Fantastic beasts: The secrets of Dumbledore - 2022

First of all, I’m glad Grindelwald is now played by Mikkelsen. I do like Johnny Depp but his character here was all wrong, starting with his appearance, in the previous movie he looked like Dumbledore’s grandpa, not a man of the same age…

Anyway, I quite liked the movie. I don’t like Dumbledore, the character, never have, but agree that he works for the good of the world and leave it at that. 

Details! 

Albus meets Gellert in a bar, they talk and Albus admits that he followed him once when they were younger because he was in love with him - classic Dumbledore action, as if he didn’t agree one bit back then. Gellert calls him out on that though, tells him it was more than that once, that Albus shared his dream to change and shape the world. He feels betrayed, and makes no secret of his disgust towards muggles.

Newt finds a pregnant Cilin but enemies show up and take the newborn. They go away not realizing that it had a twin. Newt takes that one.

Thanks to the little Qilin, Gellert sees snippets of the future. 

Professor Lully Hicks enrols Jacob’s help. Albus told Theseus about the blood oath, the reason he can’t fight Gellert himself. 

Albus sends the group on a mission: Newt and Theseus, Jacob, Lully, Bunty and Kama.

Jacob receives an almost-real wand, meaning the wood is real but it has no core. 

In Berlin, Kama goes one way, Bunty another, with Newt’s case. The others go to the German ministry of magic, because Newt has a message from Albus to Herr Vogel : “do what is right, not what is easy”. And yet Albus himself didn’t come.  Vogel says: “of course not, why leave Hogwarts when the world outside is burning”. Vogel gives a speech and says that after a thorough investigation, there’s no proof to condemn Grindelwald, so he is free and will be the third candidate in the upcoming elections, against Liu and Santos.

Quite surprisingly, Albus spends lots of time with his brother Aberforth. 

Theseus gets arrested in Germany, and Albus gives Newt the means to go get him: some kind of papers that gives him the right to enter, but it’s up to only him if he’ll be able to get out. Both he and Theseus need to walk and swivel , so not to be eaten by the beasts there.

Albus also sends Lully and Jacob to attend the candidates dinner, because there will be an assassination attempt.

Bunty has a man make copies of the case, six of them.

Kama joins Gellert’s group. 

Credence attacks Albus on the streets of Berlin, they fight . Albus wins, and tells him that he is indeed a Dumbledore, but not his son, and that they didn’t know about him. Then he lets him go.

Since Gellert killed the Qilin, he can see images of the future: is this why Jacob has a ‘wand’? Because now Gellert sees an image of Jacob pointing his wand? And how could Albus possibly know? Well, he knew he had the Qilin after all…

At the dinner, Jacob sees Queenie again, but she doesn’t acknowledge him. I suppose Lally saved Santos life; Jacob confronts Gellert with his wand, demanding he let Queenie go. When someone shouts Assassin! at him, Lally saves him with another portkey - that book is very useful, although that’s not how I thought portkeys worked. 

Newt and Theseus are also saved by a portkey, and once again the use is jot correct, because no activation word was spoken… it passed many hands, from Albus to Newt to Theseus to the man inside the prison, to the niffler Teddy and again Theseus.  Yet now it activated without a word…

Newt and Theseus meet Jacob and Lally again at Hogwarts - some Slytherin kids give Jacob some Cockroach Clusters, and once he hears what they are he leaves them behind with a glare while the kids sneered… which makes little sense because they’re magicals and therefore they’re normal to them, plus they actually bought those sweets, probably in Honeydukes. It’s annoying this attempt to make Slytherins look bad…

Bhutan is where the election will take place. They gather at Aberforth’s, where Bunty is waiting. Newt explains about the Qilin: “she’s incredibly rare, one of the most beloved creatures in the wizarding world”.  “ ‘cause she can see into your soul” and “if you are good and worthy, then she’ll see that. But if, on the other hand, you’re cruel and deceitful, then she’ll know that too”. Lally adds: “she bows, but only in the presence of someone truly pure of heart. I mean, almost none of us are, of course, no matter how good of a person one tries to be. There was actually a time, many many years ago, when the Qilin chose who’d lead us.”  … In this age and society, they’d be hunted down and sterminated.

Albus tells Aberforth that Credence needs him. Albus explains to Newt: “the summer Gellert and I fell in love, my brother fell in love as well, with a girl from the Hollow. She was sent away. There were rumours about a child” …  … boh, it’s not clear to me at all, why was she sent away, who did it, did Aberforth know, tey to find her, what was that all about…

Albus adds that at this point “Credence can’t be saved.” He knows because of phoenix ash. “The bird comes to him because he’s dying.” and he tells Newt that his sister was an obscurial too, “she never learned to express her magic. Over time it grew darker and began to poison her.”  About her death, Albus says: “Gellert and I had made plans tomgo away together. My brother didn’t approve. One night, he confronted us. Voices were raised, threats made. Aberforth drew his wand, which was foolish. I drew my wand, which was even more foolish. Gellert just laughed. No one heard Ariana coming down the stairs. Can’t say for certain it was my… spell. Doesn’t really matter.” 

Newt says: “ Lally said something earlier about most of us being ultimately imperfect. But even if we make mistakes, terrible things, we can try to make things right. And that’s what matters. Trying.”

Gellert uses Rennervate Vulnera Sanentur to ‘revive’ the dead Qilin, and Vogel is there to see it. Only now he learns that there was another baby Qilin. 

Newt says they’re in “the room we require” somI guess that means that they’re in Hogwarts, in the Room of Requirements. They need to take the Qilin to the ceremony, alive. They each take a case, Bunty, Newt, Theseus and Lally each take a suitcase. Jacob takes one too and leaves with Albus. Here, Albus made them think that Newt got the true one, because he wouldn’t let Jacob take that one. 

