Newcomer/outcast gets picked on by blonde, old-school rich kid
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), newly aware he's a wizard in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is the immediate object of scorn by blond classmate Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton). The plot echoes Ralph Macchio's treatment at the hands of William Zabka in the original 1984 Karate Kid.
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