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Director:
Chris Columbus
Writers (WGA):
J.K. Rowling (novel)
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 December 2001 (Indonesia) more
Genre:
Adventure | Family | Fantasy more
Tagline:
Let The Magic Begin. more
Plot:
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 46 nominations more
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Cast (Cast overview, first billed only) Richard Harris … Professor Albus Dumbledore
Maggie Smith … Professor Minerva McGonagall
Robbie Coltrane … Rubeus Hagrid
Saunders Triplets … Baby Harry Potter
Daniel Radcliffe … Harry Potter
Fiona Shaw … Aunt Petunia Dursley
Harry Melling … Dudley Dursley
Richard Griffiths … Uncle Vernon Dursley
Derek Deadman … Tom – Bartender in Leaky Cauldron
Ian Hart … Professor Quirinus Quirrell
Ben Borowiecki … Diagon Alley Boy
Warwick Davis … Goblin Bank Teller / Professor Flitwick
Verne Troyer … Griphook the Goblin (as Vern Troyer)
John Hurt … Mr. Ollivander
Richard Bremmer … He Who Must Not Be Named
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Canada: English title) (International: English title) (UK)
Harry Potter (USA) (working title)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (USA) (alternative title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some scary moments and mild language.
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Runtime:
152 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | SDDS (8 channels)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | South Korea:All | Iceland:L | Australia:PG | India:U | Malaysia:U | USA:TV-G (Disney Channel) | USA:TV-PG (ABC Family) | USA:PG (certificate #38522) | Hungary:14 | Italy:T | Argentina:Atp | Brazil:Livre | Canada:G (Québec) | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:6 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:PG | New Zealand:PG | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 (original rating) | Sweden:7 (re-rating) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Greece:K-13 | Netherlands:MG6
Filming Locations:
Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK more
Company:
1492 Pictures more
Fun Stuff
Trivia:
Robbie Coltrane was the very first person to be cast. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Just after passing Madam Malkin’s shop and before the owl emporium in Diagon Alley, a woman dressed all in black and a man with a burgandy top hat and mutton chops pass on Harry’s right walking in the opposite direction. In the next shot, as Harry looks to his left, the same pair can be seen standing and chatting in the doorway of the owl emporium. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Professor McGonagall: [as a cat] Mraow!
Dumbledore: I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall.
[Professor McGonagall transfigures into her human self]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based on the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted. Written by Carly
Harry Potter is an average bespectacled 11 year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that his parents were wizards and were killed by an evil wizard Voldemort, a truth that was hidden from him all these years. He embarks for his new life as a student, gathering two good friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger along the way. They soon learn that something very valuable is hidden somewhere inside the school and Voldemort is very anxious to lay his hands on it. Written by Soumitra
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy celebrating his 11th birthday, but he is far from wrong. A giant named Hagrid appears, and gives Harry the all important news. He is a wizard. Now his journey in life gets more intense as he travels to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry to learn the trade of being a wizard. Here, he meets his friends who would be by his side for many years to come. Ron Weasley is not very brave friend and Hermione is the smart friend. But not everything is quiet at Hogwarts as Harry suspects someone is planning to steal the philosopher’s stone. Written by simon
Young Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby, and he is being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For some reason unbeknownst to the bespectacled ten-year-old, the Dursleys let him live in the small chamber under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a family member. His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley’s real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the future students of that supposedly renowned school. Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry into the real circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort protecting him. Harry still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. Since he survived the attack as a baby, and also somehow deprived Voldemort from his powers, he has been famous in the wizarding world ever since. The Dursleys, strong disbelievers in that magical crap, never told Harry anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly surprised, yet absolutely happy to start his training. At Hogwarts, Harry meets his teachers, and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The three of them accidentally find out that the potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing something that is guarded by a three-headed dog. Since nobody would believe some first years to have found out such important things that even would incriminate a Hogwarts teacher, they take it on themselves to find out what Snape is up to. Their quest for the truth leads across many obstacles, from keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched Quidditch match (Quidditch is a popular wizard sport), Fluffy, the three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to overcome to get to the guarded object. Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}
On his 11th birthday, young Harry Potter discovers the life he never knew he had, the life of a wizard. In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he meets his two best friends Ron Weasley, an expert at Wizard Chess, and Hermione Granger, a girl with non-magic parents. Harry learns the game of Quiditch and Wizard Chess on his way to facing a Dark Arts teacher who is bent on destroying him. Written by Shaun Ouimette {xextreemshaun589@hotmail.com}
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Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful dark wizard, has just been defeated. When he tried to kill a one-year-old boy, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), the killing curse rebounded upon him, destroying his body. Harry is left an orphan with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, Voldemort having killed his parents, Lily (Geraldine Somerville) and James (Adrian Rawlins) Potter. Professors Dumbledore (Richard Harris) and McGonagall (Dame Maggie Smith) and Gamekeeper Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) leave him on the doorstep of his ultra-conventional, insensitive, negligent Muggle (non-magical) relatives, the Dursley family, who take him in. Harry’s relatives decide to conceal his magical heritage from him and make him live in a cupboard under the stairs for ten years.
