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Harry Potter

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Harry Potter

And the Sorcerer’s Stone

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

Harry Potterand the Sorcerer’s Stone

J. K. Rowling

ILLUSTRATIONS BY Mary GrandPré

A RTHUR A. L EVINE B OOKS

A N IMPRINT O F SCHOLASTIC Press.

For Jessica, who loves stories

for Anne, who loved them too;

and for Di, who heard this one first.

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are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.

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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

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Contents

ONE

The Boy Who Lived · 1

TWO

The Vanishing Glass · 18

THREE

The Letters from No One · 31

FOUR

The Keeper of the Keys · 46

FIVE

Diagon Alley · 61

SIX

The Journey from Platform

Nine and Three-quarters · 88

SEVEN

The Sorting Hat · 113

EIGHT

The Potions Master · 131

Contents

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NINE

The Midnight Duel · 143

TEN

Halloween · 163

ELEVEN

Quidditch · 180

TWELVE

The Mirror of Erised · 194

THIRTEEN

Nicholas Flamel · 215

FOURTEEN

Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback · 228

FIFTEEN

The Forbidden Forest · 242

SIXTEEN

Through the Trapdoor · 262

SEVENTEEN

The Man with Two Faces · 288

Harry Potter

And the Sorcerer’s Stone

C H A P T E R O N E

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THE BOY WHO LIVED

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 in-

volved 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, al-

though 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 any-

where.

The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a

secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.

CHAPTER ONE

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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 happen-

ing 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

THE BOY WHO LIVED

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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. Durs-

ley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in

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