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Thoughts/Background on Sorcerer’s Stone

Just Some Thoughts on movie one. Please, let me know your thoughts. Suggestions on how better to spend my time will also be appreciated....lol

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Pivet Drive. Do you think that owl there was sent by Dumbledore to tell Professor McGonagall that he was on his way? Or is it just an ordinary, non-magical owl? Do they have owls in England? Is that a stupid question?

Another owl? And the singular street lamp a la Narnia.

Dumbledore looks so unnatural here. They are literally in what is one of the most ordinary places detailed in the books, and we know the importance of dressing for Muggles, but he doesn’t here. Maybe because this is the eve of Halloween? They just know that they will get away with wearing whatever here. Or are they disillusioned somehow?

Cookie cutter house. Cookie cutter lawn. Cookie cutter cars.

The deluminator makes it first appearance in the series. We won’t see it again until book seven. Rowling truly is a genius at this.

One light is left on behind Dumbledore’s head. So, the deluminator in the seventh book obviously leads Ron back to Harry and Hermione. Maybe the deluminator does more than take and give back light. Maybe the deluminator truly does act as a light guiding it’s owner to the place where it most needs to go. Ron really needed to get back to his friends, and that night, Dumbledore needed to be directed to where Harry, in canon, would be the safest. And with the blood wards, that was with Petunia at number 4.

It seems like Professor McGonagall is a bit of a gossip here. I bet she gives all the lowdown on everything to Sprout, Flitwick, and Poppy.

Sirius’ bike!!!! That is a sick bike!

Hagrid is the only person among the three who look appropriately soft here regarding Harry.

Harry is in a blanket that looks hand woven. Who do we think did that?

Just right on the doorstep? Not even a basket? Dang!

Okay, so the same handwriting that is on the envelope laid on Harry is the same script that is used for the Hogwarts letters. So, we can theorize that the headmaster addresses all the envelopes. So then, Dumbledore really did know about Harry’s treatment and where he slept each night?

Petunia here unlatches a latch on Harry’s cupboard door.

It looks like there are several cans of paint beside Harry here. It’s cramped. At least he has a blanket and pillow. He has a light which is good, and that looks like a glass of water behind him.

Dudley is such a little fucker. That carpeting is also soooo nineties.

He calls him cousin here which I can’t decide if that is him being patronizing, you know, with the subsequent pushing and shoving. Or if Dudley really is just too young to truly realize how Harry is being treated here. He knows that it is fun and funny to mess with Harry, but does he truly realize the scope of his actions? We do see some redemption in seven though which does show some redemption.

I also love the headcanon that Dudley eventually had a witch for a daughter.

I wonder how many breakfasts young Harry has burned either accidentally or because Vernon was running late for work and he wanted to spite him. Though young Harry admittedly doesn’t seem to be evil, I bet he could have a naughty streak.

Look at all those huge, gaudy wrapped presents. Still, Dudley in front of a literal collage and shrine to Dudley has a bitch fit.

Harry is over this shit.

Why is Vernon threatening Harry here? What all has Harry done to this point to all of them that he is being threatened like this? I remember the bits of accidental magic mentioned in the book, but this seems a little extreme to me. I need a fanfiction where Harry knew about magic all along, and just insisted on messing with the Dursleys the whole time. Grey!Harry would be acceptable. Dark!Harry preferred.

I saw on Buzzfeed I think, that someone pointed out that the school group leaving the Reptile part of the zoo are wearing all green. Green like Slytherins who are leaving the reptile house when their house is literally represented by a snake. Nice tidbit, if that was intentional.

“Make it move!” is a good line here. Dudley trying to force a creature to go against its nature when they are trying to get Harry to turn against his own nature.

Petunia like nicks Dudley on the chin here, like, “Oh, my darling baby.”

Harry’s monologue here about lying there day after day while people press their faces in on you echoes his life in the cupboard, and that really infuriates me in a way that watching and hearing this the first time didn’t.

Harry is so polite, and since the Dursley’s don’t speak to him, and probably don’t stress the the differences between reality and fiction, that Harry is like legit okay with a snake just randomly seeming to understand him. When kids are young they have trouble with differentiating fact and fiction especially when it comes to things on tv and in media. We know that Harry had a hard knock life, but in that cupboard all he had was his imagination to really entertain himself. I think that imagination is what allowed him to be so okay with finding out about magic the way that he did.

