Harry Potter Story

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second in the Harry Potter series, was published in 1998. It has eighteen chapters. The book jacket has the following story line:

Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects . . . Harry Potter himself!

Here is a list of the chapter titles:

Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday
Chapter 2: Dobby's Warning
Chapter 3: The Burrow
Chapter 4: At Flourish and Blotts
Chapter 5: The Whomping Willow
Chapter 6: Gilderoy Lockhart
Chapter 7: Mudbloods and Murmurs
Chapter 8: The Deathday Party
Chapter 9: The Writing on the Wall
Chapter 10: The Rogue Bludger
Chapter 11: The Dueling Club
Chapter 12: The Polyjuice Potion
Chapter 13: The Very Secret Diary
Chapter 14: Cornelius Fudge
Chapter 15: Aragog
Chapter 16: The Chamber of Secrets
Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin
Chapter 18: Dobby's Reward

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. It was published in 1999. It has twenty-two chapters. The book jacket has the following story line:

For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the dark Lord, Voldermort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts . . . he's at Hogwarts." Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

Here is a list of the chapter titles:

Chapter 1: Owl Post
Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
Chapter 3: The Knight Bus
Chapter 4: The Leaky Cauldron
Chapter 5: The Dementor
Chapter 6: Talons and Tea Leaves
Chapter 7: The Boggart in the Wardrobe
Chapter 8: Flight of the Fat Lady
Chapter 9: Grim Defeat
Chapter 10: The Marauder's Map
Chapter 11: The Firebolt
Chapter 12: The Patronus
Chapter 13: Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw
Chapter 14: Snape's Grudge
Chapter 15: The Quidditch Final
Chapter 16: Professor Trelawney's Prediction
Chapter 17: Cat, Rat, and Dog
Chapter 18: Moony, Worm tail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Chapter 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort
Chapter 20: The Dementor's Kiss
Chapter 21: Hermione's Secret
Chapter 22: Owl Post Again

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire, the fourth book in the Harry Potter series, was published in 2001. It has thirty-seven chapters. The book jacket has the following story line:

Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. he wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (an maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.

Here is a list of the chapter titles:

Chapter 1: The Riddle House
Chapter 2: The Scar
Chapter 3: The Invitation
Chapter 4: Back to the Burrow
Chapter 5: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Chapter 6: The Portkey
Chapter 7: Bagman and Crouch
Chapter 8: The Quidditch World Cup
Chapter 9: The Dark Mark
Chapter 10: Mayhem at the Ministry
Chapter 11: Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Chapter 12: The Triwizard Tournament
Chapter 13: Mad-Eye Moody
Chapter 14: The Unforgivable Curses
Chapter 15: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang
Chapter 16: The Goblet of Fire
Chapter 17: The Four Champions
Chapter 18: The Weighing of the Wands
Chapter 19: The Hungarian Horntail
Chapter 20: The First Task
Chapter 21: The House-Elf Liberation Front
Chapter 22: The Unexpected Task
Chapter 23: The Yule Ball
Chapter 24: Rita Skeeter's Scoop
Chapter 25: The Egg and the Eye
Chapter 26: The Second Task
Chapter 27: Padfoot Returns
Chapter 28: The Madness of Mr. Crouch
Chapter 29: The Dream
Chapter 30: The Pensieve
Chapter 31: The Third Task
Chapter 32: Flesh, Blood, and Bone
Chapter 33: The Death Eaters
Chapter 34: Priori Incantatem
Chapter 35: Veritaserum
Chapter 36: The Parting of the Ways
Chapter 37: The Beginning

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the Harry Potter series, was published in 2003. It has thirty-eight chapters. The book jacket has the following story line:

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?

Here are just a few things on Harry's Mind:
- A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey
- A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
- Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
- The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams

. . .and of course, the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the importance of the authorities at Hogwarts.

Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice.

Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.

Here is a list of the chapter titles:

Chapter 1: Dudley Demented
Chapter 2: A Peck of Owls
Chapter 3: The Advance Guard
Chapter 4: Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
Chapter 5: The Order of the Phoenix
Chapter 6: The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black
Chapter 7: The Ministry of Magic
Chapter 8: The Hearing
Chapter 9: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley
Chapter 10: Luna Lovegood
Chapter 11: The Sorting Hat's New Song
Chapter 12: Professor Umbridge
Chapter 13: Detention with Dolores
Chapter 14: Percy and Padfoot
Chapter 15: The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
Chapter 16: In the Hog's Head
Chapter 17: Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four
Chapter 18: Dumbledore's Army
Chapter 19: The Lion and the Serpent
Chapter 20: Hagrid's Tale
Chapter 21: The Eye of the Snake
Chapter 22: St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Chapter 23: Christmas on the Closed Ward
Chapter 24: Occlumency
Chapter 25: The Beetle at Bay
Chapter 26: Seen and Unforseen
Chapter 27: The Centaur and the Sneak
Chapter 28: Snape's Worst Memory
Chapter 29: Career Advice
Chapter 30: Grawp
Chapter 31: O.W.L.s
Chapter 32: Out of the Fire
Chapter 33: Fight and Flight
Chapter 34: The Department of Mysteries
Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil
Chapter 36: The Only One He Ever Feared
Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy
Chapter 38: The Second War Begins

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series. It was released July 16, 2005. It has 30 chapters. The book jacket has the following story line:

The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.