Albus tells Jacob that he can abandon his case if there’s trouble, so he does. Theseus and Lally are next in losing their cases to the enemies. At the ceremony, Newt loses his.

Aberforth comes for Credence.

Obviously the dead Qilin chooses Gellert. Queenie had approached Jacob afraid for his life, but they got caught. Right after he ‘wins’, Gellert crucios Jacob and declares war on muggles. Santos stops Jacob’s pain. 

Credence arrives and tells everyone that that Qilin is dead. Newt adds that there was another Qilin that night. Gellert denies it, and Newt thinks all is lost, but then Bunty arrives. She has the real case, and the second Qilin comes out. The dead one now appears dead, and the second one bows at Albus. He refuses, thanks the creature and tells it to choose another one, so the little one bows to Santos. (Of course it had to bow to bloody Albus Dumbledore, of course, and I admit he does want the world’s safety, come to think of it he is a politician to the bones thinking of the big picture, the world before the people…)

Gellert tries to kill Credence, but both Albus and Aberforth shoot at the spell itself to stop it. The blood oath breaks. Albus now fights Gellert but then they stop, sort of even. Gellert does not let them take him, of course. He escapes. 

Credence is very weak, and Aberforth is with him, and takes him home. Albus lets Jacob keep his ‘wand’; Jacob is happy because he got Queenie back. 

Albus shows Newt the broken blood oath, and then he nods his promise to Theseus to find Gellert and stop him. 

At the end, there’s Jacob and Queenie’s wedding. Of course the maid of honor is her sister Tina. Albus does not enter. Albus thanks Newt for his help, and Newt says he’d do it again, should he ever ask. 

There’s Newt and Theseus and Tina and Lally and Bunty, and Jacob marries his Queenie, and there’s Albert who works there.

Albus looks in from outside then walks away.

Albus… Jude Law

Gellert… Mads Mikkelsen

Newt… Eddie Redmayne

Jacob… Dan Fogler

Theseus… Callum Turner

Lally… Jessica Williams

Queenie… Alison Sudol

Credence… Ezra Miller

Aberforth… Richard Coyle

Bunty… Victoria Yeates

Tina… Katherine Waterstone

Vogel… Oliver Masucci

Liu Tao… Dave Wong

Santos… Maria Fernanda Candido

Minerva… Fiona Glascott

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Fantastic Beasts: The crimes of Grindelwald - 2018

 Not bad. 

Grindelwald is in prison in America, after what happened in the first movie. They transfer him to London but on the way it is revealed that he changed place with a guard who took his side, Abernathy. Grindelwald escapes.

Newt has a ban on international travels after what happened in New York. Dumbledore sent him there, and now he tells him that Credence, still alive, is in Paris and Newt must find him.

Queenie and Jacob come to London. Tina is dating someone else because she read in a paper that he was engaged to Leta Lestrange, while actually it’s his brother Theseus.

Jacob remembers everything, but now Newt can see that Queenie enchanted him to get him to marry her. He does love her, but is worried for her because their union is against the law.

Newt lift the enchantment. When Queenie leaves, Newt and Jacob go to Paris where she went, because Tina is there. Credence is forced to work in a freak circus. He wants to escape with Nagini, a Maledictus, a girl forced by a blood curse to become a giant snake until one day she won’t be able to transform back. 

Grindelwald’s people are looking for Credence too, and also Yusuf Kama and Tina.

Grindelwald wants him because he says Credence is the only one that can kill Dumbledore.

Newt pays 50 galleons for an illegal portkey to France. Credence goes to see Irma thinking she’s his mother, but she was just a servant.

Grimson has been sent by the English Ministry. His task is to kill him, but he kills Irma instead. The Obscurus attacks him but Grimson’s shield resists. He killed Irma on purpose, under Grindelwald’s orders.

Kama imprisons Jacon and Newt with Tina, but Newt’s stick-insect picks the lock freeing them.

Kama says either Credence dies or he will.

Travers of Magical Law Enforcement doesn’t like Dumbledore, but Dumbledore says he “can’t” fight Grindelwald, because they were “closer than brothers”. (btw, why is Grindelwald so white if they’re roughly the same age?Whey they’re shown as younger, they seemed kids the same age).

Queenie could not find Tina but Grindelwald’s woman ally finds her. He offers her a world where they can love freely, whoever they want.

The safe house Dumbledore told Newt about is Flamel’s house. Jacob sees that Queenie is at the Lestrange tomb in Flamel’s crystal ball. 

Yusuf’s story: a Lestrange imperiused him mother into going with him, leaving her husband and son. She died giving birth to Leta. Lestrange remarried and Corvus was born.

To protect him from Kama’s revenge, they sent Corvus away to America, and Yusuf is sure that is Credence, but Leta says she killed Corvus as a child. She exchanged babies because Corvus wouldn’t stop crying, so the real Corvus died when the ship they were on sank. Leta doesn’t know who the baby was, at the time she was a child too and didn’t know him.

Now they all find themselves against lots of purebloods come to hear Grindelwald’s words.

He speaks like a great orator, then sends his followers away to spread his word. Credence goes to him because he says Grindelwald knows who he is. Queenie joins him too.

Leta dies to make them escape.

Flamel comes to help them stop Grindelwald’s sort-of-white-fire that would otherwise destroy Paris. Jacob and Nagini both cry, now alone after “losing” their loved one.

The Scamander brothers hug each other. 

Newt’s niffler got Grindelwald’s jewel with the drops of his and Albus’ blood. Their blood pact, when they swore not to fight each other. If Albus can destroy it, then he will be able to fight him.

