HARRY POTTER
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone:
Before the start of the novel, Lord
Voldemort, the most evil and powerful dark wizard in history, murders married couple
James and Lily Potter but mysteriously disappears after
attempting to kill their infant son, Harry. While the wizarding world
celebrates Voldemort's downfall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor
McGonagall and half-giant Rubeus Hagrid place the one-year-old
orphan in the care of his surly and cold Muggle (non-magic human)
uncle and aunt, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, with their spoiled and
bullying son, Dudley.
Ten years later while
living in Four Privet Drive, Harry is tormented by the Dursleys, treated more
as a slave than a member of the family. Shortly before his eleventh birthday, a
series of letters addressed to Harry arrive but Vernon destroys them before
Harry can read them, leading only to an influx of more letters. In order to
evade the pursuit of the letters, Vernon first takes the family to a hotel and,
when the letters arrive there too, he drives them all, and hires a boat out to
a small island. On Harry's eleventh birthday at midnight, Hagrid bursts through
the door to deliver Harry's letter and tells him what the Dursleys have kept
from him: Harry is a wizard and has been accepted into Hogwarts. Hagrid
takes Harry to Diagon Alley, a magically concealed shopping
precinct in London, where Harry is bewildered to discover how famous he is
among witches and wizards as "the boy who lived." He also finds that
he is quite wealthy, since a bequest from his parents has remained on deposit
at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Guided by Hagrid, he buys the equipment he will
need for his first year at Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets..:
is the second novel in the Harry
Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling.
The plot follows Harry's second year
at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the
school's corridors warn that the "Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from
all-magical families. These threats are followed by attacks which leave
residents of the school "petrified" (frozen like stone). Throughout
the year, Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione
Granger investigate the attacks.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
is the third novel in the Harry
Potter series, written by J. K. Rowling.
The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with
friends Ron Weasley and Hermione
Granger, Harry investigates Sirius
Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban whom they believe is one of Lord
Voldemort's old allies.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
The book opens with Harry seeing Frank
Bryce being killed by Lord Voldemort in a vision, and is awoken
by his scar hurting. The Weasleys then take Harry and Hermione
Granger to the Quidditch World Cup, using a Portkey, to watch
Ireland versus Bulgaria, with Ireland emerging victorious. There, Harry
meets Cedric Diggory, who is attending the match with his father. After
the match, Voldemort's followers attack the site, destroying spectators' tents
and wreaking havoc. The Dark Mark gets fired into the sky, which leads to
a panic since it is the first time the sign has been seen in 13
years. Winky, Barty Crouch Senior's house elf, is blamed for casting
the Mark after she is found holding Harry's wand, which is revealed to have
been used to cast the Mark.
At Hogwarts, Professor
Dumbledore announces that Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody will
be the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the year, and also
that Hogwarts will host the Triwizard Tournament, starting in October, with a
prize of one thousand gold Galleons. However, only those over 17—the age
of majority in the wizarding world—will be allowed to enter. It is the
first time in 202 years that the Triwizard Tournament will be held. Students
from Beauxbatons Academy and the Durmstrang Institute, other wizarding
academies, will travel to Hogwarts, where they will stay for the year, in hopes
of competing. At Halloween, the Goblet of Fire picks Fleur
Delacour from Beauxbatons Academy; Viktor Krum (who is also
the Seeker on Bulgaria's Quidditch team) from Durmstrang Institute;
and Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts to compete in the tournament.
However, it additionally gives a fourth name—Harry Potter—leading to suspicion
and indignation from everyone, and magically binding Harry to compete. Ron is
jealous that Harry is once again in the limelight, and refuses to speak to
Harry.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
Severus Snape, a member of the Order of
the Phoenix, meets with Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother. He makes an Unbreakable
Vow with her to protect and assist Draco in his mission given by Lord
Voldemort.
Dumbledore takes Harry
to the home of Horace Slughorn, former Potions teacher
at Hogwarts and persuades him to return to teach. Harry is taken to
the Burrow, where Hermione has already arrived. The next morning they get
their O.W.L. results, and school supplies lists. Later, Ron
Weasley and Hermione Granger follow Draco to Dark
Arts supplier Borgin and Burkes. Harry is instantly suspicious of
Draco, whom he believes to be a Death Eater. The students return to school,
where Dumbledore announces that Snape would be teaching Defence Against
the Dark Arts this year, while Slughorn would resume his post as Potions
teacher. Harry now excels in Potions, thanks to having received a used Potions
textbook that once belonged to someone named "The Half-Blood Prince",
who wrote numerous tips and spells in his Potions textbook. The
"Half-Blood Prince"'s tips help Harry win a bottle of Felix Felicis,
or lucky potion, from his lessons. However, Harry's new-found brilliance in
potions angers Hermione and causes much tension between the two.
Believing that Harry needs
to learn Voldemort's past to gain advantage in a foretold battle, Dumbledore
schedules regular meetings with Harry, in which they use
Dumbledore's Pensieve to look at memories of those who have
had direct contact with Voldemort. Harry learns about Voldemort's
family and his evolution into apsychopath obsessed not only with
power, but with gaining eternal life. Using his Felix Felicis, Harry eventually
succeeds in retrieving one of Slughorn's memories about how he revealed the
secrets about splitting one's soul and hiding it in several objects called Horcruxes.
Dumbledore explains that two Horcruxes, including Riddle's Diary from Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, have already been destroyed but
that four others remain.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Following Dumbledore's death, Voldemort continues
to gain support and increase his power. Harry is about to turn seventeen, at
which point the protection he has at his aunt and uncle's house will be broken.
Before that can happen, Mad Eye Moody and other members of the Order of the
Phoenix move Harry to the Burrow, using Polyjuice Potion to impersonate him so
as to confuse any Death Eaters that may attack. They are indeed attacked
immediately after leaving Privet Drive; Mad Eye is killed, and George Weasley
wounded (his ear is cut off), but the rest arrive safely at the Burrow. Ron and
Hermione decide to accompany Harry, instead of returning to Hogwarts School for
their seventh year, to finish the quest Dumbledore started: to hunt and destroy
Voldemort's Horcruxes, four of which remain. They have little knowledge about
the remaining Horcruxes except that one is a locket once owned by Hogwarts'
co-founder Salazar Slytherin, one is possibly
a cup once owned by co-founder Helga Hufflepuff, a third may be connected with co-founder Rowena
Ravenclaw, and the fourth may be Nagini, Voldemort's snake familiar. The whereabouts of the founders' objects is unknown,
and Nagini is presumed to be with Voldemort. Before leaving, they attend Ron's
brother Bill's wedding to Fleur Delacour,
with Harry disguised by Polyjuice Potion, but the Ministry of Magic is taken over by Death Eaters and the wedding is
attacked, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione barely escape with their lives.