Looking back on the original Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), a lush, lavishly produced introduction to Potter's world and the wondrous delights of the magic castle of Hogwarts, we can see that Steve Kloves» script
condenses scene after scene to essentials (of character revelation as well as plot necessities) and director Chris Columbus» admirable desire to put the novel onscreen in all its detail ends up favoring events over people.
McClure traces
scene after scene of spoken dialogue, removing pigment from the paper with each transcription, ultimately
condensing the entire text from the full season so that it can be viewed at once, impossible to decipher.