The good thing about re-reading the Harry Potter books for the first time in years is that I’m seeing how much more depth there was to the Hogwarts experience, and how much […]
The main thing here is more depth to the Hogwarts experience, both for Harry personally and in general for the reader. The movies don’t show a lot of the students just being […]
This chapter is designed to give the reader their first impressions of Hogwarts. The film production did a terrific job with the sets – I saw them live when I took the […]
The biggest difference here is that contrary to the film, Harry stays with the Dursleys for an additional month before it’s time to go to Hogwarts. They are equally afraid and angry […]
This chapter adds more depth to the Wizarding World. It introduces the reader to the concept of money in the Wizarding World. It also introduces the Ministry of Magic as the governing […]
This chapter is pretty faithfully represented in the film, although, as usual, there’s more depth to the events that occur. When Hagrid makes his entrance to the shack on the island where […]
This chapter is the first that makes it clear Harry is someone special. It’s a humorous way of depicting the Wizarding World reclaiming one of its own, despite the Dursley’s best attempts […]
This chapter is an overview of what Harry’s life has been like living with the Dursleys. I think this is covered fairly well in the film adaptation. The main thing missing here […]
Where I chapter by chapter review the book versus the movie. Some differences are minor, while sometimes entire stories were jettisoned from the films, which is why I encourage people to read […]
In an interesting bit of synchronicity, in early December I read an article about the upcoming Harry Potter Reunion (for the record I watched it first thing this morning) and the “problem” […]
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