Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone

Harry Potter
And the Sorcerer’s Stone

ALSO BY J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Year One at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Year Two at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Year Three at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Year Four at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Year Five at Hogwarts Harry Potter and theHalf-Blood Prince Year Six at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Year Seven at Hogwarts

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

BY

J. K. Rowling
ILLUSTRATIONS BY Mary GrandPré

ARTHUR A. LEVINE BOOKS AN IMPRINT OF SCHOLASTIC Press.

For Jessica, who loves stories
for Anne, who loved them too; and for Di, who heard this one first.

Text copyright © 1997 by J.K. RowlingIllustrations by Mary GrandPré copyright © 1998 Warner Bros. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920 SCHOLASTIC, SCHOLASTIC PRESS, and the LANTERN LOGO are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.
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Contents
The Boy Who Lived · 1 The Vanishing Glass · 18 The Letters from No One · 31 The Keeper of the Keys · 46 Diagon Alley · 61 The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters · 88 The Sorting Hat · 113 The Potions Master · 131

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The Midnight Duel · 143 Halloween · 163 Quidditch · 180 The Mirror of Erised · 194 Nicholas Flamel · 215 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback · 228 The Forbidden Forest · 242 Through the Trapdoor · 262 The Man with Two Faces · 288

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Harry Potter
And the Sorcerer’s Stone

CHAPTER ONETHE BOY WHO LIVED

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r. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man withhardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but theyalso had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.

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CHAPTER ONE
They didn’t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was...