On his 11th birthday, Harry learns he is a wizard. For most of his life, he’s been living with his cruel relatives, the Dursleys, who have kept his magical past a secret.
Voldemort killed James and Lily Potter but was unable to kill their baby son, Harry. Harry is known throughout the wizarding world for surviving Voldemort’s attack, which left a lightning bolt-shaped scar on the boy’s forehead.
Harry attends his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is assigned to Gryffindor, one of four houses. He shows a natural talent for playing the wizard game Quidditch.
Harry learns that Voldemort is trying to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone, which grants its owner wealth and immortality. He, Ron and Hermione fight to keep the stone away from Voldemort.

Memorable quote: “If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign … to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” - Dumbledore to Harry

BOOK TWO:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Major new characters: Gilderoy Lockhart, author and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; Dobby, a house-elf (servant) in the Malfoy home; Tom Riddle, a former student with a staggering secret.
Major plot points:

On his 12th birthday, Harry receives a visit at the Dursleys’ home from Dobby, the Malfoys’ house-elf. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts for his second year.
Harry returns to school anyway, where strange things start to happen. Several students turn up petrified, and a message scrawled on a hallway wall warns, “The chamber of secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.”
Harry and his friends learn that Salazar Slytherin, one of Hogwarts’ founders, built the chamber to house a horrible creature that would purge the school of all non-pureblood wizards.
Harry finds a diary, and through its pages, begins to correspond with its owner, a former student named Tom Riddle.
When Ginny Weasley is taken into the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron go on a mission to rescue her. Their journey results in a perilous battle and a startling revelation about Riddle.

Memorable quote: “Harry Potter asks if he can help Dobby … Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew.” - Dobby to Harry
BOOK THREE
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Major new characters: Remus Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; Sirius Black, an escaped convict; Peter Pettigrew, one of James Potter’s closest friends.
Major plot points:

After another awful summer, Harry escapes the Dursleys to Diagon Alley on the Knight Bus.
Harry learns about Black, who escaped from the wizard prison Azkaban. Black was put there for killing 13 people with one curse. He is rumored to be after Harry.
Harry takes private lessons from Lupin to learn the Patronus charm to defend against Dementors, which affect Harry more than others because of his horrible past.
Hermione announces that Lupin is a werewolf.
Lupin figures out that Black was falsely imprisoned, and he and Black confront the true murderer. But Lupin turns into a werewolf and runs into the woods. Black, Harry and Hermione chase after Lupin, but Dementors attack them. Harry’s Patronus charm fails, but they are saved by a Patronus that appears out of nowhere.

Memorable quote: “Didn’t make any difference? It made all the difference in the world, Harry. You helped uncover the truth. You saved an innocent man from a terrible fate.” - Dumbledore to Harry
BOOK FOUR
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Major new characters: Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; Bartemius Crouch, head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation at the Ministry of Magic; Rita Skeeter, reporter for the Daily Prophet newspaper.
Major plot points:

Harry attends the Quidditch World Cup with Hermione and the Weasleys.
At the start of Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts, Dumbledore announces that the school will host the Triwizard Tournament, a competition among three schools.
The Goblet of Fire announces the names of the students that will represent each school in the tournament: Cedric Diggory of Hogwarts, Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons and Viktor Krum of Drumstrang. The goblet then spits out Harry’s name, even though he’s too young to compete.
Harry is allowed to participate, but he doesn’t know who submitted his name for the tournament. The competition is made up of three tasks.
When Harry attempts the third task, he faces Voldemort and finds out why he was entered into the tournament.

Memorable quote: “Why do they have to move in packs? How’re you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?” - Harry to Ron, as he tries to pick a girl to ask to the Yule Ball
BOOK FIVE
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Major new characters: Dolores Umbridge, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater (follower of Voldemort) and cousin of Sirius Black.
Major plot points:

The Dementors, who have teamed up with Voldemort, terrorize the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
Harry learns about the Order of the Phoenix, the group of wizards headed by Dumbledore who have joined together to fight Voldemort.
Umbridge refuses to teach Anti-Dark magic spells. As a result, Harry, Ron and Hermione start Dumbledore’s Army, a secret meeting of students learning these spells.
Voldemort begins to enter Harry’s mind in his dreams. Voldemort puts an image of Black being tortured into Harry’s mind to lure him into a dangerous trap, which ends tragically.

