Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, UK/USA, 2009)
Dir. David Yates; starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
David Yates again takes the director’s chair for the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series. As Harry returns to Hogwart’s school of wizardry for another year of teenager angst and dark magic. Director Yates has the difficult task of adapting J.K. Rowling’s overlong and exposition-heavy novel. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince always felt like a prelude to something else in its literal form, as if Rowling knew how she wanted to end her saga but was unwilling to start that conclusion with her sixth book. The film is much the same. It’s a solid effort with some wonderful moments and fantastic production design, score, and special-effects, but Yates with writer Steve Kloves, can’t overcome the novel’s inadequacies. For a novel that is based far too much in flashback and back-story, the Half Blood Prince as a movie, feels a little disjointed, rushed in places and overcooked in others. Yates goes to the ever-blossoming talent of Rupert Grint’s comic sidekick, or Emma Watson’s teenage lust and broken heart to create some character-driven forward momentum, but it detracts from the underlying battle between good and evil. A battle that Rowling unfortunately presents in the book as a series of dream-induced flashbacks that, had Yates featured in their entirety, have made for a very long (even longer than its current two hours forty) film.
Essentially, The Half Blood Prince as a book and a film, is an introduction to a grander concluding story. As such, it never distances itself from a sense of the episodic. It also doesn’t work as well as the other films in the series as a stand alone story. It expects that you already know what has happened previously, beginning as it does, only hours after the Order of the Phoenix ended. New viewers therefore will feel immediately alienated, and the lack of a consistent plot which doesn’t end satisfactorily, will leave newcomers scratching their heads. Die hard fans of the books will complain Yates left out too much exposition, while fans primarily of the movies (of which I count myself) will begrudge a missed opportunity to make a film that distanced itself from a book that was always going to be troublesome to adapt.
However, you’ve got to give Yates and Kloves credit as the film starts rather well. Through a hazy, over-exposed frame we see a bruised and bloody Harry Potter under the microscope of newspaper men’s flashing camera lenses. The media is beginning to take note of this young magician’s ability after his latest battle with Voldermort left Harry’s godfather Sirius Black dead. Meanwhile, Voldermort’s henchmen, the Deatheaters, are on the rampage. In a sequence that will be shown in 3-D in selected IMAX cinemas, the Deatheaters crash through a grey English sky and fly imperiously through London streets before causing havoc for a bunch of tourists on the Millennium Bridge. It’s a terrific sequence that features a grand score from Nicholas Hooper that fills the soundstage with succulent bombast. Couple this with refined special-effects that seamlessly mix the panoramic views of London with the swashbuckling flying menaces and you have an opening to cherish.
But the early action is a little misleading. After Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) follow Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) into Borgin and Burkes magic supplies shop, where Yates sets up Draco’s mysterious work for Voldermort the film moves down a gear or two. As the teenagers board the train to Hogwarts, the film begins to concern itself more with romantic sub-plots than Draco’s more interesting late-night excursions to a strange old closet that appears to make things disappear and reappear on his command. Infuriatingly, too much time is spent watching Ron and Hermione in will-they-won’t-they fall in love moments, while Ron tries to avert the obsessive attentions of Lavender Brown. Admittedly, Rupert Grint has really grown into the part of Ron, and makes a lovely comic antidote to the more dark aspirations of Harry. One of the film’s most amusing sequences sees Ron under an enchantment that makes him fall madly, and compulsively, in love with Romilda Vane. Hence Jim Broadbent’s Professor Horace Slughorn being mollycoddled by an overzealous, hormone-ravaged Ron Weasley as the aging Professor quickly tries to make a potion to cure him.
