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  **//Hogwarts school, as depicted in the //****//first film//**
 * //Flashbacks throughout the series reveal that when Harry was a baby he witnessed his parents' murder by //****//Lord Voldemort//** **// who was a dark wizard obsessed with //****//racial purity//** **//.[8 ] For reasons not immediately revealed, Voldemort's attempt to kill Harry rebounds.[8 ] Voldemort is seemingly killed and Harry survives with only a lightning-shaped mark on his forehead as a memento of the attack.[8 ] As its inadvertent saviour from Voldemort's reign of terror, Harry becomes a living legend in the wizard world. At the orders of his patron, the wizard //****//Albus Dumbledore//** **//, Harry is placed in the home of his //****//Muggle//** **// (non-wizard) relatives, who keep him completely ignorant of his true heritage.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[8 ] //**
 * //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">The first novel in the series, //<span class="wiki_link_ext">//Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone// //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, begins near Harry's 11th birthday. Half- //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//giant//** <span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Rubeus Hagrid//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> reveals Harry's history and introduces him to the //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//wizarding world//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[8 ] The world J. K. Rowling created is both completely separate from and yet intimately connected to the real world. While the //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//fantasy world//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> of //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Narnia//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> is an //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//alternative universe//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> and the //<span class="wiki_link_ext">//Lord of the Rings// //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">’ //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Middle-earth//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> a mythic past, the Wizarding world of Harry Potter exists alongside that of the real world and contains magical elements similar to things in the non-magical world. Many of its institutions and locations are in places which are recognisable in the real world, such as London.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[9 ] It comprises a fragmented collection of hidden streets, overlooked and ancient pubs, lonely country manors and secluded castles that remain invisible to the non-magical population of //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Muggles//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[5 ] //**
 * //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">With Hagrid's help, Harry prepares for and undertakes his first year of study at Hogwarts. As Harry begins to explore the magical world, the reader is introduced to many of the primary locations used throughout the series. Harry meets most of the main characters and gains his two closest friends: //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Ron Weasley//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, a fun-loving member of an ancient wizarding family, and //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Hermione Granger//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, an obsessively bookish witch of non-magical parentage.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[8 ]<span class="wiki_link_ext">[10 ] Harry also encounters the school's potions master, //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Severus Snape//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, who appears to have a deep-seated and irrational hatred of him. The plot concludes with Harry's second confrontation with Lord Voldemort, who in his quest for immortality, yearns to gain the power of the //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Philosopher's Stone//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[8 ] //**
 * //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">The series continues with //<span class="wiki_link_ext">//Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets// //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> describing Harry's second year at Hogwarts. He and his friends investigate a 50-year-old mystery that appears tied to recent sinister events at the school. The novel delves into the history of Hogwarts and a legend revolving around the "Chamber of Secrets", the underground lair of an ancient evil. For the first time, Harry realizes that racial prejudice exists in the wizarding world, and he learns that Voldemort's reign of terror was often directed at wizards who were descended from Muggles. Harry is also shocked to learn that he can speak //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Parseltongue//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, the language of snakes; this rare ability is often equated with the //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//dark arts//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">. The novel ends after Harry saves the life of Ron's younger sister, //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Ginny Weasley//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, by defeating an attempt by Voldemort to reincarnate himself through the memories he stored within a diary.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[8 ] //**
 * //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">The third novel, //<span class="wiki_link_ext">//Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban// //<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, follows Harry in his third year of magical education. It is the only book in the series which does not feature Voldemort. Instead, Harry must deal with the knowledge that he has been targeted by //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Sirius Black//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, an escaped murderer believed to have assisted in the deaths of Harry's parents. As Harry struggles with his reaction to the //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//dementors//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">—dark creatures with the power to devour a human soul—which are ostensibly protecting the school, he reaches out to //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Remus Lupin//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">, a //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Defence Against the Dark Arts//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);"> teacher with a dark secret. Lupin teaches Harry defensive measures which are well above the level of magic generally shown by people his age. Harry learns that both Lupin and Black were close friends of his father and that Black was framed by their fourth friend, //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Peter Pettigrew//** **//<span style="background-color: rgb(28, 151, 28);">.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[11 ] //**