March 9th - The first photo from the set of Deathly Hallows appears online. It depicts Dan Radcliffe shooting scenes in a forest. April 8th - Jamie Waylett is arrested on charges of drug posession after being caught with cannabis in his car.
An investigation of his home revealed more cannabis and machines to cultivate the substance. April 16th - The final trailer for Half-Blood Prince is released online. Plenty of new footage is revealed! April 25th - The first shots from inside Harry Potter: the Exhibition are released online. The images show what fans can expect when they attend.
May 5th - MuggleNet announces its second book, MuggleNet. The message comes after stuntman David Holmes was seriously injured on set.
May 26th - The running time for Half-Blood Prince is revealed: minutes. June 9th - Michelle Obama and her children visit the Potter set after being personally invited by Dan Radcliffe. It goes viral for several months and is a huge hit with Potter fans for its great music and funny dialogue. June 24th - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry sets a new one-day record of 19, attendees thanks to Harry Potter: the Exhibition.
They noted it had Oscar potential. Rupert has a full recovery and jokes about his run in with the swine flu in later interviews. July 16th - Jamie Waylett pleads guilty to cannabis possession after being caught harvesting the illegal drug in his home in June. July 21st - After months of rumors, Emma Watson announces that she'll be attending Brown University starting in the Fall semester.
July 21st - Jamie Waylett is ordered to do hours of community service for growing cannabis plants in his home. He issues a statement apologizing to Potter fans as well as to those at Warner Brothers. August 19th - Joshua Herdman reveals at a Potter fan conference that current plans for the Deathly Hallows split have it occurring right after being captured by the Snatchers and right before heading to Malfoy Manor. Herdman also reveals that they'll be taking Jamie Waylett's character out of the films.
September 4th - Ian Rankin reveals that the last time he saw JK Rowling, she was working on a Potter Encyclopedia and drawing out family trees. It is not known at what time he saw her doing these, though.
September 15th - Universal Studios Orlando announcing several new sketches, videos, and details surrounding the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. They also confirm it will open in Spring She says she created the account to put an end to all fake ones and reveals that "pen and paper are her priority at the moment.
October 1st - The month of October marks the 10th anniversary of MuggleNet. To celebrate, the site releases several anniversary features throughout the month. October 2nd - President George W. October 5th - JK Rowling says at a fashion show that she is working on something, but it's not Potter.
October 26th - A single mother in the United Kingdom is asked by Warner Brothers to change things up at her Halloween party because she did not receive permission to sell tickets for the small event at her home. October 30th - The Times Online publishes a list of the largest films of , and they believe Iron Man 2 will be bigger than Harry Potter. Their opinion surprises fans.
November 2nd - The building where JK Rowling wrote Sorcerer's Stone reopens and turns into a cafe again after it had been turned into a Chinese buffet years earlier. November 30th - We learn for the first time that Dan Radcliffe will be "bare" for a part of Deathly Hallows. David Yates says it occurs when Ron experiences nightmarish visions of Harry and Hermione embracing.
It depicts Harry, Ron and Hermione walking somewhere in London. December 2nd - David Yates comments further on the bare Deathly Hallows scenes, noting that Dan will be bare twice. The first time will come in the aforementioned visions Ron has and the second time will occur in the Kings Cross scenes. He also revealed his favorite scene is one not found in the book. It includes a intro by David Yates and David Heyman which reveals additional behind-the-scenes footage.
Fans were able to watch the film live with Dan and David and ask them questions. It marks the third year our podcast receives a Podcast Award thanks to the support from our listeners. It was confirmed the next day.
January 21 - After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Potter community comes together to raise money for those in need. January 29 - As the Wizarding World continues to come together, we learn author J. Rowling has sampled the Butterbeer and that The Forbidden Journey ride will have have authentic props and rooms in its queue.
They all individually out-earn actor George Clooney. February 17 - Author J. February 20 - In an interview with The Telegraph, Potter production designer Stuart Craig reveals that Snape dies "an extremely good death" that brought him to tears. March 3 - Rhys Ifans, the actor who plays Xenophilius Lovegood in the Potter films, compared being asked to work on Deathly Hallows with being knighted.
