THE BLADE, TOLEDO, OHIO O SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 SECTION B, PAGE 6 Keeping INup HONOR OF with JULY 4TH Harry Here’s a guide to the fi rst six books in the Harry Potter series WARNING: If you haven’t read the books, it may spoil the endings for you Harry Potter and the In the fi rst book of the series we are fi rst-year-students, Ron Weasley and former follower of Voldemort, of trying introduced to Harry, a bespectacled Hermione Granger, friends who help to steal the stone, it is discovered after Sorcerer’s Stone orphan with a thunderbolt scar on his Harry in his adventures. several dangerous adventures that forehead, who has been living with his Once at the school, Harry fi nds that it is Voldemort — working through aunt and uncle since he was a baby. he is a celebrity in the wizarding world the Defense Against the Dark Harry’s adoptive family, the Dursleys, and the truth about his parents’ deaths Arts teacher, Professor Quirrel treats him with scorn and loathing, — that his parents were killed battling — who is trying to take the while spoiling their obese son, Harry’s Lord Voldemort and when Voldemort stone and revive his power. self-centered cousin Dudley. tried to kill Harry using a killing curse it Voldemort is so weak he is On his 11th birthday, Harry learns rebounded, destroying the evil wizard. forced to live in Quirrel’s body he is a wizard and has been accepted Over the course of the school year, to survive. into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Harry, Ron, and Hermione uncover Harry obtains the stone and Wizardry. Hagrid, a giant who works a secret that is hidden and protected has a fi nal battle with Quirrel at Hogwarts, takes Harry to a mystical at Hogwarts — the Sorcerer’s Stone, for it. Quirrel is unable to touch part of London and introduces him to which provides eternal life to its owner. Harry without destroying him- the wizarding world. Someone is trying to steal it. self, and Voldemort must fl ee On the magical train that takes While Harry and his friends suspect Quirrel’s body to survive. him to Hogwarts, Harry meets other Severus Snape, a potions teacher and Harry Potter and the During Harry’s miserable summer with Over the course of the school year sev- master Albus Dumbledore’s the Dursleys, he is visited by Dobby, a eral students become petrifi ed, including phoenix (Fawks) and Chamber of Secrets house-elf owned by Lucius Malfoy, a sus- Hermione. the Griffi ndor sword, kills pected follower of Lord Voldemort. Dobby Harry stumbles upon the diary of Tom a giant basilisk snake under creates havoc in the Dursley household Riddle, a student during the fi rst attacks 50 Riddle’s control and defeats and warns Harry to stay away from Hog- years before. The diary claims that Hagrid Riddle by destroying the diary. warts if he wants to live. is the one who opened the chamber of While describing the events At fi rst Harry ignores the elf’s message secrets years ago, causing the death of a to Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy — until the caretaker’s cat is petrifi ed and student. intrudes with Dobby. Dumbledore a threatening message is left on the wall. Ron’s sister, Ginny Weasley, is lured into suspects Malfoy planted Riddle’s Harry, Ron, and Hermione investigate and the chamber of secrets where the spirit of diary as a ploy to help Voldemort. connect the message to a chamber at Hog- Tom Riddle — who is actually Lord Volde- Harry tricks Lucius into freeing warts that was opened 50 years ago, and a mort — plans to use her life to bring himself Dobby from the Malfoys forever. student killed. back. Harry, with the help of Hogwart Head- Harry Potter and the Returning to Hogwarts for a new term, animal that is half eagle, half horse. It they could run the grounds with him during Harry learns about escaped killer Sirius attacks when mishandled by Draco Malfoy the full moon. Black became a dog and Prisoner of Azkaban Black. Later, the train to Hogwarts is and in the course of time is condemned to Pettigrew became a rat. In fact, Scabbers stopped by Dementors — guardians of the death. was really Peter Pettigrew. wizard jail Azakaban — and Harry faints. On the way home from the execution Harry learns that Sirius Black is his Professor Lupin, the new Defense Against of Hagrid’s hippogriff, Ron, and his pet rat Godfather, and that Peter Pettigrew was the Dark Arts teacher, revives Harry. Scabbers, are attacked by a great black the one who helped kill Lily and James Lupin’s clothes are worn and he looks dog. The dog drags Ron under the