Daily Dialogue — December 22, 2017
Ron: Happy Christmas, Harry.
Harry: Happy Christmas, Ron. (nods at Ron’s sweater) What are you wearing?
Ron: Oh, Mom made it. (looks at presents under the Christmas tree) Looks like you’ve got one, too.
Harry: I’ve got presents!
Ron: Yeah!
Harry races downstairs.
Ron: (points to presents) There they are.
Harry picks out a present.
Harry: (reads note) “Your father left this in my possession before he died. It’s time it was returned to you. Use it well.”
Harry unwraps the package revealing a cloak.
Ron: What is it?
Harry: Some kind of cloak.
Ron: Well, let’s see it then. Put it on.
Harry swings the cloak around his body. His torso disappears.
Ron: Whoa!
Harry: My body’s gone!
Ron: I know what that is. That’s an invisibility cloak!
— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), screenplay by Steve Kloves, novel by J.K. Rowling
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Holiday, suggested by Denise Garcia.
Trivia: When Chris Columbus scripted Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), that film featured similarities to his future association with the Harry Potter film franchise; the teenage Watson resembles Harry Potter; school experiments; Draco Malfoy’s rivalry with Harry is similar to one Holmes has with another student, Dudley; Draco and Dudley both come from rich parents; cavernous libraries; sweets; train stations; the novelization uses the word potty, or Potter; students being injured and needing to see the school nurse; teachers and students eating in the Great Hall; Holmes, Watson, and a third character solving mysteries at school and Harry, Ron, and Hermione doing the same at Hogwarts; staircases; Harry, Holmes, and Watson creeping through a school library at night; both Watson and Hagrid say “sorry about that”; the end of school term; the threat of expulsion; no family for Harry to return to, even at Christmas; Harry has a scar on his forehead and Holmes has one on his cheek; seemingly innocent teaching staff exposed as the opposite; head boys, et cetera.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Although not a holiday movie, Christmas plays its part in the very first Harry Potter story.