Shortly before Harry’s eleventh birthday, he receives a letter addressed specifically to him. His outraged uncle, however, reads and burns it before Harry has a chance to look at the contents. The sender does not give up, and the Dursleys receive successively larger numbers of the same correspondence. Soon, his Uncle Vernon (Richard Griffiths) becomes so paranoid that the Dursleys, with Harry in tow, hide in a hut on a small island to escape. That night (which happens to be before Harry’s birthday), he is visited by an enormous man named Hagrid who bursts through the locked door of the hut. With Hagrid holding the Dursleys at bay, Harry finally reads his letter, in which he learns he has been invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The next day Harry and Hagrid leave the hut and head to Diagon Alley in London (the secret magical location hidden behind the famous wizarding pub The Leaky Cauldron). Harry enters the wizarding world for the first time, learns to his surprise that he is famous, and meets the new Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Quirrell (Ian Hart). He takes the train to Hogwarts from Platform Nine and three-quarters, befriending Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), and meeting Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), a Muggle-born witch.
Upon arrival, the Sorting Hat places Harry, Ron and Hermione in Gryffindor House. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), an arrogant and elitist student, gets placed in Slytherin. At the end of his first week at Hogwarts Harry and Ron discover that Gringotts, the wizarding bank, was broken into and a vault that Harry and Hagrid visited had been the subject of the robbery. Later, Harry discovers he has a talent for riding broomsticks, and after an incident with Malfoy, is recruited to join Gryffindor’s Quidditch team as a Seeker. He is the youngest Quidditch player at the school in a century, much to Malfoy’s displeasure.
Harry, Ron, Hermione explore Hogwarts late at night and accidentally stumble across the door to a corridor. A three-headed dog, christened Fluffy by Hagrid, guards a trapdoor. On Halloween, Quirrell informs everyone that a troll has entered the castle; it gets locked in the girls’ bathroom by Ron and Harry, where Hermione is crying after Ron has insulted her. When they realize their mistake, Harry and Ron fight the troll to save Hermione, and the three become best friends.
At Harry’s first Quidditch match, Harry’s broom becomes possessed, nearly knocking him off. Hermione sees Professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), the sinister Potions master and head of Slytherin House, staring at Harry and mouthing words, making her believe that Snape has caused the broom to misbehave with a dark curse. Hoping to save Harry, Hermione sets Snape’s robes on fire, distracting him and others and allowing Harry to survive.
At Christmas, Harry receives an Invisibility Cloak, once belonging to his father, which renders its wearer invisible. Harry uses it to explore the Restricted Section in the library to research information on Nicolas Flamel, a name Hagrid lets slip when confronted about his knowledge of Fluffy. Eventually, Harry learns that “Nicolas Flamel is the only known maker of the Sorcerer’s Stone, which produces the Elixir of Life which will make the drinker immortal.”
Harry sees Snape trying to get information from Quirrell about getting past Fluffy; Quirrell says he does not know what he’s talking about. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sure that Snape is trying to steal the Philosopher’s Stone in order to restore Lord Voldemort to power, but Hagrid denies it. While at Hagrid’s hut, the trio discover a dragon egg Hagrid was nursing in a fire. Later the egg hatches a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon, and Hagrid decides to call him “Norbert”. The friends are nervous for Hagrid, since dragon breeding had long been outlawed in the wizarding world, and Hagrid had something of a reckless nature, who has long since nursed a strong desire for a dragon. Finally, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are able to convince Hagrid to let Norbert go live with other dragons of his kind in Romania, and arranged for the dragon, (now quite large in size), to be picked up by Ron’s older dragon trainer brother, Charlie.