whomp- Potter. sickly. ing willow, with Harry and Hermione giving Going back to the school, Lupin Later in the term, Harry sneaks into chase.The dog then turns into Sirius Black. transforms into a werewolf, allowing the local village and overhears talk about Lupin appears in the shack and the mys- Pettigrew to escape. Dementors Sirius Black’s responsibility for the death tery is explained. Lupin is a werewolf, and capture Sirius Black forcing of Harry’s parents and their friend, Peter his school friends Black, Pettigrew, and Harry and Hermione to go Pettigrew. Harry’s father became animagi — wizards back in time to help Sirius Hagrid shows a class a hippogriff — an who can transform into animal forms — so and the hippogriff escape. Harry Potter and the On the fi rst day of school, fi nding the goblet within a vast and wands’ spells interlock, a Priori Dumbledore announces the Tri- dangerous maze, Harry and Cedric Incantation occurs — echoes of Goblet of Fire wizard Tournament will be held at decide to win together and grab the murder victims from Voldemort’s Hogwarts. cup simultaneously. Unbeknownst wand form and protect Harry, al- Three contestants are chosen to them the cup is actually a trap lowing him to gain possession of from names placed in the Goblet — a portkey that transports them to Cedric’s body and use the goblet to of Fire. Announced at the feast a cemetery where Lord Voldemort escape. are Cedric Diggory for Hogwarts, and several of his Death Eaters are Once Harry is back on Hog- Fleur Delcaour for the Beauxbatons waiting. warts grounds, this year’s Defense Academy, and Viktor Krum for the Cedric is killed by Peter Pettigrew Against the Dark Arts teacher Durmstrang Institute. To the amaze- and Harry is tied up and held cap- — Mad Eye Moody — reveals to ment of all, a fourth contestant’s tive. Pettigrew uses Harry’s blood, Harry how he manipulated the name comes out of the goblet an old bone, and his own severed tournament to help Harry win and — Harry Potter. hand to restore Voldemort to his full send him to Voldemort. Moody Though there are four contend- body. then tries to kill Harry, but he is ers, the decision is made to con- This ritual negates the magic saved by Dumbledore, McGongall, tinue the tournament. The tourna- that once protected Harry from and Snape. They come to fi nd that ment consists of three contests to Voldemort — shared blood from the Moody wasn’t Moody at all but a be completed throughout the school young wizard now fl ows through the Death Eater who used a potion to year. dark lord’s veins. Voldemort then impersonate the real Moody. Harry completes the fi rst two challenges Harry to a duel. Harry tells Dumbledore that tasks successfully. The third task, Once Harry and Voldemort’s Voldemort is back. Harry Potter and the After an attack on Harry by the permission to inspect and censure ledore’s Army there but they fi nd dementors, Harry is immediately everything. that it was a ploy by Voldemort. Order of the Phoenix taken by a group of wizards to In defi ance, Harry, Ron, and The room is fi lled with millions of the home of Sirius Black. Harry is Hermione decide to start the se- glass spheres, and Harry sees that forced to appear in Wizard’s court cret ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ — where one of them has his and Volde- for an unauthorized use of magic they practice defense spells. mort’s name on it. While fi ghting and is about to get expelled from Harry experiences dreams the Death Eaters, Harry drops the Hogwarts when Dumbledore pro- infl uenced by Voldemort’s thoughts sphere with his prophecy. duces a witness who testifi es that and is told by Dumbledore to take In the battle, Sirius Black is Harry used magic in self-defense. occulemency lessons. Occulemen- killed by his cousin Bellatrix Once back to school, Harry, cy protects Harry’s thoughts from Lestrange. Ron, and Hermione learn that Do- Voldemort and Harry’s scar burns Dumbledore explains the lores Umbridge is the new Defense every time Voldemort experiences prophecy to Harry — that neither Against the Dark Arts teacher. But a powerful emotion. Harry nor Voldemort both shall live Umbridge seems more concerned Dumbledore is forced to resign as long as one of the other exists. with stopping rumors of Lord as headmaster and Umbridge Harry is safe however as long as Voldemort’s return than teaching takes over. he calls his Aunt’s house home students. Minister Cornelius Fudge Harry has a dream that Sirius because of the bond of blood they appoints Umbridge to be high in- is in trouble at the Department of share.