Sidney Reed

There’s a very telling detail in the original Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone script. Right there on page one, in the top right corner.

I noticed it when I visited the Warner Brothers Studios during my trip to London earlier this year.

Scenes 1-18 are omitted.

Which means the movie was originally NOT going to open like the book (with Dumbledore dropping off baby Harry).

I wonder if scenes 1-18 were backstory or flashbacks of Voldemort’s rise to power or the history of magic?

Either way, I thought it was an interesting detail. It’s amazing the little things you can deduce from just a few marks on a script.

By the way if you haven’t been to London to see the studio tour, I highly recommend it.

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