Harry Potter

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1 Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
2 Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets
3 Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
4 Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire
5 Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix
6 Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince
7 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows
8 External Links

Harry Potter and the

Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter is the most miserable,
lonely boy you can imagine. Hes
shunned by his relatives, the
Dursleys, that have raised him
since he was an infant. Hes forced
to live in the cupboard under the
stairs, forced to wear his cousin
Dudleys hand-me-down clothes,
and forced to go to his neighbours
house when the rest of the family
is doing something fun. Yes, hes
just about as miserable as you can
get.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Author

J. K. Rowling

Original title (if not in

Harry Potter and the
English)
Sorcerer's Stone
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English
Harry Potter
Fiction
Bloomsbury
July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2,
1999 (US)

Preceded by
Followed by

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'Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets '

Harrys world gets turned upside down on his 11th birthday, however. A
giant, Hagrid, informs Harry that hes really a wizard, and will soon be
attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry also learns that,
in the wizarding world, hes a hero. When he was an infant, the evil Lord
Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to kill Harry too. Whats so
amazing to everyone is that Harry survived, and allegedly destroyed
Voldemort in the process.
When Harry hears all this, he doesnt 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 Sorcerers
Stone, is being hidden in the school, although they dont know why. When
one of the professors starts acting as if hes 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, hes 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. Hes able to save the Sorcerers Stone,
although hes 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 Dursleys
for the summer feeling as if hes finally found a place where he really
belongs.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Its been another long summer at
the Dursleys for Harry Potter. He
cant wait to get back to Hogwarts
and is counting down the days
until he can return. Hes surprised
when, on his birthday, a strange
elfish creature named Dobby
shows up with dire warnings for
Harry: He must not return to
Hogwarts!
When Harry refuses to stay home
from school, Dobby lands him in
heaps of trouble with the
Dursleys, who lock Harry up in his
room and refuse to let him out.
Before Harry can sink too far into
despair, however, Ron Weasley
and his two brothers, twins Fred
and George, come to his rescue in
a flying car and spirit him back to
their house, where Harry is thrilled
to spend the remainder of the
summer.

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Preceded by

J. K. Rowling
United Kingdom
English
Harry Potter
Fiction
Bloomsbury
July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2, 1999 (US)
'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone'

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Thus starts an eventful second
'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
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year for Harry Potter. Between
Azkaban'
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, Harrys 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, hes quickly
singled out as Slytherins 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 theyre disappointed when
they find out from Draco that he is not the one theyre 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
Rons sister, Ginny, is kidnapped
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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
theyre 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 Slytherins 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 cant
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
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J. K. Rowling
United Kingdom
English
Harry Potter
Fiction
Bloomsbury
July 8, 1999 (UK), September 8, 1999
(US)

Preceded by

'Harry Potter and the Chamber of

Secrets'

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'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'
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Harry starts off his third year at Hogwarts rather eventfully when he
inadvertently blows up his Aunt Marge, goes on the run, and is then
personally absolved by the Minister of Magic himself. He then learns that
mass murderer, Sirius Black, is intent on killing him, and Mr. Weasley makes
him promise a strange thing, that no matter what he hears he wont go
looking for Black. Confused, Harry agrees.
As he heads back to school armed with this knowledge, he learns that
dementors, evil, soul-sucking creatures, have been stationed around
Hogwarts to protect the students from Black. The dementors affect Harry
much more than the other students because of his terrible past, and he
quickly resolves to learn to defend himself when he begins collapsing every
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 shes getting to all her classes. It
doesnt help that Hermiones cat, Crookshanks, repeatedly tries to eat Rons
rat, Scabbers, causing the two friends to argue ceaselessly about the
animals. They stop speaking entirely when its 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, Rons 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. Hes
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, Harrys favorite teacher, ends up resigning his post when its
discovered that hes a werewolf. He narrowly avoids attacking the kids, and
its Sirius that saves their lives when he turns into a huge shaggy dog to
protect them.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Its an action-packed year to be

sure, but Harry is very happy that
Sirius makes it out safely and is
finally free from Azkaban. Hes
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
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Harry cant believe it. The

Weasleys have invited him to the
Quidditch World Cup, which means
hell get to leave the Dursleys
house early and go see a game
that anyone would kill to see.

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The game is intense, but not just

because of the stellar players and
non-stop action. Voldemorts
servants, the Death Eaters, make
an appearance and the wizarding
world is shocked when Voldemorts
sign appears in the sky after the
game.

