HARRY POTTER - DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2
It's dramatically satisfying, spectacular and terrifically exciting, easily justifying the decision to split the last book into two.
Here is where the Harry Potter series gets its groove back, with a final confrontation between Voldemort and our young hero, and with the sensational revelation of Harry's destiny, which Dumbledore had been keeping secret from him.
And when, the middle-age Harry Potter gently hugs his little boy before sending him off for his first year at Hogwarts – well, what can I say? I just started to cry.
The first movie, Philosopher's Stone, came out in 2001, when JK Rowling was working on the fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, and when no one, perhaps not even the author herself, knew precisely how it was going to end. The movies developed just behind the books, and it's surely impossible to read them without being influenced by the films.
In this final episode, Harry, Hermione and Ron continue their battle to find and destroy the "horcruxes" that the sinister Voldemort needs so he can stay alive for all eternity: these are objects in which the fragments of souls are trapped and whose vital, spiritual force Voldemort, can siphon off for his own ends.
Harry and his friends track down these horcruxes, but the last one is a puzzle. As the forces of good assemble at Hogwarts for the final showdown with Voldemort and his hordes, Harry knows only that the most vital horcrux is actually in the castle, very close at hand.
Here is where the Harry Potter series gets its groove back, with a final confrontation between Voldemort and our young hero, and with the sensational revelation of Harry's destiny, which Dumbledore had been keeping secret from him.
And when, the middle-age Harry Potter gently hugs his little boy before sending him off for his first year at Hogwarts – well, what can I say? I just started to cry.
The first movie, Philosopher's Stone, came out in 2001, when JK Rowling was working on the fifth book, Order of the Phoenix, and when no one, perhaps not even the author herself, knew precisely how it was going to end. The movies developed just behind the books, and it's surely impossible to read them without being influenced by the films.
In this final episode, Harry, Hermione and Ron continue their battle to find and destroy the "horcruxes" that the sinister Voldemort needs so he can stay alive for all eternity: these are objects in which the fragments of souls are trapped and whose vital, spiritual force Voldemort, can siphon off for his own ends.
Harry and his friends track down these horcruxes, but the last one is a puzzle. As the forces of good assemble at Hogwarts for the final showdown with Voldemort and his hordes, Harry knows only that the most vital horcrux is actually in the castle, very close at hand.