Queenie and Credence live with Grindelwald now, and Grindelwald calls Credence Aurelius Dumbledore.

The end.

Newt - Eddie Redmayne

 Grindelwald - Johnny Depp

Albus - Jude Law

Jacob - Dan Fogler

Queenie - Alison Sudol

Tina - Katherine Waterstone

Leta - Zoë Kravitz

Theseus - Callum Turner

Credence - Ezra Miller

Nagini - Claudia Kim

Young Grindelwald - Jamie Campbell Bower

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets - 2002

 

The kids are growing up :p they are still children and yet non so small nd tender as they were before. They are twelve now.

It starts with a sad Harry who has received no letters from his friends, and a frustrated Edwig that is kept in her cage as to uncle Vernon's orders. It's going to be a special dinner for the Dursley and they want him to hide in his room (Dudley's second bedroom) and pretend he doesn't exist, but then Harry finds Dobby the house elf in his room, making lots of noise when he keeps punishing himself, and also insisting he can't go back to Hogwarts because it will be dangerous. Dobby stole his letters, and to force matters, he has the big cake made by aunt Petinia fall on the head of the lady guest. This enrages Vernon, and he puts bars outside Harry's window saying he'll never go back to school.

Ron arrives to rescue him with Fred and George driving their dad's flying car, and take him home with them. Vernon falls down the window trying to stop Harry from escaping. Mum is very upset with them. 

When their letters arrive (Harry's too) they go to Diagon Alley via floo, but it was Harry's first time and he did it wrong... he ends up in a dark place. He goes out and is scared by all the scary people out there. He was in Knocturn Alley, but luckily Hagrid found him. They meet Hermione who repairs his glasses again (the only one who always notices) and the children join the Weasley again to go get their books. Lockhart gifts him his books that Molly wants to get signed, apparently all witches are crazy about him. Draco sees the scene and comes to taunt him.  (What page did Draco rip from the book he was reading, and why???)

Lucius arrives and Harry does shake his hand. Lucius makes it pretty clear what his opinion of muggles is, thinking Weasley is a disgrace to wizards because he associates with muggles and stuff... 

At the train station, they all hurry to the train, leaving Ron and Harry behind, but they can't pass through the barrier. Harry suggests waiting by the car, and Ron has the idea of flying it to Hogwarts. 

As they arrive, the car stops working, Ron breaks his wand and they land on the tree, which starts battering the car until it falls down. The car then ejects both them and their stuff and drives away by itself.

Snape is furious with them for being seen by muggles and damaging the whomping willow, and he'd like to expel them (of course, saying the willow had been there since before they were born does not say much, they are only 12 after all...) but of course Dumbledore and McGonagall will not. Dumbledore 's tone of voice is very irritating, as if he loaths Snape which is very annoying indeed  

Lesson 1, repotting mandrakes: Longbottom faints and a mandrake bites Draco's finger.

Colin Creevey takes pictures of Harry. Ron puts some tape to keep his broken wand in one piece, and also receives an howler at breakfast. His mum is very angry. Lockhart is such a peacock, and all the girls crush on him, even Hermione. He has a whole cage of Cornish Pixies, and it's total chaos when he open it. He's not able to do anything more than flee the room, finally Hermione uses Immobulus.

The Quidditch team learns that Draco made the team and bought everyone new brooms. Draco calls Hermione a filthy little mudblood and Ron curses him with his broken wand and it backfires and it's very disgusting when he keeps vomiting slugs.

They go to Hagrid and somehow Hermione is the one to teach the kids what mudblood means. How does she know??? Not likely that she found it out in a book.

Harry's detention with Lockhart is very boring, but at least not dangerous. Harry hears a voice that nobody else can hear and runs to follow, then  finds the petrified Mrs Norris. All of the sudden the whole castle seems to assemble right there...

During a class with McGonagall, Hermione asks about the chamber of secrets. She does answer... but let me tell you, this tale of Salazar being so opposed to muggleborns and stuff... it does not make complete sense, you know, since the four founders built the school together and all, to think that they were so different...

Slytherin vs Griffindor quidditch game, a bludger goes mad, even destroying the stands in its mad pursuit of Harry. And nobody does anything... I mean, of course not Snape, sit next to Lucius Malfoy as he is, bit what about Dumbledore? We even see Hermione destroying the ball at the end, after Harry is on the ground, still no adult doing anything...

After Lockhart vanishes his arm bones, he spends the night in the infirmary and Dobby appears to confess that he is behind the bludger and also he stopped the barrier from opening for him... he insists Harry must leave Hogwarts...

 Hermione starts brewing the polijuice potion during the day in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

Lockhart starts his dueling club, Snape floors him with an expelliarmus, then Snape suggests teaching the children defensive spells... and for that they have Potter and Malfoy duel on stage... after Draco casts Serpensortia, Snape wants to help get rid of it, but Lockhart complicates things as usual, then Harry talks to it and they all learn he can talk to snakes.

When the attacks go on, students being petrified, McGonagall takes him to Dumbledore's office... and leaves him there, alone! Finally Dumbledore appears but Harry tells him nothing... of course not, how could he ever trusts an adult with his secrets, given the adults around him...??

A month has passed, the potion is ready, Harry and Ron turn into Crabbe and Goyle ( although their voices are still their own...). (Ron is Crabbe and Harry is Goyle)

Malfoy appears and leads them to the Slytherin common room, they have just the time to learn that Malfoy had no idea who the heir of Slytherin is, that they have to run, already turning back into themselves.

