What elements of Harry Potter were introduced earlier in the movies than in the books? OPEN SPOILERS

[Sampiro]

OPEN SPOILERS for those who didn’t get it the first time.
The movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone opens with Dumbledore going to Privet Place where baby Harry has just been dropped off. He takes a device out of his robe and uses it to suck up the light from the streetlamps; it’s obviously his deluminator, but that doesn’t appear in the books until Deathly Hallows.

I’m trying to think of any other instances where something appeared earlier in the movies than the books. Are there any?

[Munch]

The deluminator is the first piece of magic we encounter in the books.

[Electric_Warrior]

Debatable, but Lucius Malfoy appears to try to use the Killing Curse in the end of The Chamber of Secrets after Harry tricks him into freeing Dobby.

[Peremensoe]

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[PSXer]

in the philosopher’s stone movie, harry uses a magic wand to do spells, but that doesn’t happen until the Deathly Hallows book

[PeskiPiksi]

I guess it depends on how you define it, but IMHO sexual tension between Ron and Hermione qualifies. In the books it gets hinted at a bit in Azkaban, and doesn’t show itself full-force until Goblet of Fire. In the movies there’s that scene at the end of Chamber of Secrets where instead of hugging, they give each other an awkward handshake.

[maggenpye]

I’ve mentioned it before, but Snape protecting Harry and Hermione in the PoA movie seemed to telegraph the fact that he really was one of the good guys quite a bit before that’s confirmed at the end of DH in the books.

[AClockworkMelon]

@Sampiro

he movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone opens with Dumbledore going to Privet Place where baby Harry has just been dropped off. He takes a device out of his robe and uses it to suck up the light from the streetlamps; it’s obviously his deluminator, but that doesn’t appear in the books until Deathly Hallows.

Dude, epic fucking fail.

[FrigidLizard]

@PeskiPiksi

I guess it depends on how you define it, but IMHO sexual tension between Ron and Hermione qualifies. In the books it gets hinted at a bit in Azkaban, and doesn’t show itself full-force until Goblet of Fire. In the movies there’s that scene at the end of Chamber of Secrets where instead of hugging, they give each other an awkward handshake.

Dang, I came here to mention that.

[Dolukhanova]

@PeskiPiksi

I guess it depends on how you define it, but IMHO sexual tension between Ron and Hermione qualifies. In the books it gets hinted at a bit in Azkaban, and doesn’t show itself full-force until Goblet of Fire. In the movies there’s that scene at the end of Chamber of Secrets where instead of hugging, they give each other an awkward handshake.

I haven’t seen the movie recently but . . . they’re 12 years old. I don’t think that’s sexual tension; I think that’s just boy/girl awkwardness.

[FrigidLizard]

Yes, it’s just awkwardness, but it does illustrate that Hermione doesn’t view Harry as a “boy,” since he’s like a brother to her. Ron, on the other hand…

[Hampshire]

@maggenpye

I’ve mentioned it before, but Snape protecting Harry and Hermione in the PoA movie seemed to telegraph the fact that he really was one of the good guys quite a bit before that’s confirmed at the end of DH in the books.

Doesn’t Snape even protect Harry earlier than that? In one of the first quidditch matches from The Sorcerer’s Stone movie Harry’s broom is trying to buck him off. Hermoine sees Snape casting spells and thinks he’s trying to sabatoge Harry. But by the end of the movie they find out that it was Quirrell trying to sabatoge him and Snape was actually trying to counter the spell to help Harry.

[maggenpye]

@Hampshire

Doesn’t Snape even protect Harry earlier than that? In one of the first quidditch matches from The Sorcerer’s Stone movie Harry’s broom is trying to buck him off. Hermoine sees Snape casting spells and thinks he’s trying to sabatoge Harry. But by the end of the movie they find out that it was Quirrell trying to sabatoge him and Snape was actually trying to counter the spell to help Harry.

Yes both in the book and movie, though Harry still insists that Snape is bad. The PoA scene was one that differed radically from the book and in Snape’s favour.

[missyounow]

@PSXer

in the philosopher’s stone movie, harry uses a magic wand to do spells, but that doesn’t happen until the Deathly Hallows book

Dude, what are you saying?

[missyounow]

I forgot to add, well Tom Riddle’s Diary which I’m sure everybody realized. Harry destroys is and it’s a piece of Voldemort’s soul and we figured out how to destory horcruxes really early on, before even knowing what a horcrux was. As well as Harry is given the Invisibility Cloak, it is not realized that it is one of the Deathly Hallows until well, The Deathly Hallows.