Every Difference Between "The Sorcerer's Stone" Book and Movie

[@JobiWan144]

"Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?" [Dumbledore] asked *calmly* .

[@Son-of-Gondor]

Very cool from the standpoint of someone who has neither watched the movies nor read the books. The differences between the two mean nothing to me, but this series will give me a window into the series that will help me decide whether or not I want to watch the movies or read the books.

[@jamesblackwell7752]

Read the books

[@CanisArctus]

Glad to be here from the very start of the series. Read all the books as they released and re-watch the movies every year or so. Gonna be interesting to see if I missed some differences.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Awesome! Let me know in the comments what your thoughts are each week 👀

[@inspector_beyond]

Harry Potter was my gateway to fantasy and I still love the world, despite everything. I'm glad that you decided to cover this world too and don't let anyone make you stop doing it. (This is just in case, cuz this franchise in today's world... is not really good topic to be a fan of and the backlash made some people end their YT/streaming careers. So once again, don't let anyone stop you.)

[@factorfantasyweekly]

If someone is upset that I’m covering Harry Potter, then they can click off and go watch something else. 😂 Simple as that! Thanks for your support!

[@DenverPlumber]

I’ve binged all of your lord of the rings videos, and excited to see each one of these come out every week. Great content!

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for watching!

[@Niko-hi5my]

I suspect they didn't show aberration in the first scene, because they want to introduce us to the wizarding world gently, and discover it together with the main character.

[@michaelkelleypoetry]

10:33, "If you have read the books, then this opening scene makes total sense." When the Harry Potter books came out, everyone was reading the books. It was literally all over the news about how children were reading more because of the series, so the filmmakers naturally made the movie with that understanding because for about 95% of children, it was so.

[@WhyitJellyDonut]

Awesome to see the wizarding world! I was hoping you were going to do more than just lotr.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

I am excited to get this series underway! Now every Tuesday you get the Wizarding World, and every Saturday is LOTR. :)

[@Debatra.]

Speaking as someone whose first experience with HP was this movie, the opening scene was perfectly fine as far as explaining what's going on. It's less exposition and more setting the mood, and we get enough explanation later to better understand things. That said, we do lose out on some nice worldbuilding, and future films basically require you to have read the books, but this first film was just fine.

[@Bored_Barbarian]

Yay I’m glad you’re doing Harry Potter too. I liked spew lol and Winky

[@factorfantasyweekly]

I can't wait until we get to Winky haha So much to cover that we miss in the movies!

[@MrMatsudi]

I'd start a drinking game for these for every example of "Actually Ron said/did this in the book, not Hermione" but I think I'd die by the end of the first film.

[@DreamMiser]

Your videos are so well done, they seem like they'd be from a channel with hundreds of thousands of subs. Let's hope you get there.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thank you so much!

[@StJosephLovesBabyJesus]

Loved this. Never going to read the books so this is great for me!!

[@Firewolf-zx4md]

You forgot about Madame Pomfrey. Mentioned shortly after McGonagall tells Dumbledore that he's the only one Voldemort is afraid of.

[@carsonstockwell207]

Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings?! My favorite channel just keeps getting better!

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Stop! You’re making me blush 🥹

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

The first 3 Harry Potter films were very good adaptations but still left a lot out! This should be a good series... 😊

[@factorfantasyweekly]

There's a lot to cover, and I am excited to go through it all!

[@kitkat3548]

Thank you very much 🙏 I'm so glad that the magic of the book can be resurrected through your views with cheerful attitude

[@TheWanderingFire]

The entire franchise was *absolutely counting* on fans having read the books before viewing the films. If you hadn't read the books, you were inevitably confused by some of the leaps in the movies' ongoing plot.

[@MrEffectfilms]

I didn't read the books until the movies were done and I never got confused, everything was perfectly clear to me.

[@MrNoucfeanor]

Excluding S.P.E.W was necessary. It was too on the nose, and would have taken too much screentime.

[@thetrickster240]

I'm very much looking forward to the rest of this new series! I loved the movies but never got around to the books, the KZbinr MovieFlame has a channel based in a similar vein but I feel your's offers more depth. Maybe you two could play off each other or do a colab.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for watching! I’m excited to continue with the series. 👀 I’d love to collab with others! Maybe down the road we can make that a reality.

[@DavidRay39]

Can you do the same thing but with the Narnia movies? I know not every Narnia book has been made into a movie, but you could start with the 2005 LLW movie. I'd like it to become a series, like you do with LOTR.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

That would be super fun! I’ve got my hands full with these two series at the moment but I’d love to do a Narnia series in the future. 👀

[@Galamoth06]

Wait... if Harry's parent were killed the night he was left with the Dursleys, how was the wizarding world already celebrating Voldemort's demise earlier that same day?