This is going on while Harry and Ron’s sister Ginny are locked in their own battle of the hormones. When they eventually kiss in a scene that is both touching and endearing, ultimately its only achievement is to distant the story further from the dark drama that is ensuing. You wonder how Alfonso Cuaron (director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) or Mike Newell (director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), who both found an agreeable artistic knack with the darkest aspect of their respective stories, would have approached the Half-Blood Prince. The aforementioned directors had better source material to work with but Yates seems overly content to play for laughs, only exposing exposition when he absolutely has to. By the time Harry and Dumbledore set off on a mission to destroy Voldermort, the would-be adventure appears out of nowhere and plays in much the same episodic nature as the rest of the film. Anyone new to the franchise would find it rather difficult to feel any sense of dread or foreboding for Harry and Dumbledore’s impending battle since the antagonist is presented throughout the film as a mere distraction. Voldermort, or his childhood persona Tom Riddle, is the man we are constantly told for who you do not speak his name. It seems the film took that too literally.
And that’s where Yates should have distanced the film from the source material. The book is essentially as much about Voldermort as it is about Harry Potter. Yet, Voldermort’s part in the film is limited. Indeed, Ralph Fiennes who plays Voldermort as an adult in previous instalments, isn’t seen at all. Likewise, the book’s most appealing real-time sequence is Harry and Dumbledore’s adventure together. This should have taken precedence and been given a bigger part to play in the movie. And yet, when the book gets it right, Yates gets it wrong. During one of the book’s final scenes Harry is frozen under his invisibility cloak and cannot help a friend in mortal danger. In the film, Yates has Harry simply stand and watch on Dumbledore’s orders. This seriously detracts from the scene, making what could have been a wonderfully dramatic and tension-filled finale into an ending that goes out with a whimper.
However, one thing that gets better with every Harry Potter film are the performances of the three leads. Emma Watson doesn’t have a great deal to do but the youthful ego of her Hermione Granger is confidently underplayed. Daniel Radcliffe will forever be the face of Harry Potter and here he finds little trouble moving between light-hearted comedy and dark-rooted drama. Rupert Grint, however, is definitely the stand out of the three, as he has really got to grips with the comedic side of his character. Michael Gambon is reliably on-form as Professor Dumbledore, Jim Broadbent enters the franchise with an assured performance as Slughorn, while Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane, although shamefully underused, are terrific in their roles. Helena Bonham Carter also stands out for her sadistic Bellatrix Lestrange, while Tom Felton as Draco excels as the chief baddie of the piece. He’s like a young Ernst Stavro Blofeld, learning his trade to conquer the world.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is probably the weakest instalment in the series. It very much relies on your knowledge of what has gone before, and fails to move the story forward, seeming more like a prelude to what is to come. The performances are fine, indeed, Tom Felton and Rupert Grint have never been as good, but the plot leaves a lot to be desired. You’ll wait a very long time for the action to get going and when it does it’s a bit of a letdown. However, the production design is in keeping with the quality of the rest of the series with some lavish locations, beautifully photographed townships and cityscapes (the London underground even looks fantastic), and Hogwarts is its magical best. Nicholas Hooper’s score is suitably grandiose, and the special-effects team of Tom Burke (Visual Effects Supervisor), Nick Dudman (creature and make-up effects), and John Richardson (special-effects supervisor) are worth mentioning for almost perfect creation of Rowling’s fictional world.
The sixth Harry Potter film isn’t without its highlights and there are a few surprises along the way but it doesn’t live up to the high standards set by Cuaron’s Prisoner of Azkaban or Newell’s Goblet of Fire. Ultimately, the Half-Blood Prince simply sets up the adventure to come, and instead of satisfying fans who’ve waited a long time for the sixth film to appear, it’ll leave them unfulfilled, their anticipation only heightened for film number seven.
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“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (My 0-10 rating: 7)
Director: David Yates
Screenplay: Steve Kloves, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis
Time: 2 hrs., 35 min.
Rating: PG (scary images, some violence and vulgarity, mild sensuality)
No surprise. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” needs one rating for the ardent Harry Potter student and follower and an entirely separate one for the casual film goer who just wants to see an entertaining movie. For the former, it’s a magnificently detailed and textured, faithful film interpretation from the J.K. Rowling books. For the latter, it’s over-indulgence in the above at the expense of a need for a compelling narrative.
Which is all to say that if you’re not a Harry Potter devotee, you might find more than a few yawns arising.
