Comparing Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The storyline in the book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling is consistent with its namesake movie; yet the movie loses a bit of magic that comes with reading this masterpiece. Understandably, changes were necessary to morph this lengthy book into a film of reasonable length. The movie was thoughtfully created and directed to maintain the integrity of the original story. Slight alterations within the movie from scene to scene or character to character were added and details were deleted to shorten the film to a reasonable length. Still, the theme of good always prevailing over evil and procuring the ending is found in both pieces. Although many small changes were made, I will
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For starters, Ron takes the place of Neville in the movie. There are four people in detention plus Hagrid and his dog fang. Their purpose in the Forbidden Forrest is to find out the cause of the unnatural death of the unicorn population. They split up into two groups, in the book they end up regrouping; whereas, in the film Draco and Harry begin together before they find the suspicious character sucking on the unicorns neck and eventually turning to kill Harry. In the book Malfoy and Neville begin searching together, along with Fang. When Malfoy starts pestering Neville again, Hagrid teams up Harry and Malfoy instead. In the setting of the Forbidden Forrest, the film entirely leaves out Ronan and Bane, two centaurs, and their interaction and argument with Firenze a fellow centaur. In the book their interaction explains the culture of the centaur population of astrology and lack of interference within the human domain. They rebuke and chastised Firenze for saving Harry from the individual partaking of the unicorn blood. J. K. Rowling adds key information with this interaction that was left out of the movie, “….we are sworn not to set ourselves against the heavens….Centaurs are concerned with what has been foretold! It is not our business to run around like donkeys after stray humans in our forest!” (257). Like I stated earlier, this statement and interaction with the centaurs is significant into the centaur realm and their culture. Firenze adds a key foreshadowing statement that helps the reader realize who the unicorn killer is and ultimately the rogue who is trying to obtain the
For starters, Ron takes the place of Neville in the movie. There are four people in detention plus Hagrid and his dog fang. Their purpose in the Forbidden Forrest is to find out the cause of the unnatural death of the unicorn population. They split up into two groups, in the book they end up regrouping; whereas, in the film Draco and Harry begin together before they find the suspicious character sucking on the unicorns neck and eventually turning to kill Harry. In the book Malfoy and Neville begin searching together, along with Fang. When Malfoy starts pestering Neville again, Hagrid teams up Harry and Malfoy instead. In the setting of the Forbidden Forrest, the film entirely leaves out Ronan and Bane, two centaurs, and their interaction and argument with Firenze a fellow centaur. In the book their interaction explains the culture of the centaur population of astrology and lack of interference within the human domain. They rebuke and chastised Firenze for saving Harry from the individual partaking of the unicorn blood. J. K. Rowling adds key information with this interaction that was left out of the movie, “….we are sworn not to set ourselves against the heavens….Centaurs are concerned with what has been foretold! It is not our business to run around like donkeys after stray humans in our forest!” (257). Like I stated earlier, this statement and interaction with the centaurs is significant into the centaur realm and their culture. Firenze adds a key foreshadowing statement that helps the reader realize who the unicorn killer is and ultimately the rogue who is trying to obtain the