Harry, Hermione. and Draco are caught out late at night (Ron is meanwhile in the hospital wing, being treated for a bite from Norbert), and are forced to serve detention with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest. Harry sees a hooded figure drink the blood of an injured unicorn, which makes Harry’s forehead scar start burning. Firenze, a centaur, tells Harry that it is a monstrous thing to slay a unicorn, let alone drink its blood. He also tells Harry that unicorn blood is like Elixir of Life, and that the hooded figure is in fact Voldemort.
Harry, Hermione and Ron find out that Hagrid, while he was drunk in a pub, has told a hooded stranger how to get past Fluffy, and they believe the theft of the Stone is imminent. Rushing to finally confide in Professor Dumbledore their news, they meet Professor McGonagall, who is shocked to find out how much they knew about the Stone, but reassures them all the same that it is safe in the castle. She also tells them that Dumbledore has been sent away on an important mission by the Ministry of Magic. Positive that Dumbledore’s summons was a red herring to take Professor Dumbledore away from Hogwarts, the trio make plans to thwart Snape’s theft of the stone. They set out to reach the stone first, navigating the security system set up by the school’s staff, which is a series of complex magical challenges. The three make it through together until finally, Harry must enter the inner chamber alone. There he finds that meek Professor Quirrell, not Snape, is attempting to steal the Stone. Realizing that Snape was trying to protect him from harm all along, Harry confronts Quirrell and survives a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who has possessed Quirrell and appears as a ghastly face on the back of Quirrell’s head. Quirrell gets blisters when he touches Harry’s skin, and Harry suffers because of his close proximity to Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore arrives just in time to rescue Harry. Voldemort then pitilessly abandons Quirrell, who dies in the aftermath of his possession.
Dumbledore reveals to Harry that Harry’s mother died to protect Harry as an infant. Her pure, loving sacrifice provides Harry with an ancient magical protection from Voldemort’s lethal spells and also prevents Voldemort from touching Harry without suffering terribly. Dumbledore also says that the Sorcerer’s Stone has been destroyed to prevent future attempts by Voldemort to steal it.
Whilst in the Hospital wing Harry asks Dumbledore why Voldemort attempted to kill him when he was a young child. Dumbledore tells Harry when he is old enough he will tell him why.
Finally, at the end-of-year feast, the House Points totals are given: Gryffindor is in last place. However, Dumbledore gives a few “last-minute additions”, granting points to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville, so that Gryffindor wins the House Cup.
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Hagrid: You’re the boy who lived.
[after Harry mentions Fluffy to Hagrid]
Hagrid: Who told you ’bout Fluffy?
Ron: Fluffy?
Hermione: That thing has a name?
Dumbledore: It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.
Ron: It’s spooky! She knows more about you than you do!
Harry: Who doesn’t?
Mr. Ollivander: Curious… very curious…
Harry: Excuse me, sir, but what’s curious?
Mr. Ollivander: I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. It just so happens that the phoenix whose tailfeather resides in your wand gave another… just one other. It is curious that you should be destined for this wand… when its brother gave you that scar.
Harry: [puts a hand to his forehead] And who owned that wand?
Mr. Ollivander: We do not speak his name! The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It’s not always clear why. But I think it is clear that we can expect great things from you. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great.
Dumbledore: Dear Mr. Potter, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Soon, you and your schoolmates will join us here, and your education in the magical arts will begin.
Hermione: Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you can come up with another clever idea to get us all killed – or worse, expelled.
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities!
[about Fluffy]
Hagrid: I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the…
Harry: Yes?
Hagrid: I shouldn’t have said that. No more questions, don’t ask anymore questions!
Hagrid: [explaining how to get past Fluffy] You just play a bit of music and he’ll fall right to sleep… I shouldn’t have told you that!
[in the Devil's Snare]
Hermione: Stop moving, both of you. This is devil’s snare! You have to relax. If you don’t, it’ll only kill you faster!
Ron: Kill us faster? Oh, now I can relax!
Hermione: [after Hermione and Harry sink in the Devil's Snare, Ron is still panicking] He’s not relaxing, is he?
Harry: Apparently not.
Hermione: I’ve gotta do something!
Harry: What?
