Take a passage from towards the beginning of the Deathly Hallows, Harry is trying to convince his aunt and uncle about the mortal peril they’ve found themselves in.
With every book from three on, she talked about how the stories were getting “darker.” But while “darker” things happened-some characters died, terrible monsters appeared, and schoolyard quarrels evolved into wars of racial purification-the tone could never quite catch up to the circumstances. Rowling’s writing had that endlessly obsessive quality required of a true world builder, but her storytelling couldn’t stack up to her setting. The most memorable moments were never plot developments, but rather things like the introduction of Hogsmeade, the Quidditch World Cup, or the first reveal of Diagon Alley.
They were built on her ability to craft a world. Some training, trials, and a crisis of self-confidence later, he emerges as the true hero ready to defeat ultimate evil.īut the Harry Potter books were not built on Rowling’s ability to craft a narrative. The boy of destiny is plucked from ordinary circumstances and becomes incredulous when he’s told the truth behind his real identity. The basic story in Harry Potter is an old one, and a good one. It's rare that the movie actually fixes problems from the book, but in this case the simplicity and narrative drive of a Hollywood script was just what the series called for. It’s been able to take the Harry Potter story and turn it into the epic Rowling couldn’t manage.
It looks like the new movie, like the rest in the series, hasn’t just managed to yank a couple more million out of some blockbuster novels. Rowling’s books were long, endlessly complicated, and full of things like butterbeer, grindylows, fizzing whizbees, and boggarts.īut early reviews of the eighth and final installation of the Harry Potter series are in, and the word is that director David Yates and his cast have managed a task with near impossible expectations, to the tune of a 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Seven years ago, the Harry Potter series seemed like it was going to be hard to put on screen.
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