Deathly Hallows Part 2 ****warning contains spoilerss*******
Okay my first post in awhile and in this I'm not sure what I'm gonna say or where I'm gonna go but I'll just let my thoughts take me where they may (which can be interesting and sometimes scary ha) . But in this i'm gonna attempt to review and//or analyze the most recent (and might I add final) installment of the Happy Potter series.
I will admit freely I came in rather late to this, still haven't gotten around to reading all the books, mostly because they are not on Kindle because I can't read regular books, but I feel that maybe the books would give me further insight into the story, which I found more fascinating as it went along. It started out to me like a kids fantasy story but seemed to take on it's own life as it went along became a long, complicated and occasionaly very dark journey, not just for Harry but for many of characters as they moved along. And I was pleasantly surprised to see that they got better as they got further along in the series, allowing to me to get into and fully embrace it as a whole. And ti was great.
For those who haven't seen the movie yet, beware there are spoilers abound in the review//slash ovbservation piece..
Upon doing this review and collecting my thoughts I had a chance to talk to several people who'd seen the most recent movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and the the unanimous sentement was that it was great. And everyone of those people stated to me that one particular scene stood out to them. It's the part, that, in the book, is called The Prince's Tale. And I agreed with them, cause as much as the movie was fantastic, that to me was the part that really stood out, really made this movie all the right notes. It was the game changer that turned everything on it's head and and changed not just the perception of one character, but our perceptions of the entire story. And I can't take credit for for pointing that out btw, it was a bartender at work who said that. It did change everything though, I totally agree.
In thise particular scene, Harry looks into the memories of Severus Snape and found that someone he though was an enemy has actually been his friend all along. A man who knew and loved Harry's mother, lost her to his father but was perfectly willing to do whatever it took protect her and later her son. And it cast a bright light on on Harry's fate, showing Dumbledore, who til then to me had looked like Gandalf of this story, the sage mentor, as a bit of a puppet-master, manuering Harry into the 'pig chute' as Snape putt it. "You kept him alive only so he could die at the proper moment" were his words. That particular exchange did make Dumbledore look particularly good (not that I'm saying he's bad mind you, just a little morally ambiguous) , and it mad mad Snape look a lot better. Showing that he actually did care about Harry, strongly so.
That particular scene, while heartbreaking, haunting and enlightening as to character and plot, proved me right about a few guesses I had, after seeing the first 6 movies. I was very proud of this and I'm about to state those particular thoughs that I was, in fact proven right n on.
1) Harry himself was one of the Holcrux's" I sort of figured this out just by logic when when they were talking in HBP about what makes a Holcrux. Whenever he, Voldemort committed a terrible act, part of his sou when into something. In killing Harry's mother, the nearest object was Harry himself and it made perfect sense. The fact that Harry sensed this himself is not surpising cause he was linked to Voldemort by the act in question.
2) Dumbledore's death was planned in advance: This occured to me, maybe because I read and watch alot of movies, but it seemed set-up so that a)Harry would witness it, and b) Snape would take the heat for it over Draco, and therefore gain the trust of Voldemort in teh process. Which was confirmed. That fact that Dumbledore was dying already was a bit of an added shock but I digress. How I came this particular one though, was several clues. They a) The coversation between Snape and Dumbledore that Harry walked in the middle of in HBP in which Snape says "has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that maybe I don't want to do this anymore?" b) When Bellatrix and Draco show up, Dumbledore tells Harry to 'get Severus' why? because that was where the act was going to play out. And this will be bring me to my next riddle solved.
3) That Shape far too obvious to be a bad guy in this so there had to be more to it than this" We saw glimpses of this throughout the series but more toward the end when the full weight of it was starting to fall on Snape it became visible in certain moments. It was almost fairly obvious in HBP when he didn't reveal Harry's presence to the others during Dumblemore's death sequence and subsquently after. Because giving Harry to Voldemort and minions would have cemented his loyalty, instead he concealed it.
Ok on to my observations now that nonsense is out of the way ha (this is becoming long teehee)
Once again I've noticed that Harry can be particularly dense on occasion. He dosen''t always see what's right in front of him and sometimes can be insufferable with the "I didn't ask anyone to die for me' crap. Of course he didn't ask, and as Ron so eloquently put it 'it's not all about you'. Sometimes it's about the Greater Good so speak, that thing that part of society frowns upon occasionally. It's doing the right thing no matter how much it costs you. Cause it will always cost you something, and you have to be willing to pay a price for it. Sometimes in blood. What you have to decide is, if your going to make the sacrifices worth it in the end.
