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also by j k rowling harry potter and the sorcerer s stone year one at hogwarts harry potter and the chamber of secrets year two at hogwarts harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban year three at hogwarts harry potter and the goblet of fire year four at hogwarts harry potter and the order of the phoenix year five at hogwarts harry potter and the half-blood prince year six at hogwarts harry potter and the deathly hallows year seven at hogwarts[close]
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harry potter and the sorcerer s stone by j k rowling illustrations by mary grandpré arthur a levine books an imprint of scholastic press.[close]
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for jessica who loves stories for anne who loved them too and for di who heard this one first text copyright © 1997 by j.k rowling illustrations by mary grandpré copyright © 1998 warner bros all rights reserved published by scholastic press a division of scholastic inc publishers since 1920 scholastic scholastic press and the lantern logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of scholastic inc harry potter and all related characters and elements are trademarks of warner bros no part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without written permission of the publisher for information regarding permissions write to scholastic inc attention permissions department 555 broadway new york ny 10012 library of congress cataloging-in-publication data rowling j.k harry potter and the sorcerer s stone by j.k rowling p cm summary rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry isbn 0-590-35340-3 [1 fantasy fiction 2 witches fiction 3 wizards fiction 4 schools fiction 5 england fiction i title pz7.r79835har 1998 [fic dc21 97-39059 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 05 printed in u.s.a 10 first american edition october 1998[close]
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contents the boy who lived · 1 the vanishing glass · 18 the letters from no one · 31 the keeper of the keys · 46 diagon alley · 61 the journey from platform nine and three-quarters · 88 the sorting hat · 113 the potions master · 131 one two three four five six seven eight 5[close]
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contents the midnight duel · 143 halloween · 163 quidditch · 180 the mirror of erised · 194 nicholas flamel · 215 norbert the norwegian ridgeback · 228 the forbidden forest · 242 through the trapdoor · 262 the man with two faces · 288 nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen 6[close]
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chapter one the boy who lived m r 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 mr 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 mustache 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 neighbors the dursleys had a small son called dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere the dursleys had everything they wanted but they also had a secret and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it 1[close]
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chapter one they didn t think they could bear it if anyone found out about the potters mrs potter was mrs dursley s sister but they hadn t met for several years in fact mrs dursley pretended she didn t have a sister because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as undursleyish as it was possible to be the dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the potters arrived in the street the dursleys knew that the potters had a small son too but they had never even seen him this boy was another good reason for keeping the potters away they didn t want dudley mixing with a child like that when mr and mrs dursley woke up on the dull gray tuesday our story starts there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country mr dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work and mrs dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming dudley into his high chair none of them noticed a large tawny owl flutter past the window at half past eight mr dursley picked up his briefcase pecked mrs dursley on the cheek and tried to kiss dudley good-bye but missed because dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls little tyke chortled mr dursley as he left the house he got into his car and backed out of number four s drive it was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar a cat reading a map for a second mr dursley didn t realize what he had seen then he jerked his head around to look again there was a tabby cat standing on the corner 2[close]
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the boy who lived of privet drive but there wasn t a map in sight what could he have been thinking of it must have been a trick of the light mr dursley blinked and stared at the cat it stared back as mr dursley drove around the corner and up the road he watched the cat in his mirror it was now reading the sign that said privet drive no looking at the sign cats couldn t read maps or signs mr dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind as he drove toward town he thought of nothing except a large order of drills he was hoping to get that day but on the edge of town drills were driven out of his mind by something else as he sat in the usual morning traffic jam he couldn t help noticing that there seemed to be a lot of strangely dressed people about people in cloaks mr dursley couldn t bear people who dressed in funny clothes the getups you saw on young people he supposed this was some stupid new fashion he drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by they were whispering excitedly together mr dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren t young at all why that man had to be older than he was and wearing an emerald-green cloak the nerve of him but then it struck mr dursley that this was probably some silly stunt these people were obviously collecting for something yes that would be it the traffic moved on and a few minutes later mr dursley arrived in the grunnings parking lot his mind back on drills mr dursley always sat with his back to the window in his office on the ninth floor if he hadn t he might have found it harder to concentrate on drills that morning he didn t see the owls swoop 3[close]
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