

It’s also worth noting how even though this is the introduction of the main conflict, the story certainly doesn’t lack for conflict prior to this. On a structural level, we can see that this is Harry’s first true brush with the main conflict-although he doesn’t even yet know what that conflict is. It’s a good example for novelists, since we, too, will be dealing with lengthier spans of time between Inciting Event and First Plot Point. In a movie, all Inciting Events won’t be this obviously big, in a set-piece scene kind of a way, but because of this movie’s length, it needs this significant beat here to keep the pacing rolling along. Stranded, they steal Ron’s father’s flying car and crash land in a resentful wamping willow at Hogwarts. Inciting Event: Shortly after meeting the malevolent Lucius Malfoy-father of his old nemesis Draco-in Diagon Alley, Harry and Ron discover they can’t get through the magic portal at the train station.
