Movie Reviews In Which We Don't Quite Get To The Horcrux Of It ![]() Then Radcliffe went naked in Equus on Broadway and Watson went to Brown and dropped out and became a fashion plate. We met them when they were little and watched them go through puberty and have their first snogs. We also need a final look at Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione and Rupert Grint as Ron. Here's a case where movies can add a bit of magic. In the novel, the climactic wand-off between Harry and Voldemort is notably lacking in grandeur. Rowling, good as she is, isn't a prose stylist: The films put interesting faces to names and fabulous designs to humdrum descriptions. The opening midnight screenings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 were completely sold out, even though most people knew the ending. And along with millions I had to know who lived and who got Avada Kedavra'ed as Potter-ites say. OK, I was one of 'em but it was Friday, I didn't have to get up the next morning. No, it's not as momentous a day as the one in 2007, when lunatics the world over queued up at midnight to buy the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ![]() ![]() After a decade of saying it, I might never have cause to say it again.
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