Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter lives with his aunt and uncle and their son. Their names are Petunia, Vernon, and Dudley Dursley. They are overall very nasty people. They mistreat Harry and don't follow Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts. The Dursleys and Harry live in Number 4, Privet Drive. In Little Whinging, Surrey, in Britain. The story takes place in London, Britain, and somewhere in Scotland, which is where Hogwarts is. Harry grows up and on Dudley's eleventh birthday, Dudley and his friend get to go to the zoo. Harry is taken along, because Mrs. Figg, could not take care of him, his usual babysitter. In the reptile house, Harry is able to communicate with a snake from Brazil. He somehow vanishes the glass encasing the snake and the snake is freed. On the way home, his family has suspicions that Harry did it. Nearing his eleventh birthday, he starts to receive letters from the school of Hogwarts. They were delivered by owls, but Harry does not know that yet. His uncle, Vernon, feels harassed by these letters and decides to try and run away from them by retreating to an island in a storm. Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, a half-giant, comes to explain to Harry that he is a wizard. Harry also finds out that his parents did not die in a car accident, but that they were murdered by Lord Voldemort. Hagrid takes Harry to a pub, the Leaky Cauldron, which is the entrance to a completely wizarding street, Diagon Alley. There, Harry is really exposed to wiazardkind, and he meets Ollivander, the best wandmaker in Britain. He gets all his supplies for Hogwarts and he also gets his wand, a holly and phoenix feather wand. Hagrid buys Harry a snowy white owl that he named Hedwig. When Harry returns to the Dursleys before the start of term, he is met with coldness from his aunt and uncle, and anger stemming from fear from his cousin, Dudley. Dudley is almost the same age as Harry. On September 1st, his family takes Harry to London to King's Cross train station. He has to find platform nine and three-quarters. He has to ask a family of nice red-heads to help him get onto the platform for the Hogwarts Express. On the train, the youngest boy from the red-headed family comes into his compartment to sit with him. They talk and share Chocolate Frogs and become friends. His name is Ron Weasley, and he is very poor with a large, but friendly family. Hermione Granger is introduced, helping Neville Longbottom to find his lost toad. Hermione seems to be a bossy, know-it-all. But when they get there, she leaves and Hagrid is heard calling all the first years to ride in boats across the lake to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the Great Hall, Harry sees Professor Dumbledore for the first time. Harry is sorted into Gryffindor house along with both Ron and Hermione. At the Gryffindor table, Harry meets the Gryffindor House ghost, Sir Nicholas DeMimsy-Porpington. Nicholas is affronted by Ron's bad manners and soars off to converse with other new first years. Percy, Ron's third oldest brother, a prefect, leads the new first years to the Gryffindor common room. They enter the cozy, fire-lit room and go up the stairs to a circular boys dormitory in one of the towers. Harry and Ron, along with Neville, Seamus Finnigan, and Dean Thomas, go to sleep with their stomachs full, anticipating their first day of magical lessons the next day.