Thankfully, nobody was injured. March 24 - After previously stating she would not return to the final Potter films due to other commitments, Emma Thompson confirms two days of shooting as Professor Trelawney. Additional details about The Forbidden Journey are revealed. March 30 - Bloombsury reveals it will re-publish Harry Potter paperbacks with new covers in November to appeal to the next generation of readers who did not grow up with the book series.
She takes viewers inside the park for a six-minute preview. April 5 - Author J. April 9 - After a decade of filming, Alan Rickman confirms in an interview he has completed his role as Professor Severus Snape. April 17 - In an interview with The Independent, Rupert Grint says he is close to wrapping filming on the Potter series. April 22 - Plans to turn Leavesden Studios into a permanent studio are approved. A Harry Potter visitor attraction is slated to open in May 14 - In a rare interview, John Hurt, the actor who plays Ollivander in the Potter films, talks about his torture scene and the overall success of the franchise.
May 15 - According to a new poll in The Telegraph, author J. May 17 - Universal hosts an event inside The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, previewing the theme park for travel and media professionals. May 27 - While picking up two awards at the National Movie Awards, producer David Heyman reveals the cast and crew have just two weeks left of filming.
First photos and reports are revealed. May 29 - The all new MuggleNet 2. It is our first major overhaul ever! June 9 - In its landmark th episode, MuggleCast interviews Harry Potter producer David Heyman, who reveals the Deathly Hallows split has been decided and that they added a scene that will be incredibly dramatic and very moving.
Thousands came out for the Grand Opening. June 23 - The official Harry Potter Twitter is updated with the announcement that the first full-fledged trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released online on June June 27 - Metro. June 27 - USA Today releases several new photos from Deathly Hallows, including Voldemort and Harry dueling in the courtyard, Harry and Hagrid riding the motorbike and Hogwarts surrounded by a protective bubble.
July 9 - The Orlando Sentinel reports that after just 3 weeks of being open, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey has seen more than half-a-million riders. July 14 - After adding J. Rowling as a defendant in February, the estate of British author Adrian Jacobs files a lawsuit against Scholastic claiming that Goblet of Fire is substantially similar to Jacob's book The Adventures of Willy the Wizard. Fans gather to experience the opening of the Wizarding World.
July 17 - Emma Watson joins Twitter. July 30 - The Wall Street Journal reports there are rumors concerning a park to be opened in India featuring rides from Universal properties, including Harry Potter.
August 6 - In a new article with Entertainment Weekly, Emma Watson reveals her new, liberating hair cut. August 7 - A franchise wrap party is held at Leavesden studios celebrating the end of the Harry Potter films.
The exhibition will open on October August 12 - A new article in Entertainment Weekly previews Deathly Hallows, features new scans and reveals where the films will be split. August 16 - WB releases nine high-res Deathly Hallows stills first seen in Entertainment Weekly and confirm a plot change - Hedwig will be killed saving Harry. August 27 - After being turned away from the Forbidden Journey ride for being overweight, Potter fan Banks Lee, reports he has lost enough weight to be able to get on the ride.
September 7 - MuggleSpace, our Harry Potter online community, passes 30, members. September 14 - MuggleNet offers Potter fans an exclusive trailer for Harry Potter Film Wizardry, a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film series. September 20 - MuggleNet introduces its own app for the iPhone. September 22 - In anticipation of a Deathly Hallows - Part 1 trailer release, Warner Brothers releases 13 high-res stills. September 24 - Oprah Winfrey's website is updated with news that author J.
Rowling will appear on her show October 1. October 1 - J. Rowling appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show where she says Potter is still in her head and that she could definitely write 8 or 9. The focus of the interview is on her success, struggle, family and of course, Potter. You can watch the interview right here. Producer David Heyman is quoted as saying this was done to "preserve the integrity of Jo Rowling's books". October 12 - Worldwide release dates are announced for Deathly Hallows Part 1.
October 15 - Tickets for Deathly Hallows - Part 1 go on sale online. October 19 - Harry Potter Film Wizardry hits store shelves. October 19 - J. Rowling travels to Denmark to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award, where she speaks about the impact of children's books. October 23 - The run-time for Deathly Hallows - Part 1 appears online at minutes, making it the third shortest of all the Potter films.