Being an aficionado of the motion picture arts at their deepest, I personally found the film astonishing in its ultimately thorough treatment of the details of antiquity and the richness of textures to ever corner of every frame. I saw nothing in particular as to great artistry in the dialogue or performances, everybody and everything adhering unerringly to the books. All the great drama of life and death and morality is there, the dark ambiguities existing between good and evil, all at the loss of fancy and magic of the previous chapters. But there’s a distinct lacking in dramatic ups and downs, with long dwellings on unremarkable points.
Be aware, however, all ye uninitiated. You will feel left out on many an occasion when the content depends upon your subtle understandings of all previous material.
As to the now grown-up characters, they’re charming, very logically presented and developed.
With ever more elaborate Harry Potter discussion happening worldwide, dissecting its meanings with all the fervor attendant to the Star Wars series, you probably should see this even as a non-follower. True, it cares little for gripping you in the ways of modern mainstream film making of dark suspense thrillers. Its devices are not the obligatory thrusts of the genre. It’s far more deliberative. But it’s high art.
And now the Death Eaters assault the realms of the Muggles and the wizarding as they spiral down in a mighty attack out of the sky in spooky vapor trails which pass unseen by the Muggles as the demons lay desolation upon the city of London and smash the Millennium Bridge.
Now cut to Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) as he appears at a railway station for the purpose of getting to his prize student, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe). Harry is a bona fide adult at this point, looking much more settled and obviously dealing with his hormones as he looks forward to his impromptu date. Ah, but no, says Dumbledore, you have a demanding, uncompromising mission to accomplish.
So Harry, guided and secured by the professor’s arm, surges forth at the now mandatory warp speed. And here, in the dark of night, they arrive in a small, isolated village where they enter what is apparently a totally trashed house. And what better place to meet the new visiting professor of the upcoming school year. He is former potions professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent).
It is Dumbledore’s goal to tempt Slughorn back to Hogwarts, there to meet work with Harry in order to probe the professor’s mind in finding a primary clue regarding the Dark Lord. And why would Slughorn hook onto the urgent lead? Well, you see, he at one time had a child wizard protege named Tom Riddle. That child wizard grew up to be, of course, Voldemort. But meantime, Harry’s student nemesis, Draco Malfoy, is conspiring to a terrible crime the sole purpose of which is to pave the way for a Voldemort’s comeback.
Marty Meltz was the sole film critic for the statewide Maine Sunday Telegram for 30 years until budget cuts terminated his column. He continues his straight-to-the-point reviews for entertainment-seeking film goers on his website at http://www.martymoviereviews.com
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Every character has an important role to play whether in the start or in the end of a particular story. Harry Potter is one sequence in which every role is well defined and emphasised, where everyone is created for a purpose, and as soon as their objective is completed, they disappear or meet their demise.
Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is an important focus in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. His role throughout the story has been curious and questioning. He quite suddenly appears to fetch Harry from Privet Drive, at the start of the story, taking the liberty of taking him back to Hogwarts. Harry is quite concerned upon his act but later he discovers that it was just to take him on an errand in order to persuade an old Potions teacher, Horace Slughorn, to return to Hogwarts.
At first, Harry couldn’t understand his participation in the persuasion until the latter half of the story when he comes to know that the professor is withholding an important memory in his mind regarding Lord Voldemort, which Dumbledore wants to unravel. At Hogwarts, Harry is asked to take private classes with Dumbledore in which he learns in detail about the past of Voldemort using the thoughts of other people that were crucial and extremely important.
All through the memories, Dumbledore tells every important aspect of Voldemort’s past to Harry and they both visit each place that he has been to, through Pensieve. Horace Slughorn retrieved a memory of the conversation between him and Lord Voldemort regarding gaining immortality by forming Horcruxes. Hence, Dumbledore in this part wants Harry to locate Horcruxes and destroy them before ultimately killing the soul residing in his body.
According to the legend, six Horcruxes were formed among which is the Marvolo Gaunt’s ring that Dumbledore wore on his charred hand. He damaged his own hand in order to destroy one of the Horcrux. In order to destroy more Horcruxes, Dumbledore and Harry set out to a seaside cave where they expect to find one saved in a locket. In order to retrieve the locket, a potion had to be drunk before.
