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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry starts off his third year at Hogwarts rather eventfully. He inadvertently blows up his Aunt Marge, goes on the run and is then personally absolved by the Minister of Magic himself. He then learns that mass murderer, Sirius Black, is intent on killing him, and Mr. Weasley makes him promise a strange thing, that no matter what he hears he won’t go looking for Black. Confused, Harry agrees.
As he heads back to school armed with this knowledge, he learns that dementors, evil, soul-sucking creatures, have been stationed around Hogwarts for protection against Black. They effect Harry much more than the others students because of his terrible past, and he quickly resolves to learn to defend himself when he begins collapsing every time they come near. He finds a willing teacher in Professor Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, who begins teaching Harry the Patronus Charm, which is the only spell that will work against the foul creatures.
As the school year progresses and the third years are buried under mounds of homework, Ron and Hermione start a bitter feud over their pets. Hermione is already stressed out due to her enormous course load, and none of them can figure out how she’s getting to all her classes. It doesn’t help that Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks, repeatedly tries to eat Ron’s rat, Scabbers, and the two friends argue ceaselessly about the animals. They stop speaking entirely when it’s discovered that Crookshanks seems to have eaten Scabbers for good, and Ron is devastated.
Harry has a few close calls with Black when he breaks into the castle, but is not apprehended. Things come to a head at the end of the year when a number of events fall like dominoes up Harry and his friends. Ron’s rat, Scabbers, turns out to still be alive and is really a wizard in hiding, Peter Pettigrew, long thought dead. Harry learns that it was Peter, and not Sirius Black, that betrayed his parents to Voldemort. Just when Harry is sure Peter is finally going to be punished for his crimes, he escapes into the night.
Sirius, long thought to be a mass murderer and Voldemort supporter, turns out to be innocent, and Harry learns that Sirius is his godfather. He’s overjoyed when, for a moment, he thinks he might be finally free of the Dursleys, but Sirius has to go on the run from the Ministry to avoid being apprehended.
Professor Lupin, Harry’s favorite teacher, ends up resigning his post when it’s discovered that he’s a werewolf. He narrowly avoids attacking the kids, and it’s Sirius that saves their lives when he turns into a huge shaggy dog to protect them.
It’s an action-packed year to be sure, but Harry is very happy that Sirius makes it out safely and is finally free from Azkaban. He’s comforted by the fact that he finally has a family-member, so to speak, out there watching over him.
Character List Harry Potter - Harry is the main character in Prisoner of Azkaban. During his 3rd year at Hogwarts, Harry finds out that Sirius Black, a die-hard supporter of Voldemort, is intent on killing him. When Harry finds out that Sirius is the one who betrayed Harry’s parents he is filled with anger and wants revenge.
Ron Weasley - Ron is Harry’s best friend. This year Ron is almost attacked by Sirius Black, and later finds out that his rat, Scabbers, is really a murderous wizard traiter, Peter Pettigrew. He is a good and loyal friend to Harry.
Hermione Granger - Hermione is Harry’s other best friend. She is one of the smartest students at Hogwarts, and this year stresses herself out by taking more classes than is humanly possible. She and Harry help Sirius escape once they find out he’s truly innocent.
Sirius Black - Sirius is thought to be a murderer and Voldemort supporter, but he is able to prove his innocence to Harry. He is Harry’s godfather, and Harry helps him escape a fate worse than death and go on the run.
Peter Pettigrew - Peter is really Ron’s rat in disguise. He was supposed to have been killed by Sirius years ago, but in reality faked his own death and hid as Ron’s pet for 13 years. It was Peter that betrayed Harry’s parents to Voldemort, and just when Harry thinks he’ll finally get what’s coming to him Peter escapes.
Remus Lupin - Lupin is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He is a wonderful teacher and is liked by all the students. He and Sirius are old friends, and he is overjoyed to discover that Sirius is innocent. He’s forced to leave Hogwarts, however, when everyone discovers that he’s a werewolf.
Severus Snape - Snape is the Potions professor and loathes Harry. Snape constantly gives Harry a hard time because James, Harry’s father, hated Snape while they were at school together. This year Harry discovers that Snape and Lupin knew each other growing up as well, and that Snape hates Sirius Black as much as he hates Harry himself.
Neville Longbottom - Neville is in Gryffindor with Harry and is a very nice but forgetful boy. This year he inadvertently lets Sirius Black into the Gryffindor Common Room when he writes the passwords on a piece of paper and then loses them.
Albus Dumbledore - Dumbledore is Headmaster at Hogwarts. It’s he alone that believes Harry and Hermione when they attest to Sirius’s innocence, and he gives them the idea that allows them to help him to escape.
Rubus Hagrid - This year Hagrid gets promoted to Care of Magical Creatures professor. He is devastated when a student gets injured in his very first class, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione cheer him up and bolster his confidence. He cares deeply for Harry and watches out for him as much as he can.
Draco Malfoy - Draco and Harry have hated each other from their first day at Hogwarts. This year Draco tries hard to get Hagrid fired, but doesn’t succeed. He is very into being a "pureblood", and can’t stand Hagrid.
Cornelius Fudge - Fudge is the Minister of Magic. He is usually a nice man, but refuses point blank to even consider that Sirius might be innocent. He is livid when he discovers that Sirius escapes the dementor’s kiss.
Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: Owl PostIt’s been another long summer for Harry Potter. Cut off from the wizarding world completely and tormented by the Dursley’s, he’s really looking forward to getting back to Hogwarts where he belongs. He finally gets letters from his friends Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid on the night of his birthday. He gets his first ever birthday cards and some really nice presents. Ron tells him that his dad won a contest and they’re spending the prize money on a trip to Egypt.
Chapter 2: Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake The next morning Harry’s heart sinks when he hears that Aunt Marge, Uncle Vernon’s sister, is coming for a visit. Harry makes a deal with Uncle Vernon, saying he’ll be as normal as possible while Marge is here if Uncle Vernon will sign his permission slip that will allow Harry to visit the village of Hogsmead during the weekends. After Uncle Vernon leaves to pick up Marge, Harry clears at his room, trying to make it look like a Muggle room.
The week of Marge’s stay is almost unbearable. She delights in insulting Harry, and makes constant suggestions for his improvement. Harry is able to hold his temper until her last night there, when she starts insulting Harry’s parents. Before he can help it, he swells Marge into a giant balloon and refuses to put her right again. He packs his trunk in a rage, and bolts out the door into the night.
Chapter 3: The Knight Bus Once Harry cools down a bit he realizes he’s in a lot of trouble. He just did illegal magic and is sure he’s going to get expelled from Hogwarts. As he’s formulating a plan for living alone in London, he feels himself being watched. He turns around and just makes out a hulking shape in an alleyway, glaring at him. Surprised, he trips over his trunk and somehow manages to flag down the Knight Bus. Stan Shunkpike, the conductor, informs him that the Knight Bus can take him to London and Harry climbs aboard, still uneasy about the dog-like shape he saw in the alley.
As Harry tries to ride the Knight Bus, which is extremely lurchy, he sees in the Daily Prophet that a man, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban and is very dangerous. He was a big supporter of Voldemort, and killed 13 people with one curse.
When Harry finally gets dropped off at Diagon Alley he’s amazed to be met by the Minister of Magic himself, Cornelius Fudge. Fudge takes him inside the Leaky Cauldron and tells him that he’ll be staying there until school starts. Harry is amazed to find out that not only is he not getting punished for his illegal magic, but that he’s also allowed to stay away from the Dursley’s for the last two weeks of summer vacation.
Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron Harry is so happy to be back in the wizarding world he almost doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s able to do his homework in the bright sunshine at Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor and has fun people watching. One day he’s walking along window shopping when he sees that a new broom has come out, The Firebolt. It’s the best model available, and Harry has to muster all his strength not to spend his money on the superb broom.
Ron and Hermione meet up with Harry right before school starts. Hermione buys a cat, Crookshanks, and Ron buys some rat tonic for Scabbers, who has been looking sickly.
After dinner that night with Hermione and the entire Weasley family, Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley having an argument about him. Harry finds out that Sirius Black has a vendetta against him, and might be coming to Hogwarts to kill him. He also finds out that dementors have been stationed outside Hogwarts for protection against Black.
Chapter 5: The Dementor As they’re boarding the train the next day to head back to school, Mr. Weasley tries to tell Harry about Black, but Harry lets him know that he overheard the argument the night before and that he’s not that afraid. When the train starts he, Ron, and Hermione find a car and Harry tells them about Black’s vendetta. They’re both shocked and scared that Harry is in danger.
Right at dusk the train stops unexpectedly before they get to the castle, and all the lights go out. They can barely make out someone boarding the train, and then the mysterious thing opens their car door. Suddenly, Harry hears screaming and then collapses onto the floor. When he comes to he feels very sick and very ashamed, as no one else collapsed or got so sick. Professor Lupin, the teacher they were sharing their car with, tells him it was a dementor that came onto the train, and that they suck all the happiness out of people.
