"harry potter and the deathly hallows, part 2"

and finally the end...

when the first harry potter flick came out i avoided it.  i had no interest in watching some kids movie about a wizard kid.  but EVERYONE was talking about the books and lookin' forward to the movie.  i was intrigued but never went to see it.

the 3 in the beginning...

so, a couple of years later the second movie was coming out and once again EVERYONE  was buzzing about it.  by this time i was working at the grand cinema and the buzz was even more...buzzy there.  i decided that when they showed chamber of secrets i would watch it to see what was going on.  but first i had to watch the first film.

i borrowed the first one from a friend who worked with me and was immediately sucked in to the whole world.  i even went out and bought the book!!  i read it in, like, a day and had to go buy the second one!!

by now I was excited about the movie and when we finally showed it i loved it.  i became a harry potter nut.

i went out and bought and read all the available books and over the years watched all the movies.

like the books, the movies just got better as they went along. the stories grew up with the reader and like life itself got a little darker and more difficult along the way.

i remember when sirius died and i was hopeful he would return.  but he didn't.  i was sad when dumbledore died.  i was excited when the the twins ceremoniously left hogwarts in the 5th book.  i remember being on the edge of my seat throughout the last book!!  

i loved the books and i loved all the movies as well.

so...that brings me here...to the last film.

it had been quite some time since i had read the book and i can't quite remember everything that happened and in what sequence but the final film was exactly what i would've wanted for a finale of one of the greatest movie franchises of all time.

neville longbottom is one of my favourite characters!!

every character had their moment, characters we've seen little of came back for the end.  people still died that were meant to die.  people got together that were meant to be together.  and i was happy.  there were no cop outs.  no chances of a sequel...unless she writes more books, that is...

...the 3 in the end...