Ron: Oh, I remember reading something in herbology… um… Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare…”It’s deadly fun, but will sulk in the sun!” That’s it! Devil’s Snare hates sunlight! Lumos Solem!
[she conjures a type of sunlight from her wand; Ron falls to the ground below]
Ron: [sigh] Lucky we didn’t panic.
Harry: Lucky Hermione pays attention in herbology.
Hagrid: You’re a wizard, Harry!
Harry: I’m a what?
Hermione: Harry, no way! You heard what Madam Hooch said. Besides, you don’t even know how to fly!
[Harry ignores Hermione; giving Malfoy an evil look, he flies up. The class stares up at him]
Hermione: What an idiot!
Draco Malfoy: [picks up Neville's Rememberall] Did you see his face? Maybe if that fat lump had given this a squeeze, he’d have remembered to fall on his fat arse.
Hermione: You’ll be okay, Harry. You’re a great wizard. You really are.
Harry: Not as good as you.
Hermione: Me? Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery. And Harry, just be careful.
Hermione: Ron, you don’t suppose this is going to be like… *real* wizard’s chess, do you?
Ron: [looks around] You there, D5!
[one of the giant black pawns crosses the board, the white pawn smashes it with a violent blow]
Ron: [swallows] Yes, Hermione, I think this is gonna be *exactly* like wizard’s chess.
Harry: I swear I don’t know. One minute the glass was there and the next it was gone. It was like magic.
Uncle Vernon: There is no such thing as magic!
Draco Malfoy: Think my name’s funny, do you? No need to ask you yours. Red hair… and a hand-me-down robe… you must be a Weasley.
Dumbledore: What happened down in the dungeon between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret. So, naturally, the whole school knows.
[about Every Flavor Beans]
Dumbledore: I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them. But, I think I could be safe with a nice toffee.
[eats it]
Dumbledore: …Ah, alas, earwax.
Ron: Wingardium leviosa!
Hermione: Stop, stop stop! You’re going to take someone’s eye out. Besides, you’re saying it wrong. It’s Levi-OH-sa, not Levio-SA.
Hermione: Neville, I’m really, really sorry about this.
[raises her wand]
Hermione: Petrificus Totalus!
[Neville's arms snap to his sides, and he drops to the floor, frozen stiff as a board]
Ron: You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant… but scary.
Hagrid: Dry up Dursley, you great prune!
Percy Weasley: And keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.
Molly Weasley: [looks at Fred, hoping to get him onto platform 9 3/4] Come along, Fred. You first.
George Weasley: He’s not Fred, I am!
Fred Weasley: Honestly, woman. And you call yourself our mother…
Molly Weasley: [to Fred] Oh, I’m sorry, George.
[Fred approaches the barrier with his trolley]
Fred Weasley: I’m only joking, I AM Fred!
[he runs through the barrier to the platform]
Hermione: Look at you playing with your cards. Pathetic! We’ve got final exams coming up soon.
Ron: I’m ready! Ask me any questions.
Hermione: All right, what’s the three most crucial ingredients in a Forgetfulness Potion?
Ron: I forgot.
Hermione: And what may I ask do you plan to do if this comes up in the final exam?
Ron: Copy off you?
Hermione: No, you won’t! Besides, according to Professor McGonagall, we’re to be given special quills bewitched with an anti-cheating spell.
Ron: That’s insulting! It’s as if they don’t trust us!
Aunt Petunia: This is what you’re going to be wearing when I finish dying it.
Harry: But that’s Dudley’s old uniform! It’ll fit me like bits of old elephant skin.
Professor Severus Snape: For your information Potter, Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, a Bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfsbane, they are the same plant which also goes by the name of Aconite. Well, why aren’t you all copying this down?
Harry: Good of you to get us out of trouble like that.
Ron: Mind you, we did save her life!
Harry: Mind you, she might not have needed saving if you hadn’t insulted her.
Ron: What are friends for?
Hagrid: Blimey, I’d love a dragon.
Harry: You’d like a dragon?
Hagrid: Vastly misunderstood beasts, Harry. Vastly misunderstood.
Professor Quirrel: Troll! In the dungeons!
[looks sick]
Professor Quirrel: Thought you ought to know.
[faints and crumples onto the floor]
Seamus Finnigan: I’m half and half. Me dad’s a muggle; Mam’s a witch. Bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out.
