1.It’s always hard to start at a new school. Now imagine that a wand and a Cauldron(坩埚) are on your school supply list, and everyone knows everything about you before you arrive. In fact, you’re not only the most famous person in the school, you’re the most famous person in that world …AND it’s a world full of wizards. That’s just how Harry Potter started his first year at Hogwarts—that’s just his first DAY! Can you imagine what will happen next? Join the thrills, laughs, and adventure—read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone(《哈利波特与魔法石》).
Did you know? Professor Snape(斯内普) teaches Potions(魔药课) and does not like Harry./ The Mirror of Erised (尤里斯魔镜)shows you your heart's deepest desire./ Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley(罗恩韦斯莱),is a whiz at Wizard's Chess(巫师棋)./ Harry meets the kindly giant Hagrid(海格) on his eleventh birthday, July 31./Harry,Ron(罗恩),and Hermione(赫敏) become friends by battling a twelve-foot troll in the girls' bathroom(盥洗室)./ The train to Hogwarts leaves from Platform 9 ¾(九又四分之三站台)at Kings Cross station(王国十字车站./ Both of know-it-all Hermione Granger's(赫敏格兰杰) parents are Muggles(麻瓜)and dentists./ Harry is Gryffindor's(格兰芬多)youngest Seeker(找球手) in a century./ This is Harry's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry(霍格沃茨魔法学校)./ First years are sorted into one of four different Houses: Hufflepuff(赫奇帕奇),Gryffindor, Slytherin(斯莱特林),or Ravenclaw(拉文克劳)./ Professor Quirrell(奇洛) teaches the Defense Against the Dark Arts (黑魔法防御术)class.
2.It’s your second year at this school full of wizards, and things just keep getting weirder. First this strange elf(家养小精灵) with big ears told you not to come back to Hogwarts. Then you traveled to school in a flying car, which you crash-landed in a very violent tree. And now there’s something loose in the castle—something that terrifies everyone and petrifies all who look upon it—something only you understand for only you can speak its language…but how? Thus begins Harry Potter’s second year at Hogwarts, full of wizard duels, secret diaries, disgusting potions, and a deadly mystery. Don’t miss a minute of the intrigue—read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(《哈利波特和密室》).
Did you know? When Hagrid was a student at Hogwarts, he raised a giant spider, or 'acromantula', named Aragog (阿拉戈克),who now lives in the Forbidden Forest(禁林)./The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is named Gilderoy Lockhart(吉德罗 洛哈特)./ Ron is afraid of spiders./Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington(尼古拉斯 德 梅西-波平顿爵士)-better known as the ghost “Nearly Headless Nick” (差点没头的尼克)-celebrates his 500th Deathday in this book./Ginny Weasley(金妮 韦斯莱),Ron's little sister, starts at Hogwarts this year./The Chamber of Secrets (密室)is purported to be a hidden chamber in the castle created by one of the founders of the school-cunning Salazar Slytherin(萨拉查 斯莱特林)./This is Harry's second year at Hogwarts; he is twelve.
3. Have you ever inflated your nasty aunt?Run away from home on a magical bus? Been chased by an escaped convict?And then suddenly met the most important political figure in your whole world,who treats you like his long-lost son?That’s just one very weird night in Harry Potter’s very tumultuous life……and things are about to get even more topsy-turvy.For the ominous Dementors(摄魂怪) have come to Hogwarts to protect Harry from the escaped prisoner Sirius Black(小天狼星布莱克)— a convicted murderer who also happens to be Harry’s godfather.Who is a friend and who is a foe? Find out in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒).
Did you know? Dementors are evil creatures who feed on happiness and make you feel cold and hopeless.They serve as guards at Azkaban(阿兹卡班)./The Shrieking Shack(尖叫棚屋) is reputed to be the most haunted place in all of Britain./The Patronus Charm will repel a Dementor; the incantation is ''Expecto Patronum''(呼神护卫(咒语))/You can defeat a Boggart by shouting ''Riddikulus!''(滑稽滑稽(咒语)) and laughing at it./The Weasleys(韦斯莱家) went to Egypt on a summer holiday trip./The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is named Remus Lupin(斯莱姆 卢平)./An Animagus is a wizard who can change into an animal at will./A hippogriff(鹰头马身有翼兽) is a creature that is half horse,half bird.Chocolate helps cure the effects of the Dementors./A Boggart takes on the shape of whatever you fear the most./Hagrid begins teaching the Care of Magical Creatures (保护神奇生物课)class./This is Harry's third year at Hogwarts; he is thirteen./To open The Monster Book of Monsters(《妖怪们的妖怪书》) - a living,scuttling,biting book - you must stroke its spine.
