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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

(September 2011)

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TT
Tumble Tower
By now I guess a lot of people have seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at the cinema, maybe more than once.

I saw it at my local cinema Tuesday 19 July (i.e. 4 days after UK release). Just like the last few films, much of it was "all Greek to me". For the record, I've now seen all 8 films at my local cinema as they were released, but have never read any of the books. I have several comments / questions arising from watching the latest film. Just in case some people have yet to see it, I've put my comments behind spoiler tags.

1) About two thirds of the way through, there was a lot of flitting back and forth, which totally confused me. What was the meaning of all that?

2) The Professor didn't like Harry returning to Hogwarts in the final year when he'd supposedly left, and warned other students that if they got involved in his antics, they'd be disciplined. Why was that? What was the Professor worried about?

3) Close to the end, Harry Potter was said to be alive at Kings Cross, with dense fog around him. What was the significance of the fog? Yet at Hogwarts he was dead! At Kings Cross, Harry said he had to get back to Hogwarts. How did he get back?

4) After that, surely it was supposed to be the end of the academic year. However they didn't announce the inter-house competition winner unlike in the first film. Why not?

5) Harry, Ron and Hermione were supposed to be in their final year in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. So were all the other students who started at the same time as them in the first film / book.
a) Why then, was there no official Leavers' Ceremony / Party for Harry's year?
b) Why weren't the students in Harry's year given official Hogwarts Leavers 98 hoodies, as one might have thought they would? N.B. Since watching the film, I found out from Wikipedia the film / book were set in the 1997/98 school year.

6) In fact, the "end" of the year was quite abrupt. Harry, Hermione and Ron were on the bridge, and suddenly it cut to the slide "Nineteen Years Later". They didn't show the trio or other students getting on the Hogwarts Express (with their luggage) to go home.

7) The bit "Nineteen Years Later" showed Harry's son going through the wall to platform 9¾. Harry was there to see his son on to the Hogwarts Express. Was this epilogue really necessary / relevant?

Quite frankly it's probably just as well it's all over now. If there was another year to go I dread to think how incomprehensible and perplexing that would be.

If it's still on at the cinema, it must be due to end soon. In which case, how long before it is released on DVD? I've seen box sets of years 1-4, then years 1-5, years 1-6 and now years 1-7 part 1. Once again, I'm refusing to buy the latest box set, because once Deathly Hallows Part 2 is released on DVD, there's bound to be a DVD box set containing all 8 films.
RO
rob Founding member
This is TV Forum.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Whats this got to do with TV presentation?
TT
Tumble Tower
It's bound to get shown on TV eventually.

How long between when it's discontinued at cinemas and appearing on Sky Box Office (pay per view)?
After that, how long before it moves to Sky Movies range of channels, and ultimately mainstream TV (BBC1 / ITV1)?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Tumble Tower posted:
It's bound to get shown on TV eventually.


Spurious reasoning.

Go and look for a Harry Potter forum, there's bound to be plenty of them.

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