The Fifth Harry Potter Movie (and book number 7)
Every time a Harry Potter movie hits the theaters, along with the usual fan following uprising, I would take my mother to see the films for a Mother’s Day gift.
Harry is getting in the news, soon to plow into print with the final and most awaited installment of the seven part series called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He’s like a magician with hat and wand. You see him everywhere. And Oshkosh will be having its own Hogwarts celebration too.
A new book. A new movie. Everyone must be in Hogwart heaven now.
Harry is getting older. The children don’t look cute anymore, all grown up. There isn’t much of the innocence left that seemed to color the first two films. But the thing is, I’m seem to be enjoying the films more with every outing. Especially in this film entitled the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
My mother, on the other hand, isn’t liking the films anymore. Perhaps they’re too dark for her liking.
But it’s all high sailing on broomsticks for me. I prefer the dungeon-like moods that is pervasive to the story like an uncoming storm, with the greatest of the blackest sorcerers is coming back slowly. His presence is now felt. It’s no longer a child-like fairy tale now. Harry is now dealing with the big boys of magic.
That means those characters with greater magical powers are having bigger roles. The headmaster Dumbledorf. The swashbuckler rogue uncle Sirius Black. They’re stepping more into the forefront. There are often glimpses of Voldermort who invades the magical world like a snake tearing into the garden of Eden.
Even Harry himself has stepped up to the plate to teach several students the routine of magic spells. He has become his own person. With thoughts and feelings like any other person. Even feelings of love. Which would eventually become destructive.
Nothing is safe anymore.
That includes Harry who is being partially controlled by the dark magician himself… terrible thoughts lurking in dreams and thoughts. But he is not a puppet. He does break away from the lord’s influence at the near cost of his own sanity.
But he still carries the guilt that has tainted his family. There has always been the heaviest darkness hanging in the shadows of his family roots.
I must add that Gary Oldman’s performance as Sirius Black is a great one. He has a sentimental side to him not explored before here. He becomes closer to his nephew Harry, shows signs of adoration for his kin. He loves his nephew. Like a surrogate father should. He is an adopted family.
Which makes his own fate all the more sadder. As we are left to believe Sirius Black is no longer with the magic world as he is pulled into some sort of portal. Seemingly leading to a ghostly darkness.
There is a slippery unease in the air. A great feeling of isolation seems to crowd Harry’s life. The darker side of life is pulling at him from all directions. The tense conspiracy flickers in the school of learned magic. Nothing is trustworthy anymore.
Not even the first kiss Harry has with the lovely Cho, a fellow magic scribe. His love for others is being tested.
The other performances are fine. People are still in their character form. Even the smaller characters have roles to play. And there is an army of magicians brewing on both sides. Harry will no doubt lead the forces of good. While the shadowy kingdom continues to reach out like a disease. Everything seems to break out like a battlefield. The lesser known characters in the films are getting more interesting.
Yes, Harry does have a lot of friends at his school. There may be sacrifices in the next two films. There’s a lot of investment before the ending is to be revealed. Falling into an emotional whirlwind.
This has to be one of the hardest books to translate as it is 900 plus pages long. But the film does a pretty good job of not complicating the overwhelming plot. We’re still in for a witch’s flight yet.
But at the time of this writing, the city of Oshkosh is turning into a magical wonder over the weekend as it is transformed, physically, into the world of Harry Potter. With magicians and spells breaking out in colors. Decorative treats will hang in the Main Street area that will caught the attention of those who might be blissfully unaware of the celebration.
If you’re driving passed the Main Street areas, do take a look at the local folks doing their part to augment one of the most successful movie and book franchise. The idea was endorsed by the Apple Blossom’s bookstore manager Candy Pearson who has a fondness for the books. Not just kids like them. Adults too.
What of the author J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter books? Will she simply disappear like a magician retiring off the royalties of her endearing characters? Or perhaps there might be life after the Harry Potter book number seven comes out now that everything will come to a fated end?
Harry is getting in the news, soon to plow into print with the final and most awaited installment of the seven part series called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He’s like a magician with hat and wand. You see him everywhere. And Oshkosh will be having its own Hogwarts celebration too.
A new book. A new movie. Everyone must be in Hogwart heaven now.
Harry is getting older. The children don’t look cute anymore, all grown up. There isn’t much of the innocence left that seemed to color the first two films. But the thing is, I’m seem to be enjoying the films more with every outing. Especially in this film entitled the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
My mother, on the other hand, isn’t liking the films anymore. Perhaps they’re too dark for her liking.
But it’s all high sailing on broomsticks for me. I prefer the dungeon-like moods that is pervasive to the story like an uncoming storm, with the greatest of the blackest sorcerers is coming back slowly. His presence is now felt. It’s no longer a child-like fairy tale now. Harry is now dealing with the big boys of magic.
That means those characters with greater magical powers are having bigger roles. The headmaster Dumbledorf. The swashbuckler rogue uncle Sirius Black. They’re stepping more into the forefront. There are often glimpses of Voldermort who invades the magical world like a snake tearing into the garden of Eden.
Even Harry himself has stepped up to the plate to teach several students the routine of magic spells. He has become his own person. With thoughts and feelings like any other person. Even feelings of love. Which would eventually become destructive.
Nothing is safe anymore.
That includes Harry who is being partially controlled by the dark magician himself… terrible thoughts lurking in dreams and thoughts. But he is not a puppet. He does break away from the lord’s influence at the near cost of his own sanity.
But he still carries the guilt that has tainted his family. There has always been the heaviest darkness hanging in the shadows of his family roots.
I must add that Gary Oldman’s performance as Sirius Black is a great one. He has a sentimental side to him not explored before here. He becomes closer to his nephew Harry, shows signs of adoration for his kin. He loves his nephew. Like a surrogate father should. He is an adopted family.
Which makes his own fate all the more sadder. As we are left to believe Sirius Black is no longer with the magic world as he is pulled into some sort of portal. Seemingly leading to a ghostly darkness.
There is a slippery unease in the air. A great feeling of isolation seems to crowd Harry’s life. The darker side of life is pulling at him from all directions. The tense conspiracy flickers in the school of learned magic. Nothing is trustworthy anymore.
Not even the first kiss Harry has with the lovely Cho, a fellow magic scribe. His love for others is being tested.
The other performances are fine. People are still in their character form. Even the smaller characters have roles to play. And there is an army of magicians brewing on both sides. Harry will no doubt lead the forces of good. While the shadowy kingdom continues to reach out like a disease. Everything seems to break out like a battlefield. The lesser known characters in the films are getting more interesting.
Yes, Harry does have a lot of friends at his school. There may be sacrifices in the next two films. There’s a lot of investment before the ending is to be revealed. Falling into an emotional whirlwind.
This has to be one of the hardest books to translate as it is 900 plus pages long. But the film does a pretty good job of not complicating the overwhelming plot. We’re still in for a witch’s flight yet.
But at the time of this writing, the city of Oshkosh is turning into a magical wonder over the weekend as it is transformed, physically, into the world of Harry Potter. With magicians and spells breaking out in colors. Decorative treats will hang in the Main Street area that will caught the attention of those who might be blissfully unaware of the celebration.
If you’re driving passed the Main Street areas, do take a look at the local folks doing their part to augment one of the most successful movie and book franchise. The idea was endorsed by the Apple Blossom’s bookstore manager Candy Pearson who has a fondness for the books. Not just kids like them. Adults too.
What of the author J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter books? Will she simply disappear like a magician retiring off the royalties of her endearing characters? Or perhaps there might be life after the Harry Potter book number seven comes out now that everything will come to a fated end?
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