Harry Potter has never even heard of hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, privet drive, addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. then, on harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called rubeus hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: harry potter is a wizard, and he has a place at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry an incredible adventure is about to begin!