Harry Potter Book 1 Short Summary. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone begins with Harry Potter a shy and self-doubting boy wizard being brought up by his awful aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon along with his fat cousin Dudley. He catches mention of the Potters and their son Harry and is flooded with fear.
On his eleventh birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid Robbie Coltrane hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry potter book 1 short summary How to get your book in bookstores Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone the first novel in the immensely popular Harry Potter series by British writer JK. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Published as Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in the UK When it hit shelves.
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J.
The Philosophers Stone is the book where Harry learns about who he really isie a wizard how his life changes and how he faces the one who killed his parents and tried to kill himie Lord Voldemort and how he also defeats him. When Vernon goes to a bakery on his lunch break he passes another group of people wearing odd cloaks. The novel opens with a description of the Dursley family of number four Privet Drive. It is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowlings debut novel first published in 1997 by Bloomsbury.
