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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer
Author
J. K. Rowling
Original title (if not in Harry Potter and the
English)
Philosopher's Stone
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Series
Harry Potter
Genre(s)
Fiction
Publisher
Bloomsbury
July 2, 1998 (UK), June 2,
Released
1999 (US)
Preceded by
None
'Harry Potter and the
Followed by
Chamber of Secrets '
Harry Potter is the most miserable, lonely boy you can imagine. Hes shunned by his
relatives, the Dursleys, that have raised him since he was an infant. Hes forced to live in
the cupboard under the stairs, forced to wear his cousin Dudleys hand-me-down clothes,
and forced to go to his neighbors house when the rest of the family is doing something
fun. Yes, hes just about as miserable as you can get.
Harrys world gets turned upside down on his 11th birthday, however. A giant man,
Hagrid, informs Harry that hes really a wizard, and will soon be attending Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry also learns that, in the wizarding world, hes a
hero. When he was an infant the evil Lord Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to
kill Harry too. Whats so amazing to everyone is that he couldnt do it. Somehow Harry
survived, and destroyed Voldemort in the process.
When Harry hears all this he doesnt know what to think. Everything Hagrid tells him
turns out to be true, and with a joyful heart Harry starts school in September. He quickly
becomes best friends with a boy named Ron Weasley, and before they even make it to
Christmas they break tons of school rules when they attack a troll and prevent it from
killing fellow student Hermione Granger. After the troll incident the three become
inseparable, and Harry is amazed to have found such great friends. He is constantly busy
trying to stay on top of mounds of homework, as well as participating in weekly
Quidditch practices. Harry is the youngest Quidditch player in over a century, and its a
game he loves more than anything else at school.
As the year progresses the three friends set out to solve the mystery of the 3-headed dog
that is guarding something in a deserted corridor in the school. The figure out that a very
valuable object, the Sorcerers Stone, is being hidden in the school, although they dont
know why. When one of the professors starts acting as if hes trying to steal it, they
quickly take action to circumvent the theft.
Things come to a head when they sneak past the vicious, 3-headed dog and go down into
the bowels of the school, determined to save the Stone. Ron and Hermione help Harry get
through the challenges set forth to stop the thief, and Harry must go on alone to battle the
professor. When he finally gets to the last room, however, hes astonished to find
someone else entirely.
Harry is forced to do battle with the wizard that tried to kill him so many years before,
Lord Voldemort. Hes able to save the Sorcerers Stone, although hes almost killed in
process, and Dumbledore arrives just in time to save him.
The school year ends spectacularly when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are honored for their
service to the school, and Harry leaves to go back to the Dursleys feeling as if hes
finally found a place where he really belongs.
Contents
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1 Character List
2 Chapter Summaries
o 2.1 Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
o 2.2 Chapter 2: The Vanishing Glass
o 2.3 Chapter 3: The Letters From No One
o 2.4 Chapter 4: The Keeper Of The Keys
o 2.5 Chapter 5: Diagon Alley
o 2.6 Chapter 6: The Journey From Platform Nine And Three-Quarters
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Character List
Harry Potter - Harry is the main character in the Sorcerers Stone. Hes amazed
when, on his 11th birthday, he is informed that hes a wizard and will soon be
attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During his first year he
makes some lifelong friends and battles, for the first time, his sworn enemy, Lord
Voldemort.
Ron Weasley - Ron is a fellow Hogwarts student and quickly becomes friends
with Harry on the train to school. He helps Harry get through the various
challenges that are set to guard to the Sorcerers Stone.
Hermione Granger - Hermione does not start off being friends with Ron and
Harry, but after they save her life from a troll bent on killing her the three become
best friends. She also helps Harry through the challenges that lead to the
Sorcerers Stone.
Severus Snape - Snape is the Potions professor at Hogwarts. Even though he hates
Harry, he saves his life during a Quidditch Match.
Professor Quirrell - Quirrell is the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He is
a very scared person, so no one suspects that hes being possessed by Lord
Voldemort and is the one thats trying to steal the Sorcerers Stone.
Hagrid - Hagrid is the Groundskeeper at Hogwarts, and hes the one that gets to
tell Harry that hes a wizard. He grows very fond of Harry and the two become
fast friends.
Draco Malfoy - Malfoy and Harry become enemies before school even officially
starts. Malfoy is very snobby, and cant stand Harry and his friends.
' Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia - These are Harrys relatives that raised him.
They cant stand Harry because he is so abnormal, and they treat him very cruelly.
They also have a very spoiled, overweight son named Dudley.
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
As Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, start their normal, Tuesday
routine, there is nothing to suggest that this Tuesday is going to be different from any
other Tuesday. They are a family that is very boring, very predictable, and very
committed to being as normal as possible. Because Mrs. Dursley has a sister that is none
of these things, they pretend (berpura-pura) she does not exist.