When they get to Hogwarts Malfoy is positively gleeful when he hears that Harry collapsed on the train, and immediately starts imitating him. Before the feast begins they find out that Professor Lupin is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and that Hagrid has been promoted to Care of Magical Creatures professor.
Chapter 6: Talons And Tea Leaves When course schedules are passed out the next morning, Hermione seems to be trying to set a new record for course loads. There are times when she has 3 classes at once, and she mysteriously avoids questions as to how she’s going to accomplish such an amazing feat.
As they sit down to their first ever Divination Class Harry is dismayed when Professor Trelawney predicts that Harry has the Grim in his teacup. The Grim is a black dog that is an omen of death, and this means Harry doesn’t have long to live.
That night Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he saw a black dog the night he left the Dursley’s house, and Hermione passes it off as coincidence.
The next day during Hagrid’s first class as professor things take a disastrous turn when Malfoy, refusing to listen to Hagrid’s instructions, insults the hippogriff’s they’re studying and gets injured by one.
Hagrid is devastated that his first class goes so badly, and that night they cheer him up by telling him it’s all Malfoy’s fault for not listening to the directions.
Chapter 7: The Boggart In The Wardrobe During Potions class later that week Malfoy drops mysterious hints to Harry about Sirius Black that leaves Harry wondering what Malfoy knows that Harry doesn’t.
During their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class Lupin troops them upstairs to the staff room to battle their first boggart, which is a shape-shifting creature that turns into whatever you’re most afraid of. Everyone is successful except for Harry. When it comes to his turn Lupin steps in and gets rid of it before Harry can even test his skills against it.
Chapter 8: Flight Of The Fat Lady As Lupin’s popularity grows among the student, Harry is still wondering why Lupin did not want him to battle the boggart. He thinks Lupin might think that he, Harry, doesn’t have the strength to face the creature, and feels pretty low about it. Ron and Hermione get into a huge fight over their animals. Crookshanks, Hermione’s cat, keeps trying to eat Scabbers, Ron’s rat.
He cheers up a bit when the Quidditch season finally starts, but the good mood doesn’t last long. With the first Hogsmead weekend coming up, Harry still can’t go because no one has signed his permission form.
While everyone else is away enjoying themselves in town, Harry wanders into Lupin’s office and finally voices his bewilderment about the boggart and questions Lupin about why he didn’t allow him to fight it. Lupin admits that he was afraid the boggart would turn into Lord Voldemort and scare everyone, but Harry tells him he’s more afraid of the dementors than Voldemort.
When Ron and Hermione return from Hogsmead they bring him tons of candy, and that night at the Halloween Feast they all stuff themselves full of delicious food. When they return to the Common Room, however, they discover the Fat Lady has disappeared and her portrait has been shredded. When Dumbledore shows up Peeves informs him that she refused Sirius Black entrance when he didn’t know the password, and that he cut up her painting in his rage.
Chapter 9: Grim Defeat The entire school is sequestered in the Great Hall that night as the professors search the school for Sirius Black. He isn’t found, and the school talks of nothing else the next few days.
When the day of Gryffindor’s first Quidditch match arrives, Harry is dismayed to find the weather in a terrible state. As the match starts, Harry can’t see anything because of the torrential rain. Suddenly, Harry sees the huge black dog again and soon after spots about a hundred dementors on the grounds. His head is again filled with screams and shouting, and before he knows it, Harry passes out.
When he awakes he’s in the hospital wing, and more ashamed than he can say. He finds out that Cedric Diggory got the Snitch just as Harry collapsed and that they lost the game. Just when he thinks he can’t feel any worse he finds out from Ron and Hermione that his broom was destroyed when he fell off. It drifted into the Whomping Willow and was beaten to splinters.
Chapter 10: The Marauder’s Map Harry realizes a few days later that the screaming he hears inside his head every time the dementors come around is the screams of his mother right before she is killed by Lord Voldemort. When he returns to classes Monday morning, Malfoy teases Harry endlessly for collapsing over the dementors.
Harry asks Professor Lupin why the dementors affect him so strongly, and Lupin tells him that dementors force people to relive the worst memories of a person’s life. Harry is affected more than the other students because he has horrors in his past that the others don’t have. Harry is cheered slightly when Lupin promises to start teaching him defense against the dementors after the Christmas break.
The day of the last Hogsmead visit before break finds Harry downcast over not being able to go again. Fred and George cheer him up immensely when they give him a secret map of Hogwarts that shows all the secret passages out of school, as well as the location of everyone in the castle.
Harry grabs his Invisiblity Cloak and then uses one of the passageways to sneak into Hogsmead. He quickly finds Ron and Hermione, and they head off to Three Broomsticks so Harry can taste his first butterbeer. Harry overhears some of the Hogwarts professors and Hagrid talking about Sirius Black, and he’s shocked to find out that Black used to be best friends with his father, and that Black is the one who betrayed his parents to Voldemort.
Chapter 11: The Firebolt Harry doesn’t really know how to deal with this new information. He realizes he hates Sirius Black for what he did, and as the Christmas break starts the knowledge that Black is free enough to drive Harry out of his mind with anger.
He decides to go visit Hagrid to ask him why he never bothered to tell Harry anything about Black, but shoves the idea away when Hagrid tells him that Buckbeak, the hippogriff that attacked Malfoy, will be put to death in a few months. Hagrid is devastated and Harry, Ron, and Hermione try hard to cheer him up. Hermione promises to help Hagrid in his defense against Buckbeak.
As he opens presents the next morning Harry is shocked to unwrap a brand new Firebolt. He has no idea who sent him such a princely gift. Hermione and Ron get into another fight about their pets, but it’s Harry’s turn to get mad at her later that night. She brings in Professor McGonagall to look at Harry’s Firebolt, and McGonagall quickly takes away the broom. Harry is livid with her, and Hermione tells him she thinks that Sirius Black sent Harry the broom as a trap.
Chapter 12: The Patronus Harry can’t forgive Hermione over the Firebolt despite her good intentions. He cheers up with the start of his private lessons with Lupin, and is anxious to learn how to defend himself against the dementors. Lupin tries to teach him the Patronus Charm, which is a guardian of happy thoughts that fights against the dementor. Lupin brings in a boggart for him to practice on, but Harry finds the charm extremely difficult. Every time the boggart is let loose, Harry hears more and more of the night his parent’s were murdered.
As the lessons wear on Harry doesn’t improve nearly as fast as he’d like to, although he is making progress. Lupin is quite proud of him. Harry cheers up when Professor McGonagall gives him back his Firebolt, proclaiming it safe to use, and Harry makes up with Hermione.
Right after they make up, however, she and Ron get into another huge fight when Ron finds blood on his sheets and little cat hairs around them. He accuses Crookshanks of eating Scabbers.
Chapter 13: Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw Harry’s first match on his Firebolt is nothing short of amazing. The broom is superb, and Harry flies faster than anyone else. When 3 dementors show up during the match Harry doesn’t think twice. He shoots off an enormous Patronus Charm at them and then quickly catches the Snitch. When he lands he’s thrilled to discover that the dementors were actually Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle dressed up as a cruel joke, and they’re in big trouble for being involved in such a dirty trick.
That night, Ron awakes everyone by his screaming, and insists that Sirius Black was standing over him with a knife. When Professor McGonagall questions the Sir Cadogen, the portrait, he admits that Sirius Black was admitted into the Common Room because he had the password on a little slip of paper. Neville shamefully admits to writing them all down, and then losing the paper.
Chapter 14: Snape’s Grudge Security inside Hogwarts is tightened after this near miss, and Neville is in total disgrace.
Harry decides to sneak into Hogsmead again with the Marauder’s Map in spite of Hermione threatening to tell on him. Harry is under his Invisibility Cloak when Malfoy and his cronies show up and start picking on Ron. Since he’s invisible, Harry decides to pick on them right back. To Ron’s delight, he ends up scaring them all senseless. Right at the end, however, Harry’s hood slips off his head and Malfoy sees him. Harry tears back up to Hogwarts before Malfoy can tell on him, and barely makes it back in time.
Snape drags him into his office and starts questioning Harry ruthlessly about being in Hogsmead. Snape then discovers the Marauders Map that Harry is carrying but can’t figure out how to get it to work. Lupin comes in and covers for Harry, confiscating the map himself. He scolds Harry later for leaving the school and for having the map, and tells him that this is the one and only time he’ll get Harry out of trouble.
Just when Harry can’t feel any worse, Hermione informs him and Ron that Hagrid lost his case and that Buckbeak is indeed going to be executed.
Chapter 15: The Quidditch Final Ron and Hermione finally make up when Ron resolves to help Hermione save Buckbeak. Hermione shocks them all when she hears Malfoy berating Hagrid and suddenly slaps him. She surprises them again when, in Divination, she explodes at Professor Trelawney and quits the class for good.