October 24 - Dan Radcliffe talks with Potter fansites about the Death Hallows split, the overall plot and more. October 24 - The individual track titles for the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 score appear online. October 26 - After receiving the names of the individual track titles days earlier, samples from the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 score are made available online.
Its our first extended look at the acting in the film. November 8 - It is reported that Warner Brothers has finalized its deal to purchase Leavesden Studios and is expected to open a Potter museum in the Spring November 9 - E! November 10 - In an interview with FilmMusicMag. We later provide an an initial-reaction review of the film. Rowling and the film's top stars are interviewed. Rowling recently sent him a text message with a promise of no more Harry Potter books. November 22 - After hitting store shelves earlier in the week, the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 video game gets poor reviews by critics.
December 5 - Deathly Hallows - Part 1 is knocked from its perch by Tangled at the box office. It remains No. December 7 - Screamscape reports on rumors that Universal Studios Hollywood may be hoping to get a Wizarding World of its own. December 19 - A rumor surfaces concerning the first trailer release for Deathly Hallows - Part 2. December 19 - Deathly Hallows - Part 1 climbs to the 25th highest-grossing film of all-time.
Rowling The biography wrote by herself from her official website My mother and father were both Londoners. They met on a train travelling from King's Cross station to Arbroath in Scotland when they were both eighteen; my father was off to join the Royal Navy, my mother to join the WRNS the women's equivalent.
My mother said she was cold, my father offered her a half share in his coat, and they got married just over a year later, when they were nineteen.
Both left the navy and moved to the outskirts of Bristol, in the West of England. My mother gave birth to me when she was twenty. I was a rotund baby. The description in 'Philosopher's Stone' of the photographs of 'what appeared to be a beach ball wearing different coloured bobble hats' would also apply to the pictures of my early years. My sister Di arrived a year and eleven months after me. The day of her birth is my earliest memory, or my earliest datable memory, anyway.
I distinctly remember playing with a bit of plasticine in the kitchen while my father rushed in and out of the room, hurrying backwards and forwards to my mother, who was giving birth in their bedroom. I know I didn't invent this memory because I checked the details later with my mother. I also have a vivid mental picture of walking into their bedroom a little while later, hand in hand with my father, and seeing my mother lying in bed in her nightdress next to my beaming sister, who is stark naked with a full head of hair and looks about five years old.
Although I clearly pasted together this bizarre false memory out of bits of hearsay when I was a child, it is so vivid that it still comes to mind if I ever think about Di being born. Di had - and still has - very dark, almost black hair, and dark brown eyes like my mother's, and she was considerably prettier than I was and she still is. As compensation, I think, my parents decided that I must be 'the bright one'. We both resented our labels.
I really wanted to be less freckly-beach-balllike, and Di, who is now a lawyer, felt justifiably annoyed that nobody had noticed she was not just a pretty face. This undoubtedly contributed to the fact that we spent about three quarters of our childhood fighting like a pair of wildcats imprisoned together in a very small cage. To this day, Di bears a tiny scar just above her eyebrow from the cut I gave her when I threw a battery at her - but I didn't expect to hit her, I thought she'd duck!
This excuse didn't cut much ice with my mother, who was angrier than I had ever seen her. We left the bungalow when I was four and moved to Winterbourne, also on the outskirts of Bristol. Now we lived in a semi-detached house with STAIRS, which prompted Di and I to re-enact, over and over again, a clifftop drama in which one of us would 'dangle' from the topmost stair, holding hands with the other and pleading with them not to let go, offering all manner of bribery and blackmail, until falling to their 'death'.
We found this endlessly amusing. I think the last time we played the cliff game was two Christmases ago; my nine-year-old daughter didn't find it nearly as funny as we did. The small amount of time that we didn't spend fighting, Di and I were best friends. I told her a lot of stories and sometimes didn't even have to sit on her to make her stay and listen. Often the stories became games in which we both played regular characters.
I was extremely bossy when I stagemanaged these long-running plays but Di put up with it because I usually gave her star parts. There were lots of children around our age living in our new street, among them a brother and sister whose surname was Potter. I always liked their name, whereas I wasn't very fond of my own; 'Rowling' the first syllable of which is pronounced 'row' as in boat, rather than 'row' as in argument lent itself to woeful jokes such as 'Rowling stone', 'Rowling pin' and so on.
