Film Review

By Rachel C.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP7) is one of the best movies I have ever seen EVER! You feel like the characters are lifelong friends and you get drawn into the story. You become completely unaware of your surroundings.

Harry knows he has to stop Voldemort, alone if he must, and he doesn’t want anyone to die for him or put their lives in danger for him. Does he realise how much he needs his friends? Ron is Harry’s best mate but is deeply in love with Hermione but he doesn’t want to admit it. He becomes increasingly jealous of Harry. Will his friendship end in a fight? Hermione is sensible and level headed on all occasions; she is the brains behind the mission but refuses to accept anything that isn’t logically correct. Could this be her downfall?

There’s kissing, jokes, blood, and magic all crammed into 146 minutes. Harry, Ron and Hermione have run away from school to hunt down Lord Voldemort. And they run into a lot of trouble along the way.

One of my favourite scenes is Harry making seven replicas of himself so the ‘Death Eaters’, Voldemort’s supporters, will not know which Harry is the real one.

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The plot starts with Lord Voldemort. He is unable to defeat Harry but does not understand why. Harry is about to turn seventeen and when he does he will not be protected. He will also be able to perform magic out with school. He has decided to hunt down Voldemort and destroy the Horcruxes Voldemort has made. Horcruxes are objects which have a part of a person’s soul hidden in them, this means should a person be killed he/she will not die. Voldemort made seven Horcruxes.

Harry has his friends, Ron, Hermione, Luna and (towards the end of the film) Dobby, the house elf, to help him on his mission. These are dark times in Harry’s world. Doubt and secrecy are lurking behind every corner. That and Harry, Ron and Hermione’s own disagreements make the film very dark and serious. Those who support Harry and believe that he is Voldemort’s downfall have to be very careful about expressing their beliefs.

The Deathly Hallows come into the story quite unexpectedly. At first they seem not to be related to anything in the story. Voldemort does not know about the hallows but seeks one of them. Harry has to stop him.

The Film ends on a cliff-hanger to top all cliff-hangers, you won’t be able to wait seven months for the second half to come out!