That is a big flipping snake.

Petunia is freaked out. Vernon is automatically suspicious. I’m telling you Harry has pulled some stuff back in the day.

This scene of Petunia ushering a almost cataonic Dudley into the hosue echoes the one in the fifth film when she is ushering him out after the dementor attack.

Petunia is cooking here.

They have got that wicker furniture in the back yard. Like every other house in the nineties.

Three birds. Three letters.

Harry has toys that are knights. Which later in the film they play chess where Ron makes the big move on a knight.

The rest of the family always looks so pristine and put together while Harry is wearing the same clothes that they went to the zoo in.

The anguish here on the Dursley’s faces is just insane to me.

Dark and stormy island near a dark and stormy island???

Hagrid literally wasn’t going to wait a minute longer to get to Harry. He literally got to him when the clock turned 12:00 on the date of his birth. Someone had to have been watching Harry because why else would Hagrid have been there right on the dot?

And Hagrid is super angry here with the Dursleys. Maybe he tried to watch the family weeks prior to this, but then noticed that something wasn’t quite right. They, at Hogwarts, must have known that Harry wasn’t being treated right, and that the Dursley’s were reluctant to let him go. That’s why Hagrid was able to track him down, and take him right away.

Hagrid knows what’s up. I’m telling you.

They have got to have reports of accidental magic as well, right? I need details on this Rowling, details.

He’s had his name down since he was born? Because of the prophecy? What if Harry had been a squib? Fanfiction writers, I will also be needing this story. Harry is still the chosen one, but is a squib.

In the sixth movie, Harry mentions that he never side along apparated before. How did Hagrid get him off the island? A boat? It couldn’t have been a portkey with Harry’s complete confusion when dealing with one in GOF. Was it the motorcycle again? Or a broom? Maybe Harry got an advanced flying lesson? Or advanced experience with riding on a broom? That would make the flying lesson and his ease with a broom make more sense. Am I reading too much into this? Yes, yes I am.

The cauldron on the sign becomes clear as they get closer. I never noticed that before.

Everyone in this movie looks like they are from the eighteenth century.

Quirrel won’t touch Harry because of the blood protection from Lily.

The literal entrance to Diagon Alley is tapping around clearly missing bricks in a circle? Can we not have more intensive security measures installed please.

We see Madam Malkins, and the emporium.

That witch in the background of the broom shop is stylin’.

For a building as secure as Gringotts, that construction is wonky.

Are goblins considered beasts or beings? I know that one classififed being refused status, but I can’t remember if it was the goblins or not, not wanting to be recognized by the Ministry.

These vaults are sick looking. They are underground, completely secure. You have to ride a track to get to them. The vaults are secured with a key, but that seems to be the least measure of security.

Stalagmites are hanging from the ceiling. I suppose that it is meant to look ancient and earthy.

Diagon Alley does really look cramped in close together.

Ollivanders looks very tidy. I bet Ollivander rides that ladder around all day.

I wonder at Ollivander’s cataloguing system. He seems to be one of those people who live in a mess, but who know where everything is in said mess.

Why is it so dark in the Leaky? Get some lights, Tom.

Hagrid can literally take him all the way to King’s Cross, but can’t take the practically Muggle born to the actual barrier?

Then Hagrid vanishes? It’s a wonder Harry doesn’t think that he is having a mental breakdown right now.

This director really must love red headed actors. The mother and the baby, and then the Weasley’s right after.

I always thought that a magical train would look a little more magical on the inside, but those views are pretty spectacular.

They have literally bought like fifty bucks of candy. I wonder how overpriced that trolley candy really is???

Ron, can’t you be happy for your friend. So, at any point in time your collection of cards can just be empty places where wizards are supposed to be because they are just wandering around from card to card? Seems like a rip off, give me the candy any day and be done with it.

Holy Cricket!!!! Lol I love Hermione. She’s such a nerd.

Ron has yellow and red gummys sticking out of his mouth. Gryffindor all the way.

The people holding the doors must be prefects.

The arriving by boat is so iconic. The first view of the castle is beautiful. Rowling was a classics major right? In Greek mythology, you take a ride with the ferryman to get to the underworld. This feels so reminiscent of this because really, they are sacrificing one life for another.

Y’all see that one kid jumping up the stairs? Who is that? Seamus?

