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PG-13. 130 minutes. 44442 “I Friendly, personalized & compassionate healthcare GOURMET ORGANIC LOCAL NATURAL ALTERNATIVE SPECIALTY VARIETY FUN HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2: Directed by David Yates. t all ends,” read the posters for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. And end it does, if by “it” you mean only the series of fi lms, an up-and-down adventure from the fi rst moment we met a wide-eyed Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) to the last scene of Part 2’s epilogue. Potter isn’t over, and won’t be; not only will new readers keep coming to the books, but fans will keep writing fan- fi ction in which Harry and Draco have a torrid secret romance, and J.K. Rowling will keep teasing and pleasing her zillions of readers with things like Pottermore, the “exciting online experience around the reading of the Harry Potter books” that will be unveiled at the end of the month. Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, will keep living, as immortal as a fi ctional character can be. How long until the fi lms get remade? A decade? A new Potter boy, a new set of redheaded Weasleys? A certain sense of inevitable continuation hangs over Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, rendering it slightly anticlimactic. It all already ended once, in 2007, when owls in the form of letter carriers dropped heavy packages on doorsteps, each containing a specially packaged copy of the seventh Harry Potter book. But that doesn’t keep Deathly Hallows Part 2 from being its own satisfying, exceptional experience. You’ll get no recap, no “Previously, on Harry Potter ... ”; director David Yates, in his fourth well-earned Potter bow, has no time for that. From the seaside Shell Cottage, the fi lm moves swiftly to Gringotts, where Helena Bonham Carter does a pitch-perfect Emma-Watson-as-Hermione impression; to dark, unwelcoming Hogsmeade, where Aberforth Dumbledore (Ciaran Hinds) has a truncated but vital part to play; and fi nally to Hogwarts, where Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), the boy who was almost the story’s hero, leads the bruised and tattered remnants of Dumbledore’s Army. Hogwarts, muted and gloomy, looms like a ghost of its once bright and welcoming self. In the shadow of war, somber students march under the cold eye of headmaster Severus Snape (Alan Rickman). Snape is as key to the events of Deathly Hallows as young Mr. Potter himself, and Rickman, as ever, utterly owns his part. (If you can read the Potter books without hearing Snape’s dialogue in Rickman’s dry, precise tones, you are made of stronger imaginative stuff than I.) Oddly, though the story wraps its complicated threads around the central trio (while giving Hermione little to do but comment on the brilliance of Ron’s every idea), the grown-ups get many of the memorable scenes: Molly Weasley (Julie Walters) hollering her battle cry; Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) wordlessly banishing a man from Hogwarts; Narcissa Malfoy (Helen McCrory) making a choice that seals so many fates. Hers isn’t the only key choice, but it’s a quiet and vital moment that, as is so often the case in Rowling’s world, hinges on the decisions we make out of love. Rowling can be a bit heavy-handed with her theme, but Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have a lighter approach to the power-of-love aspect of her tale. What’s most striking in this fi nal fi lm is less the emotional wallop than the gorgeous, convincing world in which the wizards’ great battle takes place. From the caverns of Gringotts to the towers of Hogwarts, the locations feel entirely real. Stone warriors clunk heavily to the ground; dragons’ wings look solid enough to run your hand over; a barrage of spells fi lls the sky like so much more than a wall of twinkling lights. By grounding a dizzying battle in precise, believable effects and a solid sense of where everyone is at any given moment, Yates and his team give the fi lm a respectable amount of heft to go along with its heart. They can’t do much about Rowling’s sentimental epilogue, but somehow, the passing of the Potter torch is slightly less cloying on screen (apart from the poor aging-up of the relevant characters). It’s a reminder that there’s always another generation coming along, reaching for books, listening to stories, ready to set foot on Platform 9 3/4 and wait for that splendid train to whisk them off to Hogwarts. And Hogwarts, on page or screen, will always be there. ew DOGS ARE GREAT OPEN LATE! 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