Draco Malfoy: So it’s true then, what they were saying on the train. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts.
Caretaker Argus Filch: A pity they let the old punishment die… Was a time detention found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons… God, I miss the screaming.
Oliver Wood: Scared, Harry?
Harry: A little.
Oliver Wood: It’s all right. I felt the same way before my first game.
Harry: What happened?
Oliver Wood: Er, I don’t really remember. I took a bludger to the head two minutes in. Woke up in the hospital a week later.
Dudley Dursley: Daddy’s gone mad hasn’t he?
Professor McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it wise, leaving him here with these people? I’ve watched them all day, they’re the worst sort of Muggles imaginable. They really are…
Dumbledore: The only family he has.
Professor McGonagall: This boy will be famous. There won’t be a child in our world who doesn’t know his name.
Dumbledore: Exactly. He’s much better off growing up away from all of that… until he is ready.
Harry: I can’t be a wizard. I’m just Harry, just Harry.
Ron: I’m Ron by the way, Ron Weasley.
Harry: I’m Harry. Harry Potter.
Ron: So… so it’s true! I mean, do you really have the… the…
Harry: The what?
Ron: [in a hushed tone] The scar?
[Harry shows him the scar on his forehead]
Ron: Wicked!
Professor Severus Snape: There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few…
[stares at Draco Malfoy]
Professor Severus Snape: Who possess, the predisposition… I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.
[notices Harry scribbling on his paper]
Professor Severus Snape: Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to NOT-PAY-ATTENTION.
[steps over to Harry]
Professor Severus Snape: Mister Potter. Our new… celebrity.
Neville Longbottom: [about his new Remembrall] Only problem is, I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten.
Ron: I think we’ve been a bad influence on her.
[during the final chess game; Harry looks around at the board]
Harry: Wait a minute!
Ron: You see it, don’t you, Harry? Once I make my move, the Queen will take me. Then you’re free to check the King.
Harry: No. Ron, NO!
Hermione: What is it?
Harry: He’s going to sacrifice himself.
Hermione: No, you can’t, there must be another way!
Ron: Do you want to stop Snape from getting that stone or not?
[Hermione looks stunned]
Ron: Harry, it’s you that has to go on, I *know* it. Not me, not Hermione, YOU.
[Harry takes a deep breath and nods]
Ron: [after a deep breath] Knight to H3.
[Ron and his horse advance to the next square. Ron breathes deep]
Ron: Check.
[The white Queen turns, advances slowly upon him, then draws her sword and plunges it into his horse, throwing him violently to the ground]
Harry: RON!
[Hermione makes as if to run to him]
Harry: [to Hermione] NO! DON’T MOVE! Don’t forget – we’re still playing.
[Harry moves three squares diagonally to his left and turns to face the King]
Harry: CHECKMATE.
Ron: Happy Christmas, Harry.
Dumbledore: It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
Dumbledore: Only a person who wanted to find the Stone – find it, but not use it – would be able to get it. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something.
Dumbledore: And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a most painful death.
Ron: [Harry and Ron arrive late to Transfiguration, relieved that Professor McGonagall isn't there yet] Whew, made it. Can you imagine the look on old McGonagall’s face if we were late?
[the cat sitting at the head of the class suddenly transforms into her]
Ron: That was bloody brilliant!
Professor McGonagall: Well, thank you for that assessment, Mr Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr Potter and yourself into a pocket watch? That way, one of you might be on time.
Harry: We got lost.
Professor McGonagall: Then perhaps a map? I trust you don’t need one to find your seats.
Ron: What do they think they’re doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?
Hermione: You don’t use your eyes, do you? Didn’t you see what it was standing on?
Ron: I wasn’t looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads… or maybe you didn’t notice? There were three!
[looking at a recently-hatched dragon]
Hagrid: Isn’t he beautiful? Oh, bless him! Look! He knows his mummy! Hallo, Norbert!
Harry: Norbert?
Hagrid: Yeah, well, he’s gotta have a name, don’t he?
Ron: Immortal?
Hermione: It means you’ll never die.
Ron: [angry] I know what it means!
Ron: Mental that one, I’m telling you.
[about the Bludgers]
Oliver Wood: Nasty little buggers.
Hagrid: You all right there, Harry? You seem very quiet.
Harry: He killed my parents, didn’t he?