Interesting thought on that sort of weirdly dysfunctional relationship between Harry and Snape btw. I was thinking of Lost, when Ben's mother died, and his father was unable to deal with and took it out on Ben, who reminded him of her and whom in a weird way he sort of blamed for it. For Snape, Harry was a living remnant of what he lost in Lily. He may remind him of James Potter but he which made him resentful but at the same time, he's from Lily too, and Lily's light is upon him, the part that made her special is within Harry as well, and it's the reason why, in spite of himself, Snape cares about and protects Harry, using that same doe thing as Lily had used on occasion (damned if I can remember the name ha). They are connected through Lily. Interstiingly Hary asked Dumbledore about this particular totem being shared by Snape and Lily said it was 'strange'. Dumbldores's answer was crypitc as usual "why it's not strange at all you really think about it' (those might not have been his exact words but you get get my drift). Hmmm I may have to think on that and may have more thoughts on the relationship between Harry and his teacher in a future post. If I put it here it would be mile long and I need to get to bed soon.
Anyways, other observations:
I'm going to say this again but Hermione rocks. I love her character, she's smart and she kicks ass as well. Keeps those boys heads on straight as well as her own. She's a great role model for for young girls IMO. And Luna, how can I not love her too? I don't know whether she's crazy or just plain strange but I just think she's adorable.
Ron and Hermione, it's about goddamn on that. it took you 8 movies to realize you totally dig eachother. It's little surprise that that end up together. As well as Harry and Ginny. And to me, it's just a bit creepy that Draco ends up with a kid who looks like a damn clone... something wrong with that.
Hooray for Mrs. Weasley and Neville for being totally kick ass in the right moments, knew there was a reason liked them. Mrs. Weasely for taking out that demented witch Bellatrix, a much-deserved death. And Neville for being the hero and taking out the last Holcrux aka the snake that Voldemorts been using to kill people for awhile now.
Speaking of those that died in the name of the good, I was sad to see Remus go. He was one of my favorites, and I always loved the play on words that his name was. Remus being one of the twin founders of Rome, who supposedly, as legend goes, raised by wolves, and Lupin with a deritive of Lupine, another word for wolf as well (sort of like Sirius Black, which I shouldn't have explain that name.
And on a similar subject, Severus had the best dying declaration when he asked Harry to look at him, and then proceeded to tell him that 'you have her eyes...' Holy shit that was heartbreaking, and such a wonderful turnaround to the perception of character by the hero and by the audience. Hats off to Alan Rickman for being fabulous as usual.
And lastly, I find it interesting and awesome on Harry's part that he and Ginny named their son Albious Serverus Potter. What a nice homage to them both. His explanation when his son asked him 'what if I get picked by Slhtherin?' and Harry proceeds to tell him that one of the men he's named after was from that house and he was 'one the most courageous men i've ever know' What a compliment that was to one of unsung heroes in the story.
All in all it was a fantastic movie, and a great movie series, there's many other aspects I could over but this thing would be 10 pages long, but like I said, I may have further thoughts once I gather them. For now I think It will do to say I'm glad I came into this series and fell in love with it the way that I did, it was well worth it and like LOTR and Lost i'm sad it's over.. but glad to have gone along with the ride..
I will admit freely I came in rather late to this, still haven't gotten around to reading all the books, mostly because they are not on Kindle because I can't read regular books, but I feel that maybe the books would give me further insight into the story, which I found more fascinating as it went along. It started out to me like a kids fantasy story but seemed to take on it's own life as it went along became a long, complicated and occasionaly very dark journey, not just for Harry but for many of characters as they moved along. And I was pleasantly surprised to see that they got better as they got further along in the series, allowing to me to get into and fully embrace it as a whole. And ti was great.
For those who haven't seen the movie yet, beware there are spoilers abound in the review//slash ovbservation piece..
Upon doing this review and collecting my thoughts I had a chance to talk to several people who'd seen the most recent movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and the the unanimous sentement was that it was great. And everyone of those people stated to me that one particular scene stood out to them. It's the part, that, in the book, is called The Prince's Tale. And I agreed with them, cause as much as the movie was fantastic, that to me was the part that really stood out, really made this movie all the right notes. It was the game changer that turned everything on it's head and and changed not just the perception of one character, but our perceptions of the entire story. And I can't take credit for for pointing that out btw, it was a bartender at work who said that. It did change everything though, I totally agree.
In thise particular scene, Harry looks into the memories of Severus Snape and found that someone he though was an enemy has actually been his friend all along. A man who knew and loved Harry's mother, lost her to his father but was perfectly willing to do whatever it took protect her and later her son. And it cast a bright light on on Harry's fate, showing Dumbledore, who til then to me had looked like Gandalf of this story, the sage mentor, as a bit of a puppet-master, manuering Harry into the 'pig chute' as Snape putt it. "You kept him alive only so he could die at the proper moment" were his words. That particular exchange did make Dumbledore look particularly good (not that I'm saying he's bad mind you, just a little morally ambiguous) , and it mad mad Snape look a lot better. Showing that he actually did care about Harry, strongly so.
That particular scene, while heartbreaking, haunting and enlightening as to character and plot, proved me right about a few guesses I had, after seeing the first 6 movies. I was very proud of this and I'm about to state those particular thoughs that I was, in fact proven right n on.
1) Harry himself was one of the Holcrux's" I sort of figured this out just by logic when when they were talking in HBP about what makes a Holcrux. Whenever he, Voldemort committed a terrible act, part of his sou when into something. In killing Harry's mother, the nearest object was Harry himself and it made perfect sense. The fact that Harry sensed this himself is not surpising cause he was linked to Voldemort by the act in question.