As the last Quidditch match of the season approaches, tensions are high with expectations. Harry is unnerved when, the night before the match, he again sees the the Grim, only this time the shaggy dog is walking with Crookshanks on the grounds. The next day’s match against Slytherin is brutal, but Grynffindor plays spectacularly and they win the Quidditch Cup.
Chapter 16: Professor Trelawney’s Prediction As exams begin an odd hush falls over the castle. The execution of Buckbeak is scheduled for the end of the week, and Hagrid is depressed and preoccupied as the date draws nearer.
During his Transfiguration exam, Professor Trelawney surprises Harry with a real prediction. She slips into a trance, and tells him that tonight Voldemort’s supporter will escape and rejoin his master, and will help him rise again. When she comes to she remembers nothing of the prophecy.
That afternoon Hagrid sends them all a note, telling them that Buckbeak lost his appeal and that he’ll be executed at sunset. They all sneak out under Harry’s Invisibility Cloak to be with him when it happens. When they get to Hagrid’s hut, Hermione is shocked to find Scabbers hiding in the cabinet, and then Hagrid shoo’s them all away when the executioner shows up. They sneak off back towards the castle, and are dumbfounded when they hear the dull thud of the ax and Hagrid’s cries.
Chapter 17: Cat, Rat, and Dog None of them can believe that the executioner really killed Buckbeak. They numbly make their way back towards the castle, but suddenly Scabbers starts going crazy. He bites Ron and then takes off through the grass, followed closely by Crookshanks. Ron takes off after him and just manages to catch the rat and put him back in his pocket. Suddenly, the gigantic black dog Harry has been seeing attacks Ron, drags him to the Whomping Willow, and disappears out of sight.
They can’t figure out how to get inside until Crookshanks shows them the way. They slip into a tunnel that leads to the Shrieking Shack. When they find Ron upstairs Ron tries to tell them that Sirius Black is the great black dog, but he doesn’t have enough time. Sirius Black disarms them.
Harry explodes with rage, remembering how Black betrayed his parents, and suddenly attacks Black. When he has his wand back and Black cornered, Black tries to tell him there’s more to the story but Harry doesn’t want to listen. He’s trying to muster the will to kill him when he’s interrupted by Professor Lupin, who disarms Harry and helps Sirius to his feet. Harry is incensed at the betrayal, and is even more shocked when Hermione tells them all that Lupin is a werewolf. Lupin admits that Harry needs to hear the full story, and starts explaining. He tells them that the story starts with Ron’s rat, Scabbers. He says that Scabbers is really a wizard by the name of Peter Pettigrew, who is supposed to be dead.
Chapter 18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, And ProngsAs Lupin starts the story, he tells Harry that he, Sirius, Peter, and Harry’s father James all used to be best friends at Hogwarts. He tells them that, because he was a werewolf, his three friends became unregistered Animagi to help him during his transformations. Lupin tells Harry that Snape was almost killed one night when Sirius put him in harm’s way during one of Lupin’s transformations, and it was James that pulled him back and saved his life. Just as Lupin as finishing this tale, Snape shows up and disarms them all.
Chapter 19: The Servant Of Lord Voldemort Snape is deranged with anger, and quite out of his head. He resolves to let the dementors kill Black as soon as they’re outside, and Hermione pleads with Snape to let Lupin finish the story, which might prove Sirius’s innocence. Snape refuses, and suddenly he’s attacked by Harry, Ron, and Hermione and knocked out cold.
Lupin quickly finishes his story, telling Harry that all this while it was Pettigrew that had betrayed Harry’s parent’s, not Sirius. He forces Scabbers reveal himself to his true form, and they’re all amazed when the rat turns into the short, balding Peter Pettigrew. When they question him about Lily and Jame’s murder, he finally admits to selling them out to Voldemort. Harry believes Sirius was telling the truth all along, and then begs them not to kill Pettigrew. They tie him up, and head back up to the castle.
Chapter 20: The Dementor’s Kiss As they’re walking up to the castle Sirius tells Harry that he is Harry’s godfather. He says that if Harry ever wanted a different place to live, he could come live with him. Harry is overjoyed at the thought, and is happier than he can say.
Suddenly, things start to go terribly wrong. Lupin begins transforming into a werewolf once he catches sight of the full moon. Sirius urges them all to escape and turns back into a dog in order to protect them from Lupin. Pettigrew, in all the commotion, manages to turn back into his rat form and takes off through the grass.
Harry then hears Sirius in pain and takes off after him. He’s terrified to see that Sirius has been surrounded by dementors, and tries to fend them off but can’t because there are just too many. Just as one of them is about to kiss him and suck out his soul for good, someone jumps out of the bushes and repels them all away with a huge Patronus Charm. Harry feebly looks at him, and then passes out.
Chapter 21: Hermione’s Secret When Harry comes to he’s in the hospital wing. He goes ballistic when he hears from Fudge that they have Sirius locked and that the dementors will be giving him a kiss any minute. Harry tries to tell him about Sirius’s innocence and Pettirgrew’s betrayal, but Fudge won’t listen. It’s only when Dumbledore shows up that Harry has a spark of hope.
Dumbledore quickly forms a plan that will allow Harry and Hermione to help Sirius escape. They use a Time-Turner of Hermione’s that takes them 3 hours back in time. It is revealed that Hermione received the Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall at the start of term and that she has been using it to take classes scheduled at the same time.
They rescue Buckbeak from his execution, Harry saves himself from the dementors, and they rescue Sirius from his locked room right before the dementors show up to kiss him. Sirius thanks them with all his heart and flies away into the night on Buckbeak’s back.
Chapter 22: Owl Post Again Fudge and Snape are livid when they find out that Sirius escaped, but Fudge certainly doesn't suspect Harry and Hermione, who supposedly never left their hospital beds, while Snape is almost too convinced Harry had had a hand in Black's escape. Dumbledore then shoos Snape away, and Fudge orders the dementors to leave.
The next day Harry is saddened to hear that Lupin has resigned. Everyone found out that he is a werewolf, so he’s leaving voluntarily.
On the train home they’re all surprised when a small owl shows up outside their car window, bearing a letter from Sirius. Sirius explains that it was him that sent Harry the Firebolt as a present, and he also encloses a signed permission form that will allow Harry to visit Hogsmead next year. He gives the owl to Ron since Scabbers is no longer his pet rat.
Ron cheers Harry up by telling him that the Quidditch World Cup is this summer and that Harry might be able to go with him, and Harry gets immense pleasure by informing the Dursley’s that his long-lost godfather is a convicted murderer and that he’ll be checking up on Harry. Uncle Vernon is at a loss for words at this news, and Harry, with a grin, sets off for Privet Drive.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
It’s been another long summer at the Dursley’s for Harry Potter. He can’t wait to get back to Hogwarts and is counting down the days until he can return. He’s surprised when, on his birthday, a strange creature named Dobby shows up with dire warnings for Harry: He must not return to Hogwarts!
When Harry flat out refuses to stay home Dobby lands him in heaps of trouble with the Dursley’s, who lock Harry up in his room and refuse to let him out. Before Harry can sink too far into despair, however, Ron and his two brothers come to his rescue in a flying car and spirit him back to Ron’s house, where Harry is thrilled to spend the remainder of the summer.
Thus starts an eventful second year for Harry. Between having to cope with more homework than ever, a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who is vain and convinced Harry is too, and a mysterious voice he keeps hearing in the walls, Harry’s days are nothing if not interesting.
As the school year progresses, however, the mysterious voice Harry keeps hearing is getting more and more menacing, and soon vicious attacks start happening on the students of Hogwarts. When Harry discovers, quite by accident, that he is a Parslemouth and can speak to snakes, he’s quickly singled out as Slytherin’s Heir, the person who, according to legend, is opening the mysterious “Chamber of Secrets” and letting out the monster.
Of course Harry has no idea who is attacking the students, but he quickly resolves to find out who is responsible. He, Ron, and Hermione come up with an elaborate plan to disguise themselves as Slytherin students so they can question Draco Malfoy, whom they believe IS the one setting the monster loose in the school. The plan goes perfectly, but they’re disappointed when they find out from Draco that he is not the one they’re looking for.
The quest gets personal when Hermione is attacked and Petrified by the monster. Ron and Harry are devastated, and are left on their own to uncover the true identity of the person responsible. Events come to a head when Ron’s sister, Ginny, is kidnapped and taken down into the Chamber, and they discover an important clue that Hermione left for them. They quickly head down into the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny.
Harry and Ron get separated once they’re down there and Harry is left to pursue the monster on his own. He quickly finds Ginny, and thanks to some mysterious help from Dumbledore and his phoenix Harry is able to destroy Slytherin’s Heir, whom he’s amazed to find out is a younger version of Lord Voldemort. Voldemort was possessing Ginny through an enchanted diary and was using her to set the monster loose on the students.
