Harry Potter

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him. 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 ghosts and 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.

‘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

‘This is a terrific book’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Has all the makings of a 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

‘And you thought wizardry was for children. Harry Potter will make you think again. He casts his spells on grownups too’ James Naughtie

‘Full of surprises and jokes; comparisons with Dahl are, this time, justified’

Sunday Times

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Harry Potter and the

Philosopher’s Stone

Titles available in the Harry Potter series

(in reading order):

Harry 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

Titles available in the Harry Potter series

(in Latin):

Harry 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

Harry Potter and the

Philosopher’s Stone

J. K. Rowling

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First published in Great Britain in 1997

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 36 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QY

This edition first published in 2004

Copyright © 1997 J. K. Rowling