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$\"\"$ <\/a> We have been muggling along for thirteen plus years now with the Harry Potter saga.\u00a0 It\u2019s been an interesting and sometimes wild ride into the imagination of the good Ms. Rowling.\u00a0 Ms. Rowling readily admits her influences, most obviously\u00a0 Tolkien and Lewis, and says she is also a professing Christian.\u00a0 It is thus not surprising that in this final episode of the Potter saga, a \u2018resurrection stone\u2019 plays a key role in the revival and final triumph of Harry Potter over evil in the form of Voldemort and his buddies.\u00a0\u00a0 We saw this film in IMAX 3D, something new for Harry Potter with a packed crowd in a theater in Durham N.C. Many of the young people had come dressed in costume, and were ready for a celebration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This movie however is not a party, it is a battle, full of action and intrigue, and I would say that on the whole it is the most satisfyingly dramatic of the entire series resolving as it does most of the major plot lines of these novels.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the real fans who read the novels first, while the films are very enjoyable, there are always issues about the way they are adapted for the silver screen, and not just adapted, but changed.\u00a0\u00a0 Our daughter Christy was ticked off with some of the changes.\u00a0 For example, there any destroying of the elder wand.\u00a0 The director missed entirely an opportunity to emphasis how it was Harry\u2019s mother\u2019s spell that was protecting him through life.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve got the resurrection stone and you want to come back to life, why would you drop it in the forest?\u00a0 The movie does not explain.\u00a0 I could go on and on with a list, but this brings up the issue of why movie makers think they know better than authors how the story should go and what makes for a good ending.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, the three central characters are just as likeable as ever.\u00a0 We could use a little more humor in this episode, but humor was not entirely lacking.\u00a0 The visuals in IMAX 3D were spectacular, as was the interaction between the main characters.\u00a0 The music was also effective.\u00a0 When set beside Deathly Hallows I, this movie was all the way around a far better, more interesting, more dramatic, more satisfying film.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The flash-forward at the end to 19 years later is a nice light touch to bring the series to a close.\u00a0 My favorite line in the film was that of Dumbledore when Harry is in the afterlife and asks, \u2018is this all in my head, or is this real?\u2019\u00a0 Dumbledore replies \u201cWell of course it is in your head, but why in the world would that make you think it isn\u2019t real?\u2019\u00a0 Why indeed!\u00a0 The subjective world may be stimulated by and mirror the objective world.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you will remember how, quite unnecessarily, there were lots of protests from very conservative Christians, about these novels and then movies.\u00a0 This sort of knee jerk reaction shows Christianity off at its obscurantist worst, especially when the essential elements in these novels are no different than what we find in Lewis and Tolkien.\u00a0\u00a0 The issue of magic, both black and white magic, is an important issue for those who believe in the supernatural.\u00a0 Magic by definition is the attempt of humans to control forces larger than ordinary life, something humans have always been trying to do since Day One.\u00a0 Miracle by definition is a top down view of things, believing God is in control and will intervene and help, even in stupendous ways at times.\u00a0\u00a0 The Harry Potter movies raise the same kinds of issues about miracle and magic as did Tolkien and Lewis.\u00a0 How we resolve those issues raises the right issues about what we believe about God, and trusting God with our lives.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to Harry and Hermione and Ron and friends.\u00a0 They have made us think and wonder, and when you lose your ability to have a sense of awe and wonder, you have lost your ability to \u2018turn and become as a child, and so enter the Kingdom\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"