Anyway, the brother has since cropped up in the press claiming to 'be' Harry. His mother has also told reporters that he and I used to dress up as wizards. Neither of these claims is true; in fact, all I remember of the boy in question was that he rode a 'Chopper', which was the bicycle everybody wanted in the seventies, and once threw a stone at Di, for which I hit him hard over the head with a plastic sword I was the only one allowed to throw things at Di.
I enjoyed school in Winterbourne. It was a very relaxed environment; I remember lots of pottery making, drawing and story writing, which suited me perfectly. However, my parents had always harboured a dream of living in the country, and around my ninth birthday we moved for the last time, to Tutshill, a small village just outside Chepstow, in Wales. The move coincided almost exactly with the death of my favourite grandparent, Kathleen, whose name I later took when I needed an extra initial.
No doubt the first bereavement of my life influenced my feelings about my new school, which I didn't like at all. We sat all day at roll-top desks facing the blackboard. There were old inkwells set into the desktops.
There was a second hole in my desk, which had been gouged out with the point of a compass by the boy who had sat there the year before. He had obviously worked away quietly out of the sight of the teacher. I thought this was a great achievement, and set to work enlarging the hole with my own compass, so that by the time I left that classroom you could comfortably wiggle your thumb through it.
He was the first of my friends to learn to drive and that turquoise and white car meant FREEDOM and no more having to ask my father to give me lifts, which is the worst thing about living in the countryside when you are a teenager. Some of the happiest memories of my teenage years involve zooming off into the darkness in Sean's car. He was the first person with whom I really discussed my serious ambition to be a writer and he was also the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time.
The worst thing that happened during my teenage years was my mother becoming ill. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is a disease of the central nervous system, when I was fifteen. Although most people with multiple sclerosis experience periods of remission - when their illness stops progressing for a while, or even improves - Mum was unlucky; from the time of her diagnosis onwards she seemed to become slowly but steadily worse.
I think most people believe, deep down, that their mothers are indestructible; it was a terrible shock to hear that she had an incurable illness, but even then, I did not fully realise what the diagnosis might mean. I left school in and went to study at the University of Exeter, on the south coast of England. I studied French, which was a mistake; I had succumbed to parental pressure to study 'useful' modern languages as opposed to 'but-where-will-it-lead?
On the plus side, studying French meant that I had a year living in Paris as part of my course. After leaving university I worked in London; my longest job was with Amnesty International, the organisation that campaigns against human rights abuses all over the world.
But in , my then boyfriend and I decided to move up to Manchester together. It was after a weekend's flathunting, when I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, that the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head.
I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. To my immense frustration, I didn't have a functioning pen with me, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I think, now, that this was probably a good thing, because I simply sat and thought, for four delayed train hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen.
I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance at all to anything in the finished book. I moved up to Manchester, taking the swelling manuscript with me, which was now growing in all sorts of strange directions, and including ideas for the rest of Harry's career at Hogwarts, not just his first year.
Then, on December 30th. It was a terrible time. My father, Di and I were devastated; she was only forty five years old and we had never imagined - probably because we could not bear to contemplate the idea - that she could die so young.
I remember feeling as though there was a paving slab pressing down upon my chest, a literal pain in my heart. Nine months later, desperate to get away for a while, I left for Portugal, where I had got a job teaching English in a language institute.
I took with me the still-growing manuscript of Harry Potter, hopeful that my new working hours I taught in the afternoon and evening would lend themselves to pressing on with my novel, which had changed a lot since my mother had died. Now, Harry's feelings about his dead parents had become much deeper, much more real.
I had hoped that when I returned from Portugal I would have a finished book under my arm. In fact, I had something even better: my daughter. I had met and married a Portuguese man, and although the marriage did not work out, it had given me the best thing in my life.
Jessica and I arrived in Edinburgh, where my sister Di was living, just in time for Christmas I intended to start teaching again and knew that unless I finished the book very soon, I might never finish it; I knew that full-time teaching, with all the marking and lesson planning, let alone with a small daughter to care for single-handedly, would leave me with absolutely no spare time at all. And so I set to work in a kind of frenzy, determined to finish the book and at least try and get it published.