Dumbledore dares to drink the potion. As he drinks it, he starts screaming and seems as if he is mentally tortured along with becoming weaker. As he shouts for water, Harry fills the bowl with water from the Inferi-lake, which are activated and attack Harry and try to drag him in the lake as well. However, Dumbledore regains his consciousness and produces a fire lasso around them, which repels the Inferi.
As they return to Hogwarts from the cave, they face Death Eaters storming into Dumbledore’s office as they force Draco Malfoy to kill him. In the meantime, he casts a body-binding spell on Harry hidden underneath the Invisibility cloak. When Malfoy is unable to kill Dumbledore, Snape appears on the site and casts the killing curse on Dumbledore. After Dumbledore’s death, the preparations for his funeral begin. He was buried in velvet shroud in white sarcophagus tomb near the lake.
Dumbledore stayed to be the only professor who was buried in the school grounds. A lot of people from across the wizard world visit Hogwarts to pay salutations and regards to him. Overall, the role of Dumbledore remains to be an amusing part of the complete tale for the great Harry Potter fans.
Don’t miss Dumbledore and all the other characters in the new Harry Potter film at your local cinema from 15th July 2009.
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Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets
The Harry Potter phenomenon continues. If you are like me, you are eagerly awaiting the sixth movie, ” The Half Blood Prince” which will continue the saga of Harry Potter and his friend’s struggle to defeat Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
It has been a long time since the release of the second movie, “The Chamber of Secrets”. How much of Harry’s second year adventure do you remember?
Ron and Harry arrive at Hogwarts in a car that was enchanted by Mr. Weasley. What kind of car was it?
A: Ford Anglia. When they missed the train to Hogwarts they decided to fly the car.
Both Fred and George are beaters on the Griffindior quidditch team. What kind of broom do they use?
A: Cleansweep Fives. Harry owned a Nimbus 2000.
Ronald Weasley’s father works for the Ministry of Magic. What department does Arthur Weasley work for?
A: The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
When Draco Malfoy calls Hermione a mudblood, Ron tries to curse him. What is the curse that Ron tries to use on Draco?
A: Eat slugs. Unfortunately, the spell backfires and Ron ends up spitting out slugs.
Gilderoy Lockhart wrote a number of books about his adventures, defeating numerous different creatures. He also wrote an autobiography. What was the name of Gilderoy Lockhart’s autobiography?
A: Magical Me. Harry first meets Gilderoy at his book signing in Diagon Alley.
There are seven Weasley children, five of them are at school with Harry in the second book. Which of them is a prefect in the second book?
A: Percy.
Filch the janitor at Hogwarts school has a personal secret. He is afraid that Harry Potter discovered what his secret is. What is Filches secret?
A: He is a squib. A squib is a non-magical person who was born into a wizard family. Ron and Harry think this is why he hates all students at Hogwarts.
The creature in the chamber of secrets petrifies a number of students. What kind of plant is Prof. Sprout growing to change the petrified students back?
A: Mandrake. The cries of a mandrake can be lethal.
Prof Lockhart teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. What kind of pest does Gilderoy Lockhart let loose in the classroom?
A: Cornish Pixies. He asks Ron, Harry and Hermione to help him catch them.
What king of pest does Mrs. Weasley want Fred, George and Ron to get out of her garden?
A: Gnomes. You have to make them dizzy and throw them so that they cannot find their way back to their gnome hole.
Hagrid tells Ron and Harry to follow the spiders into the forbidden forest. There they meet a giant spider. What is its name?
A: Aragon. Hagrid had kept Aragon as a pet.
Hogwarts castle is home to many different ghosts. Which ghost gets petrified by the monster that is roaming in the castle pipes?
A: Nearly Headless Nick. He is the Gryffindor House ghost.
What was the name of the house elf who visited Harry at the Dursley’s house?
A: Dobby. He was owned by the Malfoy family.