Memorable quote: “So does that mean that . . . that one of us has got to kill the other one . . . in the end?” — Harry, learning how his fate is tied to Voldemort
BOOK SIX
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Major new characters: Horace Slughorn, an old friend whom Dumbledore recruits to teach at Hogwarts; Narcissa Malfoy, Draco’s mother and Bellatrix’s sister.
Major plot points:

Voldemort is back and is wreaking havoc on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
Harry and his friends grow suspicious of Draco’s possible relationship with Voldemort.
Harry borrows a used Potions textbook, inscribed with the words, “This Book is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince.” The book includes instructions in the margins.
Harry discovers that Voldemort has divided his soul among seven objects called Horcruxes, and all seven must be destroyed to kill him. Dumbledore and Harry set out to find and destroy one of the Horcruxes, with disastrous results. The locket that Dumbledore and Harry retrieve turns out not to be a Horcrux after all, but it contains a note to Voldemort and is signed “R.A.B.”
When the book ends, it is uncertain whether Hogwarts will reopen the following year, and Harry swears to seek out the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.

Memorable quote: “I take you with me on one condition: that you obey any command I might give you at once, and without question.” — Dumbledore to Harry
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My advice to families containing Harry Potter readers: Stock up on the Kleenex. You’re gonna need it. It’s all made worse by one unavoidable fact: It’s not just Harry. It’s time to say goodbye to the whole cast, from Moaning Myrtle to Scabbers the rat (a.k.a. Wormtail). Which leads to an interesting question — will the final volume satisfy Harry’s longtime (and very devoted) readers?

We wonder the very same thing!
You can read the entire article on Entertainment Weekly.

1. J. K. Rowling’s manuscript for Harry Potter was turned down a staggering 15 times by book publishers. Makes aspiring writers like us feel better!
2. The Hogwarts motto, “Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus” means “never tickle a sleeping dragon”. Awww.
3. Although we know that Harry has a scar on his forehead, it’s never specified in the books where it’s actually located. I didn’t realize this until now. Interesting.
4. Daniel Radcliffe spent approximately 42 hours underwater during the course of filming The Goblet of Fire. Wow, that’s a LOT of water.
5. Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted Haley Joel Osment (”I see dead people”) for the part of Harry. Thank heavens for Dan Radcliffe!

Read more Harry Potter Trivia.

“Before I did the scene everyone kept coming up to me and asking if I was looking forward to it. It got me really, really nervous and I was having sleepless nights over it. But when I actually did the scene it went very well and Dan was great. He said he was nervous as well.”

Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang in the Harry Potter movies, was recently interviewed. Here’s what she says about the Number One Question On Everyone’s Mind:

“I don’t want anyone to die. I really don’t know. If anyone, probably Harry. But I don’t want him to die.”

Daniel Radcliffe turns up first, still smart in suit and tie. “You’ve got to make an effort,” he says, though he reveals that the bottom of his tie is rammed into the top - “it slipped out during the press conference.” He agrees that he presents a very different look to Rupert. “He’s more casual - but I like to dress up. I am a suit man - and it makes you feel slightly taller. Plus -” and he nods to his waistcoat, “if you have three buttons on your waistcoat and only tie the top one, people’s eyes go up there and it makes you look taller. But if you’re small and you wear a baseball cap, it’s actually easy to slip into a crowd and not get spotted.”

We love that he makes an effort!

Why won’t Harry die? Because it would be a worse story if Harry died, and she’s a good writer. The genre she’s writing in (the British school drama), the main character doesn’t die. (source)

Then again, only our girl JK Rowling really knows at this point.
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