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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Quotes. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”.
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- Swish and Flick
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- Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak
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- The Plump Woman Said
- Dumbledore's Love of Lemon Drops
- Dumbledore's Watch
- Marge Hates Harry, & Mrs. Figg
- Descriptions of Lily & James' Wands
- The Centaurs
- Neville's Broken Wrist
- How Old Scabbers Is
- Flamel on The Chocolate Frog Card
- The Motorbike Belonging to Sirius
- Dragons at Gringotts
In the opening scenes, when Dumbledore and McGonagall are waiting for Hagrid to come to Privet Dr with baby Harry, Dumbledore offers her a lemon drop. Of course, this foreshadows the passwords to his office, which are all the names of muggle sweets, and which become significantly more important later on. However, this is a very minor omission. It's...
In the same scene that Dumbledore expresses a love of muggle sweets, he is also described as checking his watch, which "had twelve hands, but no numbers, with little planets moving around the edge". This is later revealed to be, presumably, a watch given to Dumbledore when he came of age - as Molly gives one to Harry, and explains that a gift of a ...
It's mentioned in the book that Marge, Harry's aunt, "hates" Harry, and that Mrs. Figg often looks after him. This comes up because Harry wasn't originally meant to go to the zoo, and the Dursleys are trying to think of another person to care for him. Of course, both characters become important later - Marge is so rude that Harry blows her up and r...
The scene where Harry gets his wand at Ollivander's goes through some changes, too. One major one is that Ollivander of the books tells Harry about his parents' wands. Lily's, he says, was "a nice wand for charm work", and James' as excellent for Transfiguration". Later, Slughorn talks at length about Lily's charm work, and the charmed goldfish she...
Harry first meets a centaur in both versions of the story, but in the book, several appear. Whereas film Harry is protected by Firenze, book Harry also meets 'villain' Bane and Ronan, who argue with Firenze about helping him. Firenze even says "I set myself against what is lurking in this forest, Bane, yes, with humans alongside me if I must". This...
In both the book and film, Neville falls off his broom in class, and breaks his wrist - leading Madam Hooch to leave with him, Harry to fly after the Remembrall, and get picked for the Quidditch team. In the film, that's the last heard of Neville's injury, but in the book, Harry meets him later, and is told that the nurse fixed it "in about a minut...
In both the book and the film, Ron introduces Harry to Scabbers, and makes a comment about how unimpressed he is with his pet. However, in the book, he is talking about getting hand-me-downs, and says explicitly that Scabbers is an 'old' rat that was given to him by his older brother. RELATED: 10 Harry Potter Characters With The Most Total Movie Sc...
In the books, Harry first hears the name of Nicholas Flamel when he's reading the back of his first Chocolate Frog card. The Dumbledore card includes the notes that he is known for his work with the uses of dragon's blood, and "his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicholas Flamel". Harry later knows he has heard the name somewhere, but can't place...
In the opening scene, Hagrid flies down on a giant motorbike, carrying Harry. In the book, Hagrid explains that he borrowed the bike from Sirius Black, and when he leaves, he says that he should be getting it back to him. This, of course, foreshadows Black's role - and the big reveal in The Prisoner of Azkaban that Sirius was actually a friend to t...
One of the key plot points in the first installment in the series is that Hagrid has set Fluffy, his three-headed dog, to guard the Stone... and that he accidentally tells someone how to get past Fluffy when convincing the stranger to give him a dragon egg. He's always wanted a dragon, and Harry eventually figures out that the one he gets was a set...
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneFull Book Analysis. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is a seminal work in contemporary fiction, laying the foundation for the immensely popular series of books by J. K. Rowling. The book not only introduces the protagonist, Harry Potter, but also establishes the magical world of witches ...
Magic, Difference, and Belonging. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first novel in a seven-part series centering on protagonist Harry Potter, who discovers that he is a wizard when he is eleven years old. The series tracks an epic battle between good and evil in the wizarding world, but the first book is, in its essence, a coming ...
A summary of Chapter 1 in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
In contrast to the ideas of power, greed, and desire held up as forces for evil, humility and self-sacrifice become the cornerstones of good character in The Sorcerer’s Stone. While antagonistic characters like Voldemort, Quirrell, and Dudley tend to focus on their own desires and needs, characters like Harry, Ron, and Hermione often think ...
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For example, in the opening chapter, Harry's ability to communicate with the snakes on the trip to the zoo foreshadows the power he will wield in the wizarding world: we know from the start he is ...
