《Harry Porter》.doc

《哈利?波特和魔法石》 Eleven-year-old Harry Potter is an orphan forced to live with his horrible aunt and uncle, the Dursleys, and their chubby, spoiled son Dudley. They treat Harry cruelly and dislike him so much that they dont even celebrate his birthday. But things begin to look up when a mysterious letter arrives via an owl messenger. Its a letter announcing that Harry has won a scholarship to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is taken away from the Dursleys by a kindly escort from Hogwarts and travels through a magical time dimension to the castle-like school. Its there that he makes friends with Ron Weasley and aspiring witch Hermione Granger, becomes the star of his dormitorys Quidditch team (kind of like soccer played on broomsticks high in the air), and learns that his parents were a legendary witch and wizard. But not everything is jolly. In between classes in potions, spells and flying, Harry also must face some wicked and dangerous enemies like Draco Malfoy and the wizard who killed his parents, Voldemort. Will Harry triumph over evil? Will his dorm win the Quidditch championship? Come along on this magical adventure and find out. Rowling has created a bewitching world that seems ever so real. Her fast-paced story is hard to put down. -CHAPTER ONE-THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people youd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didnt hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion ther