Harry Potter has finally blown his last breath... We have seen him growing up and we have witnessed him fight his way through not only physical challenges but also personal. He always seemed like the one with the bad luck and yet he was always apt for overcoming these challenges.

In the midst of exams, holidays and procrastination, I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Well, what can I say? It was awesome and yet sad (not as depressing when finishing the last book), it was as if the moment we knew would come has left us in the dark, glooming for something that just was not there anymore.

The last movie was definitely one of the best, less maybe number three. However, where is part 3, why did you see it fit to remove so much background history of most of the characters, the biggest being Dumbledore. Who knows, maybe in a few years, they will remake the movies. However, then it will probably be watered-down versions of the current films, which seem the fate of most remakes.



After watching the movie, I had to fill in the blank spots for the family members that watched it with me, that did not read any book of Harry. This distressing feat is common nowadays in movies if you have read the novels. They want to make the movies accessible to the masses and not too complex. How else will everyone like the visuals if it had a profound and thorough storyline? No one would watch it, since it would bore them to death, midst they gnaw their leg off, but then the cinemas would be full of blood and legs. Who will be willing to clean up that mess?

Another thing that was shocking. Why was the resurrection stone so small? Yes, it was disguised as a ring, but still.
Moreover, this quote from Dumbledore would have made it so much clearer why Voldemort could not really harness the power of the Elder Wand.
"I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it."
—Albus Dumbledore on the Deathly Hallows and the Elder Wand from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And why oh why did he break the Elder Wand in the movie, when in the book he used it to restore his own broken wand and put it back in Dumbledore’s grave, which was clearly much more genius.

I think this is now a sufficient amount of my seething about the film.

What is next for us Harry Potter fans?

Well after seven books, seven films and countless fan memories, we want more. It seems JK Rowling heard our cries, but it is not a physical novel. No, it is a website, called Pottermore, which will contain behind the scenes information (if you can call it that), for events that occurred in the novels. More than 18 000 words, if I remember correctly.

At least it is something, but I would have opted for another novel. The good thing is, Harry Potter is here to stay for another few good years (hopefully) and the fanbase will, with a bit of luck keep on growing. Producing evermore fanfiction, fan-art and other fan made things, to keep our addiction at bay.