What would you do if

one day,
you discovered you
that you have

magic

What powers
would you like to
have?

J.K. ROWLING

About the Author

J.K. Rowling

About the Author

In

1990, when Joanna Kathleen

Rowling was on a four-hour-delayed
train trip from Manchester to
London, the idea for a story of a
young boy attending a school of
wizardry "came fully formed" into
her mind.

About the Author

Rowling

finished her book in 1995

and sent it to twelve publishing
houses, all of which rejected her
work.

About the Author

At

last, Bloomsbury publishing house

agreed to publish her work in 1997,
and, after winning the Childrens
Book of the Year, the rights to
publish the novel was sold to
Scholastic Inc.

About the Author

In

2004,Forbesnamed Rowling as
the first person to become a U.S.dollar billionaire by writing books,
the second-richest female
entertainer and the 1,062nd richest
person in the world.

About the Author

The

books have gained worldwide

attention, won multiple awards, and
sold more than 400million
copies.They have become thebestselling book series in history and
been the basis for aseries of
filmswhich is the secondhighest-

About the Film:

Settings:
Time:

Early 1990s.
Place: London;
Hogwarts.

Characters
:
Harry Potter
Harry Potteris an orphan
whom Rowling imagined
as a "scrawny, blackhaired, bespectacled boy
who didn't know he was a
wizard.

Characters
:
Harry Potter
Voldemort's attack left
a lightning bolt-shaped
scar on Harry's
foreheadwhich produces
stabbing pains whenever
Voldemort is present.

Characters
:
Harry Potter
Harry has a natural
talent forQuidditchand
became the first person
to get on a team in their
first year. He is the
protagonist of the story.

Characters
:
Ronald Weasley
He is one of Harrys
bestfriends. He is
freckled, red-haired and
quite tall. He grew up in a
fairly large pure-blood
family as the sixth born
of seven children.

Characters
:
Ronald Weasley
Although his family is
quite poor, they still live
comfortably and happily.
His loyalty and bravery in
the face of a game of
Wizards Chess plays a
vital part in the book.

Characters
:
Hermione Granger
The daughter of an allMuggle family. She is a
bossy girl who has
apparently memorized
most of the textbooks
before the start of term.

Characters
:
Hermione Granger
Despite her nagging efforts
to keep Harry and Ron out of
trouble, she becomes a close
friend of the two boys after
they save her from a troll, and
her magical and analytical skills
play an important role in the
book. She has bushy brown hair
and rather large front teeth.

Characters
:
Albus Dumbledore
A tall, thin man who
wears half-moon
spectacle and silver-gray
hair that tucks into his
belt. He is the
headmaster of Hogwarts
and the only wizard

Characters
:
Albus Dumbledore
Dumbledor, while
renowned for his
achievements in magic,
finds it difficult to resist
sweets and has a
whimsical sense of
humor.

Characters
:
Lord Voldemort
The evil wizard who killed
Harrys parents. He
disappeared after failing
to kill the Potters infant
son, Harry.

Characters
:
Quirinus Quirrell
He is a twitching,
stammering man who
teachesDefence Against
the Dark Arts. Reputedly
he was a brilliant scholar,
but his nerve was
shattered by an

Characters
:
Quirinus Quirrell
Quirrell wears a turban to
conceal the fact that he is
voluntarily possessed by
Voldemort, whose face
appears on the back of
Quirrell's head
.

Characters
:
Severus Snape
He has a hooked nose, sallow
complexion and greasy black
hair, teachesPotions, but
would prefer to teach Defence
Against the Dark Arts. Snape
praises pupils in Slytherin, his
own House but seizes every
opportunity to humiliate

Characters
:
Severus Snape
Several incidents,
beginning with the
shooting pain in Harry's
scar during the start-ofterm feast, lead Harry
and his friends to think
Snape is a follower of

Characters
:
Rubeus Hagrid
A half-giant nearly 12 feet
tall, with tangled black hair
and beard, was expelled
fromHogwartsand
hiswandwas broken,
butProfessor
Dumbledorelet him stay on
as the school'sgamekeeper

Characters
:
Rubeus Hagrid
Hagrid is fiercely loyal to
Dumbledore and quickly
becomes a close friend of
Harry, Ron and, later,
Hermione, but his
carelessness makes him
unreliable.

Characters
:
Minerva McGonagall
A tall, severe-looking
woman with black hair
tied in a tightbun,
teachesTransfiguration,
and sometimes
transforms herself into a
cat.

Characters
:
Minerva McGonagall
She is Deputy
Headmistress, and Head
of Gryffindor House and,
according to the author,
"under that gruff
exterior" is "a bit of an
old softy.

Characters
:
The Dursleys
Harrys nearest blood
relatives. Petunia is
Lilys (Harrys mother)
biological sister. She
married Vernon and
had a son they named
Dudley.

Characters
:
The Dursleys
Petunia regards her
sister as a freak and
pretends she never
existed, and Vernon
fears anything unusual,
thus explaining their
hatred for Harry. Their

Plot:
The

story followsHarry Potter, a

youngwizardwho discovers his
magical heritage as he makes close
friends and a few enemies in his first
year at theHogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Plot:
With

the help of his friends, Harry

faces an attempted comeback by the
dark wizardLord Voldemort, who
killed Harry's parents, but failed to
kill Harry when he was just a year
old.

QUIZ!

Number your
papers from1-15.
Listen CAREFULLY
to the number
cause IT WILL NOT
BE IN ORDER.

Number 14.
The

complete name of
the Author.

Number 2.
Harrys

best friend born

out of Muggle
parentage. She is very
smart and very brave.

Number 4.
Where

is the setting of
the book? Name two.

Number 12.
He

is the Patriarch of
the Dursley Family.

Number 5.
He

is a tall thin man

renowned for his magical
achievements. He is also
the headmaster of
Hogwarts.

Number 1.
Harrys

best friend who is

the sixth out of the seven
sons, all of whom have
red hair. He is very loyal
to his friends and family.

Number 7.
He

was a stammering,
young scholar who was
corrupted and
possessed by the evil
villain.

Number 3.
When

is the setting of
the book?

Number 10.
He

is the half-giant who

brought Harry to his
relatives and also the
one who delivered him
his letter of acceptance.

Number 9.
She

is the House Head

for Gryffindor and the
one who discovered
Harrys talent for
Quidditch.

Number 13.
He

is the Dursleys
spoiled and overweight
son, and Harrys cousin.

Number 11.

She is Harrys biological

aunt since she is Lilys
sister.

Number 8.
He

was the Potions

teacherand Slytherins
House Head at Hogwarts,
and was thought to be the
follower of the evil wizard.

Number 6.
He

is the main villain of

the story and the evil
wizard who killed
Harrys parents.

Last number
He

is an orphaned boy
living on the cupboard
under the stairs who
discovered that he was
a wizard.