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Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone
This is the book that started the Harry Potter series, and introduced us muggles to the world of magic.
Harry is an ordinary boy living a very ordinary life. He was adopted by his horrible Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and his spoilt cousin Dudley. That is, until a giant named Hagrid rescues him from his aunt and uncle. And Harry learns a wonderful truth: He is a wizard!
He enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he makes new friends, and learns all about the secret life of witches and wizards. But Harry needs to be careful, as evil Lord Voldemort (You-Know-Who) may be plotting devious and cunning plans against him ...

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Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Harry is fresh from his first year at Hogwarts, and he returns to Privet Drive. His friends haven't written to him all summer, and Harry feels abandoned.
On his birthday, a mysterious elf turns up in his bedroom and warns him that horrible happenings will take place at the wizard school. Harry returns to Hogwarts, where strange things happen, and Hermione ends up petrified. On top of that, everybody thinks that he is a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, and turn against him. What's going on? It'll take all of Harry's strength and courage to defeat the evil happenings at Hogwarts, and save a life before its too late ...

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Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sirius Black is a notorious mass murderer, who was imprisoned in the wizard prison for the last 12 years. When Harry returns to Hogwarts, there are flying rumours that Black is now after Harry's blood. Ron almost gets attacked, the Fat Lady vanishes from her portrait and Harry's Divination teacher keeps predicting his death. All these events are somehow related to Black ... there are unexpected dangers lurking ...

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Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
It is the summer holidays, and Ron has invited him to the Quidditch World Cup! Upon return to their school, Harry, Ron and Hermione find out that the Triwizard Tournament is held at Hogwarts. Then something unexpected happens, and Harry is thrown into the tournament! Though underaged, a magical bond makes sure he competes, and Harry must use all of his strength and wit to complete the tasks given to him. Through the help of his best friends, Harry learns quickly, but then something awful happens, that may cost a life ...

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Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Harry spends a miserable summer at the Dursleys. He keeps having the same mysterious dream a mysterious black door in a deserted corridor ... what did it all mean? Ron and Hermione have hardly kept in contact and Dumbledore seemed to have forgotten all about him. Until Harry uses illegal magic to repel Dementors (Dementors, in Little Whinging?) and he gets expelled from Hogwarts. Then unexpelled.
Finally, after four long weeks of being almost cut-off from his best friends, Harry sees Ron and Hermione at Sirius' house: a dark mansion his godfather inherited from his parents, who were connected with a range of Death Eaters.
Ron and Hermione become Prefects, and so Harry returns to Hogwarts feeling somewhat rejected, and he begins his fifth year. There is a new Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher: horrible Professor Umbridge. As fifth years take their OWLs, there is a lot of pressure to study magic, and Harry spends many nights revising homework ... or else in detention with Umbridge. And again ... the same, mysterious dream about the black door stands vividly in his mind, and Harry begins to learn a horrible truth ...
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