Harry goes to Madam Malkin's robe shop. He's alone because Hagrid

nauseous after the Green Got's cart ride. And this is where he meets that unnamed

character, which we know is Draco who he instantly dislikes. And Harry does

face a crisis here. So Draco just kid mad and make an enemy, or do I side with the kid and betray my new friend Hagrid.

So there is a crisis, but the crisis isn't strong enough to create a value shift in the scene.

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In today's episode, I'm taking you down a little bit of a rabbit hole into one of the scenes in Harry Potter and the

sorcerer stone.

And that is the scene in Chapter 5, Diagon Alley.

Now I wanted to go on a deep dive into this scene because it was one of the hardest scenes for me

to analyze when I was putting together the Story Grid

Masterwork Analysis Guide that I've been talking about for the last few weeks and I

wanted to take you behind the scenes to share where Abigail and I landed in

terms of is this one scene, two scenes or multiple

scenes, and how does it actually work from a craft perspective?

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