Three Act Structure Breakdown: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How did Rowling deliver on the life-and-death stakes an action story requires, but in a way appropriate for middle-grade readers? How did she consistently weave together the external plot and Harry’s character arc in such a way that they’re inseparable?Tune into this episode to hear Abigail K. Perry and I talk through the plot structure of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone using the Story Grid’s Five Commandments of Storytelling. Yep, we’ve broken down the beginning, middle, and end of th...

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0:00.0	All right, friends, this is your last chance to get your hands on the extra special pre-order bonuses that come with purchasing my new book, The Story Grade Masterwork Analysis Guide to Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone.
0:11.3	As a very quick recap, I'm giving away a two-hour workshop
0:14.8	with me and Abigail K Perry, where we walk you
0:17.3	through the climactic moment of the story
0:19.5	and answer all of your questions about the book,
0:22.0	the Harry Potter series, or writing in general.
0:24.7	It's going to be super fun.
0:25.9	I'm also giving away a copy of my margin notes on the all-important midpoint scene of
0:30.9	Harry Potter and the sorcerer stone, so you can go a layer deeper than
0:34.4	the analysis that's in the book and you'll get an exclusive invite to my virtual
0:38.8	book launch party so if all of that sounds like something you want, go to Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash
0:44.5	masterwork to purchase the book and to grab all of these pre-order bonuses before they
0:49.0	expire on August 4th.
0:51.0	When it comes to the climax, it has to be here a verse villain ultimately.
0:56.4	And I think what's really cool about that climax,
0:58.4	Voldemort offers Harry the thing he's always wanted. So he says, there's a chance I can give you your parents
1:04.3	back and maybe a future of being this boy who lived we can infer that in
1:09.2	exchange for joining him on the dark side whether that really what he intends or not.
1:13.3	And if Harry hadn't overcome that inner obstacle of accepting his past and
1:17.5	accepting his legacy and stepping into that, he wouldn't have been able to succeed in this
1:22.0	moment.
1:25.0	Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast.
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