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Name- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Author- J.K. Rowling
[Main] Characters - Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Minevra McGonigall,
Draco Malfoy, The Dursleys , Rebeus Hagrid, [Professor] Qurirell, and of course, Voldemort.
Setting - England, during the 1990's
Plot - Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby, and he is
being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For some reason the bespectacled ten-year-old,
the Dursleys made him live in the small chamber under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a
family member. His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley's real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his
eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the future students of that supposedly
renowned school. Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry into the real
circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard
Voldemort protecting him. Harry still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. Since he
survived the attack as a baby, and also somehow deprived Voldemort from his powers, he has been famous
in the wizarding world ever since. The Dursleys, strong disbelievers in that magical crap, never told Harry
anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly surprised, yet absolutely happy to start his training. At
Hogwarts, Harry meets his teachers, and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The
three of them accidentally find out that the potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing something
that is...
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