Lord Voldemort, an evil Dark wizard, has just fallen and the wizards are celebrating. This same villain is responsible for the untimely death of Harry’s parents. When he attempted to to kill one-year-old Harry Potter, but the curse rebounded upon him, destroying his body and leaving a lightning-bolt scar on Harry''s forehead.
The Dursley family adopts Harry but treat him like the step sisters treated Cinderella. Shortly before Harry''s eleventh birthday, despite sabotage efforts by the Dursleys, he receives a mysterious letter and learns he has been invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry enters the wizarding world for the first time, and learns that he is famous for his defeat of Voldemort. He also encounters the new Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Quirrell.
A month later, he returns to the Dursleys and takes the train to Hogwarts from Platform Nine and Three Quarters at King''s Cross Station. There Harry as he meets and befriends Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and Hermione Granger who end up with Harry in the Gryffindor
House.
On Halloween, Quirell informs everyone that a troll has entered the castle. Ron and Harry rescue Hermione from the troll but were confronted by Professor McGonagall over their disobedience. Hermione defended them and the three became the best of friends.
The three suspect Professor Severus Snape of
trying to steal the Philosopher''s
Stone in order to restore Lord Voldemort to power.They soon find themselves trying to reach the stone first, navigating the security system. The three make it through the rooms together and Harry enters the inner chamber alone. There he finds Professor Quirrell, not Snape, is the one attempting to steal the Stone and ironically Snape was trying to protect him from Quirrell all along. Harry with the help of Dumbledore vanquish Lord Voldemort and the possessed Quirell dies when Voldemort abandons his body .Harry is welcomed as a hero in the ensuing feast and Gryffindor wins the House Cup, via a come from behind victory, ending Slytherin''s six-year reign as house champion.
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