Harry and Ron are both hailed as hero’s when they make it back out with Ginny, and Harry can’t imagine a finer end to such an eventful year when Hermione and the rest of the victims are healed and they win Gryffindor loads of House Points.
Character List - Harry Potter - Harry is the main character in “Chamber of Secrets”. In his second year at Hogwarts Harry is ostracized from his fellow students when they think he is Slytherin’s heir, and is setting loose a monster on them to clear out the half-bloods in the school. His friends Ron and Hermione stand by his side, and together they set out to solve the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets.
- Ron Weasley - Ron is Harry’s best friend. This year Ron helps Harry investigate the Chamber of Secrets. He sticks by Harry’s side when everyone else doubts him, and Ron also follows Harry into the Chamber itself when his sister, Ginny, is taken hostage by the monster.
- Hermione Granger - Hermione is Harry’s other best friend. She is one of the smartest students at Hogwarts, and plays a key role in helping Harry figure out what the monster actually is and where it’s hiding. She is unable to help them solve the mystery, however, because she gets Petrified by the monster and is sequestered in the hospital wing.
- Ginny Weasley - Ginny is Ron’s little sister, and has an innocent crush on Harry. It’s her first year at Hogwarts, and she is hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort when she starts writing in an enchanted diary that used to be his. She is taken captive by the monster and taken down into the Chamber of Secrets, where she is rescued by Harry.
- Gilderoy Lockhart - Lockhart is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He is a very famous author, but knows absolutely nothing about real defense. He is very much in love with himself and his beautiful smile, and falsely believes Harry is as egotistical as he is. He reveals to Harry and Ron that he lied about everything he’s written about in his books, but is forced by them to go into the Chamber of Secrets, where he accidentally wipes his own memory clean.
- Albus Dumbledore - Dumbledore is Headmaster at Hogwarts. He cares very much for Harry, and is always looking out for him. Dumbledore is asked to step down this year as more and more students are attacked by the monster, but he helps Harry out immensely in the Chamber of Secrets when he sends his phoenix down with a weapon to help.
- Tom Riddle - Riddle is really Lord Voldemort’s younger self. He lives only in the diary that Ginny writes in, and bewitches her through the diary to open the Chamber of Secrets and set the monster loose. He battles with Harry at the end, but in the end is defeated.
- Draco Malfoy - Malfoy is Harry’s nemesis. He is in Slytherin House, and for most of the year Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sure that he is the one opening the Chamber of Secrets. They’re all surprised when they discover that he has no idea who is setting the monster loose.
- Lucius Malfoy - Lucius is Draco’s father. He hates the Weasley’s, and he’’s the one that slips Ginny the enchanted diary when he and Mr. Weasley almost get into a fight at Flourish and Blotts bookshop. Harry angers Lucius at the end of the year when he tricks him into setting his house elf, Dobby, free.
- Dobby - Dobby is the Malfoy’s house elf. While he is bound to keep the Malfoy’’s secrets, he is able to give Harry clues and warnings about what is happening at Hogwarts. He almost kills Harry numerous times in his effort to protect him.
- Hagrid - Hagrid is the gamekeeper at Hogwarts and cares a great deal for Harry. This year he is taken away to Azkaban when the Minister of Magic suspects that it might be him setting the monster loose upon the castle. Harry is able to prove that Hagrid was falsely accused the first time of opening the Chamber of Secrets years ago, and Hagrid is ecstatic to be back at Hogwarts when he’s finally set free.
- Fred and George Weasley - Fred and George are Ron’s older brothers and are identical twins. They help Ron rescue Harry before school starts in their dad’s flying car. They’re famous for getting into mischief at school.
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday Harry is having the worst birthday ever. Not only have the Dursley’s completely forgotten about Harry turning 12, but Uncle Vernon is having his boss over for dinner in order to complete a very important sales deal. This means that Harry has to spend the evening sequestered in his room, making no noise and pretending he doesn’t exist. He has gotten no cards, and no presents, and feels absolutely invisible. As he dully scuttles up to his bedroom when the guests arrive he’s surprised to find there’s a strange creature already sitting on his bed.
Chapter 2: Dobby’s Warning The creature turns out to be a house elf named Dobby. To his horror, Dobby turns out to be highly emotional, and his weedy-thin voice carries down the stairs where Uncle Vernon is negotiating his dinner meeting with his boss. Harry knows he’ll be in big trouble if the night goes awry, so he tries hard to keep Dobby quiet. It’s hard because Dobby worships Harry, and has come to tell him he must not return to Hogwarts. Dobby can’t tell him any specifics though. Harry is also livid to find out that Dobby has been stealing all of his mail so he would think he didn’t have friends at school.
As Dobby refuses to give Harry back his letters, he makes Harry promise he won’t go back to Hogwarts and put himself in danger. Of course, Harry refuses, and to his dismay Dobby and the letters disappear. Harry runs downstairs to find him, and his heart stops when he sees Dobby in the kitchen, floating a gigantic pudding in midair. When Harry again refuses to stay home from Hogwarts, Dobby drops the gigantic pudding on the floor, sending it flying all over the kitchen.
He’s promised death by Uncle Vernon, who manages to gloss the whole thing over. It ends badly, however, when an owl sent by the Ministry of Magic arrives and terrifies the guests. Harry is admonished by the Ministry for performing magic outside of school and when Uncle Vernon finds that Harry is not allowed to use magic during vacation he locks Harry up in his room and installs bars on his windows.
Three days after his imprisonment, Harry wakes up to find Ron Weasley floating outside his window.
Chapter 3: The Burrow Harry is amazed to find that Ron, Fred, and George have come to take him home in a flying car that their father owns. Using the car they pull the bars off Harry's bedroom window and load Harry’s stuff in. Harry barely makes it away from the grasp of Uncle Vernon, but finally pulls free and they gleefully set off into the night towards Ron’s home.
As Harry catches them up on the Dobby fiasco, none of the boys really believe Dobby was telling the truth about there being a dangerous plot in Hogwarts.
Harry is ecstatic when they finally get to the Burrow but it doesn’t last more than a moment when Mrs. Weasley, Ron’s mother, comes stalking out of the house, livid that the boys confiscated the car and risked so much to go get Harry. Her rage doesn’t last too long, however, and she makes them a delicious breakfast.
Mr. Weasley gets a taste of his wife’s rage a bit later when he comes home from work and catches it from her for enchanting the car to fly. Harry and Ron retreat to his room to escape the battle and Harry admits to Ron that he loves the messy, scattered house that Ron calls home.
Chapter 4: At Flourish And Blotts Life at the Burrow is completely different from life with the Dursley’s and Harry is very happy spending the last bit of summer vacation there. When booklists arrive from Hogwarts they plan to meet up with Hermione in Diagon Alley and all do their shopping together.
They travel to Diagon Alley using Floo powder, which allows wizards to travel from one fireplace to another. Harry is nervous about traveling this way and, to his horror, he ends up in some dark magic shop. He overhears Draco Malfoy’s father, Lucius, selling a bunch a poisons to the shop owner and as soon as he can, he creeps out and starts looking for Diagon Alley.
He’s very much relieved to bump into Hagrid, who quickly steers him the right direction and they meet up with the Weasley’s and continue their shopping.
When they get to the bookstore they’re all surprised to see famous author Gilderoy Lockhart there signing copies of his latest book. He takes a publicity photo with Harry and then announces that he’ll be arriving at Hogwarts shortly to assume the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. They bump into the Malfoy’s and Mr. Weasley and Mr. Malfoy almost get into a fight when Mr. Malfoy insults his family. Harry is definitely glad to get back to the Burrow.
Chapter 5: The Whomping Willow They’re running extremely late the morning they all have to meet the Hogwarts Express. Tempers are high and Ron and Harry are the last ones to push through the barrier to meet the train. They’re both stunned, however, when the gate seals itself against them and they’re stuck at the Muggle station, unable to get through.
They panic until Ron gets the brilliant idea to use the flying Ford Anglia to get to Hogwarts. They set off immediately, following the train through the air. Just as they reach Hogwarts, however, the car dies and they crash into a gigantic tree on the grounds. Ron’s wand is broken almost in half and they quickly figure out that the tree they’ve landed in is intent on killing them.
When they finally make it up to the school, they’re met by Snape, who promises them expulsion since Muggles saw them in the flying car. When Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall show up, however, they are relieved to discover they’re not expelled. They are still in a lot of trouble, though, but only get a detention.
They’re the heroes of the Gryffindor common room that night and Harry is extremely happy to be back at Hogwarts when he finally climbs into bed.
Chapter 6: Gilderoy Lockhart Their first day back does not start off well. Ron gets a Howler from his mother, who is furious with him for stealing the car. Then Professor Lockhart accuses Harry of stealing the car to earn himself a bit more fame, even when Harry assures him whole-heartedly that this is not so.
