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第  PAGE 2 A brief introduction of Harry Potter Harry James Potter is the title and the main character of J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter fantasy series. The books cover seven years in the life of the lonely orphan(孤儿) who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic. Under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Harry discovers that he is already famous throughout the wizarding world(巫师界), and that his fate is tied with that of Lord Voldemort, the universally feared Dark wizard who killed Harrys father and mother. Second to fourth books In the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets《哈利·波特与密室》, Rowling pits Harry against Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemorts memory within a secret diary which has possessed Rons younger sister Ginny Weasley. When Muggle-born students are suddenly being petrified, many suspect that Harry may be behind the attacks, further alienating him from his peers. In the climax(高潮), Ginny disappears. To rescue her, Harry battles Riddle and the monster he controls that is hidden in the Chamber of Secrets. In the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling uses a time travel premise. Harry learns that his parents were betrayed(背叛) to Voldemort by their friend Peter Pettigrew, who framed Harrys godfather Sirius Black for the crimes, condemning him to Azkaban prison. When Sirius escapes to seek revenge, Harry and Hermione use a Time Turner to save him and a hippogriff named Buckbeak. But Pettigrew escapes, and an innocent Sirius remains a hunted fugitive. In the previous books, Harry is written as a child, but Rowling states that in the fourth novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harrys horizons are literally and metaphorically widening as he grows older. Harrys developing maturity becomes apparent when he becomes romantically interested in Cho Chang, a Ravenclaw student. Tension mounts, however, when Harry is mysteriously