Resume af 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'

Ten-year-old Harry Potter lives in London, with his uncaring Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and spoiled cousin Dudley. They barely tolerate Harry, and Dudley bullies him. One day Harry receives a letter. But before he can open the letter, Uncle Vernon takes it. Letters for Harry subsequently arrive each day, in increasing numbers, but Uncle Vernon tears them all up, and finally, to escape the letters, the family go to a house on a small island. On Harry’s 11th birthday, a giant named Hagrid arrives and reveals that Harry is a wizard and that he has been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

when arrival at the school, the students are sorted into one of four houses Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. Harry ends up in Gryffindor, and during his first year at Hogwarts he becomes close friends with, Ron Weasley, who comes from an old wizard family, and Hermione Granger, whose parents are Muggles.

One night the friends decide to leave their rooms, a violation of school rules. While trying to avoid being caught, they discover a three-headed dog guarding a trapdoor. The friends conclude that Professor Snape, who teaches Potions, wants to get hold of whatever is behind the trapdoor. Harry receives his father’s cloak of invisibility as a Christmas gift.