How on Earth did Trevor get there? I mean, for real? Be glad McGonagall didn’t squish you.

Look at that maliciousness in Tom Felton’s baby eyes.

I love Mrs. Norris.

Watch what you say Ronald.

I wonder if the sorting hat feels pressure to place kids where they need to go? It had to have some sort of consciousness right? Does it keep Dumbledore up at night thinking, man I really should have put that Susan Bones in Ravenclaw, but she did seem to be more comfortable with the puffs, and I think she is getting on. Or that Lebold boy might not be getting teased as much as if I put him in Gryffindor. It’s all my fault.

What are the animals that are holding up the fire along the wall? Phoenixes? Does that change with the headmaster as well? Does all of Hogwarts get a redo when they change headmasters? Like they change the currency in England with the new monarch? Though, maybe they aren’t phoenixes. They kind of look like winged werewolves or something like that.

Wasn’t the bloody baron all morose and depressed? Not a laughing pirate?

Hogwarts looks absolutely bloody giant? Like if you aren’t in shape after a few weeks you just aren’t going to class plain and simple. That explains all that extravagant food.

The Gryffindor common room seems huge sometimes, and in others it seems quite small, but it is stunning, and I want to go there so badly.

All of the boys here have their clothes laid out for the following day. Who did that? The house elves? I like to think that maybe Dean or Harry started it, and the rest of the boys took notice, and was like yeah, that might be a good idea….lol

Do you all see Radcliffe’s feet here? They are huge. He’s supposed to be eleven?!

McGonagall ain’t taking no shit.

Snape is one of those teachers who are a total hard ass in class because they think that works best for classroom management, and he definitely, wrongly, makes an example out of someone immediately to let the other kids know that he will not be taken for fool.

I like the potions room in the later movies. This one is really light, and airy, but I like the dark, sort of cluttered room in the later films.

There is a cauldron heating in the back of the room.

At least, they are eating healthy at the Gryffindor table. Look at that fruit.

I love that all the kids are so used to this. But you are telling me that there isn’t at least one Muggleborn huddling in fear as things are legitimately falling from the sky? Unrealistic.

Madam Hooch is hot. Look at those eyes.

I love the castle that they used for this. I’ve heard that they filmed on location at a real castle in Britian.

Neville looks so nervous. It is a testament to how Augusta sort of sheltered him in the books that he didn’t get the obvious training in all things magical that Draco and some others had even though he, too, is a pureblood.

Okay, so, not once did Hooch think to cast a spell on Neville to keep him from falling to his death. I mean, what the fuck? Poor Neville.

Draco “knew” that Harry probably wouldn’t be able to challenge him at that height. That’s why he does it.

McGonagall’s office looks very delicate for such a badass.

Harry is amazed at his own talent.

McGonagall is debating seriously about whether she is impressed or infuriated. She makes her mind up quickly though, you can see it in her eyes.

McGonagall walks like an Aries. Like she’s got some place to be right then.

Why is he holding a lizard and talking about vampires? Is there a connection that I have missed here?

Hermione is trying hard to get in on this study group. She sits on the outskirts of the group though, and the others don’t acknowledge her leaving. Hmmm…..

It always sounds like she says, “You will make a fool of yourself.” Like dang, Hermione, that’s cold.

James Potter was a chaser not a seeker. That is my headcanon. Details are important people.

I wonder where all of the portraits in Hogwarts came from. It couldn’t have merely been old Headmaster’s. Are they all sentient? Were they all based off of real people or are some of them creations from someone’s consciousness? And who paints these amazing portraits anyway? And who charms them?

I know that the third floor corridor or whatever is forbidden this year, but that is far more dust and webbing then could have accumulated in a year. Unless, all of those spiders in Chamber of Secrets decided to camp out in this one section for maximum creep.

Mrs. Norris has powers. Fight me.

So the flames here are motion activated? And yet, no one can spell them to tell a professor or someone if someone has been where they aren’t supposed to be?

And that door was protected by alohomora? Wards, anyone? No. Okay.

And three eleven year old children fought back a giant three headed dog?

And on that note, it took them encountering a troll together not just the three headed dog for these three to become friends?

Wood is Hogwart’s Hottie every year. I think this is a universally acknowledged fact.

You are a keeper, Wood. Damn straight.