Hermione is half cat now. Myrtle complains someone threw a book at her, and Harry picks it up. It's a blanc book with the name Tom Marvolo Riddle written on it. Of course he doesn't know who it is, perish the thought that the kids were taught anything at all...

Harry asks the book about the chamber, and is shown a scene from 50 years back. Riddle was worried the school would be closed if the responsible for a student's death was not found, he had nowhere else to go... Harry sees Riddle confront Hagrid about his monster-friend, and that's how it happened that Hagrid was expelled.

Harry's stuff has been ransacked, someone got Riddle's diary. 

The next Quidditch game is cancelled (Oliver Wood is shocked about that). Hermione has been petrified too.

Harry takes out his invisibility cloak to sneak out to see Hagrid with Ron, when Dumbledore arrives with minister Fudge. Lucius arrives too. Hagrid is to be taken to Azkaban, and Dumbledore himself have been suspended. Before leaving, Hagrid tells the kids to "follow the spiders" and they do (how is it that there are still spiders leaving Hogwarts? It's been more than a month since we saw spiders fleeing, isn't it???). Inside the forest, they are confronted by a huge, gigantic talking spider. Aragog would happily leave them to be eaten  by all the "family" of spiders, luckily Ron's car comes to the rescue... no explanation will ever be given for that...

One more proof that to be a hero one needs only be lucky...

The car was moving by itself when it rescued them, but somehow now Ron needs to drive it... who knows why... 

Even when petrified, Hermione is the one solving the mystery when Harry finds a paper on basilisks in her hand. When Ginny Weasley is taken into the chamber, both Snape and McGonagall appear satisfied to let Lockhart deal with it ( ok, in theory they have no idea where the chamber is, but what are they doing exactly???)

Harry and Ron run to Lockhart's office, to help him save Ginny, but find him packing. He confesses he did nothing of what he wrote in his books, he just took the memory away from those who did it.

He tries to escape, but Harry and Ron draw their wand at him... they go ask Myrtle how she died, then Harry speaks parseltoungue at the sink at it opens. They threw Lockhart in first, then go down. 

They find the huge skin and Lockhart pretends to faint to get Ron's wand and obliviate them, but it backfires on him. Rocks collapse, separating the kids. Lockhart remembers nothing, Ron hits him to shut him up. Harry goes on, speaks parseltongue to open a door with snakes on it and sees Ginny and drops his wand. Tom takes it, Harry still believes he will help until Tom explains he made her do it. He has to literally spell it out for him: I am lord Voldemort is the anagram of Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Harry insists Dumbledore is the greatest wizard, so Fawkes brings him the Hat. Tom calls the basilisk, Harry runs and falls down. Fawkes blinds it, and Tom is so nice to inform him of this fact :lol

Harry keeps running, then he sees the Sword appear inside the hat, then he stabs it inside the mouth, and a tooth hurts him. He takes the bloody tooth and stabs the diary killing memory-Tom. Ginny wakes up, Fawkes cries on Harry's wound closing it. Fawkes flies them all out of there, Ron and Lockhart too. 

After telling Ron and Harry that they broke so many school rules they should be expelled, Dumbledore gives them both "special awards for services to the school". Harry tells him he noticed similarities between himself and Tom, and then since Lord Voldemort gave him some of his powers he thinks he should have been in Slytherin, but since Harry asked the hat to put him in Gryffindor, his choice made him different, and only a true Gryffindor could pull the sword out of the hat.

I hate this bit so much, it's like saying that being a Slytherin means being evil, that he is not evil because he is in Gryffindor... (Snape and Pettigrew, people!)

Lucius arrives and Dumbledore explains to him that it was Lord Voldemort through the diary that did it all. Lucius goes away, Harry runs to him to give him back the diary accusing him of giving it to Ginny. Lucius gives the diary to Dobby, who finds a sock in it and is free. Lucius is angry but Dobby defends Harry. Lucius tells Harry that he'll meet his parents' end.

End of school, all the petrified are back, Hermione runs to hug Harry but she only shakes hands with Ron. Ok, they're almost 13 at this point, or maybe they already are, not sure about their birthdays, but it's too soon anyway, the characters don't know yet, it was wrong to make this scene like this, I hate it.

So, school exams are cancelled, Hagrid comes back and there's a standing ovation for him, and it's the end 

Harry - Daniel Radcliffe

Hermione - Emma Watson

Ron - Rupert Grint

Snape - Alan Rickman

Lockhart - Kenneth Branagh

Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane

Draco - Tom Felton

Dumbledore - Richard Harris

McGonagall - Dame Maggie Smith

Flitwick - Warwick Davis

Lucius - Jason Isaacs

Nearly Headless Nick - John Cleese

Vernon - Richard Griffiths

Petunia - Fiona Shaw

Dobby - Toby Jones

Fred - James Phelps

George - Oliver Phelps

Mrs Weasley - Julie Walters

Ginny - Bonnie Wright

Neville - Matthew Lewis

Seamus - Devon Murray

Filch - David Bradley

Tom Riddle - Christian Coulson

After the end of the credits, we can see another scene, there is a poster of a mad Lockhart with his name and "Who am I?" written on it.

 shop, and sees Lucius Malfoy there. Luckily Draco didn't see him.

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban - 2004

 

This movie was nice but it was also a bit frustrating. Well, when I think about it, this is not the only one that is frustrating, the frustration is into the story, I mean, in this one we see (and therefore Harry does, because we know only what he knows, all his books are from his point of view) that Snape is the one who wants to warn him and protect him, and yet since he is not ‘nice’ Harry goes on thinking he’s evil. The kid doesn’t know that ‘nice’ is easily faked, but when it comes to it, Snape is the one that actively did something, always. They all love Hagrid though, sure he’s a good one and very nice, but he’s also totally irresponsible!

