The Books

Harry Potter

		The first volume in the Harry Potter tale is entitled “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” more commonly known as “Sorcerer’s Stone” The title of the book was edited for the US because Jo felt that people in the US would not identify a philosopher with a wizard. This book begins with Harry at 11 years old living with his evil Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, being told that his parents “died in a car wreck.” At this time Harry does not know that he is a wizarding legend. One day he receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He goes to the school and immersed
	in an entirely new world. He learns all about wizardry and is thrilled with his new life. As the story continues Harry learns about The Philosopher’s Stone and that whoever owns it with live forever. Harry hears about how it is being hidden in Hogwarts from someone who wants it for evil purposes. He knows Voldemort is after the stone. He overcomes many obstacles and prevents Voldemort from getting the stone, but Voldemort is still out there…
		The second volume of Harry Potter is entitled “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Harry goes back to school for a second time and things going great and normal for him, that is until, Ron’s little sister Ginny, is constantly nowhere to be found and can never remember where she has been or what she was doing. One night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione stumble upon a cat that has been petrified and a message written on the wall that reads “The Chamber of Secrets has been opened.” Harry then learns the tale of the Chamber and how whenever it is opened, wizards whose parents are not wizards, will dies because of the monster that lives inside of it. Harry then finds the diary of Tom Riddle, who was a student 50 years ago, the last time the Chamber had been opened.

	He begins to have a conversation with this diary because if he writes a question in it, it will answer. It sucks him into the diary to show him what happened last time the chamber was opened. He sees Tom and a dead girl being taken out of the school, Harry follows Tom to find him accusing Hagrid of opening the chamber, and setting the monster free, he was expelled from school for this. Harry returns to his own reality to go ask Hagrid about what really happened. Hagrid swears that Tom opened and tells him that the ghost in the girls bathroom is the ghost of the girl that died last time the chamber was opened. The ghost tells him how to get into the chamber and after Ginny is taken into the chamber, he goes in to save her. He gets in and finds Ginny unconscious, when Tom comes out of the shadows and reveals that he is the child soul version of Voldemort and that he was possessing Ginny through the diary. He then sets the Basilisk monster free, which is a gigantic serpent. The snake tries to kill Harry but Harry kills the snake with The Sword of Gryffindor that Dumbledore gives him. He takes the sword and kills the snake then takes the snake’s fang and stabs the diary. Tom disappears, while blood is pouring from the diary, and Ginny come back to life. All is well, for now.
		The third volume of Harry Potter is entitled “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” In this part Harry learns the true story of his parent’s death, and how they’re friend Sirius Black, betrayed them and told Voldemort where they were living so Voldemort could kill them which he does end up doing. Sirius has been in the wizarding prison, Azkaban, for 12 years now. He has now escaped, and coming for Harry. Harry goes back to his third year at Hogwarts, and the year is going as planned. Until one night when one of the magical portraits on the wall claims that she saw Sirius in the castle and that he attacked her..

	The rest of the year goes normally, but with everyone's suspicion as to where Sirius is. One night Ron's pet rat ,Scabbers, is attacked by a ferocious black dog and taken into a cavern under a willow tree, and Harry, Ron, and Herminone go after them. They end up in an old abandoned shack where they find Sirius, Professor Lupin, and Ron's rat. Sirius and Lupin are trying to kill the rat, and Ron gets in the way. Sirius performs a spell on the rat and it turns into a short, fat, human man, named Peter Pettigrew. Sirius explains that Peter can transform into an animal, just like Sirius who can turn into a dog. Sirius says how Peter framed Sirius for telling Voldemort where the Potters were hiding, when it was Peter who really did it. Peter then escapes eager to go and find Voldemort.
		The fourth volume of Harry Potter is entitled "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This book starts when Harry goes back to school to hear that Hogwarts will be hosting The Triwizard Tournament, which is where three champions from three different wizarding schools compete in three tasks for the title of Top Triwizard Champion. Harry would like to enter his name in the Goblet of Fire to be entered in the competition, but you must be 17 to enter. when the champions names are read, Harry's is the last name to be read. He does not know how he was entered or why he was chosen. HE then competes as the fourth champion. The first two tasks go well where he must fight off a fire-breathing dragon, and rescue his friends from evil mermaids. The third task is where the champions must find their way through a very dangerous maze to the Triwazard Cup trophy, and the first to touch it wins. Harry and Cedric