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You can create your own Harry Potter costume for your next Halloween costume party, trick-or-treating escapade, or whenever a fun and creative costume is needed. Creating a Harry Potter costume is relatively simple. After all, when it comes down to it, Harry Potter is just a regular kid who happens to be blessed (and sometimes, it seems, cursed) with a number of magical abilities. But at heart he is still just a young man trying to find his way in this world. He is basically a young adult entering adulthood, and he dresses more or less like a regular teenager most of the time. Here are a few tricks to getting the Harry Potter look just right.
Of course, you will need a pair of wire-rimmed glasses. Harry’s simple wire-rimmed glasses are one of his major trademarks, so your Harry Potter costume simply won’t be complete without this crucial accessory. If you don’t already wear glasses, don’t fret. Getting your hands on a pair of Harry Potter-like glasses is simple enough. Simply head down to your nearest drugstore or retail outlet and head to the pharmacy section. Most pharmacies carry a good selection of non-prescription reading glasses. Browse the selection until you find a pair that seems like something Harry would wear. Be careful with your new pair of glasses. Just because they are not prescription glasses does not mean that you will not hurt your eyes wearing them. To be safe, make sure you carefully remove the glass or plastic lenses from the glass frames. Even better, try to find a pair that do not have a prescription so you do not have to worry about removing the clear plastic or glass part from the frame. If you cannot find clear, see-through lenses, take your glasses to the pharmacy or store optometrist and ask them to remove the see-through part for you. This is especially a good idea if they are made of glass.
Another crucial part of your Harry Potter costume is to find the right shirt. To really look like Harry, you will have to locate a long-sleeved polo shirt that is striped with bars of gold and maroon. Gold and maroon are the official colors of the house of Gryffindor, so if you are unavailable to find a striped polo shirt, at least make certain that you get the colors right. If possible, find a striped polo shirt that has an emblem near the heart. With the red and gold polo shirt you can wear jeans or nearly any bottom. You should also try to approximate Harry Potter’s hairstyle to truly get the costume right. You can pattern your Harry Potter against the image of Daniel Radcliff that has been popularized in the Harry Potter films, or you can try to pattern your costume against the image of Harry that is depicted on the cover art of the popular books. Simply comb your hair forward a bit so that you have the rough image of bangs like Harry does on the book covers and in the movies. Of course, this will come off even better if you happen to have dark hair like Harry Potter.
Finally, to complete your homemade Harry Potter, you can use several props to help ‘prop’ up your costume as it were. You can make or purchase a magic wand, and drape a cloak around your shoulders. Of course, you can also use face makeup to draw a simple zigzag on your forehead. This lightning bolt emblem across your forehead may just be the most important detail of getting the Harry Potter costume right.
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August 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Attention Harry Potter fans! You can now build up your own pictorial Harry Potter movie gallery! HP movie Unit Photographs bring you the stories of backstage!
While coming out of the dark movie hall after watching the height of wizardry of Harry Potter for hours, sometimes didn’t you feel like knowing what went behind the camera to bring alive on screen this enormous magical world of the Harry Potter along with his friends and foes! What made the broom stick fly? What made the scar blink on Dan’s forehead?
Well, from now on you will be able to know what took place in the set of Harry Potter movies!
MoviePrints.co.uk. will allow you to buy hundreds of pictures taken on the set of all five Harry Potter movies!
It’s the result of a deal between Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Comprints Ltd, a company specializing in Print on Demand (PoD) services. The deal makes it possible for millions of Harry potter fans to choose from over 300 unit pictures on-line. Just put an order over internet and they will be delivered either as prints and canvases. You can choose from any size or finish and they will be made available to you.
How to proceed? Well first log on to http://www.movieprints.co.uk. Search either by the names of your favorite character or your favorite action scenes. Now build up a gallery by including your chosen pictures. Now order them as prints or canvases mentioning the sizes. You can choose from six different sizes of photographic print or six different sizes of canvas. The finish options include gloss, satin finishes and on art paper. You can also buy your favorite pictures as postcards. The website claims that each product is made to order and dispatched directly to the purchaser, typically within 2-3 days.
However, there is a bad news: presently the licensed products on this website are only available to customers in
Europe. But never mind – you can also get them online via Amazon and Waterstone’s.
