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MonkeyNotes-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Plot Synopsis

Ten years before the story starts, Voldemort sought to kill the Potters as part of his effort to stamp out resistance to his rule. After killing HarryÂ’s mom and dad, Voldemort tries and fails to kill baby Harry. VoldemortÂ’s death curse is reflected off the child and leaves Voldemort as a body-less spirit. Later that night, the wizard Hagrid rescues baby Harry and the wizard Dumbledore leaves Harry on the doorstep of the Dursleys, HarryÂ’s Muggle relatives.

Ten years later, on his cousin DudleyÂ’s birthday, Harry is shocked to find that he can magically communicate with a snake at the zoo. When someone starts sending Harry mysterious letters in the mail, HarryÂ’s Uncle Vernon takes the family out to a deserted island to prevent Harry from getting a hold of these messages. The next morning, the morning of HarryÂ’s birthday, Hagrid confronts the Dursleys at the hut out at sea, gives Harry his acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and tells Harry about his parents and his miraculous escape from Voldemort as a baby. Harry and Hagrid leave the Dursleys and go buy supplies for Hogwarts in Diagon Alley.


Harry rides the Hogwarts Express to school and makes friends with his classmate Ron. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, a girl in their class, are then sorted into the Gryffindor house at the start-of-term banquet. As the first weeks pass, he gets to know his classes and teachers, gets picked on in class by his Potions teacher Snape, and tries to pump Hagrid for information about Snape and the Gringotts WizardsÂ’ Bank break-in. He shows up his classmate and archenemy Draco Malfoy on his broomstick, gets recruited for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, gets challenged to a midnight duel by Draco, and stumbles in upon a three-headed dog in the forbidden third-floor corridor. As winter approaches, Harry learns how to play Quidditch and rescues Hermione from a troll someone let in on Halloween. Harry then wins his first Quidditch match despite nearly being killed by his cursed broom, and he discovers that the three- headed dog is HagridÂ’s.

Harry is anonymously given his dadÂ’s invisibility cloak for Christmas and he uses it to sneak back to the Mirror of Erised he stumbled upon. He then finds out that Flamel is the maker of the SorcererÂ’s Stone, defeats Hufflepuff in Quidditch, and overhears Snape pressuring Quirrell to help him steal the Stone. Hagrid begins raising a baby dragon but Harry sends the beast off to Charlie Weasley in Romania so Hagrid wonÂ’t get in trouble. A unicorn-slaying monster attacks Harry during his detention in the forest but a centaur rescues Harry at the last moment. The night after exams end, Harry, Ron, and Hermione get past Fluffy and five other obstacles to reach the final chamber that guards the Stone. Harry stops Quirrell from stealing the SorcererÂ’s Stone, and by doing so he prevents Voldemort from gaining immortality and wins the House Cup for Gryffindor.

A longer synopsis can be found under the “Overall Analyses: Plot” section.

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