The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone HP 1 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone But doing so will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever could have imagined.įull of sympathetic characters, wildly imaginative situations, and countless exciting details, the first installment in the series assembles an unforgettable magical world and sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come. There is a dangerous secret object hidden within the castle walls, and Harry believes it's his responsibility to prevent it from falling into evil hands. Though Harry's first year at Hogwarts is the best of his life, not everything is perfect. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Īfter a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs.
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