Lessons prove to be extremely difficult, and Harry feels that everything he learned the previous year fell out of his head over the summer. His first class with Lockhart proves to be unbelievable. Lockhart is completely in love with himself and doesn’t teach them anything useful at all. He brings along a cage full of Cornish pixies and when they prove to be almost impossible to control, he assigns Ron, Harry, and Hermione the task of capturing them and leaves quickly with the rest of the class.
Chapter 7: Mudbloods And Murmurs Harry tries hard to avoid Lockhart the rest of the week and by the time the weekend comes he’s ready for a break. His newest fan, first year Colin Creevey, follows Harry down to Quidditch practice and keeps adding fuel to the fire as he hero-worships Harry constantly. Harry is dismayed to find out that Draco Malfoy is Slytherin’s new Seeker and bought his whole team brand new brooms. He calls Hermione a terrible word, “Mudblood”, and Ron is horrified when he tries to curse Malfoy with his broken wand and ends up cursing himself.
Harry finds out later that afternoon that his detention will be with Lockhart, of all people, helping him respond to his fan mail. As he’s in the office with Lockhart he hears a strange, whispery voice that Lockhart can’t hear at all. Later, this voice proves to be the Basilisk. He’s unnerved about it when he goes to bed that night.
Chapter 8: The Deathday Party When the Gryffindor ghost, Nearly Headless Nick, gets Harry out of trouble with Filch one day, Harry is so grateful he agrees to come to Nick’s deathday party on Halloween night. When he, Ron, and Hermione show up, however, he can’t wait to leave. It’s creepy and uncomfortable and full of other ghosts.
When they finally manage to sneak out, Harry again hears the scary voice in the walls. Even though Ron and Hermione are right next to him, they couldn’t hear it at all. It whispers about killing someone and Harry races down the hall after it. They follow it into a hallway where they’re shocked to find a message written in red, proclaiming the Chamber of Secrets to be opened again, and Filch’s cat, Mrs. Norris, frozen and dead looking.
Chapter 9: The Writing On The Wall When Dumbledore shows up they immediately follow him into Lockhart’s office, where Harry is strangely reluctant to tell him about the voice only he can hear.
The next few days all anyone can talk about is the Chamber of Secrets. In their History of Magic class, Professor Binns tells them that the legend of the Chamber goes back centuries. Apparently Slytherin built a secret chamber within the school and sealed a monster inside it magically. No one but Slytherin’s true heir would be able to open the chamber but once they did the monster would purge the school of all Muggle-borns.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione spend the evening obsessively discussing the Chamber of Secrets and poking around for clues. Harry begins to think that Malfoy might be the Heir of Slytherin and they quickly come up with a plan to find out. They’re going to try to make Polyjuice Potion, which will make them look like someone else, and sneak into the Slytherin common room to interrogate Malfoy.
Chapter 10: The Rogue Bludger They trick Lockhart into giving them permission to use the Restricted Section in the library and take out the book they need to brew up some Polyjuice Potion. They’re horrified when they realize they’re going to have to steal a bunch of the ingredients and that the potion will take a month to brew but they resolve to go forward with the plan.
During the first Quidditch match of the season Harry realizes that someone has cursed one of the bludgers because it won’t stop going after him. Fred and George do all they can do to protect him but Harry decides to take care of it on his own by out-maneuvering it. Just as he is about to catch the Snitch, however, it hits his arm hard and breaks it. He manages to reach out with his other hand, grab the Snitch, and win the game for Gryffindor.
As soon as he lands he passes out from the pain and when he comes to he finds Lockhart standing over him, attempting to cure him. When he casts the spell he ends up removing Harry’s bone, not mending it.
He has to spend the night in the hospital wing as Madam Pompfrey regrows the bones in his arm and in the middle of the night he’s awakened by Dobby of all things. He’s livid when he finds out it was Dobby that prevented him from getting on the train and apoplectic when Dobby admits to cursing the Bludger. He still can’t tell Harry what’s happening at Hogwarts and wants him to go home so he isn’t killed.
Suddenly Dobby vanishes when he hears someone coming as Dumbledore walks in to the hospital wing with Professor McGonagall. They’re carrying someone who is stiff as a board and when Madam Pomfrey comes in she’s horrified at what she sees. Colin Creevey has been petrified just like Filch’s cat, Mrs. Norris. Harry overhears Dumbledore saying the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again.
Chapter 11: The Dueling Club When Harry gets out of the hospital wing he meets up with Ron and Hermione, who have started working on the Polyjuice Potion. They decide to cause a diversion in Snape’s class so they can steal the ingredients they need and Hermione shocks them both by volunteering to do the actual stealing. The plan goes perfectly and they get what they need.
Lockhart starts a Dueling Club later that week and the first meeting is a disaster when Malfoy and Harry duel and Malfoy shoots a snake out of his wand at Harry. All Harry does is tell the snake to go away but for some reason it terrifies all the students and Ron rushes him out of the room. Harry later finds out that he is a Parselmouth and can talk to snakes. Now everyone thinks he’s Slytherin’s heir and is responsible for opening the Chamber of Secrets. When another student is attacked, Harry is taken to see Dumbledore.
Chapter 12: The Polyjuice Potion Before Dumbledore can confront Harry, Hagrid bursts through the door, screaming that Harry had nothing to do with the latest victim. Dumbledore quickly assures him that he does not believe Harry was involved but he asks Harry if there’s anything he’d like to tell him. Again, Harry does not reveal he can hear a voice in the walls and says nothing.
During Christmas, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all stay at Hogwarts in order to finally get into Slytherin’s common room to question Malfoy. The potion is finally ready on Christmas Day, and to their amazement Hermione already has a well-thought-out plan for how it’s going to work. They put Crabbe and Goyle to sleep with enchanted cupcakes and use a piece of their hair to throw into their respective potions. Before they know it, Ron and Harry are looking just like Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione is hysterical for some reason and refuses to come out of her restroom stall, so they leave without her.
They quickly run into Malfoy and make it into the common room, where they’re shocked to discover that Malfoy has no idea who the heir of Slytherin is. They barely make it out of the common room without being detected after the Polyjuice Potion suddenly begins to wear off.
When they make it back to the bathroom they finally persuade Hermione to come out of her bathroom stall and are horrified to discover she still looks like a cat after accidentally using a cat hair in her potion.
Chapter 13: The Very Secret Diary Hermione has to stay in the hospital wing for weeks and is grateful to Ron and Harry for bringing her homework to her every evening.
One evening, Ron and Harry are walking down the hall when they hear Moaning Myrtle sobbing harder than she ever has before. She informs them that someone threw a book at her and when Harry picks it up he’s intrigued because it looks just like a diary and he sees that it once belonged to someone named T. M. Riddle. To his disappointment it’s blank but, not quite knowing why, he pockets the book.
One night he starts writing in the diary and is amazed when the diary starts writing back to him, talking to him.
The boy, Tom Riddle, tells Harry that he was the one that caught the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets the first time. Tom invites Harry into his world to see how he caught the person. Nervously, Harry agrees and is pulled into the diary. He follows Tom into a secret passageway and is shocked beyond belief when he discovers it was Hagrid that was responsible for opening the Chamber the first time.
Chapter 14: Cornelius Fudge Harry, Ron, and Hermione are shocked that Hagrid could have anything to do with the Chamber of Secrets but they decide not to confront him about it.
One day, Harry is surprised to find out someone pilfered his trunk, looking for something, and he quickly realizes that Riddle’s diary is gone. The next day on their way down to the next Quidditch match, Harry again hears the whispering voice. The game is just about to start when Professor McGonagall announces that the game has been cancelled and she brings a confused Harry and Ron up to the hospital wing. They’re shocked to find out that Hermione has been Petrified along with a Ravenclaw girl.
After the latest double attack, security is tightened immensely. Desperate, Harry and Ron sneak to Hagrid’s house to ask him about opening the Chamber the first time. Before they start talking about it, however, they must quickly hide when someone else knocks on the door. They’re shocked when Dumbledore and the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, enter, shortly followed by Lucius Malfoy. Hagrid is taken away to Azkaban as a “precaution”, and Dumbledore is forced to step down as Headmaster. Before he leaves, Hagrid gives them a mysterious hint, telling them to follow the spiders if they want more information.
Chapter 15: Aragog Harry and Ron finally find some spiders to follow, and they head into the Forbidden Forest after them. They are extremely unnerved by the creepy, dark forest. Amazingly enough, they find Ron’s dad’s car, the flying Ford Anglia, roaming about the Forest. Suddenly they’re captured by gigantic spiders and are taken back to a nest that is filled with thousands of other spiders. Ron, who has a fear of spiders, is completely petrified and Harry is too. He really doesn’t see how they’re going to get out of there alive.
