dursleys’ place to catch the Hogwarts Express from King’s Cross railroad station. There he meets the Weasley household. who show him how to go through through the charming wall to Platform 9? . where the train is waiting. While on the train Harry makes friends with Ron Weasley. who tells him that person tried to rob a vault at Gringotts. During the drive they meet Hermione Granger. Another new student. Draco Malfoy. accompanied by his buddies Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. offers to rede Harry. but Harry dislikes Draco’s haughtiness and bias. Before the term’s first dinner in the school’s Great Hall. the new students are allocated to houses by the charming Sorting Hat. Before it is Harry’s bend. he catches Professor Snape’s oculus and feels a hurting in the cicatrix Voldemort left on his brow. When it is Harry’s bend to be sorted. the Hat wonders whether he should be in Slytherin. but when Harry objects. the Hat sends him to fall in the Weasleys in Gryffindor. While Harry is eating. he inquiries Ron’s older brother Percy about Snape.
After a awful first Potions lesson with Snape. Harry and Ron visit Hagrid. who lives in a countrified house on the border of the Forbidden Forest. There they learn that the attempted robbery at Gringotts happened the twenty-four hours Harry withdrew money. Harry remembers that Hagrid had removed a little bundle from the vault that was broken into and searched. During the new pupils’ foremost broom-flying lesson. Neville Longbottom breaks his carpus. and Draco takes advantage to throw the unretentive Neville’s fragile Remembrall high in the air. Harry gives pursuit on his broom handle. catching the Remembrall inches from the land. Professor McGonagall dashes out and appoints him as the new Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch squad. [ 2 ]
When Draco tricks Ron and Harry. accompanied by Neville and Hermione Granger. into a midnight jaunt. they by chance enter a out corridor and happen a immense three-headed Canis familiaris. The group hurriedly retreats. and Hermione notices that the Canis familiaris is standing over a trap-door. Harry concludes that the monster is guarding the bundle Hagrid retrieved from Gringotts. After Ron criticises Hermione’s pretentious proficiency in Charms. she hides in cryings in the girls’ lavatory. At the Halloween Night dinner. Professor Quirrell hurriedly reports that a troll has entered the keeps. While everyone else returns to their residence halls. Harry and Ron haste to warn Hermione. The troll corners Hermione in the lavatory but when Harry sticks his wand up one of its anterior nariss. Ron uses the levitation enchantment to strike hard out the troll with its ain nine. Afterwards. several professors arrive and Hermione takes the incrimination for the conflict and becomes a steadfast friend of the two male childs.
The eventide before Harry’s first Quidditch lucifer. he sees Snape having medical attending from Filch for a bite on his leg by the three-headed Canis familiaris. During the game. Harry’s broom handle goes out of control. jeopardizing his life. and Hermione notices that Snape is gazing at Harry and murmur. She dashes over to the Professors’ base. strike harding over Professor Quirrell in her hastiness. and sets fire to Snape’s robe. Harry regains control of his broom handle and catches the Golden Snitch. winning the game for Gryffindor. Hagrid refuses to believe that Snape was responsible for Harry’s danger. but lets slip that he bought the three-headed Canis familiaris. and that the monster is guarding a secret that belongs to Professor Dumbledore and person called Nicolas Flamel.
Harry and the Weasleys stay at Hogwarts for Christmas. and one of Harry’s nowadayss. from an anon. giver. is an Invisibility Cloak owned by his male parent. Harry uses the Cloak to seek the library’s Restricted Section for information about the cryptic Flamel. has to hedge Snape and Filch after an enchanted book shrieks an dismay. and slips into a room incorporating the Mirror of Erised. which shows his parents and several of their ascendants. Harry becomes addicted to the Mirror’s visions and is rescued by Professor Dumbledore. who explains that it shows what the spectator most desperately longs for.
