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Comparing Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is both an amazing book, released in 1997, and movie, released in 2001. The film attempts to incorporate the book as best as possible. However, there is almost no way for every single detail to be apart of the movie as well as the book. Although all of the die hard Harry Potter fans would love an exact comparison of the book to the movie, it would be way too long. Nonetheless, the film and the novel do have many similarities but not too many major differences.

The movie and book start out with Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall just outside of Number 4 Privet Drive when they “give” the newly orphaned Harry Potter to his Aunt and Uncle Dursley. The entire exposition of the film is almost exact to the …show more content…

The book states that there were that Each major faculty member – Professors Sprout, Flitwick, McGonagall, Quirrell, and Snape – has offered a protection to the Philosopher's Stone in regard to their subject. Sprout's challenge is Devil's Snare. Flitwick enlarged hundreds of keys and charmed them so that they would fly around the room; only one fit the door to the next room and to capture it one would have to fly on a broom. McGonagall made a life-size Wizard's Chess game. Quirrell offers a troll to guard the next room. Snape made a logic riddle that incorporates seven potions, three of which are poison, two of which are nettle wine, one of which returns the drinker to the previous room, and the last of which advances the drinker to the next and final room. However, the movie, for length reasons, does not include Quirrell’s troll and Snape’s poison. Both the novel and film bring Harry to the climax where Professor Quirrell is found looking into the Mirror of Erised craving the sorcerer’s stone. Quirrell then forces Potter to give the stone to the professor. However, Harry was quick to realize that if he touched the combined Professor Quirrell and Voldemort, his body would turn to ash. While attempting to choke Harry, Harry uses his ability and gets free. In the long run, the climax of both the novel and movie are similar but there are some contrasts that are minor to the …show more content…

In the Hogwarts infirmary, Professor Dumbledore explains that when Harry's mother died to save his life, this act left him with a magical protection which saved him from Quirrell and Voldemort. The Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone is destroyed, meaning Nicholas Flamel will die. This happened in both the film and novel. Although there are several minor differences, they don’t affect the plot.

All in all, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Book and Film are extremely similar. This is probably so because people fell in love with the book and the directors wanted the same feeling in the movie as well. Although there may be some differences, none of them changed the plot

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