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Harry Potter
Fiction
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July 8, 2000
'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban'

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'Harry Potter and the Order of the
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Phoenix'

When Harry, Ron, and Hermione finally make it back to Hogwarts a few
weeks later, theyre shocked to find that the school will be hosting the
Triwizard Tournament this year. Its a competition between the three
wizarding schools of Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbatons. A champion is
chosen for each school and competes in very difficult challenges that test
their skill and daring.
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 as their
school's champion. Harry is shocked beyond belief when, in spite of his
inability to compete because of his age, hes chosen as the fourth school
champion.

Whats even worse is that Ron doesnt believe that Harry didnt 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 Harrys side is Hermione.
In the tournament, the first task of fighting dragons goes great for Harry, and
whats even better is that it convinces Ron that Harry was telling the truth all
along, and they become friends again.
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, hes 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 doesnt
find a way to accomplish what hes 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.
During the final task of the tournament, Harry and Cedric both tie for first
place, but as soon as they grasp the winner's cup, they are transported to a
creepy graveyard where Cedric is immediately killed and Harry tied up by
Wormtail. He witnesses Voldemorts return to power, and barely makes it
back to Hogwarts alive, clutching Cedrics body.
When he gets back he discovers that "Professor Moody",the new Defense
Against the Dark Arts teacher, was the traitor all along. Hes a magically
disguised Death Eater who risked everything to kidnap Harry for Lord
Voldemort. Harry tells Dumbledore what happened with Voldemort, and
although the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, doesnt believe Harry,
Professor Dumbledore begins to take steps to mobilize against Voldemort.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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It's been another long, hot
summer at the Dursleys' for Harry
Potter. Having spent most of it in
an adolescent "funk" of depression
and bitterness over the lack of
informative letters from his friends
about Voldemort's return, he's
suddenly jolted out of his bad
mood when two Dementors show
up in the town of Little Whinging
and attack Harry and his cousin,
Dudley. When Harry uses magic to
drive them off, however, he
quickly receives a succession of
owls from the Ministry, requiring
him to attend a disciplinary
hearing. His heart sinks when he
reads that the question of whether
to expel him from Hogwarts will be
decided at the hearing.

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J.K. Rowling
Jason Cockcroft (UK),
Mary GrandPr (US)

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Harry is exonerated at the hearing

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but when Harry finally manages to
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make it back to school, he finds
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things are different than when he
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carriages that only he can see,
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and the new Defense Against the
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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

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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
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 escape the
tyranny of the Dursley's early in
the summer when Dumbledore
picks him up to attend to a
mysterious errand, which ends up
in Harry's persuading ex-professor,
Horace Slughorn, to come out of
retirement to teach at Hogwarts
again.

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J. K. Rowling
United Kingdom
English
Harry Potter

When the day finally arrives, Harry

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is as usual overjoyed to be back at
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has finally achieved his burning
desire to become Defense Against
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the Dark Arts professor. Harry is
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lessons with Dumbledore this
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year, who is showing him all about
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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 Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry has finally come of age, and
finally started on his final journey
to defeat Voldemort for good. The
Durselys are forced to go into
hiding so that Voldemorts Death
Eaters will not torture them for
information, and Harry sets off
with Ron and Hermione on a
difficult quest to find and destroy
the last of Voldemorts Horcruxes.
Only once those have been
destroyed, Harry knows, can
Voldemort truly be killed.
Its not easy. Harry is plagued with
rumors of Dumbledores past, and
begins to wonder if the
Headmaster he so long revered
might have had a much darker
past than he ever let on. The three
are frequently without food, and
with winter coming their journey is
no day at the beach. Because of
their lack of plan, lack of food, and
lack of progress, their spirits are
often low, and Ron especially
becomes argumentative. One
night he and Harry get into an epic
fight and Ron leaves to go back
home.

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J. K. Rowling
United Kingdom
English
Harry Potter
Fiction
Bloomsbury
21 July, 2007
ISBN 0545010225

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
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Prince

Harry and Hermione are devastated that hed abandoned them. They finally
decide to revisit Godrics Hollow in search of clues, and once again theyre
almost caught by Voldemort. Every step they make, it seems, he is there
anticipating them. Theyve 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 Harrys
life in the nick of time. They manage to destroy another Horcrux with
Gryffindors 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, its his one chance to beat Voldemort and live to tell the tale.

As his adventures and the danger hes 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.
Its 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 hes been given at life, and
love.