Chapter 5 Summary

Harry awakes the next morning thinking it was all a dream until he sees Hagrid asleep on the couch. His happiness is overwhelming. Hagrid gets up pulls breakfast out of his coat and tells Harry they must be going to Gringotts Bank to fetch the money his parents left him when they died. They leave the shack and head on their way.

Harry asks Hagrid questions and is given answers about their world all the way to the bank. Hagrid tells Harry to get out his school list of things he must purchase for the term. They enter a porthole to the bank via a pub called the Leaky Cauldron. Many of the customers recognize Harry at once and begin to surround him in curious admiration.

They enter Diagon Alley through a wall in back of the pub. This place is the equivalent...