Harry and his friends find life outside of Hogwart’s a lot more difficult in the seventh and final chapter of the Harry Potter series, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART ONE.Harry, Ron and Hermione are no longer attending Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and now will be forced to put their schooling into practice. Lord Voldemort, the murderer of Harry’s parents, is dead set on sending Harry and his two friends to the grave, and has assembled the Ministry of Magic to plot the threes doom. Harry, Ron and Hermoine catch wind of the plan and flee to the outskirts where they can hide in isolationism and plot their next move.
Harry, Hermione and Ron have grown up right in front of our own eyes, and so has the HARRY POTTER series. What started as a children’s adventure has turned into a survival test, and the subject matter isn’t for the faint of heart.In many ways, I’ve come to enjoy the series more as it’s progressed. As a non-Potter reader, I’ve felt out of the loop, and haven’t felt that the series as a whole has filled in the necessary gaps. Yet as the HARRY POTTER series has evolved, the themes and story have grown broader and seemingly more important.
I’ve also become more fond of the characters, of which I’ve spent roughly 15 hours of my life with. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 is by far the darkest and most adult film of the series, and it benefits from both aspects. Life, death, love and honor are all at stake for our three favorite Hogwart graduates, and you can sense this in nearly every scene. There are times in DEATHLY HALLOWS where I still feel like an outsider looking in, but these are now the exception rather than the rule. Knowing that Harry, Ron and Hermione’s lives weigh in the balance, as does their friendship, and maybe more, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 has culminated the Potter series into a film with real human emotion and pathos.
This film, along with THE GOBLET OF FIRE, are the best of the Potter lot.
Grade: B
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