The Harry Potter series is a story about a young orphan - Harry Potter- who lives with his maternal aunt and uncle and their son (the Dursleys). At the age of 11, Harry gets to know that he is a wizard (his relatives are non-magical people, muggles) and has been offered admission in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He gets to know that there is a magical world running parallel to the real world but it is hidden in secrecy.
The main theme of the series revolves around Death. The book opens with the death of his parents. Harry, after knowing that he is a wizard, also gets to know that he is quite famous in the wizarding world and that there was an evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents and wanted to kill him when he was just one year old baby. There is Voldemort's obsession with conquering death and his quest for immortality at any price, the goal of anyone with magic. Harry is famous because he is the only wizard known to have survived the killing curse.
Each book chronicles one year in Harry's life during the period from 1991 to 1998. Harry makes two best friends at Hogwarts - Ron and Hermione, who are also other main characters of the series. Each year Harry returns back to his relatives (the only living family he has) during summer vacations and rest of the year starting from 1st September spends at Hogwarts. The series is about how Harry's deals with dangerous situations each year at Hogwarts with the help of his friends. The situations crop up because of Voldemort constant trying to come back by hook or by crook.
-Albus Dumbledore
The first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published by Bloomsbury in 1997 to immediate popular and critical acclaim. Six further best-selling books, three companion books, a playscript and two screenplays have since followed.
On Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
For his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone - Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors!
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts to only wizards who are over seventeen. Then when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of the selected. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards!
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. Harry Potter knows that Voldemort won't stop till find him. He must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time.
Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny.
The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin.
The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn that sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
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