[@factorfantasyweekly]

That’s a great question, and from what I could tell, it is never addressed by JK Rowling… lots of fans have guessed as to why and the only thing people can think of is that Hagrid picked up Harry, laid low for a day, and then delivered Harry the next night. But honestly I just think it’s a little goof on JK Rowling’s timeline. Great spot! Something I should’ve mentioned for sure.

[@Galamoth06]

@@factorfantasyweekly I'm surprised it never occured to me before, honestly. It's not a major issue though, and something most people wouldn't notice unless the were really focusing on the timeline of events.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Yea, it seems like kind of a crazy continuity error from the author’s perspective though? I’m sure JK Rowling knows the answer so I wonder if there’s an interview out there of her discussing it.

[@pyjamacritic1171]

I remember being similarly surprised that I hadn't considered this before when Super Carlin Brothers mentioned it last year in their breakdown of this chapter.

[@stephengray1344]

Not wanting to pay for the CGI seems like a very odd reason not to include apparition, since teleportation is an incredibly easy effect to do without it as long as you don't have anything moving in the background of the shot. The BBC worked out how to do this on Doctor Who all the way back in 1963. Doing it the simple way (lock the camera, then move the teleporting person/item into or out of the frame before resuming the shot, and add a sound effect in post-production) would cost almost nothing. It might not have matched the effects they used in later films, but since this is literally the first scene of the first film they couldn't have taken that into account.

[@TheSchnieder6]

"It might not have matched the effects they used in later films" is exactly the reason why. Not that they knew what appariting would look like yet, but that they knew they could do it better later. And that there wouldn't be enough apparition that they would need to include it in the first scene of the first movie. Avoiding the inevitable questions of, what's that/why's it different from the other movie/s?

[@MrEffectfilms]

Apparition was an easy effect when it started being shown in the films but in Sorcerer's Stone that effect would have been a nightmare to do. This is coming from someone who's used Adobe After Effects since I was 15 (currently 32).

[@stephengray1344]

@@MrEffectfilms Why would it have been a nightmare to do? As I said in the comment you are replying to it's an effect that we've known how to do very simply since the 1960s - long before electronic editing existed. Doctor Who and the original Star Trek did it all the time. On TV budgets. Unless you want to add some kind of special visual effect to the appearance/disappearance the only video editing you'd need to do would be if you'd left the camera running whilst the person or people who are apparating move into/out of shot (where you'd only need to cut that bit of footage) or if there's a moving object in shot (which is easily avoided).

[@emoharalampiev1590]

Oh dope, Harry Potter. While I do know the books significantly better the LOTR (I've read HP 4-5 times, but LOTR only once) still exciting

[@joeherschel5396]

This is the first one on the playlist because two are removed. Are there copyright issues for the others?

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Not sure why the other ones are there, but I’ll see about getting them removed! 🫡 This is the first episode.

[@joeherschel5396]

@@factorfantasyweekly I probably would have phrased that comment differently, as I realized I spoke too soon. It does say at the top of this Harry Potter playlist on your channel that “1 unavailable video is hidden” (I think it was 2 earlier today). However, I think I assumed based on the thumbnails that they were the earliest ones. Once I started watching, I realized that was the first episode. I don’t know what the hidden video thing is referring to, but I do see the message. I’m on the mobile Apple app if that helps. I got through all of them today though and I liked them.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

Thanks for watching!

[@inspector_beyond]

As for the changes, I'm okay with most of them. Though Dursley's day at work would be a fun thing to put, but for cinematography the opening shot of Dumbledore coming out of fog is much more impactfull and immersive for the viewer than if it would've started with Vernon waking up and going to work. As for Hagrid's height, I think that his change of height was the right choice. Not only for filing, but also in general. Like average men height in UK is 177cm and if he's twice their size, that would be 354cm. And by looking such difference in height comparison websites, Hagrid would look like a giant alike to those that appear in the last film. And I dont remember if it was in the books, but Madame Maxime in Goblet of Fire is taller than Hagrid by around two heads. So Hagrid in the books would be as tall as Maxime in the movies, which imo , would not make him as comforting as he actually turned out in the movies.

[@factorfantasyweekly]

It was definitely the right call to shrink Hagrid down a bit haha Obviously he is still portrayed as massive! But yea, shooting all the shots with him being 11 feet tall would be a little insane...

[@stevenabelson8563]

Leave details from the original story, then its a completely different story. The movies left out all details. They are confusing and boring because of it.