Why Is There So Much Anticipation Surrounding The New Harry Potter Film?

What is it about the sixth Harry Potter movie that hasVoldemort heats up, in which the search to find the
Ankit, an IMDB user hailing from India, hopingHorcruxes becomes as important as the need to keep
desperately for a midnight release? His impatience isthem away from Voldemort. This is the movie in which
indeed understandable; Harry Potter & the Half Blooduncertainty grows as suspicions run high and the
Prince promises to be the definitive globaldistinction between what Harry—and through him,
entertainment experience of 2009.we, the audience—know, and don’t begins to
Originally slated to be released November 21 2008,fade.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was postponedThis is the story of destiny speeding towards us. And
due to the writers’ strike—but there is more toinIn the words of director David Yates, this movie is
this eagerly awaited film than that.“love, potions, and rock ‘n’ roll.” The magic
This is the movie that “outed”exposes theof Harry Potter lies not in the controversy it stirs up, or
character of Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter’sthe appeal of its stars, or the cinematic experience.
mentor and the beloved Principal of the HogwartsThe magic lies in what it means to those who see their
school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.; theTheown lives echoed in the stories; if the movies are
Dumbledore fans shall see now is see a his differentincreasingly darker, the world we live in is also darker. If
one character from the one they saw before.the specter of Voldemort haunts Harry and his friends,
This is also the movie that also reveals the child whoif it steals from them what they hold dear, if it destroys
grew up to become the most feared wizard in history,the happiness they long for, then the dark specter of
as it delves into the past of Voldemort. This is theterrorism does the same.
coming-of-age movie of a lonely orphan once locked inStrife affects us as it affects them. Harry Potter is the
a cupboard under the stairs, as Harry finds his place indream and the reality, the hope and the fear. It is a
a world drastically changed since the Harry Potter &story in which we need desire to see the ending to, in
Order of the Phoenix film.more ways than one. That is the reason why the new
This is the movie about love and friendship, as RonHarry Potter film is still eagerly awaited. It brings us one
and Hermione come to terms with their suppressedstepone-step closer to the end even as it lets us
feelings for each other, and the characters grow updream, because the story that speaks it tellsto us is still
much like their younger fans—transcending the divideincomplete. Come to the theatres on July 15th15, and
division between character and icon as they do so.let the magic begin.
This is the movie in which the race to defeat