	touch it at the same time and are teleport out of the maze to an abandoned graveyard where they find Peter Pettigrew tending to a cauldron with a very tiny and weak Voldemort inside of it, Peter stabs Harry, takes his blood, and puts it in the cauldron. Then a fully-grown voldemort rises out of the cauldron. Voldemort then kills Cedric and deuls with Harry for about 5 minutes. Harry breaks away their wand connection and gets away. He grabs Cedric's lifeless body, and grabs the teleport Cup and end up back at Hogwarts. When they return nobody believes that Voldemort is back and that he killed Cedric, but he is most certainly back.
		The fifth volume in Harry Potter is entitled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." This volume begins with Harry at Hogwarts where his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Umbridge, is stepping in to take control of the school because of Harry's tale of Voldemort being back. So, she is no longer teaching defensive spells because she wants the children to think that they have nothing to defend themselves against. In a response to this lack of teaching, Harry & 20 other students for a group called "Dumbledore's Army," or The DA, so that they can learn spells to fight Voldemort with. One night Harry has a vision that Voldemort is torturing Sirius in The Department of Mysteries at The Ministry of Magic, because Voldemort wants the crystal ball mystery prophecy that tells why Voldemort could kill Harry when he was just a baby. So the DA goes to the
	Ministry, to fight Voldemort , and his loyal followers the Death Eaters. They arrive and fight. Dumbledore and The Order, who are the army that fought Voldemort last time he was in power, arrive to fight. But then Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater, kills Sirius. Voldemort also duels Dumbledore, but Voldemort escapes, but not without some Ministry Officials seeing Voldemort, so now everyone knows he's back.

The sixth volume of Harry Potter is entitled "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince." During his sixth year at Hogwarts, Dumbledore repeatedly shows parts of Voldemort's past to Harry, because he knows Harry will eventually have to fight Voldemort. Harry learns that Voldemort was an orphan soon after his birth, because his parents didn't want him, and why he likes to kill wizards who don't have wizarding parents, because his father was not a wizard and he despised his father for that. Harry also learns that Voldemort is staying alive using his Horcruxes, which are every items that hold a split part of Voldemort's soul. So, if he is killed while living off of one, he has another as a back-up. Dumbledore tells Harry that he must find the remaining four Horcruxes and destroy them. Dumbledore takes Harry to a cave on the coast of The Mediterranean Sea, to retrieve a Horcrux to destroy it. It is a locket that is hidden under neon green liquid that is very harmful if ingested. Dumbledore begins drinking the liquid and begins hallucenating and going insane. Once they get the locket Harry and Dumbledore teleport back to Hogwarts to find Death Eaters attacking the school. Dumbledore and Harry go into fight and Dumbledore is killed by Professor Snape. Then Snape and The Death Eaters flee to go find Voldemort.

The seventh and final volume of Harry Potter is entitled "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." This volume returns to Harry on his quest to destroy all of Voldemort's Horcruxes so that he can finally be killed after a long 75 years. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to not go back to Hogwarts for their final year, and instead decide to set out on a quest for the Horcruxes. They spend the first few months of Autumn & Winter traveling all around Europe living in a magically portable tent, looking for the Horcruxes and thinking about where they might be located. Until one night, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all kidnapped by Death Eaters and taken to Malfoy Manor, the Malfoys are a very powerful Death Eater family. The three of them escape from the manor, by Disaparating, or teleporting. They travel to Gringotts Wizard Bank to steal one of the Horcruxes from Bellatrix Lestrange's vault. They barely escape the back, on a dragon, and fly back to Hogwarts. They go back to find the last two Horcruxes, that they suspect are hidden inside the school, and also to detroy the crown Horcrux they stole from the bank. They destroy both the crown and the locket and locate one other Horcrux and destroy it as well. Harry then realizes that Voldemort's snake, Nagini, is the final Horcrux. The story ends with Harry killing Voldemort's snake, so that Voldemort will finally be able to be mortally killed. Harry ends up dueling Voldemort and he kills Voldemort. The Wizarding World lives happily ever after.