Harry potter and the sorcerers stone mr dursley a well off englishman notices strange happenings on his way to work one day that night albus dumbledore the head of a wizardry academy called hogwarts meets professor mcgonagall who also teaches at hogwarts and a giant named hagrid outside the dursley home. This is a long summary of harry potter and the sorcerers stone book 1 by the novel from j k rowlingit ranges from first chapter to the last of the story so after reading this you should understand the novel greatly in detail. When it hit shelves june 30 1997 what happens in the book after murdering harrys parents james and lily potter evil lord voldemort puts a killing curse on harry then just a baby the curse inexplicably reverses defeating voldemort and searing a lightning bolt scar in the middle of the infants forehead. When harry looks in it he sees himself putting the stone in his pocket then it magically is in his pocket voldemort tries to get harry to join him and give him the stone when he refuses voldemort orders quirrell to capture him but he cant touch harry without burning his hands harry grabs quirrell and his scar produces excruciating pain