When Mr. Dursley finally leaves for work, he is disgruntled (tidak puas) to find out that
there are things happening on this Tuesday that are simply not regular. There are people
walking around in cloaks(jubah panjang), owls flying all around, and a host of other
weird(aneh/ mengerikan) things that happen during the day to push him into a foul and
confused mood.
When he finally drifts( ikutan masuk/melintas) off to sleep that night hes glad that the
weird day is over, or so he thinks. Outside, a strange old man is discussing current event
with a tabby cat (kucing betina) who just turned into a very severe (keras) looking
woman. The man is a wizard, Albus Dumbledore, and he tells the woman that Voldemort,
the evilest wizard that ever was, was destroyed when he tried to kill little Harry Potter,
and that no one knows why this is so. Harrys parents were killed, and hes bringing
Harry to live with his aunt and uncle, the Dursleys.
know immediately Harry is responsible, and they punish him soundly as soon as they get
home.
The next morning Harry wakes up, trying to convince himself it was all a dream. When
he opens his eyes and finds Hagrid still in the shack he so happy he doesnt know what to
do.
Hagrid takes him shopping for his school supplies in a section of London called Diagon
Alley, which is just for witches and wizards. Harry is taken aback when hes treated like a
celebrity by everyone. He even gets to meet one of his teachers, Professor Quirrel, in the
Leaky Cauldron Pub.
Harry is amazed when they get to Gringotts Bank to take out some of his
inheritance(warisan). Theres a small fortune in there, and he cant believe the way his
life has changed overnight. While theyre in Gringotts Hagrid also takes out a mysterious
package from a vault(lemari besi/kubah) for Dumbledore, and in spite of Harrys
questioning he wont tell him what it is.
When he goes in to get fitted for his school robes(jubah) he meets a boy he doesnt like at
all. Hagrid buys him a beautiful owl for his birthday present, and Harry is most excited to
get his new wand. He tries a variety of different wands on for size, and finally finds his
match in a wand with a phoenix feather core. Mr. Ollivander, the wandmaker, informs
him that the phoenix that supplied his feather gave another feather, which is in the core of
Lord Voldemorts wand.
Harry's sad to say goodbye to Hagrid, but is very much looking forward to his first day of
school.
Theyre taken inside by Professor McGonagall, who is a very severe looking teacher.
Theyre then taken into the Great Hall for the Sorting Ceremony, and Harry is extremely
nervous about which House hell be Sorted into.
When its Harrys turn to put on the hat, he begs the hat not to put him in Slytherin and
the hat places him in Gryffindor, which is also the same house that Ron and Hermione get
Sorted into.
After a very yummy feast, Professor Dumbledore informs all the students that a corridor
on the third floor is out-of-bounds "to those who do not wish to die a most painful death".
Harry is not quite sure if hes kidding or not.
from going, and ends up getting stuck outside. She has no choice but to go with them to
the duel.
When they show up at the trophy room, however, they realize that Malfoy set them up,
and set Filch about to punish them for being out of their beds. They quickly hide, and
take off down the corridor to escape him. They hide in a room on the third floor when
Peeves discovers them, and are terrified to find themselves face-to-face with a gigantic 3headed dog - they had gone through the forbidden corridor. They race back to the
common room, and Hermione points out to them that the dog was guarding a trap door.
Harry asks what Fluffy is guarding, Hagrid lets slip that the mysterious object is between
Dumbledore and someone named Nicolas Flamel.
hatching. When they go visit him during break Malfoy, who overheard their conversation,
sneaks down and peeks in the window. He sees the baby dragon, and to their horror races
back up to the school.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione come up with the brilliant idea to send the dragon to Rons
brother, Charlie, who works with dragons in Romania. The dragon is growing
astonishingly quickly, and theyre worried Hagrid will be dead or fired soon because of
Norbert. They immediately send an owl to Charlie to see if its a good idea, and eagerly
await his reply.
He quickly writes back, saying that he can come pick up the dragon in secret the coming
weekend. Malfoy finds out about that plot, but the night of the dragons departure comes
and Malfoy is caught by Professor McGonagall for being out of bed so late at night. They
dont breathe a sigh of relief until the dragon is picked up and finally out of sight.
When they get to Fluffy they see that Snape already got past the dog. When they sneak
past and jump through the door they land on a dangerous plant, Devils Snare. Thanks to
Hermiones quick thinking they narrowly avoid becoming entangled, and continue
onward toward the Stone.
They then have to catch a winged key to get through the next door, and the next challenge
is a gigantic chess game. Thanks to Rons brilliancy at chess, they play their way across,
but Ron is knocked unconscious at the end and they have to leave him behind.
When Hermione helps him through the last challenge, Harry must go on alone. When he
finally makes it into the last room, hes surprised to find neither Snape nor Voldemort has
come for the Stone.