The life of ten-year-old Harry Potter can't exactly be called sweet: his parents died when he was barely a year old, and from the uncle and aunt who took in the orphan, he gets nothing but jabs and backhanded slaps. But on his eleventh birthday everything changes. A strange guest, who appears on the doorstep unexpectedly, brings a letter from which the boy learns that he is, in fact, a wizard and has been enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And in just a couple of weeks Harry will be speeding aboard the Hogwarts Express toward a new life, where he will face incredible adventures, loyal friends, and most of all—the key to the mystery surrounding his parents' deaths.