Plot in details:

Harry is practicing his Lumos Maxima at night, hiding it from his uncle. Isn’t this ‘magic outside of school’? Or it’s only forbidden if muggles see you? Because I thought he couldn’t do anything, they say it quite often, and yet he has his wand and is doing magic…

Harry wants Vernon to sign a permission paper, but Marge has come to visit and she’s awful, a truly horrible woman. When she starts insulting his father and even worse his mother, he loses control and Marge inflates and starts floating. Harry is so angry, he takes all his stuff in his trunk, his wand and walks out. When he says Marge deserved it, Vernon launches himself at him but Harry’s got his wand so he stops. Harry says “anywhere is better than here” and out he goes.

He sees a black dog, rather scary, so he takes out his wand and the Knight Bus appears. He goes to the Leaky Cauldron where the Minister tells him “no harm done” about Marge, but that it was irresponsible to go out alone with a murderer on the loose. Harry learned that Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban only on the Knight Bus.

Next day, Ron and Hermione are there fighting because she’s got a cat and he’s got a rat. He’s back from a trip to Egypt. All the Weasleys are there. Arthur tells him he’s in danger, that Black escaped to come find him, and to not go looking for him.

On the train, they sit with Lupin. The train stops when Dementors check it and Harry hears screaming and faints. Lupin gives them all chocolate. (His patronus was just light, wasn’t it? not corporeal)

At school, they learn Lupin is the new Defence against the dark arts teacher (DADA) and Hagrid the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher. Also, there will be dementors outside the school, the Ministry insisted.

Harry has fun with his friends in his dorm room.

The first lesson is Divination and Harry has the Grim in his tea leaves. Then Hagrid takes them to see a hippogriff and teaches them how to open the book (nobody knew how to do it, only it was Draco who commented on it in his usual snotty way and Hagrid snapped at him his answer as if it was obvious). Harry bows to Buckbeak and gets to pat him and then fly on him. Draco insults it and it kicks his arm so Hagrid carries him to the hospital (because Hermione told him to).

Lupin teaches them Riddikulus. Neville says he’s scared of Snape and Lupin tells him to imagine him in his grandma’s clothes. A few of them try, then Harry has a dementor, Lupin intervenes and he has the moon, and it’s the end of lesson.

Another one cut short. They don’t seem to teach a lot in this school, do they?

Harry can’t go to Hogsmead with no permission, all his yearmates go. Lupin tells Harry he knew Lily: “your mother was there for me at a time when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even and perhaps most especially when that person could not see it in themselves. And your father, James, on the other hand, he had a certain, shall we say, talent for trouble.”

Back from the trip, Gryffindors can’t enter their dormitory because the fat Lady is gone and her portrait slashed. When she’s found, she says Sirius is in the castle so they are in lockdown. Snape asks Dumbledore if Potter should be warned, but Dumbledore says not now. 

When Lupin ‘can’t teach’, Snape teaches them about werewolves. Hermione speaks without being called, and Draco blows an origami to Harry.

The next day is Quidditch, despite the awful weather. Harry is attacked by dementors and falls off his broom. He’s ok but his broomstick got smashed by the Whomping Willow. Next Hogsmead trip, he tries to go under his cloak, but there’s snow everywhere so the twins catch him right away and they give him the Marauder’s map, so he sneaks into Honeydukes.

Ron and Hermione are watching the Shrieking Shack when Malfoy comes to annoy them, then all of a sudden ‘something invisible’ throws snow at him and his 2 ‘friends’, until they run terrorised. Hermione got it right away that it was Harry, Ron didn’t.

Hermione wants Harry to give the map to the teachers but then he hears something and uses his cloak to sneak after McGonagall and Fudge to hear the story of what Black ‘did’, and that he is Harry’s godfather. Now Harry cries and wants to kill Black.

The holidays are over so Lupin teaches him the Patronus Charm. On his second try, he gets a bright light that defeats the boggart/dementor.

Ron and Hermione are fighting because Ron’s rat is gone and he accuses her cat. 

There was a hearing for Draco’s accident and Buckbeak’s been sentenced to death.

Harry sees Peter Pettigrew’s name on the map at night, tries to follow the dot but of course he can’t see him. Snape finds Harry and sees the map and the map insults him.

Lupin arrives and takes the map from Snape, but then he is upset with Harry for not giving them the map, that if it fell in the hands of Black could have been very dangerous, and he also tells him that he has “a poor way to repay them”, his parents for their sacrifice. That was nasty.

Harry tells him it doesn’t work anyway because he saw Peter’s name on it and he’s dead.

Trelawney tells Hermione she has no gift for divination so she leaves the class. When alone, Harry hears Trelawney speaking a prophecy of something about to happen that night.

Draco wants to watch Buckbeak’s execution (so he says, but he’s quite far away to actually see anything, I think that’s all bravado). Hermione gets angry : “you foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach” is her best line, then she points her wand at him, then she lowers it but instead punches him in the face.

Hagrid found Scabbers and gives him back to Ron. They run from the back of his hut when Dumbledore, Fudge and the executioner arrive. 

Scabbers runs from him, so Ron goes after it. The black dog bites Ron’s leg and drags him under the whomping willow. Hermione throws Harry in and then herself… quite strong that girl, huh?

