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The Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling, are fun filled books with werewolves, wizards, and witches. It is a series of seven books total. The books mainly are about Harry and his ongoing conflict with becoming a wizard and dealing with his arch nemesis, Lord Voldemort.These books would be classified as fantasy, but could be classified as as well as romance, attain, adventure, mystery, and sci-fi. It has romance when Harry falls in love with Cho Chang, a girl in Ravenclaw, another house at Hogwarts, Harrys school. There is action and adventure in every book (Harry fights Voldemort, disc overs a werewolf, joins a tournament, etc,). Mystery rises when a mysterious person rights with blood on the wall about murder. It has a lot of sci-fi like dragons, trolls, werewolves, and dementors (soul-sucking demons).In the first book, The Sorcerers Stone, Harry first finds out hes a wizard and finds out his parents were killed by Voldemort. He also firsts goes to Hogwarts, and defeats the spiri t of Voldemort.In the second book, The Chamber of Secrets, Harry goes back to Hogwarts for the second time and then a finds a diary, sees weird report on the wall, and battles Lord Voldemort as a kid (his name was Tom Lorov Riddle).In the third book, The Prisoner of Askaban, Harry finds out about Sirius Black, an escaped convict. He then finds out his teacher is a werewolf and Ron rat is actually an animagus, a person who can transform into an animal (Ron is Harrys scoop up friend and the youngest of 5 brothers).In the forth book, The Goblet of Fire, Harry returns to school and joins the tri-wizard tournament, a contest that only happened 100 years ago. He then gets transported in the middle of the final round to a cemetery where he sees Lord Voldemort get resurrected from the dead and Cedric Digory get murdered by Wormtail, Rons rat in human form. In the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, Harry gets a new teacher, Dolores Umbridge, a teacher who is as sour as a pickle. She the n takes over Hogwarts and bans Harry from playing Quiditch, a sport on broomsticks. Then Harry and his friends travel to The Department Of Mysteries, the place where a prophecy about him and lord Voldemort is kept. He then battles Lord Voldemort and his death eaters.The last 2 books have not been released yet but the 6th book is to be called The Half Blood Prince.