Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

The book begins on the night that the Dark Lord had failed to kill Harry.  He is taken by Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to live with his mother’s sister.  Harry would be raised by muggles, or non-wizards, until he was eleven.  On his eleventh birthday, Hagrid, games keeper at Hogworts, comes to collect Harry.  Before starting at Hogwarts, Harry learns the true story of how his parents were murdered, and how he was the “Boy Who Lived.”
In this book, Harry has his first encounter with Lord Voldemort since he was a baby.  Volodomort was possessing Harry’s Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher, Porfessor Quirrell.  Harry stops Professor Quirrell from stealing the Sorcerer’s Stone, a stone that allows the owner to live forever.  By doing this, he stops Voldemort from returning to a human body and regaining power.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

In this book, the Chamber of Secrets has been opened at Hogwarts.  None of the students are quite sure what the Chamber of Secrets is, but they do know what it hasn’t been opened for fifty years, and the last time it was opened, a girl was murdered.  Along the way, Harry finds a journal, however, it is no ordinary journal.  It belonged to a boy named Tom Riddle.  It turns out that if you write in the journal the journal will write back to you.  After Harry finds out that Ginny Weasley, Ron’s younger sister was taken into the Chamber, he finds a way in.  It turns out that Tom Marvolo Riddle when rearranged spells out, I am Lord Veldomort, and it was all a trick to get Harry into the Chamber of Secrets.  Voledmort saved his teenage self inside that journal and was not going to kill Ginny Weasley to get his power back.  Once again Harry was there to save the day.  He defeated Riddle’s giant snake, destroyed the journal, and saved Ginny.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

This book begins with Harry being told he is in grave danger.  Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban and everyone is worried that he is after Harry.  Black is believed to have worked for Voldemort and was accused of killing muggles and wizards alike.  It is also believed that Black is the one who gave the Dark Lord the whereabouts of James and Lilly Potter the night they were killed.  With the help of Ron and Hermione, Harry finds Black.  He was planning on killing him until he finds out that Sirius was he father’s best friend, and Harry’s own godfather.  It was not Black who had given up the Potters, but their friend Peter Pettigrew who has since been living the life of a rat, Ron’s pet rat Scabbers.  Once they turn Pettigrew back into his human form Harry tries to take him to Dumbledore at once, but Pettigrew turns back into a rat and escapes.  Next, Harry and Sirius are attacked by dementors, the guards of the wizard prison Azkaban, Harry fights them off and with Dumbledore’s help, Sirius goes into hiding. 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry, along with Hermione and the Weasley family head to the Quidditch World Cup, unfortunately this event is tarnished by Death Eaters wreaking havoc on all of the wizards there and setting the Dark Mark, the sign the Death Eaters put in the air to signify a murder, in the air.  Once safely back at Hogwarts, Harry is entered into the legendary Triwizard Tournament. Everyone was confused by this seeing as how you had to be of age to enter the tournament and he was not.  Someone had put his name in the Goblet of Fire to be drawn, but who? 
The Triwizard consists of three events, the final being a maze that has the Triwizard Cup in the middle, the first to the Cup, wins.  Unfortunately for Harry, the Cup is a portkey, an ordinary object that transports the wizard who touches it.  The portkey left Harry in the graveyard he had been dreaming of all year.  There he witnesses the return of Lord Voldemort but once again escapes him.           

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In this book we learn that the Order of the Phoenix has been reformed. The Order of the Phoenix is a group of good wizards battling Voldemort.  However, The Order must keep themselves a secret due to the fact that the Ministry of Magic denies the fact that the Dark Lord has returned.  Lord Voldemort finds that he needs Harry to retrieve the prophecy made about the Dark Lord and Harry from the Ministry of Magic.  Voldemort gets Harry to go to the ministry by making Harry see a vision of Sirius in the Ministry dieing.  Once Harry and his friends get to the Ministry of Magic they are confronted by Death Eaters and eventually Voldemort.  With the help of Dumbledore, Harry and his friends escape, not without loss however.  Sirius is killed in the battle with the Death Eaters and the prophecy was destroyed.  Good did come from the battle though, the Ministry finally realized that Dumbledore and Harry were telling the truth all along and Voldemort has returned. At the end, Dumbledore tells Harry what the phophecy says. He knows because he is the once who heard the prophecy, it states that "Either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives." Harry knows what this means, he is going to have to be the one to kill Lord Voldemort!

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This book begins with Snape making an Unbreakable Vow to Draco Malfoy’s mother to help Draco with a mission he is given and with Dumbledore agreeing to give Harry personal lessons.  Through out this book Harry is taken into memories by Dumbledore so that they can get an idea of Voldemort’s past.  Also, Harry suspects that Malfoy is a Death Eater although no one shares his suspicions.  Harry learns that Voldemort has divided his soul into six Horcruxes and all six must be destroyed in order to kill the Dark Lord. 
Dumbledore takes Harry with him on a mission to find a Horcrux, upon their return they find the Dark Mark above Hogwarts.  Once back at the castle weakened Dumbledore is confronted and disarmed by Malfoy.  Malfoy tells Dumbledore that Voldemort has sent him on a mission to kill him.  Malfoy can’t seem to bring himself to commit the murder, just then Snape arrives and finishes the job for Malfoy.  They escape the building and disappear outside the castle.  At Dumbledore’s funeral, Harry realizes that he must now take up the misson to find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them and eventually kill Voldemort.

Book Seven

We do not know much about this book due to the fact that the author hasn't finished it. All we have to go on is what we have been told in pervious books and what the author has said in interveiws. We know that Harry has beoken up with Ginny so that Voldemort doesn't try to use her again. We know that he will become an of age wizard therefore the protection he receives by living at this Aunt's house will be gone. Most impotantly, we know that Harry will go looking for the remaining Horcruxes in order to kill Lord Voldemort once and for all, and Ron and Harmione will be along for the ride!