Whenever Jessica fell asleep in her pushchair I would dash to the nearest cafe and write like mad. I wrote nearly every evening. Then I had to type the whole thing out myself. Sometimes I actually hated the book, even while I loved it. Finally it was done. I covered the first three chapters in a nice plastic folder and set them off to an agent, who returned them so fast they must have been sent back the same day they arrived.
But the second agent I tried wrote back and asked to see the rest of the manuscript. It was far and away the best letter I had ever received in my life, and it was only two sentences long. It took a year for my new agent, Christopher, to find a publisher. Lots of them turned it down.
Then, finally, in August , Christopher telephoned me and told me that Bloomsbury had 'made an offer. Other information Name Although she writes under the pen name "J. Rowling", her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Fearing that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name.
As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself "Jo" and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry. Philanthropy In , Rowling established the Volant Charitable Trust, which uses its annual budget of 5. The fund also gives to organisations that aid children, one parent families, and multiple sclerosis research.
Rowling said, "I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. Rowling collaborated with Sarah Brown to write a book of children's stories to aid One Parent Families. Since going on sale in March , the books have raised The In January , Rowling went to Bucharest to highlight the use of caged beds in mental institutions for children.
The book was purchased for 1. Rowling commented, "This will mean so much to children in desperate need of help. It means Christmas has come early to me. In , Rowling agreed to publish the book with the proceeds going to the Children's High Level Group. Multiple sclerosis Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother suffered before her death in In , Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University and in she donated a further 10 million to the centre.
For reasons unknown, Scotland, Rowling's country of adoption, has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world. In , Rowling took part in a campaign to establish a national standard of care for MS sufferers. In April , she announced that she was withdrawing her support for Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, citing her inability to resolve an ongoing feud between the organisation's northern and southern branches that had sapped morale and led to several resignations.
Rowling's contribution was an word Harry Potter prequel that concerns Harry's father, James Potter and godfather, Sirius Black, and takes place three years before Harry was born. The cards were collected together and sold for charity in book form in August Profits from the event were donated to the Haven Foundation, a charity that aids artists and performers left uninsurable and unable to work, and the medical NGO Mdecins Sans Frontires.
Religious views I was officially raised in the Church of England, but I was actually more of a freak in my family. We didn't talk about religion in our home. My father didn't believe in anything, neither did my sister. My mother would incidentally visit the church, but mostly during Christmas.
And I was immensely curious. From when I was 13, 14 I went to church alone. I found it very interesting what was being said there, and I believed in it. When I went to university, I became more critical. I got more annoyed with the smugness of religious people and I went to church less and less.
Now I'm at the point where I started: yes, I believe. And yes, I go to the church. A Protestant church here in Edinburgh.
My husband is also raised Protestant, but he comes from a very strict Scottish group. One where they couldn't sing and talk. Before the start of the novel, Voldemort, the most powerful Dark wizard in history, killed Harry's parents but mysteriously vanished after trying to kill Harry. While the wizarding world is celebrating Voldemort's downfall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Hagrid place the one yearold orphan in the care of his Muggle non-wizard aunt and uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley.
For ten years, they and their son Dudley bully Harry. Shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, a series of letters addressed to Harry arrive, but Vernon destroys them before Harry can read them. To get away from the letters, Vernon takes the family to a lonely island. As they are settling in, Hagrid bursts through the door to tell Harry what the Dursleys have kept him from finding out: Harry is a wizard and has been accepted at Hogwarts.
Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, a magically-concealed shopping precinct in London, where Harry is bewildered to discover how famous he is among wizards as "the boy who lived. Guided by Hagrid, he buys the books and equipment he needs for Hogwarts. At the wand shop, he finds that the only wand that works well for him is the twin of Voldemort's. Both wands contain feathers from the same phoenix. There he meets the Weasley family, who show him how to pass through the magical wall to Platform 9, where the train is waiting.
While on the train Harry makes friends with Ron Weasley, who tells him that someone tried to rob a vault at Gringotts. Another new pupil, Draco Malfoy, accompanied by his sidekicks Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, offers to advise Harry, but Harry dislikes Draco's arrogance and prejudice.