[puts a hand to his scar]
Harry: The one who gave me this?
[Hagrid is silent]
Harry: You know, Hagrid. I know you do.
[Hagrid sighs and pushes his bowl aside]
Hagrid: First – and understand this, Harry, ’cause it’s very important – not all wizards are good. Some of them go bad. A few years ago there was one wizard that went as bad as you can go, and his name was V-
[sighs]
Hagrid: his name was V…
Harry: Maybe if you wrote it down…
Hagrid: Nah, I can’t spell it. Alright
[whispers]
Hagrid: ‘Voldemort’
Harry: [loudly] Voldemort?
Hagrid: Shhh! It was dark times, Harry, dark times. Voldemort started to gather some followers, brought ‘em over to the dark side. Anyone who stood up to him ended up dead. Your parents fought against him, but nobody lived once he decided to kill them. Nobody… not one… ‘cept you.
Harry: Me? Voldemort tried to kill… ME?
Hagrid: Yes. That ain’t no ordinary cut on your forehead. A mark like that only comes from being touched by a curse, and an evil curse at that.
Harry: What happened to Vol- to You-Know-Who?
Hagrid: Well, some say he died. Codswallop in my opinion. Nope, I reckon he’s still out there, too tired to carry on. But one thing’s certain, something about you stumped him that night. That’s why you’re famous, Harry, that’s why everybody knows your name. You’re the boy who lived.
Lord Voldemort: There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it…
[Harry enters the hidden chamber where the Sorcerer's Stone is being kept, expecting to see Snape - but instead he sees Quirrel]
Harry: You!
Professor Quirrel: I wondered whether I’d be meeting you here, Potter.
Harry: But I thought… Snape…
Professor Quirrel: Yes, he does seem the type, doesn’t he? Why, next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-st-stuttering Professor Quirrell?
Ron: Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow!
Uncle Vernon: He will not be going, I tell you! We swore when we took him in we’d put a stop to all this rubbish!
Harry: You knew? You knew all along and you never told me?
Aunt Petunia: Of course we knew. How could you not be? My perfect sister being who she was. My mother and father were so proud the day she got her letter. “We have a witch in the family. Isn’t it wonderful?” I was the only one to see her for what she was… a freak! And then she met that Potter. And then she had you, and I knew you’d be the same. Just as strange, just as… abnormal. And then if you please, she went and got herself blown up, and we got landed with you.
Harry: Blown up? You told me my parents died in a car crash!
Hagrid: A car crash? A car crash kill Lily and James Potter?
Aunt Petunia: We had to say something.
Hagrid: It’s an outrage! It’s a scandal!
Uncle Vernon: He will not be going!
Hagrid: Oh, and I suppose a great muggle like yourself is gonna stop him, are ya?
Dumbledore: Harry, do you know why it is that Professor Quirrell could not bear to have you touch him?
[Harry shakes his head]
Dumbledore: It was because of your mother. She sacrificed herself for you, and that kind of act leaves a mark.
[Harry reaches up to touch his scar]
Dumbledore: No no, this kind of mark cannot be seen. It lives in your very skin.
Harry: And what is that?
Dumbledore: Love, Harry. Love.
[after being in the Dark Forest]
Harry: I think if he had the chance, he would have killed me tonight.
Ron: And to think, I’ve been worrying about my potions final.
Professor McGonagall: [on Harry and Ron beating the Mountain Troll] Five points will be awarded to each of you…
[Ron and Harry smile at each other]
Professor McGonagall: …for sheer dumb luck.
Fred Weasley: Well done, Harry. Wood just told us.
Ron: Fred and George are on the team, too. Beaters.
George Weasley: Our job is to make sure you don’t get bloodied up too bad. Can’t make any promises, though. Rough game, Quidditch.
Fred Weasley: Brutal, but no one died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally, but they always turn up in a month or two!
Professor Severus Snape: What would three young Gryffindors such as yourselves be doing inside… on a day like this?
Hermione: Uh… well… we… we were just…
Professor Severus Snape: You ought to be more careful. People will think you’re…
[sees Harry staring at him]
Professor Severus Snape: Up… to something.
Professor McGonagall: Nothing, I repeat, nothing… gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore, as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken.
Harry: 50?
[Ron and Hermione also looking shocked, Draco smirking]
Professor McGonagall: Each.
