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Harry Potter Comes to an End

Concluded the adventure of the boy wizard versus the evil Lord Voldemort. The movie does not follow the book faithfully at every point, but it does follow the book theme of good vs. evil. Through the book series and the first seven movies, J.K. Rowling details the story of Harry Potter and his nemesis Lord Voldemort. Voldemort was born Tom Riddle and like Harry Potter, suffered rejection as a youth, but Potter reached out to the good in others and Riddle turned into Lord Voldemort. In some ways, one is reminded of the transformation of Luke and his dad Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars series. Luke turned to good whereas his father turned to the dark side. Evil is a choice that is made, but so is good.

Each movie, like the books, builds upon the previous episode as each movie moves through the teenage years of Potter and his two friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, but each movie see a maturation of the main characters as they move out of their teenage angst. However, the world they live in is changing as well. Each movie sees the evil increase and multiply as Lord Voldemort's power expands and threat to the wizard world increases. In the sixth book, the course to final conflict begins in earnest as evil spreads beyond the wizard world to the human world as muggles (wizard word for humans) start disappearing and natural disasters proliferate. In a wizard world divided by class and blood, Lord Voldemort raises the ante as he begins a purification campaign in the final installation of the movie, but as long as Potter is alive, Voldemort control of the wizard world remains in jeopardy.

The movie, like the book, does have a tonic for a culture that is often divided as Rowling, in her books, and the directors, in their films, introduced timeless virtues of friendship, loyalty, and the price of defeating evil with many favorite characters killed. The movies, like the books, shows the flaws of the good guys, in particular, Dumbledore, who never allowed himself near power for he feared what he would do with the power due to his own weaknesses, and Harry Potter feared that he could become like Voldemort. Both build their lives around the idea that modesty and love for others represented a necessity. Voldermort has no modesty and no fear of power, for it is all that he seeks, nor did he have love for his fellow wizards.

One of the characters in Deathly Hallows 2 tells the story of three brothers, the first seeks the most powerful wand, the second a resurrection stone and the third a cloth that allows invisibility to escape death 's clutches.The first brother uses his wand for evil intent but is killed when he loses the wand. The second brother goes mad when he can’t truly resurrect the dead to their former selves, but the third brother's invisibility cloth allows him to escape Death’s clutches until the time he is ready and he joins Death as a equal after giving the invisible cloth to his son.