Love Wood. Can I just rewrite that over and over again until this scene is over.

Of course not, because the snitch is hidden in a little Hogwart’s emblazoned secret cubbie.

I’m so glad that Flitwick decided to change up that hair. He had a glow up for sure in the next few films.

Behind Ron and Hermione, Dean looks about ready to give up. “I knew this was all fake.” He looks DONE!

Poor Seamus.

Flitwick intentionally leaves Seamus’ face because Seamus set approximately three more fires that class, and he was frankly, to busy trying to clear the smoke out of the room.

I love that Neville is a little gossip in this movie. Ronald told me to tell you that……

No one is looking at Quirrel with any level of seriousness here.

Tom Felton’s scared face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See, this scene would have played out quite differently had they not been Gryffindor’s. Gryffindor’s run head first into trouble all the time. Would a Hufflepuff had shoved their wand up a troll’s nose? A Ravenclaw? No.

They have skylights in the bathroom. Hogwart’s bathrooms are more finely decorated than my house.

Snape barely deems Harry with a look.

Quirrel is bipolar.

Snape is so weird. That was less sneering and more mortifying.

Look at those Seeker refluxes.

Harry says he never gets mail. Make me sob, why don’t you.

Wood is in love.

Lovely reminiscing here about blacking out and coma. No one gives pep talks like Oliver Wood.

I love the colors of the pitch. I love that they are protected from the wind or sun from above.

Hooch’s referee robes are white and black striped. I never noticed that before.

Why is Filch in the middle of the Gryffindors? Is he supervising them? Is that the house that he thought he would go into is he had gotten his letter? We never really learned a lot about Filch’s history, but I think it would really be interesting to learn about him. Filch was just seen with the Gryffindors and then he was seen again with the Slytherins. Editing mistake.

Hermione, also, shows her Gryffindor here by immediately lighting her problem on fire.

Snape is missing from this shot. They got their equilibrium back quickly, like random fires just erupt at the teacher’s booth all the time during Quidditch.

Hermione is like, “Did I do it or not?”

Draco is demoralized.

Snape is back in scene.

Whatever Hermione says, Hagrid. She speaks for us now.

Hermione is heartbroken that she cannot fulfil her new role.

Beautiful shot of Hagrid in the snow. I love that Hogwart’s goes all out for Christmas.

Does those pieces just reassemble when they get put back in the box? Do they get a recuperation period?

Hermione is a shit starter.

Harry doesn’t have that kid thing where they are up at like four a.m. on Christmas because he is so used to not getting anything.

The incredulity in Harry’s voice when he says, “I’ve got presents?” kills me.

Behind Harry as he tries the cloak on for the first time is a stag on the tapestry.

When exactly is one able to enter the restricted section? Fourth year or above? What are the rules?

That book scared me. A man in a book, prepping for introduction to movie two? Maybe

When does Filch sleep? Why is he on guard?

So, if Snape doesn’t know exactly who Quirrell is then he knows that something is fishy about him. Does he think that he is trying to hurt Harry or does he think that he is after the stone for malignant reasons?

Again, what is with the security in this school?

Harry’s heart is so pure.

Harry, in the mirror, is smiling when real Harry isn’t. I’ve never noticed that, and that would be one thing that Harry would desire. He would want to not only be with his mum and dad, but he would want to believe that he would be happy with them.

“Most desperate desires of our hearts.”

Dumbledore really had to hide that thing because he probably really wanted to hide it from himself. Maybe he saw himself in Harry.

The guy at the table with the crew is not having a good day.

Ron is like, “Stop shaming me, woman. I’m more of a physical being.”

Hagrid was cooking or preparing for a dragon’s birth, hence the apron.

Hermione is dwarfed by that chair.

McGonagall was just grading papers, taking some tea, and bam! She has to deal with trouble makers.

Draco is like, “That did not work out like I thought it was going to.”

My headcanon is that Filch loves to wind the newbies up. It is probably the only line of defense that he has against those magical pricks. Like, a nefarious Santa Claus.

I love the idea of Hagrid just telling everyone that he misses Norbert even Filch. When one person leaves the Staff Room, Hagrid launches onto someone else. Poor Flitwick has it the worse. Filch is a surprisingly good listener because he could imagine what it would be like if someone took Mrs. Norris away. But enough is enough me.