When the remainder of the students return for the following term. Draco plays a buffoonery on Neville. and Harry consoles Neville with a Sweet. The collectable card wrapped with the sweet identifies Flamel as an alchemist. Hermione shortly finds that he is a 665-year-old adult male who possesses the lone known Philosopher’s Stone. from which can be extracted an elixir of life. A few yearss subsequently Harry notices Snape mousing towards the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest. There he half-hears a sneak conversation about the Philosopher’s Stone. in which Snape asks Professor Quirrell if he has found a manner past the three-headed Canis familiaris and threateningly Tells Quirrell to make up one’s mind whose side he is on. Harry concludes that Snape is seeking to steal the Stone and Quirrell has helped fix a series of defense mechanisms for it. which was an about fatal error.
The three friends discover that Hagrid is raising a babe firedrake. which is against charming jurisprudence. and arrange to smuggle it out of the state around midnight. Draco arrives. trusting to raise the dismay and acquire them into problem. and goes to state Professor McGonagall. Although Ron is bitten by the firedrake and is sent to the infirmary. Harry and Hermione spirit the firedrake safely off. However. they are caught. and Harry loses the Invisibility Cloak. As portion of their penalty. Harry. Hermione. Draco. and Neville ( who. seeking to halt Harry and Hermione after hearing what Draco had been stating. had been caught by McGonagall every bit good ) are compelled to assist Hagrid to deliver a badly-injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest.
They split into two parties. and Harry and Draco find the unicorn dead. surrounded by its blood. A hooded figure crawls to the cadaver and drinks the blood. while Draco shrieks and flees. The hooded figure moves towards Harry. who is knocked out by an agonizing hurting distributing from his cicatrix. When Harry regains consciousness. the hooded figure has gone and a centaur. Firenze. offers to give him a drive back to the school. The centaur tells Harry that imbibing a unicorn’s blood will salvage the life of a mortally injured individual. but at the monetary value of holding a curst life from that minute on. Firenze suggests Voldemort drank the unicorn’s blood to derive adequate strength to do the elixir of life from the Philosopher’s Stone. and regain full wellness by imbibing that. On his return. Harry finds that person has slipped the Invisibility Cloak under his sheets.
A few hebdomads subsequently. while loosen uping after the end-of-session scrutinies. Harry all of a sudden wonders how something every bit illegal as a dragon’s egg came into Hagrid’s ownership. The game warden says he was given it by a hooded alien who bought him several drinks and asked him how to acquire past the three-headed Canis familiaris. which Hagrid admits is easy – music sends it to kip. Gaining that one of the Philosopher’s Stone’s defense mechanisms is no longer secure. Harry goes to inform Professor Dumbledore. merely to happen that the schoolmaster has merely left for an of import meeting. Harry concludes that Snape faked the message that called Dumbledore off and will seek to steal the Stone that dark.
Covered by the Invisibility Cloak. Harry and his two friends go to the three-headed dog’s chamber. where Harry sends the animal to kip by playing a flute given to him by Hagrid for Christmas. After raising the trap-door. they encounter a series of obstructions. each of which requires particular accomplishments possessed by one of the three. and one of which requires Ron to give himself in a game of wizard’s cheat. In the concluding room Harry. now entirely. discoveries Quirrell instead than Snape.
Quirrell admits that he allow in the troll that tried to kill Hermione on Halloween. and that he tried to kill Harry during the first Quidditch lucifer but was knocked over by Hermione. Snape had been seeking to protect Harry and suspected Quirrell. Quirrell serves Voldemort and. after neglecting to steal the Philosopher’s Stone from Gringotts. allowed his maestro to possess him in order to better their opportunities of success. However the merely other object in the room is the Mirror of Erised. and Quirrell can see no mark of the Stone. At Voldemort’s command. Quirrell forces Harry to stand in forepart of the Mirror. Harry feels the Stone bead into his pocket and attempts to procrastinate. Quirrell removes his turban. uncovering the face of Voldemort on the dorsum of his caput. Voldemort/Quirrell tries to catch the Rock from Harry. but merely touching Harry causes Quirrell’s flesh to fire. After farther battles Harry passes out.
