Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone

...Plot Summary...

Harry Potter is seemingly an ordinary eleven-year-old boy, but is actually a wizard and a survivor of an attempted murderous attack by the evil dark Lord Voldemort, when Harry was just a year-old infant. Voldemort killed Harry's parents, but was surprisingly unable to kill the baby, and is nearly destroyed in the process. Harry was taken to live with his only remaining relatives the Dursley's, in an ordinary household with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley. The Dursley's are strongly opposed any sort of involvement with magic, and Harry is given the impression that his "ordinary" parents simply died in a car accident, and that he is just an ordinary boy. But on his eleventh birthday, Harry learns from an enormous, mysterious stranger called Hagrid that he is actually a wizard, and is in fact famous in the wizarding world for surviving Voldemort's attack. Harry is invited to begin attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In defiance of his aunt and uncle's wishes, Harry chooses to go to the school, where he begins to learn magic and make new friends (and enemies) among the Hogwarts students and staff. Harry learns that since Voldemort's attack on Harry ten years back, Voldemort has been in a state of near-death, because the killing curse rebounded upon him. But a plot is brewing for Voldemort to regain his power and achieve immortality, through the acquisition of a Philosopher's Stone, which grants immortality to its owner. Harry and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley discover the plot, and seek to prevent the theft of the Stone, which is hidden in a protected chamber at Hogwarts. They must overcome many magical obstacles, including getting past a vicious three-headed dog named Fluffy and playing a deadly life-sized game of Wizard's Chess, to try to stop Lord Voldemort from getting the Stone

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