Philosopher's+Stone

This is the first book in the Harry Potter series. The story starts with a young boy who is an orphan living with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and cousin Dudley. A lot of strange things happens throughout Harry's life that cannot be explained and this gradually gets worse as he gets older. When he turns 11 a series of letters is sent to him but his Uncle gets rid of them before he has a chance to read them. Uncle Vernon takes them all to an island in the middle of the sea in order to escape these letters but as soon as they get there a half-giant called Hagrid knocks down the door and tells Harry that he is a wizard and that he has a place at Hogwart's school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After collecting all he needs for school from Diagon Alley and finding out that he is famous in the widarding world as the 'Boy who Lived', Harry is taken to King's Cross Station in London by Hagrid. Here he boards the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9¾ ﻿and meets the Weasley family. On the journey to Hogwarts, Harry makes friends with one of the Weasley children who is called Ron. Also on the Hogwarts Express Harry meets Draco Malfoy, along with his sidekicks Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, and it becomes clear that the pair do not get on well. When arriving at Hogwarts, all the new students are sorted into houses and Harry is put into Gryffindor. While having dinner, Harry meets other people who are in Gryffindor, including a girl called Hermione Granger. After settling into school life, Harry and his friends come across a forbidden corridor while exploring the castle one night which has a three-headed dog in it guarding a trap door beneath it. This leaves them wondering what's being guarded... While eating breakfast one morning, Ron teases Hermione and she runs off crying to the toilets. Next thing you know, Professor Quirrell runs into the Great Hall saying that a troll has entered the dungeons. While everyone is going back to their common rooms, Harry and Ron rush to the girl's toilets in order to warn Hermione about the troll. However when they get there, they find that the troll is in the toilets too and they end up fighting and beating it. From this point they become good friends with Hermione as they saved her. When talking to Hagrid, the trio find out that he was the one who bought the three-headed dog and that it's standing over a trap door as it's guarding a secret that belongs to Professor Dumbledore and someone called Nicolas Flamel. Using this information, Harry decides to look into who Nicolas Flamel is by using the invisibility cloak, that he got for Christmas, to search for books on him in the Restricted section in the library. After a close shave of almost getting caught by Filch, the schools caretaker, Harry finds himself in a mysterious room with a mirror in it. After being drawn to this room on several occasions, Dumbledore tell Harry that it is the Mirror or Erised which llow you to see the things that you long for the most. Harry does not try and find this mirror again and escapes its powers. Harry finally discovers who Nicolas Flamel is when looking at collectable card wrapped around a sweet. Nicolas is an alchemist who is 665 years old, and who also is the only man to have the only known Philosopher's Stone. This stone containers the elixir of life. After getting into trouble, Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Draco, are made to help Hagrid find a badly injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest. Not long after Harry and Draco are paired up and venture into the forest, a hooded figure appears and starts to drink the blood of the injured unicorn that they have just found. Draco runs away while Harry passes out after his feeling excruciating pain from his scar... When Harry awakes he is met by a centaur called Firenze who gives him a ride back to the school. On the journey Firenze tells Harry that drinking unicorn blood is able to save the life of a mortally injured person but they are barely alive. A few weeks later, Hagrid tells Harry that a hooded figure was buying him several drinks in the pub one night and Hagrid let slip to him about how to get past the three-headed dog guarding the trap door. Harry runs to tell Dumbledore that the Philosopher's Stone is no longer safe but finds that Dumbledore has just been called away to a meeting. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to go and save the stone themselves and so use the invisibility cloak one night to sneak to where the three-headed dog is... Once getting past the dog, the trio find themselves faced with a series of different rooms each with a different obstacle in it. After managing to defeat them all, Harry enters the last room which has the Mirror or Erised in it and discovers that Professor Quirell is the bad guy and is serving Voldemort to help him get the Philosopher's Stone. Quirell makes Harry stand infront of the mirror so it would show him where the Stone is. Harry's reflection shows himself putting the stone into his pocket and at the same time Harry feels the stone appearing in his pocket. Quirell removes his turban and reveals that Voldemort's face is on the back of Quirell's. Voldemort orders Quirell to get the stone off of Harry but everytime he touches Harry's skin it causes his own skin to burn. Harry passes out. When Harry wakes up he finds himself in the Hospital Wing. Dumbledore tells him that he was able to survive as Voldemort couldn't understand the power of such love Harry's mother had for him. And she had passed this onto him when she had sacrificed herself 11 years ago when Voldemort has gone to kill Harry when he was a baby. Dumbledore also tells him that Voldemort had disappeared and left Quirell to die but was likely to return in another way sooner or later. The stone gets destroyed.
 * __ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone __**

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