Horace McDonald – Director, Comprints think that this project will help serious film reserachers and collectors to build up pictorial history of all the Harry Potter films. They can also make greatest gift for the young or adult Harry Potter crazy in your life!
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You will rarely find a child—particularly a little girl—who has never entertained herself with Noel Streatfield’s classic, “Ballet Shoes”. We all have gone through this 1936 novel that revolves round the lives and ambitions of three talented orphans… Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil! Emma Watson was also not an exception. As a child she also loved the book and she practiced ballet for years too.
Well, now she is going to translate the character of Pauline on screen!
Emma who made the Harry Potter- pal- character Hermione popular worldwide officially announces in her website (http://www.emmawatsonofficial.com) that she is going to play one of the lead roles in the upcoming film “Ballet Shoes” for BBC 1 made by
Granada.
As compared to Harry Potter novels, the story of Ballet shoes is far too simple—it is a story of three orphan sisters, who suddenly come to discover their special talents and start working on it to become accomplished dancers and actresses!
Now Emma is going to play the role of Pauline—the eldest of the three sisters who aspires to become an actress. To quote a TV source: “Emma was practically born for this role.” In fact it is Emma’s first TV role, in which she is going to share the screen with comedian Victoria Wood and Hustle star Marc Warren. Potter’s evil Uncle Vernon —Richard Griffiths also appears in this lavish adoption of Noel Streatfield’s hugely popular children book. “Hot young talent” Lucy Boynton is playing the role of Posy.
It is going to be a feature length movie—the filming is scheduled to begin this month and is slatted for a Christmas time airing!
To quote a BBC insider, “It’s a real coup de coeur for Emma, who loved the book as a child and practised ballet for years. She is having her fittings done at the moment and is to have her hair dyed white blonde for the part.”
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August 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The final adventure of Harry Potter is out and millions of copies flew off the shelf creating a new literary world record.
By now, the world has come to know that world has got rid of the evil of the Voldemort, and the life of Harry Potter and his best friends Hermione and Ron are saved!
But like all successful literary works, it doesn’t end in the last page. The characters resonate in our senses even after we finally come to know the fate of the amazing wizard, his greatest nemesis and his friends. It only makes us more curious about the life of Harry Potter and others post Deathly Hallows!
J. K Rowling is kind enough to oblige her fans with the hints about the trio’s life after their deadliest fight against their greatest enemy. She shares with her fans where Harry Potter and his devoted associates land up after Voldemort is finally wiped off the face of the Earth.
As for Harry Potter, he fulfills his dream of becoming an Auror, who devotes his life for fighting the dark wizards. He climbed up the highest post of Auror Department under the new wizarding government that his friend and ally Kingsley Shacklebolt heads.
He marries Ginny Weasley. Ginny is serious about her athletic career and joins all female Quidditich team – the Holyhead Harpies. However, Ginny finally says good bye to her athletic career to bring up their three children – James, Albus and Lily. She now fits herself into a new role – a senior Quidditich correspondent for wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet. So what happens to Ron and Haermione? Ron and his brother George are booming with their joint joke shop Weasley’s Wizard wheezes, while Hermione joined the magical law enforcement squad to furthering the rights of House elves. They set up a family of four with their two children.
So apparently the Harry Potter saga ends with that magical fairy tale ending “…and they lived happily ever after”. But who can say, the happiness of these wizard families will never be disturbed by another menace like Voldemort in future? May be Harry’s and Ron’s children will then take the lead role in eliminating this new threat from the world of the wizards! May be world will find another J. K Rowling who will pen another epic battle between second generation good and bad wizards.
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So the magician steps into the magic age of 18.
With that he’s become the legal owner of a magical sum of $47 million!
There had been much speculation about the probable ways that the screen-wizard would like to spend this very special day of his life.
All speculation were spun around the tales of luxury, extravagance and a big bash involving big bucks.
One of the world’s youngest millionaires has instead chosen to spend the Big Day the true Brit way at Lord’s – by watching the cricket match between India and England.
