When a letter arrives fro unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him. His parents were wizard, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping from his unbearable Muggle guardians to Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles into a sinister adventure when he finds a three headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.
'Funny, imaginative, magical...Rowling has woken up a whole generation to reading, In the 2020s, thirty-something book-lovers will know each other by smug references to Diagon Alley and Quidditch'
--The Times--
'This is a terrific book' --Sunday Telegraph--
'Full of surprises and jokes; comparisons with Dahl are, this time, justified' --Sunday Times--