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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Dir. David Yates, 2011.
It's the end of an era. I was thirteen when the first book came out in the States in 1998. (Yeah, I have a signed American first edition. On the back it has a great blurb fromsome British newspaper The Guardian about how Harry Potter "might become as famous as Charlie, of chocolate factory fame." BWHAHA OR MAYBE HE'S RIGHT UP THERE WITH JESUS NOW…particularly considering that he was Jesus? Yeah.)
No spoilers: on many levels I loved it and thought it was awesome. Just as I expected, I sobbed like a child in the resurrection stone scene, just like I did the first (and thus far only) time I read the book. It's…well, partly because of my mother, who was one of the biggest Harry Potter fans I knew, that scene has a lot of meaning for me. Other people find it corny, but I find it absolutely, painfully, humanly true. So there was that.
I've been reading everyone's reaction posts that I can find, so I think a lot of things I have to say will be familiar for that reason, but…yeah, where to start?
( Let's finish this the way we started: together )
So, yeah. Harry Potter! It's not that there's not a ton of things to be said and criticisms to be made, because there totally are, but there was so much awesome and so much to love here, and I do. ♥ Between JKR and fandom, it's been an amazing journey.
And here, have two vids that are awesome and brilliantly summations of that.
It's the end of an era. I was thirteen when the first book came out in the States in 1998. (Yeah, I have a signed American first edition. On the back it has a great blurb from
No spoilers: on many levels I loved it and thought it was awesome. Just as I expected, I sobbed like a child in the resurrection stone scene, just like I did the first (and thus far only) time I read the book. It's…well, partly because of my mother, who was one of the biggest Harry Potter fans I knew, that scene has a lot of meaning for me. Other people find it corny, but I find it absolutely, painfully, humanly true. So there was that.
I've been reading everyone's reaction posts that I can find, so I think a lot of things I have to say will be familiar for that reason, but…yeah, where to start?
( Let's finish this the way we started: together )
So, yeah. Harry Potter! It's not that there's not a ton of things to be said and criticisms to be made, because there totally are, but there was so much awesome and so much to love here, and I do. ♥ Between JKR and fandom, it's been an amazing journey.
And here, have two vids that are awesome and brilliantly summations of that.