The leader, a gigantic spider named Aragog, tells them that Hagrid raised him from a tiny egg and protected him when the Chamber of Secrets was opened before. Aragog tells them that the beast that’s in the castle is one that spiders fear above all others but won’t tell them what it is.
Just when Harry and Ron are about to be eaten, the Ford Anglia comes to their rescue and gives them a ride out of the forest.
Chapter 16: The Chamber Of Secrets Harry finally figures out that Moaning Myrtle is the girl that was killed the first time the Chamber was opened, so the first chance they get, they sneak off to her bathroom to question her. They’re caught by Professor McGonagall, though, and tell her that they’re on their way to visit Hermione in the hospital wing. She buys the story but they have no choice after that but to head up and visit Hermione. While they’re up there, Harry spots a piece of paper in her hand and, once they tug it free, they read that she discovered what the beast was--a basilisk, which is a gigantic snake that kills people with it’s stare (people were Petrified because they saw the eyes indirectly, in different ways). Hermione also wrote down the word “pipes”, which is how the beast was getting around the castle.
They immediately head to the staff room to tell Professor McGonagall this new information but overhear some tragic news. Ginny, Ron’s sister, has been taken captive by the monster. The other professors commit Lockhart to finding the monster since he’s always boasting about the things he’s done, so Harry and Ron head to his office later to tell him the new information. To their amazement, they find him about to run away and he tells them that he never did any of the stuff he wrote about. He’s about to wipe their memory, but Harry threatens him. Since Lockhart has little skill, he drops his wand and they all troop to Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom to question her.
She tells them where they can find the beast and they quickly set off through the tunnels to rescue Ginny. When Lockhart tries again to curse them and escape, Ron’s wand backfires on him and Harry and Ron get separated in the collapsed tunnel. Harry continues on to the Chamber alone.
Chapter 17: The Heir Of Slytherin When he reaches the Chamber, he quickly finds Ginny, who is unconscious. Tom Riddle is also there and Harry is horrified when he realizes that Tom has stolen his wand and he’s the one that opened the Chamber--by possessing Ginny--and set loose the basilisk. She’s been writing in the diary all year and Tom took advantage of her through the diary. Harry finds out that Tom Riddle is really a school-aged Lord Voldemort.
As Riddle talks, Harry tells him that Dumbledore is the best wizard there is. Fawkes, Dumbedore’s phoenix, suddenly shows up bearing the Sorting Hat. Harry’s not sure what he’s supposed to do with a hat as a weapon but when Riddle calls forward the basilisk to kill him, he doesn’t have to worry just yet. Fawkes swoops down and pokes its eyes out.
Terrified, Harry wishes there was someone down there to help him and as soon as he mumbles this the Sorting Hat spits forth a beautiful sword. Harry is able to drive the sword into the roof of the basilisk's mouth but is bitten on the arm in the process. Harry is sure he is dying and Fawkes flies over and cries over his arm, healing Harry with his tears. Fawkes then grabs the diary and drops it in Harry’s lap and, not quite knowing why, he stabs the diary with the fang that the basilisk left in his arm. This destroys Riddle and leaves Harry alone with Ginny in the Chamber.
As they make their way back to Ron, Ginny is horrified over what she’s done. Fawkes helps them all out of the Chamber and they head immediately to Professor McGonagall’s office.
Chapter 18: Dobby’s Reward Harry tells Dumbledore and the very relieved Weasley’s everything that happened down in the Chamber. Ginny is not punished for being tricked by Voldemort and Ron and Harry are both honored for their service to the school.
When everyone else has left the office, Dumbledore shows Harry that he truly belongs in Gryffindor because the sword that came out of the Sorting Hat was Godric Gryffindor’s sword.
When Harry leaves the office he runs into Lucius Malfoy and Dobby in the hallway. Dobby is cowering before his master, terrified, and suddenly Harry gets an inspiration. Dobby helps him figure out that it was Lucius that passed Ginny the diary before school started in Flourish and Blotts. Harry is able to pass Lucius the diary back in a dirty sock and when Malfoy throws away the sock in disgust Dobby catches it and is set free. Malfoy is livid that Harry lost him his servant but Dobby is more grateful than he can say for being freed.
The end of term feast is one of the finest that Harry has ever seen and as he sets off back to the Dursley’s, he’s already looking forward to the end of the summer--when he can come back to Hogwarts.
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Harry Potter dan Batu BertuahHarry Potter dan Batu Bertuah adalah novel pertama dalam seri Harry Potter karangan J.K. Rowling yang akan terdiri dari tujuh buku dan menampilkan Harry Potter, seorang penyihir muda. Buku ini menggambarkan bagaimana Harry mengetahui bahwa dia adalah seorang penyihir, membuat teman akrab dan beberapa musuh di Sekolah Ilmu Gaib dan Ilmu Sihir Hogwarts, dan dengan pertolongan teman-temannya menghalangi kembalinya penyihir jahat Voldemort, yang membunuh orang tua Harry dan mencoba untuk membunuh Harry ketika dia masih berumur satu tahun.
Judul aslinya dalam bahasa Inggris adalah Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone atau Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone di Amerika Serikat. Buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan pada 26 Juni 1997 di London oleh Bloomsbury. Mengikuti suksesnya seri ini, sudah dibuat pula film dan gamenya.
Karakter utama- Harry Potter adalah seorang yatim piatu yang dibuat Rowling sebagai seorang yang “kurus, berambut hitam, anak laki-laki polos yang tidak mengetahui kalau dia adalah seorang penyihir”. Dia mengembangkan beragam cerita dan karakter, termasuk Voldemort, untuk menjelaskan bagaimna Harry berada dalam situasi seperti ini dan bagaimana hidupnya terbentang dari sana. Sebagian dari bab pertama, kejadian di buku ini mengambil bagian sebelum dan pada tahun yang diikuti dengan ulang tahun Harry yang kesebelas. Serangan Voldemort meninggalkan potongan bekas luka Z pada dahi Harry. Yang menghasilkan sakit yang sangat menyiksa ketika Voldemort atau rekan dekat dari penyihir gelap merasakan emosi yang kuat. Harry memiliki kemampuan alami yang luar biasa pada Quidditch dan kemampuan meyakinkan teman-teman dengan kecakapan berbicaranya.
- Petunia Dursley, saudara perempuan dari ibu Harry yang bernama Lily, adalah seorang wanita kurus dengan leher yang panjang yang dia gunakan untuk mengintai tetangganya. Dia menganggap kekuatan sihir perempuannya sangat aneh dan mencoba untuk berpura-pura bahwa dia tidak pernah hidup. Suaminya yang bernama Vernon adalah pria bertubuh gemuk yang lekas marah mempersempit pikirannya dan takut akan sesuatu yang tidak biasa. Anak mereka yang bernama Dudley adalah anak yang kelebihan berat, pengganggu yang manja.
- Walaupun menjadi badut sekolah, si kembar serupa Fred dan George Weasley mendapat nilai bagus dalam ujian dan pemain Quidditch yang luar biasa. Saudara laki-laki mereka Ron Weasley seumuran dengan Harry dan Rowling menggambarkannya sebagai teman yang paling baik. “selalu ada ketika kamu membutuhkannya.” Ron kurang percaya diri pada kemungkinan mengalahkan ketiga prestasi kakak-kakaknya atau kepopuleran Fred dan George, tetapi kemampuannya dan keberanian dalam permainan sihir catur dimana hidupnya menjadi taruhan untuk menolong Harry ketika melewati salah satu rintangan ke jalan menuju Batu Bertuah.
- Hermione Granger, anak perempuan dari keluarga Muggle murni, adalah seorang perempuan yang suka memerintah yang rupanya telah mengingat sebagian besar buku pelajaran sebelum masa sekolah dimulai. Rowling menggambarkan Hermione sebagai seorang yang berkarakter “ berpikiran logis, jujur dan baik” dengan “kegelisahan yang sangat dan ketakutan besar jika gagal dalam kerja kerasnya”. Walaupun upaya omelannya untuk menjaga Harry dan Ron keluar dari masalah, dia menjadi teman dekat dari mereka, dan sihirnya dan kemampuan menganalisanya bermain pada bagian yang berbahaya dalam menemukan Batu Bertuah.
- Draco Malfoy adalah anak laki-laki pucat bertubuh ramping yang berbicara dengan cara berbicaranya yang dipanjang-panjangkan dengan membosankan. Dia sombong tentang kemampuannya dalam Quidditch, dan memandang rendah siapapun yang bukan penyihir berdarah murni – dan penyihir yang tidak sependapat dengannya. Orang tuanya mendukung Voldemort, tetapi berubah pihak setelah penyihir kegelapan menghilang. Draco menghindari konfrontasi langsung, dan mencoba untuk membuat Harry dan teman-temannya dalam kesulitan.
