Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Directed by Chris Columbus
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame. From TMDB
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In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone grossed a record single day gross of £3.6 million during the first day of previews, beating Toy Story 2's record. It grossed a record £3.1 million for a Sunday, bringing its total to £6.7 million from the previews. It broke the record for the highest-opening weekend ever, both including and excluding previews, making £16.3 million with and £9.6 million without previews ($13.8 million), setting a further record single day gross on the Saturday with £3.99 million. It set another Sunday record with a gross of £3.6 million. It had a record second weekend of £8.4 million. It remained at number one in the UK for five…
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60 of 227 · most liked firstIn Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (2001), Professor McGonagall can turn into a cat. But she could never turn into a man. Absolutely not. No way. JK Rowling said so. It's totally impossible.…. Full title: In Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (2001), Professor McGonagall can turn into a cat. But she could never turn into a man. Absolutely not. No way. JK Rowling said so. It's totally impossible. Rowling said it's anti-science.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just accidentally said Cuntface in front of my dad because of this question on The Chase 😂 Which author wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
neutral · AI labelView post →Early 'Harry Potter' Reviews About a Young Emma Watson Resurface and Fans Are Calling Them 'Disturbing and Disgusting'. Watson was cast at the age of nine to portray the iconic bookworm Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Like her co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, she grew up in the intense glare of the global spotlight. However, as the post points out, mainstream media outlets and mainstream film reviewers frequently published uncomfortable assessments…
neutral · AI labelView post →Browsing Reddit is like Groundhog Day. I don't know why I decided to browse a popular sub today, r/books (logged out, I don't have an account anymore). Maybe I hoped I might learn something. As if! People make the absolute same posts over and over. Today I read a book! I read one page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and I already know it's a masterpiece and the best book ever. I read 1984 and wow, just wow. I hate stickers in book covers. Audiobooks good. Actually audiobooks bad. I…
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn't make Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now because you're not Warner Brothers and don't own the copyright.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was no way to know it at the time, but the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was a linchpin point on the timeline with disastrous consequences for society.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good summary of the first part of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, though
neutral · AI labelView post →No. > According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best selling book yet written with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of Mormon. > > Among non-religious texts, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures—with estimates ranging…
neutral · AI labelView post →But, the fact that an LLM, when bombarded with prompts can recover Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is an indicator that this work is actually pretty low-information content prose.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a fun fact about Japan: Sony used the PlayStation 3 to push Blu-ray (at launch it was like half the cost of the cheapest standalone Blu-ray player, so you could reasonably buy a PS3 and just play Blu-rays on it, plus it also played games). They used the PS2 to support DVD. But, what about the PS1? In the US, it only played CDs. In Japan, it played VCDs, which were a failed format that never took off in the West. If you had a Pro Action Replay (most notable for cheating, and letting you…
neutral · AI labelView post →For example, Claude 3.7 Sonnet reproduced *95.8%* of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "We find that is possible to extract large portions of memorized copyrighted material from all four production LLMs". 2/3
neutral · AI labelView post →"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was changed to "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US markets, and I think we should go all in on that -- US philosophy departments turned to "Department of Sorcery"; calling it 'Sorcery of mind', etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →#HolidayMovieTVChallenge #Moviesky Day 6. Scarf Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
neutral · AI labelView post →No, they're not. You see, with the new TV show coming out, they've decided to officially rename the American version Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. So...they don't give a shit what happens to the old Sorcerers Stone copies.
neutral · AI labelView post →A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will set you back £350k. A first edition of Cluedo? £12, that lot cost me. Something is very wrong here.
neutral · AI labelView post →# ***Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*** I had been hearing about Harry Potter since this book was published in 1997, but something about it put me off reading it. I think the fact it was marketed as a children's book, plus the gigantic paean campaign lionizing the author as a housewife who just created the greatest work of children's literature ***EVAR!!!!111oneoneoneeleventyone!***, just set off my cynical marketeer alert, and when the further marketing of "it makes children *want*…
positive · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
neutral · AI labelView post →A while back I tried to get ChatGPT to recite the text of *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* to me, as a test of just how much copyrighted text it's willing to recite. It got partway through the first sentence before freezing up, presumably due to a sensitivity to copyright. So I suspect that at least OpenAI are taking significant steps already to prevent their systems from reciting copyrighted text verbatim.
neutral · AI labelView post →@jevbot.bsky.social The opening paragraph to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" reads as follows:
neutral · AI labelView post →Film library (1264): - Not including Documentaries, which is a separate library 12 Angry Men (1957) 1917 (2019) 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968) 2010 (1984) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) 28 Years Later (2025) 28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (2026) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) 300 (2007) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Absolutely Fabulous - The Movie (2016) Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving…
neutral · AI labelView post →HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
neutral · AI labelView post →Tech Industry: <thumbs a copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"> If you insist...
neutral · AI labelView post →For those in the dark--this is the cover of the British first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. So, the graphic design choice here is deliberate. #DoctorWho
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm pretty sure they were not clear on that in the cartoon (at least in the U.S.) and I would support that by saying that they had to change Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S. because they thought American kids wouldn't understand. That makes it worse though... either eat them or give himself the god-like powers of the philosopher's stone which includes transmuting *anything* into gold. And he can't decide.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have your tried instructing ChatGPT? I’ve tried: “Act as an e book reader. Start with the first page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” The first pages checked out at least. I just tried again, but the prompts are returned extremely slow at the moment so I can’t check it again right now. It appears to stop after the heading, that definitely wasn’t the case before, I was able to browse pages. It may be a statistical model, but ultimately nothing prevents that model from…
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neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 🎥 Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
neutral · AI labelView post →As I said in @aelkus.bsky.social 's thread. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, all first years are eleven years old, meaning that people are writing erotic fanfiction that is actually illegal in Canada (Canadian obscenity law includes written work as abuse material). X dot com
neutral · AI labelView post →Burmese Python (Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone)
neutral · AI labelView post →**Book:** Dune **Audiobook:** Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (narrated by Jim Dale).
