What is it about the sixth Harry Potter movie that has Ankit, an IMDB user hailing from India, hoping desperately for a midnight release? His impatience is indeed understandable; Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince promises to be the definitive global entertainment experience of 2009.
Originally slated to be released November 21 2008,
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was postponed due to the writers’ strike—but there is more to this eagerly awaited film than that.
This is the movie that “outed”exposes the character of Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter’s mentor and the beloved Principal of the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.; theThe Dumbledore fans shall see now is see a his different one character from the one they saw before.
This is also the movie that also reveals the child who grew up to become the most feared wizard in history, as it delves into the past of Voldemort. This is the coming-of-age movie of a lonely orphan once locked in a cupboard under the stairs, as Harry finds his place in a world drastically changed since the Harry Potter & Order of the Phoenix film.
This is the movie about love and friendship, as Ron and Hermione come to terms with their suppressed feelings for each other, and the characters grow up much like their younger fans—transcending the divide division between character and icon as they do so.
This is the movie in which the race to defeat Voldemort heats up, in which the search to find the Horcruxes becomes as important as the need to keep them away from Voldemort. This is the movie in which uncertainty grows as suspicions run high and the distinction between what Harry—and through him, we, the audience—know, and don’t begins to fade.
This is the story of destiny speeding towards us. And inIn the words of director David Yates, this movie is “love, potions, and rock ‘n’ roll.” The magic of Harry Potter lies not in the controversy it stirs up, or the appeal of its stars, or the cinematic experience. The magic lies in what it means to those who see their own lives echoed in the stories; if the movies are increasingly darker, the world we live in is also darker. If the specter of Voldemort haunts Harry and his friends, if it steals from them what they hold dear, if it destroys the happiness they long for, then the dark specter of terrorism does the same.
Strife affects us as it affects them. Harry Potter is the dream and the reality, the hope and the fear. It is a story in which we need desire to see the ending to, in more ways than one. That is the reason why the new Harry Potter film is still eagerly awaited. It brings us one stepone-step closer to the end even as it lets us dream, because the story that speaks it tellsto us is still incomplete. Come to the theatres on July 15th15, and let the magic begin.
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New Harry Potter Film is showing at your local cinema from 15th July 2009.
