BOOK SUMMARY 7: HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE : J.K.ROWLING😍🤩🤗

 

I genuinely thought of not continuing further after reading first 20 pages. The storyline was not taking us anywhere. 🤔🤔But as I went on, I found that the beginning of the novel is the climax itself. 😳😳As you read on, all the separate parts coalesce to make you comprehend the whole novel.🙂

INTRODUCTION:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the first novel of the HARRY POTTER Franchise. This novel is the best fantasy novel with great use of imagination, humour and most importantly friendship. 🤗🤗 It teaches us to be loyal and trustworthy, reliable to our friends during the time of need.

CHARACTERS:

HARRY POTTER:

Harry Potter is an orphan. His parents died during the duel with the most powerful dark wizard of all times 'He who must not be named'. However he was saved by his protective charm left by his mother Lily Potter. He is a scrawny, black-haired, green eyed and bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard. Voldemort's attack left a lightning bolt-shaped scar on Harry's forehead which produces stabbing pains whenever Voldemort is present. Harry has a natural talent for Quidditch and he plays Quidditch in his first year as a seeker.

RONALD WEASLEY:

Ronald Weasley is Harry's age.He is Harry's ultimate best friend.  "always there when you need him."He is freckled on his nose. His mother tries her best to rub out of it. He is red-haired and quite tall. He grew up in a fairly large pure-blood family as the sixth born of seven children. Although his family is quite poor, they still live comfortably and happily. His father works for Ministry of Magic. He is always supporting Harry.
His loyalty and bravery in the face of a game of Wizards Chess plays a vital part in finding the Philosopher's Stone.

HERMIONE GRANGER:

My favourite 😍 character from the book. She is so beautiful as well as intelligent. She is a book geek and is found always in the library surrounded by books.
Hermione Granger Is  the daughter of an all-Muggle family. Her parents are dentists. She  is a bossy girl who has apparently memorised most of the textbooks before the start of term. She is a very logical, upright with impreo character. Although she is described with "a lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure beneath her swottiness". Despite her n efforts to keep Harry and Ron out of trouble, she becomes a close friend of the two boys after they save her from a troll.   She has a great magical and analytical skills which play an important role in finding the Philosopher's Stone. She has bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth.

NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM:

Neville Longbottom is a plump, diffident boy. He is characterized as a shy, timid, coward and is always being bullied. He is so forgetful that his grandmother gives him a Remembrall, to remind him if he forgets something. Neville's magical abilities are weak and fragile. He often forgets the password to his common room.

RUBEUS HAGRID:

Rubeus Hagrid is a half-giant nearly 12 feet tall. He has a tangled black hair and beard. Though anyone could easily get frightened from his looks he has a pure heart. He was expelled from Hogwarts during his second year and his wand was snapped in half. However Professor Dumbledore let him stay on as the school's gamekeeper, a job which enables him to lavish affection, care and even pet names on[ even the most dangerous of magical creatures. Hagrid is fiercely loyal to Dumbledore and quickly becomes a close friend of Harry, Ron and, later, Hermione, but his carelessness makes him unreliable.

HEADMASTER ALBUS DUMBLEDORE:

HEADMASTER Albus Dumbledore is a tall, thin man who wears half-moon spectacles and has silver hair and a beard that tucks into his belt. He is the headmaster of Hogwarts, and thought to be the only wizard Voldemort fears. Dumbledore is renowned for his achievements in magic but is not boastful and shrugs off praise. He is aware of his own brilliance. Rowling described him as the "epitome of goodness". He is represented as a good and powerful wizard still alive.

MINERVA MCGONAGALL:

Professor Minerva McGonagall is a tall, severe-looking woman with black hair tied in a tight bun. She teaches Transfiguration, and is able to transform herself into a cat. She is Deputy Headmistress, and Head of Gryffindor House.

