The trio decide to find the stone before Snape does. One day Hagrid reveals to Harry, Ron and Hermione that Fluffy will fall asleep if the music is played to him. Harry suspects that the Poisons teacher Severus Snape is trying to obtain the stone to return Voldemort to physical form. There is a giant three-headed dog named Fluffy which guards the Philosopher's Stone, as it turns out later. One night the stair cases change paths leading Harry, Ron and Hermione to the forbidden floor of Hogwarts. Harry is placed into Gryffindor despite the fact that the Sorting Hat offers him Slytherin where Voldemort studied.Īt Hogwarts, Harry begins learning magical spells, plays Quidditch.

After arriving at school the students gather in the Great Hall, where the first-years are sorted by the Sorting Hat among four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. Harry enters King's Cross station to board a train to Hogwarts, where he meets Ron Weasley ( Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger ( Emma Watson). Lord Voldemort couldn't kill Harry, thus Harry is well-known as 'The Boy Who Lived'.Īlnwick Castle was used as a principal filming location for Hogwarts. Harry'll also find out that his parents were killed by all-powerful wizard Lord Voldemort.

There appears Hagrid and informs Harry that he is wizard and his parents are wizards too. He and his relatives escape to an island from intrusive letters. Ten years later, Harry Potter ( Daniel Radcliffe) begins receiving strange letters by owls. One night, Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall, professors at Hogwarts, with Rubeus Hagrid deliver orphaned infant named Harry Potter to his remaining relatives, the Dursleys. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy movie directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros.

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