Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

SECTION 1 Letters Storm the Cupboard Boy Hundreds of letters chase a family to a rock in the sea For ten years, Harry Potter 1 sleeps in a cupboard under the stairs at number four, Privet Drive.

SECTION 1 Letters Storm the Cupboard Boy Hundreds of letters chase a family to a rock in the sea For ten years, Harry Potter 1 sleeps in a cupboard under the stairs at number four, Privet Drive. His Aunt Petunia 13 and Uncle Vernon 12 treat him as a servant; his cousin Dudley 14 uses him as a punching bag. Harry 1 wears Dudley's 14 cast-offs, has never had a birthday card, and believes his parents died in a car crash. Strange things happen around him — his hair grows back overnight after a bad cut, he teleports onto a school roof — but no one explains why. Then, shortly before his eleventh birthday, a letter arrives addressed to his cupboard. Uncle Vernon 12 burns it. More come — through the mail slot, inside eggs, down the chimney by the dozen — until Vernon 12 packs the family into a car and flees to a shack on a desolate rock in the sea, certain he has finally outrun them. <div

SECTION 2 The Giant at Midnight A gamekeeper reveals Harry's parents were murdered by a wizard At the stroke of midnight on Harry's 1 eleventh birthday, the shack door crashes off its hinges. Hagrid 5 — twice the height of a normal man, with hands like trash-can lids — has come to deliver Harry's 1 Hogwarts acceptance letter personally. He is stunned to discover the Dursleys never told Harry 1 the truth: he is a wizard, his parents were celebrated magical people, and they were murdered by the dark wizard Voldemort 8 — not killed in a car crash. Most astonishing of all, baby Harry 1 somehow survived Voldemort's 8 killing curse, an event that destroyed the dark wizard's power and made Harry 1 a legend throughout the wizarding world. When Uncle Vernon 12 forbids Harry 1 from attending Hogwarts, Hagrid 5 bends Vernon's 12 rifle into a knot and gives Dudley 14 a pig's tail for good measure. <div

SECTION 3 Gold, Wands, and Vault 713 Harry's new wand shares its core with Voldemort's Hagrid 5 steers Harry 1 through a pub called the Leaky Cauldron, where every patron scrambles to shake the famous boy's hand, into Diagon Alley — a hidden cobblestone street teeming with cauldron shops, broomstick displays, and an apothecary selling dragon liver. At the goblin-run bank Gringotts, deep beneath London, Harry 1 discovers his parents left him a vault heaped with gold. Hagrid 5 also retrieves a grubby…