They go down and find Ron in the Shrieking Shack with animagus Sirius Black. Harry attacks him but Lupin saves Black. They hug, and now Hermione reveals she knows he’s a werewolf ever since that lesson with Snape. Both adults want to kill Peter, but Snape runs in. He does not kill Black, but he believes him guilty and wants to turn him in. Harry takes Hermione’s wand and expelliarmus him. Harry wants to hear what happened, and they tell him the truth and revert the rat Scabbers into Peter, they want to kill him but Harry stops them, then Sirius and Harry help Ron out, Hermione walks, Remus brings Peter out (very much awake and alert, too. Nobody there is bright enough to even consider the idea of ropes, or even better of stunning him and levitate him to the castle, they must have levitation charms for sure, they’re important in the medical field)

Sirius asks Harry to come live with him and Harry agrees enthusiastically (he doesn’t question that, but okay, twelve years in Azkaban he’s not right in the head). 

It’s full moon and Lupin did not take his potion, so Scabbers escape while Lupin transforms. Snape comes out on his own and sees the werewolf and puts himself between it and the three kids, and keeps doing it while the black dog fights it and lures him away, until Harry runs after them, but luckily it gets distracted by howling and goes away.

Harry runs after dog-Sirius, and the dementors find them, lots of them, but a big stag-patronus saves them. Harry wakes up in the hospital wing and Dumbledore suggests Hermione uses her time-turner to save Sirius and Buckbeak.

Ron can’t walk so she can only take Harry.

Back three hours to 7.30, they go first to save Buckbeak; Hermione lures him away with dead ferrets. Then the plan is to save Sirius. They wait for everyone to exit the shack. It was Hermione who did the howling and then Buckbeak saves them from the werewolf.

Harry thinks he saw his dad conjure the patronus but nobody comes and he conjures the patronus himself. Then they fly Buckbeak up to the tower and save Sirius. They say their goodbyes then Sirius flies away on Buckbeak and they run back to the infirmary. 

Harry finds Lupin packing, he resigned because ‘someone’ let out that he’s a werewolf. (Again, everyone is against the totally-not-nice Snape, but Lupin DID forget his potion and he DID put students in danger and he DID let Peter get away, so…)

Lupin gives the map back to Harry then goes away .

Harry receives an anonymous gift, with a hippogriff feather : it’s a Firebolt, and he runs outside to try it right away.

The end credits are shown as if on the Marauder’s Map.

Harry - Daniel Radcliffe

Hermione - Emma Watson

Ron - Rupert Grint

Snape - Alan Rickman

Draco - Tom Felton

Dumbledore - Michael Gambon

McGonagall - Maggie Smith

Sirius - Gary Oldman

Remus - David Thewlis

Peter - Timothy Spall

Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane

Fudge - Robert Hardy

Vernon - Richard Griffiths

Petunia - Fiona Shaw

George - Oliver Phelps

Fred - James Phelps

Mollie - Julie Walters

Ginny - Bonnie Wright

Arthur - Mark Williams

Flitwick - Warwick Davis  (written as “wizard”)

The Fat Lady - Dawn French

Trelawney - Emma Thompson

Rosmerta - Julie Christie

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 - 2011

 There are dementors around Hogwarts. Snape is headmaster. Griphook tells our kids that Snape put a fake sword in Bellatrix’s vault at Gringotts. Griphook agrees to get them into Gringotts at the price of the sword. Ollivander recognises Bellatrix’s wand, and also Draco’s, but his wand has changed allegiance after he ‘defeated’ Draco. Hermione changes into Bellatrix and they go to Gringotts (it was funny to see Bellatrix with a nice, school-girl like expression :D)

Harry imperios the goblin at the bank when he asks to see Bellatrix’s wand (why exactly? they have it. Maybe it’s not safe to use it, but they could show it anyway…)

It’s a long ride down to the vault, there’s a poor dragon chained there. They find the cup but then Griphook leaves and calls security, so they jump on the dragon and free him. Many goblins, included Griphook if I’m not mistaken, died.

Harry has a vision, so he knows he needs something from Ravenclaw. They go to Hogsmead and Aberforth lets them in. He’s bitter about his brother but helps them get into Hogwarts through a secret passage and they meet Neville who tells them he hardly sees Snape at all, it’s the Carrows who are dangerous. They want students to practice crucio on first years. Neville got punished because he refused. Many kids hide with him in the Room of Requirement. Luna suggests what they’re looking for might be the lost diadem of Ravenclaw. 

Snape asks everyone if they’ve seen him and he comes forward, yelling at him. The rest of the order is behind him. McGonagall comes forward surprising him, he lowers his wand for a second; Minerva casts at him, but like with Harry Snape only blocks. He does not attack her, instead apparates away (I suppose he can because he’s the headmaster now. Still, when Umbridge was headmistress the school didn’t open the head-office for her… but it does cooperate with Snape…). Now Voldemort speaks to their minds, to hand Harry over and none will be harmed… Pansy shouts to gram him, but all the DA and the Order is with him. McGonagall tells Filch to lead Pansy and all Slytherin students to the Dungeons. Ron has the idea to look for a basilisk fang. The school prepares to fight to give Harry time. Luna runs after Harry and forces him to listen to her, she has the right idea to ask a ghost about the diadem. The Grey Lady, Helena, Rowena’s daughter, is a friend of Luna so she’s really cool and angry at Tom for lying to her and filling it with dark magic. He runs to the Room of Hidden Things.

Ron speaks parseltongue (because Harry talks in his sleep) to get to the Chamber of secrets, and he has Hermione destroy the cup. Then they kiss.

Voldemort’s army gets past Hogwarts shields. 

Draco, with Goyle and Blaise for some reason, find Harry in the Room, when he finds the diadem. Draco has his mom’s wand and wants his own back. Ron and Hermione arrive, they fight. Ron screams that Goyle set the place on fire and they run. Huge, dragon like flames, and Goyle can’t stop it. Draco climbs higher, Ron finds brooms. Goyle falls into the fire. Harry comes back for Draco, Ron takes Blaise.