4. Just when you were getting the hang of your school,they shake things up.First you and your fellow students are sharing the castle with kids from two other schools of magic(魔法学校).Then someone frames you to compete in a dangerous interschool wizarding competition — which really means someone wants you dead. And just when you thought being 14 couldn’t get any worse — you have to attend a dance,and invite a date(舞伴)!Such are the challenges Harry Potter faces in his fourth year at Hogwarts — not to mention the Quidditch World Cup(魁地奇世界杯) a terrible fight with Ron,a nasty reporter named Rita Skeeter(丽塔 斯基特),and the possible return of Lord Voldemort(伏地魔). It’s a big book,full of even bigger surprises.Better get started reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(哈利波特与火焰杯).
Did you know? Lord Voldemort's signal, known as the Dark Mark(黑魔标记), is a skull with a snake protruding from its mouth./A Portkey(门钥匙) looks like a regular object,but if you touch it,it will magically whisk you from one place to another./The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is named Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody(疯眼汉穆迪).He is a former Auror,or Dark wizard(黑魔法) catcher,for the Ministry of Magic(魔法部)./Rita Skeeter is a reporter for the Daily Prophet(《预言家日报》)./The Triwizard Tournament(三强争霸赛) is a competition between one student from each of the three European schools of magic./The three European schools of magic are Hogwarts,Beauxbatons Academy of Magic(布斯巴顿魔法学校),and Durmstrang Institute(德姆斯特朗魔法学校)./Ron has a new pet, an owl named Pigwidgeon(朱薇琼).(He let Ginny name it,to his regret.)/This is Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts; he is fourteen./There are three Unforgivable Curses: the Imperius Curse; the Cruciatus Curse; and Avada Kedavra, the Killing Curse/The Goblet of Fire(火焰杯) chooses which students will compete in the Triwizard Tournament(三强争霸赛).
5. Your lifelong enemy is back and your world has been turned upside down. All you want to do is fight, but everyone else is trying to keep you safe and quiet. You try to concentrate on your classes (particularly the big tests coming up at the end of the year), but it’s hard with that pretty older girl who seems to like you, and a horrible new professor who seems to hate you. And then there are the dreams — entrancing, disturbing — of a mysterious door .Welcome to Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts, where danger lurks at every turn. But Harry wants nothing more than to face it — and soon it’s time to take matters into his own hands. Be there for the action and adventure — read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Did you know? The Order of the Phoenix is a group out to stop Lord Voldemort./Lord Voldemort's followers are called Death Eaters./Fifth-year students take O.W.L.s – Oridinary Wizarding Levels – to determine their magical proficiencies and their classes for the next year./Arthur Weasley works on the seventh floor of the Ministry of Magic./Harry, Hermione and friends form a special Defense Against the Dark Arts study group they call ''D.A.,'' for ''Dumbledore's Army.''/This is Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts; he is fifteen./Ron Weasley joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Keeper; Ginny Weasley comes on as a Seeker./St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is the wizard hospital.
6. The war against Voldemort has started, and everyone in the wizarding world has chosen sides. (They have to, or else a side will choose them.) Even in the midst of a war, your daily life goes on — captaining the Quidditch team, studying Transfiguration and Potions, dreaming of that beautiful redhead in the fifth year. And yet everything is about to change . . .After five years of thrills and adventure, Harry Potter’s life is taking a new path — straight to a fight against Lord Voldemort. But first he and Professor Dumbledore must try to find out as much as they can about a boy once named Tom Riddle — the boy who became Lord Voldemort. Discover the history that will determine the future — read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Did you know? Bill Weasley, Ron's older brother, is engaged./A bezoar - a stone taken from a goat's stomach - will serve as the antidote to most poisons./Horace Slughorn is a new professor at Hogwarts./Sixth-years take their Apparition Test this year./This is Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts; he is sixteen./Fred and George Weasley open a joke shop in Diagon Alley./Sixth-year students also learn to do nonverbal charms - charms where the incantations are not spoken aloud.
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