In fact, he's pretty much kicking the door down to get on the road to adventure. The refusal gets a little funky here, because Harry himself doesn't actually refuse it. Let's move along, shall we? Refusal of the Call And when the Dursleys get that invitation…well, that would be telling.

Owls start dropping off invitations to Hogwarts: somewhere for Harry to go that doesn't involve making breakfast for a family of gastropods. Harry is destined for better things, and the ordinary world is destined for a permanent spot in his rear-view mirror.

We know from the very first scene-the one where Dumbledore and McGonagall dump him on the doorstep-that he doesn't belong to this world. (Like his cousin ending up in the reptile pen and the snake going out to see the sights.) He talks to snakes, he lives under a cupboard, and, as Uncle Vernon ominously implies, strange things happen whenever he's around. In this world, Harry's a grade-A outcast with a side order of weirdo. Welcome to life with the Dursleys: they make 'ordinary' look 'heavenly.' For simplicity's sake, we're going to look at this as a stand-alone story, instead of one part of a larger saga. You can look at the film on its own-as a single beginning/middle/end story-or you could look at it as Chapter One of a seven-chapter (or eight-movie) saga, which means it probably just encapsulates the first four of five stops on the Joseph Campbell Express. In the case of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Hero's Journey is actually divided in two. Want more? We have an entire Online Course devoted to the hero's journey.) We're working with those 12 stages, so take a look. He wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey.Ībout half a century later, Christopher Vogler condensed those stages down to 12 in an attempt to show Hollywood how every story ever written should-and, uh, does -follow Campbell's pattern. Know about this game? Add your expertise to help preserve this entry in video game history!Īdditional contributors: Roedie, Unicorn Lynx, Indra was here, Jeanne, Kabushi, Freeman, Tiago Jacques, Evilhead, Crawly, Kola256, Zeppin, DreinIX, lee jun ho, Patrick Bregger.Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or her swag? Yeah, scholar Joseph Campbell noticed first-in 1949. Information about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at Wikipedia Wikipedia: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Veritaserum's walkthrough along with 85 screenshots An Apple Games article about the Mac version of The Sorcerer's Stone, with commentary being provided by Aspyr President Michael Rogers (January, 2002).

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