The book Harry Potter is about an 11 year old kid named Harry. He is living a normal life up until he is a few months old, so not very long. When he is a few months old his parents mysteriously die in a car crash, forcing him to live with his cousins. He lived in misery until about age eleven. He has no friends, he is always blamed for things his cousin Dudley did. but throughout his life he has been having strange things happening to him. Once when he was being chased by bullies he appeared on the roof of the school he was going to.Once he made the glass to a python cage disappear and reapear, releasing the python and trapping his cousin. in the months before his 11th birthday many strange letters arrive in the Dursleys mail drop-box. After the letters come, Harry gets a room of his own. (He had been living in the storage space beneath the stairs for his life so far). then, after more and more letters come, his uncle all the while making feeble attempts to get rid of the letters, they decide to move away. they go very far away to some island that they have to sail to but during the night on his 11th birthday, a strange man bursts in saying Harry has been accepted to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. and that is where our story begins.