And yet . . .

As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate — and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it’s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort — and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.

Here is a list of the chapters:

Chapter 1: The Other Minister
Chapter 2: Spinner’s End
Chapter 3: Will and Won’t
Chapter 4: Horace Slughorn
Chapter 5: An Excess of Phlegm
Chapter 6: Draco’s Detour
Chapter 7: The Slug Club
Chapter 8: Snape Victorious
Chapter 9: The Half-Blood Prince
Chapter 10: The House of Gaunt
Chapter 11: Hermione’s Helping Hand
Chapter 12: Silver and Opals
Chapter 13: The Secret Riddle
Chapter 14: Felix Felicis
Chapter 15: The Unbreakable Vow
Chapter 16: A Very Frosty Christmas
Chapter 17: A Sluggish Memory
Chapter 18: Birthday Surprises
Chapter 19: Elf Tails
Chapter 20: Lord Voldemort’s Request
Chapter 21: The Unknowable Room
Chapter 22: After the Burial
Chapter 23: Horcruxes
Chapter 24: Sectumsempra
Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard
Chapter 26: The Cave
Chapter 27: The Lightning Struck Tower
Chapter 28: Flight of the Prince
Chapter 29: The Phoenix Lament
Chapter 30: The White Tomb

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J. K. Rowling began writing on it at the end of 2004. She revealed the title - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - on 21 December 2006. The book will be released July 21, 2007. The US version will have 784 pages, while the UK version will have 608 pages. You can see the covers of the book by visiting the covers gallery. The jacket cover contains the following story line:

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him!

In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

This portion is from the UK Children's version:

Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him with?

As soon as the list of chapter titles are available, they will be placed on this page.

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J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in 1965 and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She left Chepstow to study French at Exeter University, where her course included a year in Paris. As a postgraduate, she moved to London to work at Amnesty International doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. She started writing Harry Potter after the idea occurred to her on an interminable Manchester to London train journey. Jo then moved to north Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, married, got pregnant, and kept writing. By the time her daughter was born, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was one-quarter finished.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in June 1997 to great critical acclaim, and has since won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal (9—11 years), the FCBG Children's Book Award (overall winner), the Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award, the Young Telegraph Paperback of the Year, the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year and the Sheffield Children's Book Award, and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal (received 'Commended'). The book has also won two extremely prestigious foreign awards — Sorcieres Prix 1998 in France and the Premio Cento per la Letteratura Infantile 1998 in Italy.

The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and was No. 1 in the overall adult hardback bestseller charts for a month after publication. It has since won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (9—11 years), the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award, the FCBG Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year, plus been short-listed for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. J.K. Rowling was voted BA Author of the Year in 1999.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published on 8 July 1999 to nationwide acclaim and massive press attention, spending its first four weeks at no.1 in the hardback bestseller charts, while Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone simultaneously topped the paperback charts. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (9—11 years), and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Children's Book Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Prize. J.K. Rowling was voted author of the year at the 1999 British Book Awards (Nibbies) and she recently won BA Author of the Year for the second year running. She was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature in June 2000.

The fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was published on 8 July 2000 with a record first print run of 1 million copies, and quickly broke all records for the greatest number of books sold on the first day of publication, as well as shooting to the top of the bestseller charts.

J.K. Rowling wrote two books in aid of Comic Relief, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch through the Ages which were published in March 2001.

Warner Brothers have bought the rights to the first two books in the Harry Potter series. The first film was released on 16 November 2001. The film of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released on 15 November 2002.

The fifth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was published on June 21st 2003.

The Latin and Welsh translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were published by Bloomsbury in July 2003. The Irish Gaelic and Ancient Greek translations follow in the summer 2004, and the Scottish Gaelic translation at a date to be confirmed.

All four of the published Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling have been voted into the BBC Big Read's top 100, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been voted into the top 21. The list was voted for by people in the UK. On December 21st, 2004, publishers announced that the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, would be released on July 16th, 2005.

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Urmatorul film din seria Harry Potter va fi lansat de catre Warner Bros in noiembrie si asa cum ne-am obisnuit sa se intample in ultimul
timp odata cu el Electronic Arts va propune si jocul omonim.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire este povestea aventurilor prin care va trece Harry Potter in cadrul competitiei Triwizard Tournament in care trebuie sa infrunte un dragon, sa isi salveze prietenii din Black Lake si sa il infrunte chiar pe Lord Voldemort.

Jucatorii isi vor putea asuma identitatea lui Harry, Ron, sau Hermione, si pentru prima data grafica jocului se va baza pe actorii care interpreteaza acest roluri in film

Noutatile nu se opresc insa aici. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire va avea si o componenta multiplayer, in care jucatorii vor putea coopera pentru a invinge demonii si pentru a duce la bun sfarsit aventurile din joc.

Tot in premiera, atunci cand jucatorii vor face o vraja, controller-ul va reactiona prin vibratii incercand sa reproduca miscarile baghetei magice.

Dupa cum era de asteptat, in afara faptului ca jocul va fi lansat pentru toate platformele de jocuri, vor exista si versiuni pentru consolele portabile, a caror dezvoltare a fost incredintata lui Electronic Arts UK.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire este cea de-a patra carte a seriei. Pe data de 16 iulie va fi lansat cel de-al saselea titlu, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, numai pentru piata americana fiind pregatite 10.8 milioane de copii.

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