Harry Potter?

Question

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ? What it is about?(story)

Answer 1

『佛地魔的僕人已被束縛了十二年之久，今晚午夜以前，他將幫助佛地魔東山再起……』

哈利波特升上三年級了，占卜學教授卻對他發出可怕的預言，到底『佛地魔的僕人』指的是誰？

暑假才剛要結束，阿茲卡班監獄就發生了空前的越獄事件！傳言逃犯天狼星‧布萊克就是十三年前出賣了詹姆和莉莉的人！現在他將矛頭指向哈利波特，因此連一向安全的霍格華茲學校，也進駐了魔法界最令人膽寒的獄卒『催狂魔』負責守護，校園裡一片風聲鶴唳！

除了要防範天狼星‧布萊克的偷襲行動，更讓哈利波特覺得丟臉的是，他一碰到全身罩著斗篷、陰森恐怖的『催狂魔』就會昏倒！同時寒意竄入他的胸膛、腦袋裡不斷出現莫名的尖叫聲，並吸去他所有快樂的感覺。哈利波特要如何對抗『催狂魔』的威脅，並趕在午夜時限到達之前，找出潛伏的佛地魔僕人，阻止一場大災難的發生呢？……

(官方介紹)
可於這個→http://www.crown.com.tw/harrypotter/book3_1.htm
看到書的內容一部分

2006-10-24 18:41:16 補充：
唔好意思!我睇錯在世界的另一個角落裡，有一個神秘的國度，裡面住滿了巫師，貓頭鷹是他們的信差、飛天掃帚是交通工具、西洋棋子會思考、幽靈頑皮鬼滿天飛、畫像裡的人還會跑出來串門子！十一歲的哈利波特，從小被阿姨一家人當成怪胎，經常得滿屋子躲避表哥達力的追打。他一直以為自己只是個平凡的小男孩，直到一封又一封神秘的信將他帶入這個充滿神奇魔法的巫師世界，而他的身世之謎與魔法石的秘密也將同時解開......http://www.crown.com.tw/harrypotter/book1_1.htm

Answer 2

At the beginning of the story, on 1 November 1981, a wizard and a witch, Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall meet at number four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, in suburban Surrey, and discuss recent events in the wizarding world. Lord Voldemort, the most powerful and fearsome Dark wizard ever known, has finally been defeated. Unfortunately, he seems to have taken two last victims with him: Lily and James Potter. Their infant son, Harry has somehow survived the encounter, with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead as the only apparent side-effect of Voldemort's attack. Harry will be a legend amongst the magical people, becoming known as "the Boy who Lived", and Dumbledore believes it best he is raised away from all the undesirable fame and attention his circumstances would bring.
Harry is brought to the two professors by Rubeus Hagrid, gamekeeper of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and close friend of Dumbledore. Harry is put in the reluctant care of his only living relatives, his mother's Muggle (non-magical) sister Petunia Dursley, her husband Vernon and their spoiled son Dudley. The Dursleys intensely dislike magic and conceal from Harry any knowledge of his magical abilities and the wizarding world, telling him instead that his parents were killed in a car crash. The Dursleys neglect and mistreat Harry, whose bedroom is a cupboard under the stairs, filled with spiders.
A week before his eleventh birthday, Harry begins receiving letters delivered by owls offering him a place at Hogwarts to learn magic. The Dursleys try to intercept the letters and take Harry away to a small island to escape them, but Hagrid tracks the family down. He tells Harry the truth about his parents and introduces him to the magical world. At The Leaky Cauldron pub they meet a new Hogwarts professor (Prof. Quirrell) and from there they enter Diagon Alley, where Harry purchases the supplies he will need for school. Harry also learns of Lord Voldemort and his murder of Harry's parents, as well as Voldemort's lingering reputation despite being inactive (even a large and strong individual like Hagrid refuses to speak his name). Another interesting connection between Harry and Voldemort is that their wands share the same core – a feather from the same phoenix's tail. Hagrid returns Harry to the Dursleys with a ticket for the school train to Hogwarts, from Platform 9¾ at King's Cross railway station, London.



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Wikibooks Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter has a page on the topic of
Philosopher's Stone
On the train to school, Harry becomes fast friends with Ron Weasley, a poor boy from a large, loving family who is impressed by Harry's scar but not intimidated by his reputation, and meets Hermione Granger, a bit of an annoying know-it-all. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, all new students are sorted into one of the four school houses by trying on an ancient talking hat, The Sorting Hat, which was once the property of one of the school's founders, Godric Gryffindor. Each house has very specific characteristics: Slytherin is filled with ambitious, cunning people who would use any means to get what they want; Ravenclaw is home to those with sharp minds that value intelligence and wit; Gryffindor houses those who are daring and brave at heart; and Hufflepuff is characterised by fairness, honesty and hard work. When Harry is called up to be sorted, everyone whispers and is keen to see the outcome. The hat declares Harry to be difficult to sort. When Harry mentally declares his desire not to be sorted into Slytherin, about which he has heard unpleasant things, the hat mentions to Harry that he would do well in Slytherin. Since the hat finds Harry choosing against this, it sorts him into Gryffindor. Ron is also sorted into Gryffindor, as is Hermione. Harry also meets his biggest rival, Draco Malfoy, an arrogant and rude student who is sorted into Slytherin.