He awakes in the school infirmary. where Professor Dumbledore tells him that he survived because his female parent sacrificed her life to protect him. and Voldemort could non understand the power of such love. Voldemort left Quirrell to decease. and is likely to return by some other agencies. Dumbledore had foreseen that the Mirror would demo Voldemort/Quirrell merely themselves doing the elixir of life. as they wanted to utilize the Philosopher’s Stone ; Harry was able to see the Stone in the Mirror because he wanted to happen it but non to utilize it. The Stone has now been destroyed.
Harry returns to the Dursleys for the summer vacation. but does non state them that under-age aces are out to utilize charming outside Hogwarts. IV. Detailss V. Fictional charactersHarry Potter is an orphan whom Rowling imagined as a “scrawny. dark-haired. bespectacled male child who didn’t know he was a ace. ”Ron Weasley is Harry’s age and Rowling describes him as the ultimate best friend. “Always at that place when you need him. ”Hermione Granger. the girl of an all-Muggle household. is a autocratic miss who has seemingly memorised most of the text editions before the start of term. Neville Longbottom is a plump. diffident male child. so unretentive that his grandma gives him a Remembrall. Neville’s charming abilities are weak and appeared merely in clip to salvage his life when he was eight.
Hagrid. a half-giant about 12 pess ( 3. 7 m ) tall. with tangled black hair and face fungus. was expelled from Hogwarts and his wand was broken. but Professor Dumbledore let him remain on as the school’sgamekeeper. a occupation which enables him to shower fondness and favored names on even the most unsafe of charming animals. Professor Dumbledore. a tall. thin adult male who wears lunula eyeglassess and has silver hair and a face fungus that tucks into his belt. is the schoolmaster of Hogwarts. and thought to be the lone ace Voldemort frights. Professor McGonagall. a tall. severe-looking adult female with black hair tied in a tight roll. Teachs Transfiguration. and sometimes transforms herself into a cat. Petunia Dursley. the sister of Harry’s mother Lily. is a thin adult female with a long cervix that she uses for descrying on the neighbor. She regards her charming sister as a monster and attempts to feign that she ne’er existed.
Vernon is a heavily-built adult male whose choleric bluster covers a narrow head and a fright of anything unusual.Dudley is an corpulence. spoiled bully.Draco Malfoy is a slender. pale male child who speaks in a world-weary drawl. He is chesty about his accomplishment in Quidditch. and despises anyone who is non a pure blood ace – and aces who do non portion his positions. His parents had supported Voldemort. but changed sides after the dark wizard’s disappearing. Draco avoids direct confrontations. and attempts to acquire Harry and his friends into problem. Twitching. bumbling Professor Quirrell teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts. Reputedly he was a superb bookman. but his nervus was shattered by an brush with lamias. Quirrell wears a turban to hide the fact that he is voluntarily possessed by Voldemort. whose face appears on the dorsum of Quirrell’s caput. Professor Snape. who has a hooked olfactory organ. sickly skin color and oily black hair. Teachs Potions. but is eager to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts. Snape praises students in Slytherin. his ain House. but seizes every chance to mortify others. particularly Harry. Several incidents. get downing with the hiting hurting in Harry’s cicatrix near the terminal of the first dinner. lead Harry and his friends to believe Snape is a follower of Voldemort.
The school’s caretaker. Filch. knows the school’s secret passages better than anyone else except perchance the Weasley twins. His cat. Mrs. Norris. help his Hunts for misconducting students. Other members of Hogwarts staff include: the dumpy Herbology instructor Professor Sprout ; Professor Flitwick. the bantam and excitable Charms instructor. who is discreetly friendly towards Harry ; the soporificHistory of Magic instructor. Professor Binns. a shade who does non look to hold noticed his ain decease ; and Madam Hooch. the Quidditch manager. who is rigorous but a considerate. methodical instructor. The poltergeist Peeves wanders around the edifices doing problem for whomever he can.
