The Harry Potter brand: good or evil? The stories are ultra conservative with a small c - all boarding school, stange old games and steam trains pulling out of the gothic splendour of St Pancras station (masquerading as Kings Cross). Is there no modernist movement in the wizard world? At times it has a Narniaesque religious look as perhaps any good versus evil story would, in this last part Harry is resurrected by the resurrection stone given to him by the God figure, Dumbledore an old man complete with white beard. But the films have all been well made, not always the case with films based on well known books, and increasingly action packed. This one didn’t disappoint; an enjoyable romp in which Harry finally overcomes Voldemort. Unlike the previous films Ron and Hermione have a smaller role and Neville Longbottom gets a bigger part as Harry’s wing man in overcoming the dark lord.
And so that’s it for the Harry Potter franchise, at least until JK decides that earning £1m every 3 days isn’t enough and writes a new book. She could write a prequel perhaps to answer the big question we are all asking, just what did Snape get up to with Mrs Potter.
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