Before the term's first dinner in the school's Great Hall, the new pupils are allocated to houses by the magical Sorting Hat. When it is Harry's turn to be sorted, the Hat wonders whether he should be in Slytherin, but when Harry objects, the Hat sends him to join the Weasleys in Gryffindor.
While Harry is eating, Professor Snape catches his eye and Harry feels a sudden stab of pain in the scar Voldemort left on his forehead. After a horrible first Potions lesson with Snape, Harry and Ron visit Hagrid, who lives in a rustic house on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. There they learn that the attempted robbery at Gringotts happened the day Harry.
Harry remembers that Hagrid had removed a small package from the vault that was broken into and searched. During the new pupils' first broom-flying lesson, Neville Longbottom breaks his wrist, and Draco takes advantage to throw the forgetful Neville's fragile Remembrall high in the air. Harry gives chase on his broomstick, catching the Remembrall inches from the ground. Professor McGonagall dashes out and appoints him as the new Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
When Draco tricks Ron and Harry, accompanied by Neville and the bossy Hermione Granger, into a midnight excursion, they accidentally enter a forbidden corridor and find a huge three-headed dog. The group hastily retreats, and Hermione notices that the dog is standing over a trap-door. Harry concludes that the monster is guarding the package Hagrid retrieved from Gringotts. After Ron criticises Hermione's ostentatious proficiency in Charms, she hides in tears in the girls' toilet.
Professor Quirrell reports that a troll has entered the dungeons. While everyone else returns to their dormitories, Harry and Ron rush to warn Hermione. The troll corners Hermione in the toilet but when Harry sticks his wand up one of its nostrils, Ron uses the levitation spell to knock out the troll with its own club. Afterwards, several professors arrive and Hermione takes the blame for the battle and becomes a firm friend of the two boys.
The evening before Harry's first Quidditch match, he sees Snape receiving medical attention from Filch for a bite on his leg by the three-headed dog. During the game, Harry's broomstick goes out of control, endangering his life, and Hermione notices that Snape is staring at Harry and muttering.
She dashes over to the Professors' stand, knocking over Professor Quirrell in her haste, and sets fire to Snape's robe. Harry regains control of his broomstick and catches the Golden Snitch, winning the game for Gryffindor. Hagrid refuses to believe that Snape was responsible for Harry's danger, but lets slip that he bought the three-headed dog, and that the monster is guarding a secret that belongs to Professor Dumbledore and someone called Nicolas Flamel.
Harry and the Weasleys stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, and one of Harry's presents, from an anonymous donor, is an Invisibility Cloak. Harry uses the Cloak to search the library's Restricted Section for information about the mysterious Flamel, has to evade Snape and Filch after an enchanted book shrieks an alarm, and slips into a room containing the Mirror of Erised, which. Harry becomes addicted to the Mirror's visions and is rescued by Professor Dumbledore, who explains that it shows what the viewer most desperately longs for.
When the rest of the pupils return for the next term, Draco plays a prank on Neville, and Harry consoles Neville with a sweet. The collectible card wrapped with the sweet identifies Flamel as an alchemist. Hermione soon finds that he is a year-old man who possesses the only known Philosopher's stone, from which can be extracted an elixir of life.
A few days later Harry notices Snape sneaking towards the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest. There he half-hears a furtive conversation about the Philosopher's Stone, in which Snape asks Professor Quirrell if he has found a way past the three-headed dog and menacingly tells Quirrell to decide whose side he is on. Harry concludes that Snape is trying to steal the Stone and Quirrell has prepared a series of defences for it.
The three friends discover that Hagrid is raising a baby dragon, which is against wizard law, and arrange to smuggle it out of the country around midnight. Draco arrives, hoping to raise the alarm and get them into trouble, and Neville comes to warn them of Draco's mischief.
Although Ron is bitten by the dragon and is sent to the infirmary, Harry and Hermione spirit the dragon safely away. However, they are caught, and Harry loses the Invisibility Cloak. As part of their punishment, Harry, Hermione, Draco and Neville are compelled to help Hagrid to rescue a badly-injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest.