PETUNIA DURSLEY:

Petunia Dursley is the sister of Harry's mother Lily. So when Harry's parents were murdered she was the only relatives of Harry. She is a thin woman with a long neck that she uses for spying on the neighbours. As a muggle, she regards her magical sister as a freak and tries to pretend that she never existed. She hates her sister even after her death as she is left with Harry she doesn't love at all.

VERNON DURSLEY:

Vernon Dursley is the husband of Petunia Dursley. He is a heavily built man whose irascible bluster covers a narrow mind and a fear of anything unusual. He is so short tempered and forbids Harry from doing anything that makes HARRY feel happy.

DUDLEY DURSLEY:

Dudley Dursley is an overweight, spoiled bully and Harry's cousin. He eats everything while he doesn't let Harry eat anything. He is such a glutton.

DRACO MALFOY:

The first enemy of Harry at Hogwarts,Draco Malfoy is a slim, pale boy who speaks in a bored drawl. He is arrogant about his skill in Quidditch. He is so dominant and despises anyone who is not a pure-blood wizard – and wizards who do not share his views. His parents had supported Voldemort, but changed sides after the dark wizard's disappearance, claiming they had been bewitched. Draco avoids direct confrontations, and tries to get Harry and his friends into trouble.

OLIVER WOOD:

Oliver Wood is Harry's Quidditch captain and keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

PROFESSOR QUIRRELL:

Professor Quirrell is a twitching, stammering and nervous man who teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts. Reputedly he was a brilliant scholar, but his nerve was shattered by an encounter with vampires. Quirrell wears a turban to conceal the fact that he is voluntarily possessed by Voldemort, whose face appears on the back of Quirrell's head. He is supporting Voldemort to regain his powers.

PROFESSOR SEVERUS SNAPE:

Professor Severus Snape is a potions master and head of House Slytherin. He has a hooked nose, sallow complexion and greasy black hair.Snape favours pupils in Slytherin and seizes every opportunity to humiliate others, especially Harry. Several incidents, beginning with the shooting pain in Harry's scar during the start-of-term feast, lead Harry and his friends to think Snape is aiding Voldemort.

SUMMARY:

PART 1: HARRY IS LEFT WITH DURSLEYS

It starts with an unmovable cat 🐈 sitting on the compound wall where the Professors of Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry gather outside the house of The Dursleys.

The unmovable cat happens to be Professor McGonagall.The Dursleys happen to be the only Living relatives of HARRY POTTER. They are intended to save HARRY POTTER'S life in any way possible.💯 So they decide to keep Harry away from the wizarding world until time.

Harry discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. ✉️✉️

Potter has been living a difficult life, constantly abused by his cold aunt and uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley. He is often bullied by their spoiled son who is always intended for eating, Dudley. He has been living here since the death of his parents ten years prior. He is given a small cupboard for his bedroom under the staircase. 😳😳He is made to do all the household chores from cleaning to cooking. He is not even sent outside to play with his friends. Obviously Dudley's friends who bully and torture Harry so bad. 😤😤

PART 2: HARRY IS ACCEPTED AT HOGWARTS

His life changes on the day of his eleventh birthday when he receives a letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The letter is delivered by a half-giant named Rubeus Hagrid after previous letters had been destroyed by Vernon and Petunia. Hagrid happens to be gentle and humble. So he supports Harry and tries to frighten The Dudley's for misbehaving with Harry. From then on Dudley's were a bit frightened of Harry. 

Hagrid explains Harry's past as the son of James and Lily Potter, who were a wizard and witch respectively. He explained how they were murdered by the most evil and powerful dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort.😱😱 It resulted in the one-year-old Harry being sent to live with his aunt and uncle.

Voldemort was somehow unable to kill Harry. His powers were also destroyed in the attempt. Because his powers were destroyed he was forced into exile. This incident sparkled Harry's immense fame among the magical community with the name 'The Boy Who Lived'. He is left with a scar on his forehead that makes popular among the people of the wizarding world.

Hagrid introduces Harry to the wizarding world. He brings Harry Potter to Diagon Alley, a hidden street in London. Diagon Alley is a market place where you can find everything you require in the wizarding world. Today most commonly known as a shopping mall.

