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Eigentlich hatte Harry geglaubt, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. Zumindest bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag. Da erfährt er, dass er sich an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei einfinden soll. Und warum? Weil Harry ein Zauberer ist. Und so wird für Harry das erste Jahr in der Schule das spannendste, aufregendste und lustigste in seinem Leben. Er stürzt von einem Abenteuer in die nächste ungeheuerliche Geschichte, muss gegen Bestien, Mitschüler und Fabelwesen kämpfen. Da ist es gut, dass er schon Freunde gefunden hat, die ihm im Kampf gegen die dunklen Mächte zur Seite stehen.
Eigentlich hatte Harry geglaubt, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. Zumindest bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag. Da erfährt er, dass er sich an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei einfinden soll. Und warum? Weil Harry ein Zauberer ist. Und so wird für Harry das erste Jahr in der Schule das spannendste, aufregendste und lustigste in seinem Leben. Er stürzt von einem Abenteuer in die nächste ungeheuerliche Geschichte, muss gegen Bestien, Mitschüler und Fabelwesen kämpfen. Da ist es gut, dass er schon Freunde gefunden hat, die ihm im Kampf gegen die dunklen Mächte zur Seite stehen.
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Published October 18, 2016
About the author
J.K. Rowling
752 books236k followersSee also: Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating 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." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating 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." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
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August 16, 2026
So it may have taken me 8 months, but I’ve officially read an entire book in German!! 🥳🥳
This was seriously the perfect way to practice because it taught me SOOO much vocab and I was still able to follow along because I know the story so well.
So many Harry Potter quotes are engraved in my head in deutsch too now it’s actually crazy 🤣
Trust I will never forget “die Narbe” (scar) or “der Blitz” (lightning) ever again.
There were also some very funny moments reading this while I was tired. For example, I read “einhorn” which means unicorn as “eichhörnchen” for a second there… which means squirrel.
“That is because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a squirrel” 🐿️😭😭
But for the most part, I was able to piece things together with context and in doing so, I learned so much!
~~~~~~
On to the actual book content.
Out of all the Harry Potter books, this is definitely the one I’ve read the least. The later books always appeal to me more because I’m currently an angsty teenager, and I guess seeing HarryRonHermione at that stage is cathartic? Idek
But revisiting these adorable eleven-year-olds was so much fun. Dare I say the book was even better than I remembered it?
~ One of my favorite parts was definitely Ron. He was so hilarious and sarcastic this entire book, more so than I even remembered. He also had this innocence about him that was so “tween boy”, I just wanted to hug him.
“𝘙𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴: ‘i𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮’”
~ Neville had such a more prominent role in this book than in the movie. I hope we see that in the tv show ☺️ It’s so sweet how he’s not really included in the trio but he never gets bitter about it, he still only sees them as his friends. I want to be more like him 🥹
~ The scene where Malfoy is like “Harry has a broomstick!” (Trying to get him in trouble) And the teachers are like “yes, yes” is the best thing. 😆
~ “𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥.”
Quote that quite famously sets the tone for the entire series. 🤣
~ Neville crying as Harry’s broom isn’t working; and the Weasley twins trying to pull him onto their brooms, I love Harry’s brothers 😭
~ It’s interesting that PS quidditch matches are the only time we really get Ron and Hermione’s perspective.
~ “𝘐’𝘮 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 12 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘰𝘺.”
“𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦.” 💀🥰
~ Ron telling Hagrid, “oh, we figured out who he was AGES ago” with the dialogue tag of impressively. 🙂↔️
~ First year Harry saying, “𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦’𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
The BIGGEST LUMP OF CODSWALLOP IVE EVER SEEN!
~ Wait Harry being delirious and trying to catch Dumbledore’s glasses cause he thinks they’re a snitch and Dumbledore laughing at him 🥹 awww he’s such a little baby
~ Fred and George telling Ginny they would send her a toilet seat and then trying to send one to Harry… do I sense soulmate-ism 🤨
~ Dumbledore really be trolling the entire school BUT he gave Neville a much needed ego boost so I forgive him ☺️
~~~~~~
I’m so excited to read this book again (auf Deutsch) later in life and see how much easier it will be.
It was my first time reading the translation of a book originally written in English (I’m not bilingual unfortunately, YET), so I don’t have much to base my standards on, but I thought the translation was REALLY good!!
