At Hogwarts, he befriends Ron Weasley, the youngest son of a wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a Muggle-born girl (not of a wizarding family) who is the smartest witch of her age, and develops a rivalry with brat-prince Draco Malfoy. Each book in the series chronicles one year in Harry's life at Hogwarts. There are supposed to be seven books, each getting a little bit darker than the previous one as Harry gets older.
The Harry Potter novels take place in [Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]?, a castle in the middle of a ring of mountains, usually accessed from platform 9 3/4 at [King's Cross]? train station, London. While its exact geographic location has not been mentioned in the novels, the descriptions and comments made by the author imply that it is in Scotland.