- Neville Longbottom adalah anak laki-laki gemuk yang pemalu, begitu pelupanya dia sehingga neneknya memberinya Remembrall. Kemampuan sihir Neville sangat lemah dan muncul tepat pada waktunya untuk menyelamatkan hidupnya ketika ia berusia delapan tahun. Meskipun sifatnya penakut, Neville akan melawan siapapun setelah dia mendapat dorong semangat atau jika dia piker itu benar dan penting.
- Albus Dumbledore adalah pria tinggi kurus yang mengenakan kacamata bulan separo dan memiliki rambut dan jenggot perak yang panjang sehingga jenggotnya bisa dilipat ke sabuk, adalah kepala sekolah Hogwarts, dan hanya dia satu-satunya penyihir yang ditakuti Voldemort. Dumbledore, yang terkenal karena prestasinya dalam sihir, sulit untuk menolak permen Muggle dan memiliki selera humor yang aneh. Meskipun dia cuek terhadap pujian yang diberikan padanya, dia sadar terhadap ide-ide gilanya. Rowling menggambarkan dirinya sebagai “lambang kebaikan”.
- Minerva McGonagall, wanita tinggi bertampang keras dengan rambut hitam diikatkan dalam sanggul ketat, mengajar Transfigurasi, dan terkadang merubah dirinya menjadi seekor kucing. Dia adalah kepala asrama Gryffindor dan tidak seperti Professor Snape, tidak menunjukkan pilih kasih pada murid-murid di asramanya, tetapi di lain kesempatan dia membantu Griffindor dengan cara yang adil. Menurut penulis, “dibawah sikapnya yang keras terdapat sedikit kelembutan orang tua”.
- Selalu gugup dan berbicara gagap, Professor Quirrell mengajar Pertahanan Terhadap Ilmu Hitam. Kata orang dia adalah guru yang jenius, tetapi keberaniannya dihancurkan oleh pertemuan dengan vampire. Quirrell memakai turban untuk menyembunyikan fakta bahwa dia dengan sukarela dipengaruhi oleh Voldemort, yang wajahnya timbul dibelakang kepala Quirrell.
- Severus Snape, memiliki hidung bengkok, berkulit pucat dan berambut hitam berminyak, mengajar Ramuan, tetapi berambisi untuk mengajar Pertahanan Terhadap Ilmu Hitam. Snape memuji murid – murid Slytherin, asramanya. Dia selalu mencari kesempatan untuk menghina lainnya, terutama Harry. Beberapa kejadian terjadi, dimulai dengan sakit dibekas luka Harry dekat dengan berakhirnya makan malam pertama. Yang pasti dia dan teman – temannya berpikir kalau Snape adalah pengikut Voldemort.
- Rubeus Hagrid, setengah raksasa dengan tinggi mencapai 12 kaki (3,7 m), dengan rambut dan janggut hitam awut – awutan, diusir dari Hogwarts dan tongkat sihirnya patah, tetapi Professor Dumbledore membiarkannya tinggal sebagai pengawas binatang liar, pekerjaan yang membuatnya mencurahkan kasih sayangnya dan menamai bintang gaib yang paling berbahaya. Hagrid setia pada Dumbledore dan dengan cepat menjadi teman dekat dari Harry, Ron dan kemudian Hermione, tetapi kecerobohannya membuatnya tidak dapat dipercaya.
- Penjaga sekolah, Argus Filch, mengetahui jalan pintas rahasia sekolah lebih baik daripada orang lain selain si kembar Weasley. Kucingnya, Mrs. Norris, membantunya dalam memburu murid yang melanggar peraturan. Anggota guru Hogwarts yang lain termasuk: Pomona Sprout, guru Herbologi yang pendek gemuk; Filius Flitwick, guru Mantra yang mungil yang dengan hati – hati ramah terhadap Harry; guru Sejarah yang membosankan, Professor Binns, hantu yang tidak memperhatikan kematiannya; dan Madam Hooch, pelatih Quidditch, yang meskipun keras tapi baik hati. Hantu jail Peeves melayang berkeliling bangunan menyebabkan masalah kepada siapapun yang dia bisa jaili.
SinopsisSebelum novel dimulai, Voldemort, penyihir paling jahat, membunuh orang tua Harry tetapi secara misterius menghilang setelah mencoba membunuh Harry. Saat dunia sihir merayakan kejatuhan Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall dan Rubeus Hagrid menempatkan anak yatim piatu berumur satu tahun ini dalam perawatan bibi dan paman Muggle (bukan penyihir) –nya, Vernon dan Petunia Dursley.
Selama sepuluh tahun, mereka dan anak laki-laki mereka Dudley memperlakukan Harry dengan keras. Sederhananya sebelum ulang tahun kesebelas Harry, sebuah surat tiba, dialamatkan kepada Harry tetapi dihancurkan oleh pamannya sebelum Harry bisa membacanya. Akibatnya, setumpukan surat menghujan kedalam rumah pada celah yang terbuka, meskipun kecil, dan untuk melarikan diri, Vernon Dursleya membawa keluarganya ke pulau terpencil. Saat mereka sedang tenang, Hagrid menghancurkan pintu untuk menceritakan kepada Harry apa yang telah disembunyikan keluarga Dursley darinya: Harry adalah seorang penyihir dan telah diterima di Sekolah Hogwarts untuk tahun mendatang.
Hagrid mengantar Harry ke Diagon Alley, tempat berbelanja yang tersembunyi secara magis di London, dimana Harry bingung untuk mengetahui bagaimana dia terkenal diantara para penyihir sebagai “anak laki-laki yang hidup”. Dia juga menemukan bahwa di dunia sihir dia cukup kaya, karena warisan dari orang tuanya yang ditinggalkan di Gringotts Bank. Dipandu Hagrid, dia membeli buku-buku dan peralatan yang dibutuhkan dia untuk Hogwarts – dan menemukan bahwa tongkatnya kembar dengan milik Voldemort.
Sebulan kemudian, Harry meninggalkan rumah Dursley untuk mengejar Hogwarts Express dari Stasiun Kereta Api King Cross. Disana dia ditemani oleh keluarga Weasley, yang menunjukkan padanya bagaimana caranya untuk melewati tembok gaib ke peron 9 ¾, dimana kereta api menunggu. Saat di kereta api Harry berteman dengan Ron Weasley, yang menceritakan padanya bahwa seseorang mencoba untuk merampok lemari besi di Gringotts. Murid baru lain, Draco Malfoy, didampingi oleh asistennya yang gemuk Crabbe dan Goyle, menawarkan diri untuk menasihati Harry, tetapi Harry tidak suka dengan keangkuhan dan prasangka Draco.
Sebelum waktu makan malam pertama di aula besar sekolah, siswa baru dibagikan ke asrama-asrama oleh Topi Seleksi ajaib. Topi menempatkan kebanyakan murid dengan segera – terutama ketika mengirim Draco, Crabbe dan Goyle ke Slytherin – tetapi berdiskusi telepati dengan Harry tentang ambisinya akan membuat Slytherin sebagai pilihan terbaik baginya. Ketika Harry diam tetapi sangat keberatan, Topi mengirimkannya untuk bergabung dengan para Weasley di Gryffindor. Saat Harry sedang bersantai setelah makan malam, Severus Snape membelalak padanya dan dia merasakan tikaman rasa sakit di bekas luka yang Voldemort tinggalkan di dahinya.
Setelah pelajaran ramuan pertamanya yang menyedihkan dengan Snape, Harry dan Ron mengunjungi Hagrid, yang tinggal di gubuk di tepi Hutan Terlarang. Disana mereka mendengar kalau perampokan yang dicoba di Gringotts terjadi pada saat Harry mengambil sejumlah uang, dan Harry mengingatkan Hagrid yang meninggalkan bank dengan sebuah bungkus kecil.
Selama pelajaran terbang pertama murid baru, Neville Longbottom mematahkan pergelangan tangannya dan Draco mengambil kesempatan untuk melemparkan Remembrall ke udara yang tinggi. Harry mengejar di atas sapunya, menangkap Remembrall diatas tanah. Professor McGonagall berlari keluar dan mengangkatnya sebagai Seeker baru Griffyndor.
Draco memperdayakan Ron dan Harry ke kunjungan tengah malam, dan Neville dan Hermione Granger yang suka menyuruh-nyuruh, keduanya juga di Gryffindor, menemani pasangan itu untuk menjauhkan mereka dari masalah. Celakanya mereka semua masuk ke koridor terlarang dan menemukan ruangan berisi anjing kepala tiga yang sangat besar. Kelompok itu kabur dengan cepat, dan hanya Hermione yang memperhatikan bahwa anjing itu berdiri di atas pintu perangkap. Harry menyimpulkan bahwa monster itu menjaga bungkusan yang diselamatkan Hagrid dari Gringotts.
