Even if you've been living under a rock, you are probably aware that the final film in the "Harry Potter" franchise is coming out in less than a month. Alaska showings are already beginning to sell out on Fandango. Several of my friends intend to cosplay for the various showings. This isn't just a movie. For anyone who grew up with Harry at Hogwarts, myself included, this is an event.
It's time for another childhood flashback. It's 2001, and by then I'd read the first four books, some of which were gargantuan for my age. And yet, when I went to see the first movie, I was blown away all over again. The huge castle, the monsters, the characters, the spells, and not least of all the sweeping score from John Williams all leaped off the screen in ways I couldn't imagine. Sure, there were omissions from the original material, but I didn't care. This was an epic of a movie that was surely seen by everyone in my second grade classroom, whether they had read the books or not. Ever since then, every Potter movie has been entertaining, fun, thrilling, and overall well-made.
A few years ago, the seventh book rolled around and the suspense of it all kept me hooked. Where (and what) were the other horcruxes? Was Harry going to die? Who was going to die? The first half (as well as the last Potter movie) was just a large build-up to several large explosions that happened in the second half of the book, as is going to happen in Deathly Hallows Part 2.
That's what DHP2 will be to myself and other Potter fans: a massive end and sendoff to a franchise that helped define our childhoods. And if the movie has anything at all in common with the second half of the book, then it's going to be one hell of a sendoff. I promise that if you even remotely like Harry Potter, you will leave the theater satisfied.
I already Fandango'd my ticket. Now go and get yours if you know what's good for you.
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