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Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
It's hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it's not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts.
For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to
spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate
like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from
officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic
world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of
dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle
relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to
make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black.
Happily, the prospect of attending the season's premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make
Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder.
Book five takes the series to a darker, more serious level, as we see Harry's attitude and feelings change dramatically
as J.K. Rowling takes us deeper and deeper into the fight between good and evil. Normally safe at the Dursley's, Harry
suffers an almost fatal dementor attack before being taken to the secret headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, a
special group of wizards united in their efforts to defeat Voldemort and his followers. At the headquarters, Harry runs
into Kreacher, a vile, horrible house elf and also Sirius' mother, who never misses an oppurtunity to scream the house
down. Our hero returns to Hogwarts, where things begin to get ever more perilous as he encouters terrifying dreams, a
teacher with an attitude like venom and corruption of the highest level and all the time, Harry still can't find out
what exactly lies in the Department of Mysteries.
Quidditch Through the Ages--charmingly reproduced as if it were a facsimile of the copy from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry--starts with the history of broomsticks, describes the evolution of Quidditch through the generations, and includes the rules of the game as well as a chapter on modern-day play.
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February 10, 2008 - Jim Dale wins a Grammy Award for his reading of the Deathly Hallows audio book.
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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
Albus Dumbledore Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1, Page 15 
The Harry Potter films are the highest grossing franchise in motion picture history with over $5 billion in ticket sales.
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Int'l Harry Potter Day - 15th Anniversary of Battle of Hogwarts
May 2nd, 2013 Victoire Weasley B-day May 2nd, 2013 MISTI-Con Convention May 9-13, 2013 Pomona Sprout B-day May 15th, 2013 
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