He is constantly busy trying to stay on top of the mounds of homework, as well as participating in weekly Quidditch practices.Д®leven years ago, wizards rejoiced all over the world, and Muggles non-magic folk were confused. After the troll incident, the three become inseparable, and Harry is amazed to have found such great friends. 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.

However, everything Hagrid tells him turns out to be true, and with a joyful heart Harry starts wizarding school in September.

When he was an infant, the evil Lord Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to kill Harry too. Harry Potter is the most miserable, lonely boy you can imagine. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. From a young age, Harry is told that his parents were killed in a car crash but has no other information about them, not even a photograph. After ten years, Harry has grown to become a pale, skinny boy with black hair that sticks up all over the place and bright green eyes. Because Harry does not have any other living relatives, Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, decides to leave him with the Dursleys until he is old enough to attend Hogwarts. Harry becomes the only living person ever to survive the killing curse, and the only sign of his encounter with Voldemort is a unique lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. Lily and her husband, James Potter, had been murdered by the dark wizard, Voldemort, but when Voldemort attempted to kill Harry, his power somehow broke. The novel opens with a description of the Dursley family, a middle-class family that lives in Little Whinging, Surrey. Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K.

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