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His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping from his unbearable Muggle guardians to Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghostsand enchantments, Harry stumbles into a sinister adventure when he finds a threeheaded dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.  \n‘Funny, imaginative, magical ... Rowling has woken up a whole generation to reading. In the 2020s, thirty-something book-lovers will know each other by smug references to Diagon Alley and Quidditch’ The Times  \n‘This is a terrific book’ Sunday Telegraph  \n‘Has all the makings ofa classic ... Rowling uses classic narrative devices with flair and originality and delivers a complex and demanding plot in the form of a hugely entertaining thriller’ Scotsman  \n‘And you thought wizardry was forchildren. Harry Potter will make you think again. He casts his spells on grownups too’ James Naughtie  \n‘Full of surprises and jokes; comparisons with Dahl are, this time, justified’Sunday Times  \n£11.99  \nHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone  \nTitles available in the Harry Potter series (in reading order):  \nHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  \nTitles available in the Harry Potter series (in Latin):  \nHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (in Welsh, Ancient Greek and Irish): Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone  \nHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone  \nJ. K. Rowling  \nAll rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher  \nFirst published in Great Britain in 1997  \nBloomsbury Publishing Plc, 36 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QY This digital edition should have been published by Pottermore Limited in 2012 Copyright © 1997 J. K. Rowling  \nHarry Potter, names, characters and related indicia are copyright and trademark Warner Bros. , 2000™  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978 0 7475 7360 9  \nThe paper this book is printed on is certified by the © 1996 Forest Stewardship Council A.C. (FSC) . It is ancient-forest friendly. The printer holds FSC chain of custody SGS-COC-2061 .  \n©  \nFSC  \nMixed Sources  \nProduct group from well-managed  \nforests and other controlled sources  \nCert no. SGS-COC-2061  \n[www.fsc.org](www.fsc.org)  \n©1996 Forest Stewardship Council  \nPrinted in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Typeset by Dorchester Typesetting  \n5 7 9 10 8 6 4  \n[www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter](www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter)  \nfor Jessica, who loves stories, for Anne, who loved them too, and for Di, who heard this one first.  \n—CHAPTER ONE—  \nThe Boy Who Lived  \nMr 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.  \nMr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. 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 neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.  \nThe Dursleys had everything ","cbCaijGiHRjSk5FL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijGiHRjSk5FL","pdf",1100526,228,"English","# Chapter One\n## The Boy Who Lived","[{\"question\":\"What secret is revealed to Harry when a letter arrives?\",\"answer\":\"A letter reveals that Harry’s parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when he was a baby, and that he somehow survived.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do the Dursleys fear the Potters?\",\"answer\":\"They fear discovery of their connection to the Potters and worry what neighbors would say if the Potters arrived, especially with Dudley’s social circle.\"},{\"question\":\"What strange sign appears early in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Mr Dursley notices a cat reading a map on the corner of Privet Drive, which signals that mysterious events are beginning.\"}]","Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter 1 - The Boy Who Lived | PDF",1789774783,351]