[Harry's mouth drops open]
Professor McGonagall: And to ensure it doesn’t happen again… all four of you will receive detention.
Draco Malfoy: [smirk suddenly fades and steps up] Excuse me, professor, perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us.
Professor McGonagall: No, you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were, you too were out of bed after hours… You will join your classmates in detention.
[Hagrid's sad about Norbert being taken away]
Caretaker Argus Filch: For God’s sake, pull yourself together man. You’re going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about ya…
Draco Malfoy: The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can’t go in there. Students aren’t allowed. And there are…
[a howling noise is heard]
Draco Malfoy: …werewolves.
Caretaker Argus Filch: Oh, there’s more than werewolves in those trees, you can be sure of that. Nighty night.
Harry: Excuse me sir, can you tell me where I might find Platform Nine and Three-Quarters?
Station Guard: Nine and Three-Quarters? Think you’re being funny do ya?
[muttering to himself]
Station Guard: Nine and Three-Quarters!
[stepping over Neville lying on the floor, whom Hermione has petrified using the "Petrificus Totalus Curse"]
Harry: Sorry.
Hermione: Sorry.
Ron: It’s for your own good, you know.
Ron: I look good!
Dudley Dursley: [on Dudley's birthday] How many are there?
Uncle Vernon: 36, counted them myself.
Dudley Dursley: 36! But last year… last year I had 37!
Uncle Vernon: Yes, yes, but some of them are quite bigger than last year’s.
Dudley Dursley: I don’t care how big they are!
Sorting Hat: Hmm, difficult. VERY difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There’s talent, oh yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?
Harry: Not Slytherin. Not Slytherin.
Sorting Hat: Not Slytherin, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It’s all here in your head. And Slytherin can help you on your way to greatness, there’s no doubt about that. No?
Harry: Anything but Slytherin, anything but Slytherin.
Sorting Hat: Well if you’re sure, better be… GRYFFINDOR!
[Hagrid has just very aggressively knocked down the door where the Dursleys are staying]
Hagrid: [Calmly] Sorry ’bout that
[Picks door up and slams it back in place]
Sorting Hat: Ah! Another Weasley. I know just what to do with you… GRYFFINDOR!
[showing Harry the Golden Snitch]
Harry: I like this ball.
Oliver Wood: Ah, you like it now. Just wait. It’s wicked fast, and damn near impossible to see.
Harry: What do I do with it?
Oliver Wood: You catch it. Before the other team’s seeker. Catch this, and the game’s over. You catch this, Potter, and we win.
Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, heartstring hum, turn this water into rum.
[he checks the goblet, then tries again]
Harry: What’s Seamus trying to do to that glass of water?
Ron: Turn it into rum. He actually managed a weak tea yesterday! Before…
[explosion]
Professor McGonagall: Are the rumors true, Albus?
Dumbledore: I’m afraid so, Professor. The good… and the bad.
Hermione: Honestly, don’t you two read?
[Hagrid tells Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco to split into pairs and search the Dark Forest]
Draco Malfoy: Okay. Then I get Fang!
Hagrid: Fine. Just so you know, he’s a bloody coward.
[after seeing Ron's queen destroy Harry's knight]
Hermione: That’s totally barbaric!
Ron: That’s wizard’s chess.
Harry: Say, Percy, who’s that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell?
Percy Weasley: That’s Professor Snape, head of Slytherin House.
Harry: What does he teach?
Percy Weasley: Potions. But everyone knows it’s the Dark Arts he fancies. He’s been after Quirrell’s job for *years*.
Draco Malfoy: You’ll soon find out that some wizarding families are better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.
[he holds out his hand, which Harry doesn't take]
Harry: I think I can choose the wrong sort for myself, thanks.
Nearly Headless Nick: Hello! How are you? Welcome to Gryffindor!
Mr. Ollivander: The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It’s not always clear why.
Seamus Finnigan: [in Charms class] Wingard Leviosa. Wingar…
[BOOM]
Harry: I think we’re going to need another feather over here, professor.
[in King's Cross]
Hagrid: What are you lookin’ at?
Ron: [as the students sit in the Great Hall studying, Neville comes hopping in, his legs apparently stuck completely together] Leg-Locker Curse?
Harry: Malfoy.
Ron: You have *got* to start standing up to people, Neville.
Neville Longbottom: [wobbling uncontrollably] How? I can barely stand at all!