2) Dumbledore's death was planned in advance: This occured to me, maybe because I read and watch alot of movies, but it seemed set-up so that a)Harry would witness it, and b) Snape would take the heat for it over Draco, and therefore gain the trust of Voldemort in teh process. Which was confirmed. That fact that Dumbledore was dying already was a bit of an added shock but I digress. How I came this particular one though, was several clues. They a) The coversation between Snape and Dumbledore that Harry walked in the middle of in HBP in which Snape says "has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that maybe I don't want to do this anymore?" b) When Bellatrix and Draco show up, Dumbledore tells Harry to 'get Severus' why? because that was where the act was going to play out. And this will be bring me to my next riddle solved.
3) That Shape far too obvious to be a bad guy in this so there had to be more to it than this" We saw glimpses of this throughout the series but more toward the end when the full weight of it was starting to fall on Snape it became visible in certain moments. It was almost fairly obvious in HBP when he didn't reveal Harry's presence to the others during Dumblemore's death sequence and subsquently after. Because giving Harry to Voldemort and minions would have cemented his loyalty, instead he concealed it.
Ok on to my observations now that nonsense is out of the way ha (this is becoming long teehee)
Once again I've noticed that Harry can be particularly dense on occasion. He dosen''t always see what's right in front of him and sometimes can be insufferable with the "I didn't ask anyone to die for me' crap. Of course he didn't ask, and as Ron so eloquently put it 'it's not all about you'. Sometimes it's about the Greater Good so speak, that thing that part of society frowns upon occasionally. It's doing the right thing no matter how much it costs you. Cause it will always cost you something, and you have to be willing to pay a price for it. Sometimes in blood. What you have to decide is, if your going to make the sacrifices worth it in the end.
Interesting thought on that sort of weirdly dysfunctional relationship between Harry and Snape btw. I was thinking of Lost, when Ben's mother died, and his father was unable to deal with and took it out on Ben, who reminded him of her and whom in a weird way he sort of blamed for it. For Snape, Harry was a living remnant of what he lost in Lily. He may remind him of James Potter but he which made him resentful but at the same time, he's from Lily too, and Lily's light is upon him, the part that made her special is within Harry as well, and it's the reason why, in spite of himself, Snape cares about and protects Harry, using that same doe thing as Lily had used on occasion (damned if I can remember the name ha). They are connected through Lily. Interstiingly Hary asked Dumbledore about this particular totem being shared by Snape and Lily said it was 'strange'. Dumbldores's answer was crypitc as usual "why it's not strange at all you really think about it' (those might not have been his exact words but you get get my drift). Hmmm I may have to think on that and may have more thoughts on the relationship between Harry and his teacher in a future post. If I put it here it would be mile long and I need to get to bed soon.
Anyways, other observations:
I'm going to say this again but Hermione rocks. I love her character, she's smart and she kicks ass as well. Keeps those boys heads on straight as well as her own. She's a great role model for for young girls IMO. And Luna, how can I not love her too? I don't know whether she's crazy or just plain strange but I just think she's adorable.
Ron and Hermione, it's about goddamn on that. it took you 8 movies to realize you totally dig eachother. It's little surprise that that end up together. As well as Harry and Ginny. And to me, it's just a bit creepy that Draco ends up with a kid who looks like a damn clone... something wrong with that.
Hooray for Mrs. Weasley and Neville for being totally kick ass in the right moments, knew there was a reason liked them. Mrs. Weasely for taking out that demented witch Bellatrix, a much-deserved death. And Neville for being the hero and taking out the last Holcrux aka the snake that Voldemorts been using to kill people for awhile now.
Speaking of those that died in the name of the good, I was sad to see Remus go. He was one of my favorites, and I always loved the play on words that his name was. Remus being one of the twin founders of Rome, who supposedly, as legend goes, raised by wolves, and Lupin with a deritive of Lupine, another word for wolf as well (sort of like Sirius Black, which I shouldn't have explain that name.
And on a similar subject, Severus had the best dying declaration when he asked Harry to look at him, and then proceeded to tell him that 'you have her eyes...' Holy shit that was heartbreaking, and such a wonderful turnaround to the perception of character by the hero and by the audience. Hats off to Alan Rickman for being fabulous as usual.
And lastly, I find it interesting and awesome on Harry's part that he and Ginny named their son Albious Serverus Potter. What a nice homage to them both. His explanation when his son asked him 'what if I get picked by Slhtherin?' and Harry proceeds to tell him that one of the men he's named after was from that house and he was 'one the most courageous men i've ever know' What a compliment that was to one of unsung heroes in the story.
All in all it was a fantastic movie, and a great movie series, there's many other aspects I could over but this thing would be 10 pages long, but like I said, I may have further thoughts once I gather them. For now I think It will do to say I'm glad I came into this series and fell in love with it the way that I did, it was well worth it and like LOTR and Lost i'm sad it's over.. but glad to have gone along with the ride..