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Reader reviewed by Nicole

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone is the first book in J.K. Rowlings legendary story. Harry lives with his aunt and uncle because his parents had gotten into a car accident. Harry was treated very poorly compared to his cousin, Dudley. One morning when Harry picks the mail up for his uncle, Harry is surprised to see a letter addressed to him. Harry didn't have any friends or any other family members, he didn't even belong to the library, so it couldn't be a letter telling him his books are over due. But when Harry returns to the breakfast table and his uncle notices he has a letter, he snatches it away before Harry had the chance to read it. When his uncle was able to read a bit of the letter, he began acting very oddly and showed the letter to his wife. After this, he pushes Harry and his cousin out of the room and refuses to tell either of them what the letter was about.

But the sender of the letter must have some how known that Harry hadn't gotten his letter, the very next day, another one came for him. But once again his uncle intercepted it. For the rest of the week Harry's uncle stayed home from work to make sure Harry wouldn't get ahold of any of the letters. Eventually, his uncle comes to the conclusion that the only way he will be able to avoid the letters is to leave town.

After staying in driving all day, staying the night in a hotel (where more letters arrived) and driving all day again, his uncle had them reside in a small shack on top of a rock out a ways in the sea. That night, at around midnight, someone was outside the shack pounding on the door. Finally when no one opens the door, the door flies off it's hinges to reveal a giant man. The man, who introduced himself as Hagrid, seemed to know Harry.

Hagrid was absolutely enraged to hear that Harry's aunt and uncle had been lying to him for ten years. He informed Harry that his parent's were a witch and a wizard and that they did not die in a car accident; a powerful, evil wizard had murdered them. And he tried to perform the same killing-spell on Harry, but it didn't work and bounced off Harry to the Dark Lord, draining him of his powers. Harry was the only wizard who had survived the killing curse and was extremely famous in the wizarding world.

After much threatening of his aunt and uncle by Hagrid, Harry was on the train to his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he will feel more at home than anywhere else he has ever been, meet his two best friends and come face to face with his parents murderers.