SCARPnotes: The Ultimate Harry Potter Literary Site
SCARPnotes are similar to Cliff Notes, Spark notes, and other summary and spoilers, and are a valuable literary source for school work or book clubs. Parents interested in reading the J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series with their children will also find them tremendously helpful. Remember, knowledgable wizards use SCARPnotes.
Books


Chapt: 17
Words: 76,944
Pub: UK: Jul 1997; US: Sep 1998
Harry learns that he is, in fact, a wizard and how his parents were actually killed. The ranks of "friends" and "foes" are established and Harry meets the "form" of the murderer of his parents while rescuing the "Philosopher's Stone."

Chapt: 18
Words: 85,141
Pub: UK: Jul 1998; US: Jul 1999
Harry unexpectedly stumbles across a vital secret of Voldemorts when he solves a Hogwarts mystery that even Dumbledore has been unable to solve. He is told how Voldemort can be vanquished, and continues to make valuable friends and acquaintances.

Chapt: 22
Words: 107,253
Pub: UK: July 1999; US: Oct 1999
Harry learns that he's not completely "alone" in the world, how Voldemort found his parents when they were protected by a "secret keeper" enchantment and meets friends of his parents. A convict, escaped from Azkaban, enters Hogwarts and a "servant" of Voledmort returns to him.

Chapt: 37
Words: 190,637
Pub: Jul 2000
A prisoner in Azkaban escapes and becomes a teacher at Hogwarts. Harry wins the wizarding competition for the Tri-Wizard Cup but witnesses Voldemort's return before he escapes from the Little Hangleton cemetery.

Chapt: 38
Words: 257,045
Pub: July, 2003
Harry is the target of attempted murder, heightened abuse from Fudge and the new DADA instructor, ostracism from Dumbledore and possession by Voldemort. A mentor dies and he learns why Voldemort attempted to kill him.

Chapt: 30
Words: 168,923
Pub: 16 July 2005
Harry learns more than he wanted to know about Voldemort's history including why he didn't die when his Avarda curse rebounded. Another mentor dies and Harry's life's "agenda" is elucidated. Hogwarts, however, is rid of Snape as a teacher.

Chapt: 37
Words: 197,651
Pub: 21 July 2007
Completing faithfully the tasks that his deceased mentor Albus Dumbledore gave him, Harry not only learned of his famous lineage but matured into the type of person who, like his mother, could willingly put other's need's before his own.

Parts: 2; Acts: 4
Scenes: 75
Pub: Jul 2016
Written as a screenplay by Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne and takes up where book 7 leaves off but wanders all over the place through "time" giving new material and characters but further insite/clarification to previous material as well.

Chapt: 12
Words:
Pub: Dec 2008
Written/compiled by Beedle in the 15th century, this new translation from the original runes by Hermione Granger contains recently discovered annotations and comments by Albus Dumbledore with notes and illustrations by JK Rowling.
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