HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - Part 2

And so we say goodbye to the books that kept us thrilled for so many hours; goodbye to the expectation of the next book or the next film or both.  J. K. Rowling did what few other authors have done.  She has given us a story which will be new in a few years to a wholly different generation.

Amazingly, integrity of the books intact, Warner Brothers allowed the author's work to be presented as closely as the film media could do it faithfully.  The series does justice to the issues of good vs evil, represented by Lord Voldemort.  Seen in 3D, the movie is spectacular.  In the iMax theater with the Tempur-Pedic cushions and vibrations in the seat known to the theater as butt kickers, we, the audience were immersed in a life or death struggle so that the world would not be taken over by evil.  The burden lay solely on Harry Potter's back and his pain and fight is well choreographed and we felt the struggle with him emotionally and physically.. 

A little boy next to me had only seen from Episode 3 and up. He told me it was because he was only 3 years old then!  The image that popped into my head was that he would be watching  with his children in 20 or so years,seeing  the enhanced new version of the old Harry Potter series, just as so much science fiction has aged well through more than one generation..  Just as Indiana Jones will not age nor will Tolkien's Lord of the Ring be anything but a classic to be watched and prescribed reading in English or History classes..

Our lives are forever full of ridding ourselves of evil though we, unfortunately, have Barack Obama as our Harry Potter of 2011.  We must fight the evil of Grover Norquist, ALEC, Limbaugh, the Koch Brothers, and so many more.  They are our Dracos, and Tom Marvolo Riddle aka Lord Voldemort...the once good guy turned totally evil.

Sometimes a pep talk on the subject of good versus evil through.fiction can be almost as stirring as living with today's politics on the same subject.