Setelah Ron mengkritik Hermione yang suka pamer dalam pelajaran mantera, dia bersembunyi dalam tangisan di toilet perempuan. Professor Quirrell melaporkan bahwa ada troll telah masuk ke sel bawah tanah. Saat semua orang pergi ke kamar tidur mereka, Harry dan Ron berdesakan untuk memperingatkan Hermione. Troll menyudutkan Hermione di toilet, tetapi saat Harry menikamnya dengan tongkatnya, Ron memukul troll dengan pentungannya sendiri, menggunakan mantera melayang yang ditunjukkan Hermione dalam pelajaran mantera. Ketika sekelompok professor tiba, Hermione mengambil kesalahan untuk bertempur dan menjadi teman akrab Harry dan Ron.
Malam sebelum pertandingan Quidditch pertama Harry, dia melihat Snape menerima perhatian medis dari Filch karena gigitan anjing berkepala tiga. Pada waktu main, sapu Harry lepas kontrol, membahayakan hidupnya, dan Hermione memperingatkan bahwa Snape menatap Harry dan berkomat-kamit. Dia berlari ke tempat Professor, menyenggol Professor Quirrell dalam ketergopohannya, dan membakar jubah Snape. Harry mendapat kembali kontrol sapunya dan menangkap Golden Snitch, memenangkan permainan untuk Gryffindor. Hagrid menolak untuk percaya bahwa Snape bertanggung jawab atas bahaya Harry, tetapi keceplosan bahwa dia membeli anjing berkepala tiga, dan bahwa monster itu menjaga rahasia kepunyaan Professor Dumbledore dan seseorang bernama Nicolas Flamel.
Harry dan para Weasley tinggal di Hogwarts untuk natal, dan salah satu hadiah Harry, dari pemberi tanpa nama, adalah jubah gaib. Harry menggunakan jubah itu untuk mencari di perpustakaan seksi terlarang untuk informasi tentang Flamel yang misterius, telah menghindar dari Snape dan Filch setelah sebuah buku yang mempesona menjerit seperti alarm, dan menyelip masuk ke ruangan berisi Cermin Tarsah, yang menunjukkan orang tuanya dan beberapa leluhur mereka. Harry menjadi kecanduan penglihatan Cermin dan ditolong oleh Professor Dumbledore, yang menjelaskan bahwa Cermin itu menunjukkan keputus-asaan orang yang melihat untuk waktu yang lama.
Ketika murid-murid kembali dari istirahatnya, Draco mengolok-olok Neville, dan Harry menghibur Neville dengan manis. Dan menemukan identitas Flamel dari kartu coklat kodok sebagai ahli kimia. Hermione segera menemukan bahwa dia laki-laki berumur 665 tahun yang hanya memiliki Batu Bertuah, yang bisa memberikan kehidupan. Beberapa hari kemudian Harry memperhatikan Snape mengendap-endap kea rah pinggiran Hutan Terlarang. Dia setengah mendengar percakapan tentang Batu Bertuah, Snape Tanya kepada Professor Quirrell jika dia menemukan cara melewati anjing berkepala tiga dan mengancam Quirrell untuk menentukkan dipihak mana dia berada. Harry menyimpulkan bahwa Snape mencoba untuk mencuri Batu dan Quirrell telah menyiapkan berbagai pertahanan untuk itu.
Harry, Ron dan Hermione mengetahui bahwa Hagrid memelihara seekor bayi naga, yang melawan hukum sihir, dan berencana menyelundupkannya keluar negara sekitar tengah malam. Draco datang, berharap membuat mereka gelisah dan mereka dalam masalah, dan Neville datang untuk memperingatkan mereka dari kejahatan Draco. Meskipun Ron digigit naga dan dikirim ke UKS, Harry dan Hermione bersemangat menyelamatkan naga kabur. Bagaimanapun, mereka tertangkap, dan Harry kehilangan jubah gaib. Sebagian dari hukuman mereka, Harry, Hermione, Draco dan Neville dipaksa untuk menolong Hagrid untuk menyelamatkan seekor unicorn yang terluka parah di Hutan Terlarang. Mereka terbagi manjadi dua pihak, Harry dan Draco menemukan unicorn yang telah mati, dikelilingi oleh darahnya. Sesosok berkerudung merayap ke bangkai dan meminum darahnya, sementara itu Draco menjerit dan melarikan diri. Sosok berkerudung itu bergerak kearah Harry, yang membuat bekas lukanya terasa terbakar. Ketika Harry sadar kembali, sosok berkerudung itu telah hilang dan seekor centaurus, Firenze, menawarkan diri untuk memberinya tunggangan untuk kembali ke sekolah. Centaurus itu menceritakan kepada Harry bahwa yang meminum darah seekor unicorn akan menyelamatkan hidup orang yang sekarat, tetapi meninggalkan mereka hanya tinggal sejengkal hidup. Firenze mengira Voldemort meminum darah unicorn untuk memperoleh kekuatan yang cukup untuk membuat hidup abadi dari Batu Bertuah, dan memperoleh kesehatan penuh dengan meminumnya. Sekembalinya dia, Harry mengetahui bahwa seseorang telah menyelipkan Jubah Gaib di bawah kain seprainya.
Beberapa minggu kemudian, saat bersantai setelah ujian berakhir, harry tiba-tiba menyadari bagaimana sesuatu yang illegal seperti sebuah telur naga menjadi milik Hagrid. Pengawas bintang liar itu bilang bahwa dia mendapatkan telur itu dari seseorang berkerudung yang tak dikenal yang membelikannya beberapa minuman dan menanyakannya bagaimana untuk melewati anjing berkepala tiga, yang diterima Hagrid dengan mudah – musik membuatnya tertidur. Menyadari bahwa salah satu pengamanan Batu Bertuah tidak terjamin, Harry pergi untuk memberitahu Professor Dumbledore, ternyata kepala sekolah telah pergi menghadiri sebuah pertemuan penting. Harry menyimpulkan bahwa Snape memalsukan pesan yang memanggil Dumbledore untuk pergi dan Snape akan mencoba untuk mencuri Batu Bertuah malam itu.
Ditutupi Jubah Gaib, Harry dan kedua temannya pergi ke ruangan anjing kepala tiga, dimana Harry mengirim monster itu untuk tidur dengan memainkan seruling. Setelah mengangkat pintu perangkap, mereka menghadapi berbagai rintangan, tiap-tiap rintangan memerlukan kemampuan khusus yang dimiliki oleh masing-masing dari mereka, dan salah satunya mengharuskan Ron untuk mengorbankan dirinya. Di ruangan terakhir, sekarang sendirian, yang ditemukannya bukan Snape, tetapi Quirrell. Quirrell mengakui bahwa dia membiarkan troll mencoba untuk membunuh Hermione di toilet, dan bahwa dia mencoba uuntuk membunuh Harry pada saat pertandinga Quidditch pertama tetapi disenggol oleh Hermione. Snape mencoba untuk melindungi Harry dan mencurigai Quirrell. Quirrell melayani Voldemort, dan setelah gagal untuk mencuri Batu Bertuah dari Gringotts, mengijinkan tuannya untuk merasukinya dan memerintahkan untuk memperbaiki kesempatan yang memuaskan. Bagaimanapun ada objek lain dalam ruangan tersebut yaitu Cermin Tarsah, dan Quirrell dapat melihat ketidakadaan tanda-tanda dari Batu Bertuah. Pada tawaran Voldemort, Quirrell memaksa Harry untuk berdiri di depan Cermin. Harry merasa Batu itu jatuh kedalam kantongnya dan mencoba untuk berdalih. Quirrell melepas surbannya, menampakkan wajah Voldemort dibelakang kepalanya. Voldemort/Quirrell mencoba untuk merebut Batu itu dari Harry, tetapi begitu menyentuh Harry menyebabkan kulit Quirrell terbakar. Akhirnya perjuangan Harry berakhir.
Dia terbangun di rumah sakit sekolah, dimana Profesor Dumbledore menceritakan padanya bahwa dia bisa selamat karena pengorbanan ibunya untuk melindunginya, dan Voldemort tidak dapat mengerti kekuatan seperti cinta. Voldemort meninggalkan Quirrell yang mati, dan kemungkinan besar untuk kembali dengan segala cara. Dumbledore telah meramalkan bahwa Cermin Tarsah tidak menunjukkan pada Voldemort/Quirrell ingin menggunakannya, mereka ingin menggunakan batu bertuah untuk menyelamatkan hidup Voldemort, Harry dapat melihat Batu Bertuah karena dia ingin menemukannya bukan menggunakannya. Batu itu sekarang telah dimusnahkan.
Harry kembali ke keluarga Dursley pada liburan musim panas, tetapi tidak bercerita pada mereka kalau penyihir di bawah umur dilarang menggunakan sihir diluar Hogwarts. (sumber:http//www.wikipedia.org//harry potter)
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