They split into two parties, and Harry and Draco find the unicorn dead, surrounded by its blood. A hooded figure crawls to the corpse and drinks the blood, while Draco screams and flees. The hooded figure moves towards Harry, who is knocked out by an agonising pain spreading from his scar. When Harry regains consciousness, the hooded figure has gone and a centaur, Firenze, offers to give him a ride back to the school. The centaur tells Harry that drinking a unicorn's blood will save the life of a mortally injured person, but leave them only barely alive.
Firenze suggests Voldemort drank the unicorn's blood to gain enough strength to make the elixir of life from the Philosopher's Stone, and regain full health by drinking that. On his return, Harry finds that someone has slipped the Invisibility Cloak under his sheets. A few weeks later, while relaxing after the end-of-session examinations, Harry suddenly wonders how something as illegal as a dragon's egg came into Hagrid's possession.
The gamekeeper says he was given it by a hooded stranger who bought him several drinks and asked him how to get past the. Realising that one of the Philosopher's Stone's defences is no longer secure, Harry goes to inform Professor Dumbledore, only to find that the headmaster has just left for an important meeting.
Harry concludes that Snape faked the message that called Dumbledore away and will try to steal the Stone that night. Covered by the Invisibility Cloak, Harry and his two friends go to the threeheaded dog's chamber, where Harry sends the beast to sleep by playing a flute. After lifting the trap-door, they encounter a series of obstacles, each of which requires special skills possessed by one of the three, and one of which requires Ron to sacrifice himself.
In the final room Harry, now alone, finds Quirrell rather than Snape. Quirrell admits that he let in the troll that tried to kill Hermione in the toilet, and that he tried to kill Harry during the first Quidditch match but was knocked over by Hermione. Snape had been trying to protect Harry and suspected Quirrell.
Quirrell serves Voldemort and, after failing to steal the Philosopher's Stone from Gringotts, allowed his master to possess him in order to improve their chances of success. However the only other object in the room is the Mirror of Erised, and Quirrell can see no sign of the Stone.
At Voldemort's bidding, Quirrel forces Harry to stand in front of the Mirror. Harry feels the Stone drop into his pocket and tries to stall. Once you've chosen your setup, select Apply. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Assuming you can wrestle your way back to control and you have to do it firmly but gently or it just gets worse , you'll still lose several hundred feet of altitude.
Hopefully several hundred feet you had to spare, otherwise you're now an impromptu bonfire. That's not the only way things "get real. Damage to your engine makes it harder to maintain airspeed.
Damage to your wings Actually visible in the form of real polygonal holes in them makes them generate less lift and makes it harder for you to roll your airplane, thus making you easier to kill. And let me tell you, these planes don't take much to kill. I was under the impression again from previous flight sims such as CYAC that it took many seconds of sustained gunfire to shoot down a plane A withering half-second barrage from most planes especially those with large bore cannons will start you streaking for the earth Also, so many of these planes only carry so much ammo.
I had no idea that the machine guns on an ME could basically be exhausted by 10 seconds of continuous fire. Light, quick bursts are the name of the game here.
And it goes without saying that you have to lead your target. Switching from "arcade" to "realistic" mode is a shock, like going from "easy" to "expert" in terms of difficulty You want to know your airspeed, heading, or altitude? That plane coming toward you, is that a friend or foe? Well, I hope you've boned up on silhouette recognition charts, because there's no "targeting" feature or any kind of labels. If you can't distinguish a Messerschmidt from a Mustang in pretty quick order at yards while being shaken like a wet dog , you're probably going to be having a hot lead sandwich for lunch, and it's all you can eat.
Now, I'm a fella who enjoys a challenge, as long as the BS factor is kept to a minimum. I find Arcade to be too easy, but I find Realistic to be very difficult. Forget about Simulator mode. Fortunately the developer realized that it would probably be too difficult for most people, so the game gives you now hear me out on this , infinite lives.
Well, not lives so much as "do-overs. So there's still the achievement factor for those who want it, and yet the content tourists can still progress through the game instead of being denied access because they aren't aces. These are the guts of the game, and for the most part it's pretty solid. The garnish, however, leaves a little to be desired.
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