Seamus Finnigan: [Jumping up, wand at the ready] I’ll do the counter-curse!
Neville Longbottom: No, that’s all I need… you to set my bloody kneecaps on fire!
Seamus Finnigan: [Slamming his wand down] I don’t appreciate the insinuation, Longbottom. Besides, if anyone cares to notice, my eyebrows have grown completely back!
[Stalks off angrily, but not before showing that a large chunk of hair is missing from the back of his head]
Harry: I found him!
[hands Ron a Chocolate Frog card of Dumbledore]
Ron: ‘Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945-’
Harry: Go on.
Ron: ‘-for his discovery of the 12 uses of Dragon’s Blood, and for his work on alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel!’
Harry: I knew the name sounded familiar, I read it on the train that day.
Hermione: [Beaming excitedly] Follow me!
[the Trio tears out of the Great Hall, leaving poor Neville still flailing around]
Neville Longbottom: Hey, wait, where are you going? What about the counter-curse?
[Before he can say another word he topples over backwards, sparking a fresh round of laughter from the other students]
George Weasley: [while sitting at the Gryffindor table, eating Christmas dinner] How do you like yours, Ron?
[Ron, however, keep glancing over at Harry, who is sitting far away from everyone else, staring into the fire, remembering the image of his parents from the Mirror of Erised]
George Weasley: Ron?
Ron: I’ll be right back.
[puts his utensils down and goes to Harry]
Ron: Wanna play chess?
Harry: No.
Ron: Wanna go and visit Hagrid?
Harry: No.
Ron: I know what you’re thinking Harry, but don’t. There’s something not right about that mirror.
[Harry merely nods in acknowledgement as Ron rejoins the other Gryffindors]
Ron: [mimicking Hermione] “It’s Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAH.” She’s a nightmare, honestly. It’s no wonder she hasn’t got any friends!
[Hermione comes up from behind them and rushes past, in tears]
Harry: I think she heard you.
Ron: [looking for information about Nicholas Flamell] We’ve looked a hundred times.
Hermione: [leaning closer] Not in the restricted section. Happy Christmas.
Hermione: [putting a large book on the table] I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.
Ron: This is light?
Hagrid: If that dolt of a cousin of yours, Dudley, gets up to any mischief, you could always threaten him with a nice pair of ears, to go with that tail.
Harry: But, Hagrid, we’re not allowed to do magic outside Hogwarts. You know that.
Hagrid: I know that, but your cousin don’t, do he?
[last lines]
Hermione: It seems strange to be going home, doesn’t it?
Harry: [looking at Hagrid] I’m not going home… not really.
[first lines]
Professor McGonagall: [as a cat] Mraow!
Dumbledore: I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall.
[Professor McGonagall transfigures into her human self]
[after catching Harry scribbling on his paper]
Professor Severus Snape: Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?
[Harry doesn't answer]
Professor Severus Snape: You don’t know? Well, let’s try again… Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?
Harry: I don’t know, sir.
Professor Severus Snape: And what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?
Harry: I don’t know, sir.
Professor Severus Snape: Pity… clearly, fame isn’t everything, is it, Mr. Potter?
[Harry trying to get Neville's Rememberall]
Harry: Give it here, Malfoy or I’ll knock you off your broom!
Draco Malfoy: Is that so?
Harry: [Harry makes a grab for Malfoy but Malfoy moves]
Draco Malfoy: Have it your way then.
[Malfoy throws the Rememberall]
Hermione: You’ve got dirt on your nose. Did you know? Just there.
Hermione: Are you sure that’s a real spell? Well, it’s not very good, is it?
Sorting Hat: Another Weasley hey? I know just what to do with you… GRYFFINDOR!
Draco Malfoy: Wait till my father hears about this! This is servant’s stuff!
Harry: If I didn’t know any better, Draco, I’d say you were scared.
Draco Malfoy: I’m not scared, Potter!
[howling noise]
Draco Malfoy: Did you hear that?
Harry: [calls the dog] Come on, Fang!
Dumbledore: Silence!
Lord Voldemort: Harry Potter. We meet again.
Harry: Voldemort?
Lord Voldemort: Yes. You see what I’ve become? See what I must do to survive? Live off another, a mere parasite! Unicorn blood can sustain me, but it cannot give me a body of my own. But there is something again; something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket!