neutral · AI labelView post →::: spoiler Tremendo juego que resultó ser *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* de Game Boy Color conchesumadre  ::: ::: spoiler Peak JRPG  :::
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 5/2 Favorite character from Harry Potter movie Nearly Headless Nick Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) It's John Cleese! #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →> Apothecary diaries > > The writing seems too simplistic. It doesn’t give any depth just maomao doing maomao things. No describing the world or characters just maomao did this, that, the other. This reminds me I was reading some LN that wasn't particularly good. I think it was Isekai Walking? Anyways, he receives a brooch from a bishop that proved he was a friend, or something, and it was described as something like, "a very nice brooch," which I thought was light on detail, even for my low…
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neutral · AI labelView post →If my ball knowledge is correct, Draco Malfoy is an elementary school child, as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone takes place when First Years are eleven. Why are people telling on themselves?
neutral · AI labelView post →I have completed my novella which retells "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from the perspective of a female Draco Malfoy. #Malfoid archiveofourown.org/works/936270...
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/h... #film #movie #filmreview #moviereview #harrypotter #harrypotterandthephilosophersstone
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Afternoon 🎥🍿 We enjoyed watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone after reading the book in class. We used some of our enterprise profits to buy some movie snacks ☺️
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/9uWANL
positive · AI labelView post →Remember when you would have liked 6 different games based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone alone, and to tie into the Prince of Persia movie Ubisoft released 4 different Princes of Persia games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Midday movie "Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone" #HarryPotter #Hogwarts #blackmagic #movielover #Wizard #BlackSkygamers
neutral · AI labelView post →She's not a plagiarist per se, but the idea of an elite school for wizards is not exactly original to her. There's The Worst Witch series of books. The first one was published in 1974. They were a huge hit, especially in the UK, leading eventually to a [TV movie with a very impressive cast list](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092239/) in the 1980s, which, you will note, was decades before Rowling wrote any Harry Potter book. There's absolutely no way she was not aware of those books. In fact,…
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cladding.
neutral · AI labelView post →No, because the first season will be titled “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”. The application lists “First Use Anywhere: May 07, 2026” so perhaps it has something to do with the Shared Reality screenings at Cosm which premiered sometime in early May. ????? bsky.app/profile/dise...
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw a video comparing Harry Potter and The Sorecer's Stone with Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. For those who might not be aware, the book had a different title in the US vs the UK and so four scenes in the film were shot twice to accommodate the different title. One would expect that to throw the timing off by like half a second, but the two cuts of the film line up perfectly. In the side by side comparison, it is noticeable that Harry turns his head more in one than the other.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) movie sucks real bad
negative · AI labelView post →Trigger warning for homophobia and discussion of sexual violence. Transcription: A series of 4chan posts. The first contains an image of Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and comes with the title "An entire party of That Guys". Each post is posted by a user named "The HypnoJew" on 08/09/13(Fri) between 16:32 and 16:39, and is a reply to the previous post. *** Well, /tg/, I think I wandered into an entire party of That Guys [blanked out] This is a story that I'm not…
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone It is somehow my goto "comfort"-movie
positive · AI labelView post →I used to play Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone a lot with a GBA emulator, and I absolutely adored the game.
positive · AI labelView post →The Book of Three is something like 200 pages long. A ten hour adaptation would be about twenty pages per hour of television. Which is similar to what this new adaptation is planning to do with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone #HarryPotter
neutral · AI labelView post →Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone #HarryPotter
neutral · AI labelView post →#Gamesof2026 Game #17 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS1) One of a small number of movie tie in games that are decent. Changes the story slightly to fit a game, but plays well. And birthday the legendary Hagrid Meme
positive · AI labelView post →Went to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on Saturday (Cineworld!) Mad that it's been 25 years! Well done JK Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint. The movie still holds up very well today.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw a rerelease of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with @movielord101.bsky.social tonight. And yes, you read that right. The British version! 🇬🇧 The movie really hasn't lost its lustre 25 years on! 🤔
positive · AI labelView post →ALPHABET CHARACTERS-Think of a Movie or TV character (not a historical person) that you like that begins with letter O. Add the name of the actor/actress who portrayed the character (Add GIF, movie scene, pic, etc.) 😍📽️ Garrick Olivander -Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) John Hurt
neutral · AI labelView post →Yo, Freeform. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Wizard of Oz and The Incredibles aren't Xmas movies. I get you have 25 days to fill, but something's not a Xmas movie just because you air it in December.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 I just finished a Reely! 🎬 Practical Magic (1998) → Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 3️⃣ Frames | 0️⃣ Hints 🔥 Streak: 4 days 🍿 Play here: playreely.com
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 I just finished a Reely! 🎬 Practical Magic (1998) → Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 5️⃣ Frames | 0️⃣ Hints 🔥 Streak: 40 days 🍿 Play here: playreely.com
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