Draco runs away. They stab the diadem and throw it into the fire. Through a vision, Harry knows Nagini is the last horcrux. Lucius asks Voldemort to stop the attack and simply “seek the boy” himself. Then Voldemort asks him: “how can you live with yourself, Lucius?” - “I don’t know”

There’s giants and acromantula too in his army. It looks like a bloodbath.

Hermione stops Fenrir from eating Lavender (she looks dead), still our trio has to run. Voldemort complains to Snape that the elder wand doesn’t truly answer to him, because he thinks it belongs to Snape because he killed Dumbledore. So he has Nagini kill Snape. Harry goes to him, Snape has tears on his face and tells Harry to take them. (tears in the pensieve???)

Voldemort orders his people to retreat and tells Harry to go to him. There’s a bit of calm to collect the dead and injured, and we see Fred died, and so did Remus and Tonks, and many more. Harry watches the memories of Snape meeting Lily and Petunia as children, being in different houses, Snape begging Dumbledore to protect them, Lily talking to baby Harry (how can this be a memory from Snape??? Was he there???)

Snape vowing to protect the boy but with nobody knowing. Albus only having a year to live and asking Severus to do it, to kill him. Albus telling him that Harry is the last horcrux, Snape outraged that Harry was raised so he could die at Voldemort’s hand. Harry sees Snape’s patronus, it was the one which guided him to the sword in the lake. He tells everything to Ron and Hermione, and then he goes, after reminding them to kill the snake. Now that he’s ready to die, the snitch Albus gave him opens and the Resurrection Stone floats out. Mom, dad, Sirius and Remus appear but they can’t touch, only talk. He drops the stone and goes to Voldemort. Hagrid is there, in chains. Voldemort AKs Harry, and Harry meets Albus again. Harry has a choice, go back or go on. Albus repeats that help will always be given to those who ask for it, then changes it a bit: “help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who deserve it” … which is… what does it mean, did those who died not deserve help??? Or that’s not the help he means?

Narcissa goes to Harry without anyone asking, she sees he’s alive and asks about Draco, if he’s alive; Harry nods and she says: “dead”.

Hagrid carries his body while Voldemort and all his people reach Hogwarts. “Harry Potter is dead”, he announces. Lucius and Narcissa call Draco to them, then Neville limps onwards. He makes a speech, very true, about going on and keep fighting, more or less, then shows he has the sword of Gryffindor. Harry jumps down and runs. Narcissa takes Draco away with her, Lucius goes too. (Did they ever look if he was following? I think mom and son just walked away, not caring if Lucius went or not)

Bellatrix casts at Ginny and Molly kills her, disintegrates her. If you’re a girl it’s quite cool her Not-my-daughter!, but still, was she not motivated enough before?

Ron and Hermione try to kill the snake, then Neville comes with the sword and kills it. Harry and Voldemort can feel it, they cross spells again… and then the elder wand floats into Harry’s hand and Voldemort becomes dust. Not clear why.

Harry tells Ron and Hermione about the elder wand being his, then he breaks it in two pieces and throws them away.

19 years later, the terrible epilogue:

Harry with his wife Ginny and three children, Albus is going to Hogwarts for the first time. Draco is there with his wife and child. Not clear if they see each other. Ron and Hermione are there with their two. 

Albus Severus is worried he might end up in Slytherin so Harry tells him ‘Severus’ was the bravest man he’s ever known, that it doesn’t matter where he’ll be, but then he ruins it all by telling him that if he wants he can choose, that the hat listens to students. 

The end.

Harry - Daniel Radcliffe

Ron - Rupert Grint

Hermione - Emma Watson

Snape - Alan Rickman

Draco - Tom Felton

Dumbledore - Michael Gambon

McGonagall - Maggie Smith

Bellatrix - Helena Bonham Carter

Arthur - Mark Williams

Molly - Julie Walters

Fred - James Phelps

George - Oliver Phelps

Ginny - Bonnie Wright

Neville - Matthew Lewis

Luna - Evanna Lynch

Narcissa - Helen McCrory

Grirphook - Warwick Davis

Wormtail - Timothy Spall

Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane

Lupin - David Thewlis

Tonks - Natalia Tena

Voldemort - Ralph Fiennes

Lucius - Jason Isaacs

Kingsley - George Harris

Bill - Domhnall Gleeson

Fleur - Clémence Poésy

Ollivander - John Hurt

Percy - Chris Rankin

Helena Ravenclaw - Kelly MacDonald

Seamus - Devon Murray

Lavender - Jessie Cave

Cormac - Freddie Stroma

Dean - Alfie Enoch

Cho - Katie Leung

Slughorn - Jim Broadbent

Pansy - Scarlett Byrne

Goyle - Josh Herdman

Blaise - Louis Cordice

Sprout - Miriam Margolyes

Pomfrey - Gemma Jones

Flitwick - Warwick Davis

Filch - David Bradley

Fenrir - Dave Legeno

Trelawney - Emma Thompson

Young Lily - Ellie Darcey-Alden

Young Severus - Benedict Clarke

Sirius - Gary Oldman

The kids names are Albus Severus, Lily and James Potter, Astoria’s son is Scorpius Malfoy, then Rose and Hugo Weasley.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 - 2010

 Hermione is worried about Muggles families being killed so she obliviates her parents. Her image disappears from all pictures. The Dursleys leave their home. Hermione leaves hers.

Voldemort dines with all his death eaters plus a dying woman hovering over it. Having the twin wand of Harry’s, Voldemort needs another one to kill him, so he takes Lucius’ wand. Poor professor Burbage of Muggle studies, Voldemort kills her with that wand. Draco’s face is a mix between wanting to cry and feeling sick, Lucius is a trembling, cowering man, the shadow of who he was.