A lot of the phrases transferred word by word, which was really helpful for me, but I also learned some German expressions. “Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben“ originally had me wondering why we were talking about cups in cupboards, but now I know the German equivalent of “losing your marbles” 😄
Plus, the German Carlsen covers editions of HP are LITERAL WORKS OF ART. If you haven’t ever seen them, look it up, you’re missing out. I love having them on my bookshelf 🥰
AUF WIEDERSEHEN!!! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🥨🏔️
This was seriously the perfect way to practice because it taught me SOOO much vocab and I was still able to follow along because I know the story so well.
So many Harry Potter quotes are engraved in my head in deutsch too now it’s actually crazy 🤣
Trust I will never forget “die Narbe” (scar) or “der Blitz” (lightning) ever again.
There were also some very funny moments reading this while I was tired. For example, I read “einhorn” which means unicorn as “eichhörnchen” for a second there… which means squirrel.
“That is because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a squirrel” 🐿️😭😭
But for the most part, I was able to piece things together with context and in doing so, I learned so much!
~~~~~~
On to the actual book content.
Out of all the Harry Potter books, this is definitely the one I’ve read the least. The later books always appeal to me more because I’m currently an angsty teenager, and I guess seeing HarryRonHermione at that stage is cathartic? Idek
But revisiting these adorable eleven-year-olds was so much fun. Dare I say the book was even better than I remembered it?
~ One of my favorite parts was definitely Ron. He was so hilarious and sarcastic this entire book, more so than I even remembered. He also had this innocence about him that was so “tween boy”, I just wanted to hug him.
“𝘙𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴: ‘i𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮’”
~ Neville had such a more prominent role in this book than in the movie. I hope we see that in the tv show ☺️ It’s so sweet how he’s not really included in the trio but he never gets bitter about it, he still only sees them as his friends. I want to be more like him 🥹
~ The scene where Malfoy is like “Harry has a broomstick!” (Trying to get him in trouble) And the teachers are like “yes, yes” is the best thing. 😆
~ “𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥.”
Quote that quite famously sets the tone for the entire series. 🤣
~ Neville crying as Harry’s broom isn’t working; and the Weasley twins trying to pull him onto their brooms, I love Harry’s brothers 😭
~ It’s interesting that PS quidditch matches are the only time we really get Ron and Hermione’s perspective.
~ “𝘐’𝘮 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 12 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘰𝘺.”
“𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦.” 💀🥰
~ Ron telling Hagrid, “oh, we figured out who he was AGES ago” with the dialogue tag of impressively. 🙂↔️
~ First year Harry saying, “𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦’𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
The BIGGEST LUMP OF CODSWALLOP IVE EVER SEEN!
~ Wait Harry being delirious and trying to catch Dumbledore’s glasses cause he thinks they’re a snitch and Dumbledore laughing at him 🥹 awww he’s such a little baby
~ Fred and George telling Ginny they would send her a toilet seat and then trying to send one to Harry… do I sense soulmate-ism 🤨
~ Dumbledore really be trolling the entire school BUT he gave Neville a much needed ego boost so I forgive him ☺️
~~~~~~
I’m so excited to read this book again (auf Deutsch) later in life and see how much easier it will be.
It was my first time reading the translation of a book originally written in English (I’m not bilingual unfortunately, YET), so I don’t have much to base my standards on, but I thought the translation was REALLY good!!
A lot of the phrases transferred word by word, which was really helpful for me, but I also learned some German expressions. “Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben“ originally had me wondering why we were talking about cups in cupboards, but now I know the German equivalent of “losing your marbles” 😄
Plus, the German Carlsen covers editions of HP are LITERAL WORKS OF ART. If you haven’t ever seen them, look it up, you’re missing out. I love having them on my bookshelf 🥰
AUF WIEDERSEHEN!!! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🥨🏔️
May 25, 2026
3,25 ⭐️
August 26, 2026
*4 Sterne*
*Als Hörbuch gehört*
Der vermutlich erste Plot Twist, den ich damals als Kind gelesen habe! Nicht perfekt, aber ein bombastischer Einstieg in eine neue Welt.
*Als Hörbuch gehört*
Der vermutlich erste Plot Twist, den ich damals als Kind gelesen habe! Nicht perfekt, aber ein bombastischer Einstieg in eine neue Welt.
August 31, 2026
Eigentlich hab ich das von Felix gehört aber so ähnlich also…
September 7, 2026
I liked how the narrator used inflection and changed the speed for more exciting parts. Need to listen again and follow along in the book. Maybe read the English version again first.
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