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Harry Potter is a seemingly ordinary
eleven-year-old boy, living with his negligent relatives, the Dursleys. On his eleventh
birthday, Harry learns from a mysterious stranger, Hagrid, that he is
actually a wizard, famous in the wizarding world for surviving an
attack by the evil dark
Lord Voldemort, when Harry was only a year old. Voldemort killed
Harry's parents, but his attack on Harry failed, leaving only a
lightning-bolt scar on Harry's forehead. Harry is invited to begin
attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry defies his aunt and uncle, and
attends Hogwarts where he begins to learn magic
and make new friends, as well as enemies, among the Hogwarts students
and staff. Voldemort has been near death, and in hiding, since the
attack on Harry ten years earlier, but a plot is brewing for the dark
lord to regain his power and strength 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.
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