Harry packs, takes a last look at his cupboard then Hagrid arrives with Ron and Hermione. There’s also Moody, Arthur, Kingsley, Fred and George, Bill and Fleur, Lupin and Tonks, now married. Also Mundungus. Half of them take polijuice and look like lots of Harrys, while the others stay close as protectors. They fly but are attacked by death eaters.

Hedwig gets AKed saving him. They all reach Molly but George has been injured and Moody is dead, Mundungus disapparated away. 

Harry tries to sneak away, but Ron tells him Moody died, not for HIM, but for the cause, and that they wouldn’t last two days without Hermione. 

The Minister comes to give Ron a deluminator, to Hermione a copy of the Tales of Beedle the Bard, to Harry the first snitch he ever caught, all left to them by Dumbledore. He also left Harry the Sword of Gryffindor but it’s missing and nobody’s property.

It’s Bill and Fleur’s wedding. Harry speaks to Doge, learning for the first time Dumbledore had a brother.

The Ministry has fallen, the wedding is attacked, our trio apparates away. Hermione has all their stuff in her little bag.

They go to Grimmauld Place, Ron finds out Regulus is RAB, Kreacher says he tried hard to destroy the locket but Mundungus got it, along with many other things. 

The new Minister, after the other died, works for Voldemort. Umbridge is at his side.

Snatchers roam the streets looking for Harry. Mundungus tells them Umbridge has the locket now. They take the place of three ministry employee and go in. The ministry is now persecuting muggleborns. They save one, stun Umbridge, take the locket and escape. They apparate away, Ron gets splinched but Hermione has dittany in her bag. They sleep in a tent and try a lot to destroy the locket but no spell works. Harry wears it. He also keeps having visions of Voldemort wanting something from Ollivander and Gregorovich. They walk a lot, Hermione realises the sword could destroy the horcrux, and because of that horcrux on Ron’s neck the boys have a nasty word-fight and he leaves. Harry dances with Hermione to cheer her up. 

They go to Godric’s Hollow. Hermione finds a symbol drawn on the Beedle’s book, the same Luna’s father had on him, the same she sees on Ignotus Peverell’s grave. They talk to Bathilda Bagshot but have to escape when she turns out to be the snake Nagini.

Harry’s wand got broken. In a vision, he saw Grindelwald steal a wand from Gregorovich. At night, Harry follows a patronus to a frozen lake. There’s the sword at its bottom, so Harry undresses and goes in to take it. The locket almost kills him but Ron saves him and gets the sword. They destroy the locket and Ron says “only three to go”… (well, shouldn’t he say 4? 3 are destroyed so 4 more to make 7, isn’t that the number Tom wanted? How can they know they have to find 3???)

The Deluminator told Ron where to find them. Ron gives Harry a wand he took off a snatcher. They go to see Mr Lovegood and hear about the Deathly Hallows, the story of the three brothers: one got the elder wand, killed a man, bragged about being invincible and got his throat sliced while he was sleeping by someone who took the wand. The second brother recalled from death the girl he loved, but she wasn’t alive and didn’t belong here, he became mad and killed himself. The third one was never found by death until he was too old and gave the cloak to his son. The three hallows together make the master of death.

After that, he tries to keep them inside because the bad guys took his Luna, and as soon as he says Voldemort’s name they arrive. The trio apparates away but snatchers are there to chase them. 

Voldemort asked Grindelwald too and was told Dumbledore has the wand.

The trio is caught, Hermione alters Harry’s face and they’re brought to the Manor; Bellatrix calls Draco to identify him. Draco looks at him and recognises him but says that he’s not sure. 

Bellatrix sees the sword and wants to ‘speak’ with Hermione. 

Hermione screams a lot, poor girl.

The boys see Ollivander and Luna in the cellars, then Dobby takes them away - It was actually one of the best scenes when Harry, shocked, asks Dobby if he can really go in and out of that cell with them, and he replies very matter-of-factly that “Of course. I’m an elf”  :) Nobody ever thinks of the elves, not even Hermione.

Dobby helps them out, but Bellatrix kills him. They escape but Dobby dies in Harry’s arms. Harry took the two wands in Draco’s hands.

The elder wand is buried with Dumbledore and Voldemort takes it. 

Before Dobby arrived, Bellatrix sees Harry’s face and says “call him” but Draco doesn’t want to. Lucius is about to do it when Dobby drops the chandelier. So they have both Bellatrix and Narcissa’s wands plus how many did he get from Draco’s hands? Two?

Harry - Daniel Radcliffe

Ron - Rupert Grint

Hermione - Emma Watson

Snape - Alan Rickman

Draco - Tom Felton

Dumbledore - Michael Gambon

Bellatrix - Helena Bonham Carter

Arthur - Mark Williams

Molly - Julie Walters

Fred - James Phelps

George - Oliver Phelps

Ginny - Bonnie Wright

Neville - Matthew Lewis

Luna - Evanna Lynch

Griphook - Warwick Davis

Narcissa - Helen McCrory

Wormtail - Timothy Spall

Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane

Lupin - David Thewlis

Tonks - Natalia Tena

Voldemort - Ralph Fiennes

Lucius - Jason Isaacs

Scrimgeour - Bill Nighy

Petunia - Fiona Shaw

Moody - Brendan Gleeson

Kingsley - George Harris

Bill - Domhnall Gleeson

Fleur - Clémence Poésy

Ollivander - John Hurt

Xenophilius - Rhys Ifans

Umbridge - Imelda Staunton

Albert Runcorn - David O’Hara

Skeeter - Miranda Richardson

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