The upper Slytherin years take pleasure in telling the firsties all sorts of tales about what is in the forest.

What is adult supervision in this world?

This looks like the same clearing that is used in the seventh movie when Harry walks to his death.

Quirrell picks the day outfits, Voldemort picks the night ones.

Firenze!! I know there wasn’t a lot of time in the movies to introduce the creature element, but it would have been cool to see him again later on in the movies like he was in the books.

The fireplace here looks open, like you can see it from both sides, which is a departure from movie four.

Hermione, Harry knows zero of the answers to any of the questions that you may or may not pose. Please, understand this.

Everyone in this movie looks young. It is like there are very few upper years that have been shown. The majority of people are the same age as the main cast, but in the later movies there are characters, even background characters that look a bit older. Maybe this was a directorial choice.

Hagrid is playing the theme song.

Hagrid’s hut is also in a different location for this first movie. I love the location that they chose for the third film for Hagrid’s hut. Sheltered and a little wild, close to the forest.

“Lie to me again, Granger.”

No wonder Snape doesn’t like Harry. He’s probably like, “Why is this mother f-ing kid staring at me like that all the time?”

The frog is not going to listen to you, Ronald!

I love that Neville and Trevor are just chilling there in the middle of the night in the common room.

Their textbooks rhyme? Education at its finest. Everything in every textbook ever should rhyme.

Everything is high in this room, even after they have fallen through a trap door, and then further down after the first trap. And when they are in the key room, moonlight is filtering in.

The doors are shutting behind the trio, locking them in. The whole thing here might have featured as one elaborate trap. Okay, so you managed to get through all of the trials, but good luck getting back out sort of thing.

They are literal chess pieces here, and in a lot of fanfiction they realize that they are check pieces in Dumbledore’s or Voldemort’s plans. They are the players, in the end, that change everything.

Harry shows a lot of logic here. While Hermione, in that Gryffindor spirit of loyalty, wants to rush right to Ron’s side, but Harry shows surprising restraint here.

They appreciate each other’s strengths, and that is friendship my friends.

The room looks like a sacrificial chamber. Why does this chamber exist? What was the original purpose of it? Was it created merely for the purpose of hiding the mirror and the stone? Or was it there when the founder’s build Hogwarts? And if so, why?

Quirrell’s voice is so changed here. It freaks me out.

If Quirrell knew that Snape was trying to save Harry why then is Voldemort so eager to welcome him back into the fold? What excuse did Snape give for that?

The stone representing life for Voldemort and for Quirrell, maybe freedom from Voldemort or perhaps the praise of his master?

Just how dependent is Voldemort on Quirrell, and vice versa?

The crumpling of Quirrell’s body has always disturbed me.

Harry has some Get Well cards on his bedside table. Some candy. That wrapper there looks like the Marauder’s Map.

This hospital is beautiful with the open windows that let the light in, but then in Half Blood Prince it is foreboding in the same way that it is pleasant and calming now.

The moving portrait on the wall features a nurse. Pompfrey has all the second opinions that she needs.

They also sell the Bertie Botts at Walmart now near the check out. I tasted one that literally tasted like how trash smells so, I don’t know that I would recommend them.

All right? In Britian slang means, “How are you?” Like people walk down the street, and how in America you say, “How are you?” They say, “All right?” Interesting tidbit.

These hats should have made a comeback, that’s all I’m saying. Formal occasion wizarding hats.

They look so cheerful over at the Slytherin table. I almost can’t stand the looks on their little sad faces at the end of this movie.

Snape is like, “Now, what the fuck?”

Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle never got over this shit, I’m telling you.

And literally, no one really knows what happened to the three of them, for all they know Dumbledore is literally making this shit up. Furthermore, if everyone did know what happened, and they told their parents, how did attendance not drop dramatically the following year?

How much math did Jo Rowling have to run for this to be legit?

It looks like everyone throws their hat for Gryffindor, but dang, y’all lost too.

Slytherin knows what’s up.

Harry gives Hagrid a hug. I love their relationship. I wish that it had developed a little more, and that they were solidly like tight friends or mentor/mentee relationship.

Lily and James……. I cry because I love them.

“I’m not going home, not really.” Hogwarts is Harry’s home, and honestly, same.

The students are hanging out the window of the train here, too, because some of them must feel the same way about their homes as they do about Hogwarts.

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