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Young Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby, and he is
being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For some reason unbeknownst to the bespectacled ten-year-old, the Dursleys
let him live in the small chamber under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a family member. His fat cousin
Dudley, the Dursley's real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives
a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the
future students of that supposedly renowned school. Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry
into the real circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort
protecting him. Harry still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. Since he survived the attack as a
baby, and also somehow deprived Voldemort from his powers, he has been famous in the wizarding world ever since. The Dursleys,
strong disbelievers in that magical crap, never told Harry anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly surprised,
yet absolutely happy to start his training. At Hogwarts, Harry meets his teachers, and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and
Hermione Granger. The three of them accidentally find out that the potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing
something that is guarded by a three-headed dog. Since nobody would believe some first years to have found out such important
things that even would incriminate a Hogwarts teacher, they take it on themselves to find out what Snape is up to. Their quest
for the truth leads across many obstacles, from keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched Quidditch match (Quidditch
is a popular wizard sport), Fluffy, the three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to overcome to get to the guarded
object.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
In his second term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is warned
by an elf named Dobby that disaster will strike when he returns to Hogwarts. Besides the fact that he is still disliked by
Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) and hated by Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Harry gets off to a great start with his two best friends,
Ron Weasly (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and famous writer Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) has joined
the Hogwarts staff and is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. But now, Hogwarts students are strangely being turned
into stone. But who is the one doing it, Malfoy, gamekeeper Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), or, even, Harry? But what if it's Lord
Voldemort trying to make his evil return?
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Approaching his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter has had enough of his muggle relatives. He runs away from
them (finally) and enters his third term facing trouble from more than one side: for using magic outside the school and from
the news that a notorious criminal, serial killer Sirius Black, has escaped the wizard's prison at Azkaban and apparently
is headed for Harry. The school calls in supernatural help against Black in the form of Dementors, but unusual things continue
to put Harry in peril. He is thrown into a confusing panoply of shifting alliegences and shifting shapes where nobody is who
or what they seem. Who is the real criminal? What is the real crime? Who is telling or knows the truth?
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