Harry uncovers a fortune left to him by his parents at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. He also receives a pet owl, Hedwig, various school supplies, and a wand. As he is to enter at first year at Hogwarts, he buys all the books, dresses as provided in the list.

PART 3: HARRY MEETS HIS BEST FRIEND

There, he is surprised to discover how famous he truly is among witches and wizards as "The Boy Who Lived". A month later, Harry leaves the Dursleys' home to catch the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross railway station's secret Hogwarts platform, Platform ​Nine and Three Quarters.

Although Harry is completely unaware of his unknown popularity until his First day at the King's Cross Railway station. All the kids in the station who belonged to the wizarding world were staring at Harry Potter and his scar as if he were to be some kind of celebrity. Although his own aunt and uncle were happy getting rid of him.

On the train, he quickly befriends fellow first-year Ronald Weasley. They talk and eats some snacks provided inside the train.

The two boys meet Hermione Granger. A witch who is a book geek. She happens to memorize the whole syllabus before the start of the term. She knows each and every spells by heart. But her snobbiness and affinity for spells initially causes the two boys to dislike her. They decide not talking to her.

Harry also makes an enemy of yet another first-year, Draco Malfoy, who shows prejudice against Ron for his family's financial difficulties. Draco is characterized as the major bully and an antagonist who creates troubles. He first tries his best to impress Harry because of his popularity to his Gang. But Harry simply refuses.

PART 4: HARRY IS SORTED INTO GRYFFINDOR

Arriving at Hogwarts, the first-years are assigned by the magical Sorting Hat to Houses that best suit their personalities. The four Houses are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. The four houses assigned the name of their founders respectively. Where Gryffindor is the best and Slytherin is the worst House.

Harry hears from Ron about Slytherin's dark reputation which is known to house potential dark witches and wizards. The sorting hat tries to put him in Slytherin. But he objects to being sorted into Slytherin despite the Hat claiming that Harry has potential to develop under that House. He winds up in Gryffindor with Ron and Hermione, while Draco is sorted into Slytherin like his family before him.

PART 5: HARRY PLAYS QUIDDITCH

As classes begin at Hogwarts, Harry discovers he has a talent for flying on broomsticks. He is recruited into his House's team for Quidditch as a Seeker.

He also comes to dislike the school's Potions master, Severus Snape. Snape is also the Head of Slytherin House who acts with bias in favour of members of his House.

Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into a duel in the trophy room to get them out of their rooms at night. So Harry and Ron decides to go out of their common room during the night.Malfoy secretly tells Filch who is the school's caretaker that Harry and Ron are breaking school rules. Hermione unintentionally is forced to come along. She tries to make them understand that it's illegal to move around during the night.

PART 6: THE TRIO FINDS A TRAP DOOR

After realizing the duel was a set-up to get them in trouble, they run away. They then discover a huge three-headed dog standing guard over a trapdoor in a forbidden corridor. The school's Halloween celebrations are interrupted by the entrance of a troll into the school. The stinky troll enters the girls' bathroom where Hermione is. However, she is saved by Harry and Ron.

As a result, Hermione is grateful and the three become best friends. They suspect Snape to be doing something fishy with Snape's recent leg injury as well as behaviour. The recent events prompt Harry, Hermione and Ron to suspect him. So they decide to keep a watch over him. They are at the same time looking for a way to enter the trapdoor.

Hermione forbids the boys from investigating any further. She is a Muggle born meaning she her parents didn't belong to the wizarding world. She has a great  fear of expulsion. She is so abided to the school rules and instead makes Harry direct his attention to his first ever Quidditch game.

Then their match starts.

  At his first match his broomstick begins to lose control and threatens to throw him off. This leads Hermione to suspect that Snape had jinxed Harry's broom. So she casts some spell and makes Harry stable which leads them to winning their first ever Quidditch Cup.

