This is a film where Evil triumphs over good, effecitvely making it Empire Strikes Back of the Harry Potter films.īut this is also a story of true friendship and loyalty. This is a film of survival and killing whoever gets in your way. No students learning or classes being held. Harry, Hermione, and Ron realize the only way to defeat Voldemort is to find the remaining Horcruxes, which means going off alone. But on the way to the next safe house, Voldemort's Death Eaters attack, maiming and killing. Harry, Hermione, and Ron meet up with the Order of the Phoenix at some undisclosed location where Harry finds out that Voldemort is solely after him and that the Order will do everything to protect him. Here is where we see Hermione do something that just plain sparks tears in your eyes as she has to vanish herself. Everyone related to Hogwarts flees into hiding, particularly in the Muggle world. Voldemort - back, alive and in the flesh - wants to rule the Wizarding and Muggle worlds and murder Harry Potter. And that's just the first five minutes of this dark movie. Part 1 of this two-part climax opens up with Voldemort and his evil wizard minions sitting at a long table as they torture and murder and feed the corpse of a Hogwarts professor to Voldemort's snake. More so than any of the other books, I've wanted to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because it is the most important, because I was curious as to how it would come to a closure visually, and because I wanted to feel those emotions from reading the book. They filmmakers have done a remarkable job at transferring this incredible story from print to film. I have read all seven books and have loved each adaptation. It has been a magnificent ride journeying with Ron, Harry, Hermione, and all the other Hogwarts students as they battled evil, went to school dances, explored first kisses, and struggled with the turmoil that comes with friendship and love, much like anyone else. The Prisoner of Azkaban is where the franchise began to stand on its own, with each new film entry growing darker as the characters aged. But that is what the kids were - they were about 11 or 12. Doubtfire), did a good job in adapting the beloved book, although it played to a mostly kid audience and was very juvenile. The first two films, directed by Christopher Columbus ( Ms. In that sense, as the Harry Potterfilms matured, so did I (contrary to popular belief). The first book came out in 1998 in the USA when I was 17, the first film in 2001 when I was 20. While I’m not as young as Harry, I've grown up with Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts throughout these several years. The Deathly Hallows Part 1 is one such film. One of my favorite things is when I go into a theater is to have my expectations exceeded well beyond what I could have hoped.