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Harry Potter · Book 1

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Published
26 June 1997
Pages
302
ISBN-13
9788869183157
Type
novel

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About this book

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997, 302 pages) opens the series, following an orphaned boy who discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard and is whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It introduces his friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and the boarding-school mysteries -- moving staircases, house points, midnight duels -- that define the early books.

Its place in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is book 1 in the Harry Potter series. It is followed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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