PART 7: HARRY RECEIVES INVISIBILITY CLOAK

After the excitement of winning the match has died down, Christmas arrives. Harry receives an invisibility cloak from an anonymous source claiming that the cloak belonged to Harry's father. Using the cloak to explore the school at night to investigate what is under the trapdoor, he discovers the Mirror of Erised. The mirror is supposed to show you the things that you wish to see. The viewer sees his or her deepest desires come true. Within the Mirror, Harry sees himself standing with both of his parents.

A visit to Hagrid's hut at the foot of the school leads the trio to find a newspaper report stating there had been an attempted robbery of a Gringotts vault. So they further investigate to find from Hagrid that the object kept under that trapdoor is a Philosopher's Stone.

PART 8: TRIO DECIDES TO PROTECT THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE

The stone is a magical stone with great powers. The stone happens to grant its user immortality as well as the ability to turn any metal into pure gold. So the Trio keeps an eye on Snape. They follow Snape to the forbidden forest. They see that he is talking to Professor Quirell. Quirell is Professor for Defence Against the Dark Arts. Harry is also informed by a centaur named Firenze in the forest that a plot to steal the Stone is being plotted by none other than Voldemort himself. The stone is to be used to restore back to his body and return to power.

When the school's headmaster Albus Dumbledore is to leave Hogwarts under false pretences, Harry, Hermione and Ron fear that the theft is imminent and descend through the trapdoor themselves.

PART 9: OBSTACLES DURING THEIR JOURNEY

They encounter a series of obstacles, each of which requires unique skills possessed by one of the three. The first obstacle is a wizard chess where Ron is a pro player. But unfortunately,the game requires Ron to sacrifice himself in a life-sized game of wizard's chess.

The second challenge is to find the correct spell bottle that is to be consumed to reach the final obstacle. Hermione Granger happens to remember each and every potions so she directs Harry to choose the correct one.

In the final room, Harry is now alone. To his surprise he finds Quirinus Quirrell, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. He reveals himself to be the one working for Lord Voldemort. He also reveals he had been the one working behind the scenes to kill Harry by first jinxing his broom and then letting a troll into the school. He also claims Snape was innocent and had been trying to protect Harry instead. Quirrell is helping Voldemort. He is hiding Voldemort on the top of his head which is constantly concealed by his oversized turban. He has to get to attain the Philosopher's Stone so as to restore his body.

Here the final obstacle is the Mirror of Erised itself. Only those who is selfless can pass through the final stage.Quirrell uses Harry to get past the final obstacle, the Mirror of Erised, by forcing him to stand before the Mirror. It recognises Harry's lack of greed for the Stone and deposits it into his pocket.

PART 10: HARRY MEETS VOLDEMORT

As Quirrell attempts to seize the stone and kill Harry, his flesh burns on contact with the boy's skin and breaks into blisters. Harry's scar suddenly burns with pain and he passes out. He tries his best to kill Voldemort but he escaped.

PART 11: GRYFFINDOR WINS THE HOUSE CUP

In the final part of the novel, Harry finds himself in the school's infirmary. A hospital where the wounded are cured.

Three days later, he awakens in the school's infirmary. Dumbledore explains his survival against Voldemort is due to his mother's sacrificing her life in order for him to live. This left a powerful protective charm on Harry that lives in his blood. It caused Quirrell's hands to burn on contact with Harry.

He also reveals himself as the one who sent Harry his father's invisibility cloak. Quirrell has been left to die by Voldemort. But Voldemort still lives. The Stone has now been destroyed. The eventful school year ends at the final feast. Gryffindor wins the House Cup. Harry returns to Privet Drive for the summer vacation.

FINALLY:

I was very delighted when Gryffindor won the House Cup at the end of the year. The way the trio tried to solve the mystery of the trapdoor is praiseworthy.

I have also watched the movie as well. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson play the roles of HARRY POTTER, RON WEASLEY and HERMIONE GRANGER respectively. The way they acted is so very extra ordinary than the book itself.

If you people have read the novel or watched the movie please feel free to comment your favourite characters from the book 😍🙂.

By Sanjita Napit