By the way this was the first time; Radcliffe came to watch a live cricket match in the stadium. The gloomy day that rained on cats and dogs acted in advantage of the mega star – the galleries were half empty that saved him from getting mobbed in the middle of the match.
The Harry Potter star was spotted donning England replica shirt and hugely enjoyed himself watching the
England team taking on the Indian side.
However something funny happened. The young actor, who always obliges others with his autographs, stood in the queue himself for getting his autograph book signed by two cricketers—Andrew Strauss and Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian legendary batsman, called the Master Bblaster by his fans went on in his signing spree, not at all realizing whom he was obliging!
The other cricketer, who obliged the real Harry Potter with his autograph, was none other than Andrew Strauss – the
England opener who suddenly became known to the Potter-maniacs even from the non-cricket playing countries by appearing in the dream of Radcliffe – Radcliffe in a recent interview talked of having a nightmare, where he was being chased by Strauss!
However, Strauss didn’t make the mistake that Sachin did – he signed Radcliffe’s autograph book and got the actor sign a Harry Potter book for his kid.
As Radcliffe said in a BBC lunchtime interview, “I’ve got Andrew Strauss’s autograph and Sachin Tendulkar’s – they were not aware who it was who was asking for their autograph. They were doing the thing that I do when I am in a crowd of people, which is to just keep your head down and keep moving as you sign.”
He himself also didn’t mind taking a moment to sign an autograph for a fan.
The tabloids missed on a chance to make sensational stories on the birthday bash of one of the most sought after film star of the recent times; but Radcliffe makes it clear himself “I know I’m in an incredibly fortunate position… But I don’t plan to be one of those people who suddenly buys themselves a massive sports car collection.”
May be young Dan has learnt it all from his dad Alan – who despite being the father of most famous teenager in the world, maintains the courtesy to allow a woman to board the bus ahead of him.
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The Muggles All over the World Bid Adieu to Their Beloved Wizard
There exists another world beyond the magical world of Harry Potter—this is the frenzied world of Potter maniacs where Harry Potter is the new twenty first century icon and J.K Rowling is the name of an unbeatable brand of new age literature.
This is a world of different kind that is dominated by the obsessed Muggles that can do just about anything to grab their share of the latest Harry Potter saga! They break into same level of hysteria as it comes to the display of admiration for the amazing wizard born out of the pen of J.K Rowling.
The Potter mania worldwide finished off its final round of frenzy with the release of the last installment of the Harry Potter saga—at last the Potter fans are approaching the climax that awaits the answers to the questions like what happens to Harry Potter scars? Is Sirus Black is returning in this novel? What fate awaits the Lord Voldemort? Are Ron and Hermione coming together? What about R.A.B?
But the question that seems to kill the potter fans with suspense is whether the boy wizard is dead or alive in the end!
Well, the leading bookstores all over the came to witness more or less the same hysteria of the fanatical, suspense-driven, anxiety bitten Muggles that spent sleepless nights in the footpaths only to grab their share of the copy of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows.
Cutting across the barriers of race or nationality – Potter fans from Tokyo to Texas, Manhattan to Mumbai – waited with baited breath all these days only to know what awaits them in the page number 705 of the latest Harry Potter Saga! However, thousands of Potter maniacs seemed to be too short of breath to go through the entire book; instead they took the short cut to the page number 705 to know what happens in the end to their beloved wizard.
The frenzy that started with sleepless nights of waiting is going to end in more sleepless nights; the true potter Maniacs show no sign of stopping before they uncover all the long awaited questions. Young fans all over the world are alike in their obsession with Potter magic. The newspapers all over the world repeat the same story – young readers warn their parents – no going to bed till they finish reading the entire story.
For a generation who has grown up along with the boy wizard, living without Harry Potter is going to be plain painful and the teenagers seem to share the same sentiments in all corners of the globe! However here is good news for the Potter Maniac at the heart: the final Harry Potter saga follows the true epic style! It rounds up like all is well that ends well. That is all we can tell you about the Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows right now. To know about the rest, you have to take a journey through the world of Harry Potter. But before that rush to your nearest bookstore and grab your own copy; they are fast flying off the city shelves.
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