
The adaptation of the final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, hit the theaters around the globe last week. As to why the end is not here, the conspicuous Part 1 attached to the movie title might answer it. In a probable attempt to milk the final drops of the cash cow that is the Harry Potter franchise, Warner Bros. decided to split the epic finale into two movies.
For fans, this works just fine. Warner Bros. might just have given us 14 movies from the very beginning. For those who have been following Harry Potter not from the best-selling books by J.K. Rowling but from the movies, it seems splitting the final book into movies works just as well. Now in his third Harry Potter film, director David Yates manages to treat the first half of the book as a complete and coherent story of its own.