2.02.2012

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Ending without a bang

Each and every one of us has a large part of our heart apportioned to the Harry Potter series of books. The wonderful magic, epic stories, fantastic battles, and feeling of growing up with the characters. After the books, the movies lived with us, each one as astonishing as the next (Well, except for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", but I will get into that another time). The movies bring us a glimpse at the astonishing work of J.K. Rowling. John Williams's breathtaking "Hedwig's Theme" brings me back to the series as much as anything. Unfortunately, the series ended without a bang. After reading the epilogue to "The Deathly Hallows" I was questioning Rowling's ability to write; as fans of the "Twilight Saga" questioned Meyer's ability to write after just the first book. I did not lose all hope in Rowling because she had written thousands of pages full of masterpieces. "The Deathly Hallows", in my opinion, would have ended better without an epilogue. In my absolute favorite movie, "Inception", it ended with a cliff hanger. This cliff hanger was a thousand times more powerful than a cheesy-happy-slap-clap-joy-yay-whoopy-doop-calamapoo ending. Christopher Nolan did eloquent work with this; he ended the epic movie with absolutely no intentions of a sequel. "Inception" would be completely ruined with a sequel. Just as "Harry Potter" was ruined with the addition of the epilogue; it inexplicably frustrated me that everything worked out like it should have. No good story magically (teehee) has many years of time elapse where there is no conflict. Not only that, but it was so cheesy what Harry and Ginny named their kid 'Albus Severus Potter', a discombobulation of the names of characters in the books. He might as well have been named ' Viktor He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Nearly-Headless-Nick Moaning-Myrtle Potter' for all I care. The epilogue in  this book was not well written, and very cliche.

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