The Wizarding World is now openly at war. Voldemort has returned, and his followers, the Death Eaters, are wreaking havoc in both the magical and Muggle worlds. As the atmosphere at Hogwarts grows tense, Harry is told by Dumbledore that he must prepare for the final confrontation.
After the traumatic events of the previous year (the return of Voldemort), Harry is treated as a pariah. The Ministry of Magic, led by Cornelius Fudge, launches a smear campaign, labeling Harry a liar and Dumbledore a troublemaker. The school is infiltrated by Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry official who bans practical defense training and imposes a draconian regime on Hogwarts.
The book picks up immediately after The Half-Blood Prince. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide not to return to Hogwarts for their final year. Instead, they go on the run to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes—objects containing fragments of Voldemort’s soul that grant him immortality.
Rather than a traditional, chronological autobiography, Boy is a series of vivid, often humorous, and sometimes startlingly harsh vignettes. Dahl recounts his experiences growing up in a Norwegian-British family, focusing on his education in rigid British boarding schools.
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are staying at their cousin Eustace Scrubb’s home when they are pulled into a painting of a ship on the wall. They find themselves aboard the Dawn Treader, a Narnian ship captained by King Caspian X, who is sailing eastward to find the seven lords who were banished by his uncle, Miraz, years earlier.
Decades after the events of Prince Caspian, Narnia is in trouble. King Caspian X is now an old man, and his only son, Prince Rilian, has vanished after going on a quest to avenge his mother's death. Aslan summons Eustace Scrubb (who has matured significantly since his last visit) and his schoolmate, Jill Pole, to Narnia. Aslan gives Jill a set of "Signs"—instructions she must memorize and fol…
The story is set in London around 1900. Two children, Digory Kirke (the same Professor Kirke from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and his friend Polly Plummer, accidentally stumble into the study of Digory’s eccentric uncle, Andrew. Uncle Andrew is an amateur magician who has created magical rings that allow travel between different worlds.
The four Pevensie children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—are waiting at a train station to return to school when they are suddenly pulled back into Narnia. They discover that over a thousand years have passed in Narnia time, even though it has only been a year in England. During their absence, Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines, a race of humans who have suppressed the "Old Narnia…
The story is set many years after the previous events. A devious ape named Shift discovers an old lion skin and convinces a simple-minded donkey named Puzzle to wear it, parading him around as Aslan. Shift uses this disguise to manipulate the Narnian creatures, forcing them into servitude for the benefit of the warlike Calormenes
The story follows Shasta, a young boy living in the southern land of Calormen, who believes he is the son of a poor fisherman. When he discovers that his "father" intends to sell him into slavery to a cruel nobleman, he flees. He meets Bree, a Talking Horse from Narnia who was captured as a foal and has been hiding his true nature. Together, they decide to escape north to the land of Narnia, wh…