Comparing Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

I have been a fan of the Harry Potter series for as long as I can remember. The Sorcerer’s Stone was the first novel I ever read, but it was also the first one that I watch as they turned it into a movie. As I got older rereading these books about my wizard friends and their adventures and re-watching the movies I became more aware of the similarities and differences between the two. The movies leave out more than you think but is it really a big deal? Did they take away from you knowledge of the story or the storyline itself? In the preceding paragraphs I will go over the differences and similarities between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone book and movie, but first here is a bit of background information require to know to understand the comparison.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the

Throughout the series he goes up against “the Dark Lord” multiple times while also going on countless adventures with his two best friends.

The movie did not include some of the little details and even some bigger details, but these are the few I would enjoy to share, though it most will not affect the overall experience of the story. In the beginning of the book Harry began to receive countless letters from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His uncle, Vernon, was fed up with the letters because he did not want to acknowledge that magic was indeed real. Vernon moved Harry to many different places around the house, because the letters were extremely precise. This did not work, so then that is when they left the house to a different location. In the movie however, Harry never moved rooms, he remained under the staircase the throughout the beginning. This is not very important, if I am being completely honest but it is a little detail that I just found weird because the movie did not show, to the same extent, how excessive the letters became. On a bigger note, the