Just came back from a nostalgic journey called “Harry Potter 7 – 2”. To confess, I never read even the synopsis of the J. K. Rowling books, but I am a huge fan of her storytelling skills. That lady has stretched our imagination to witness the concoction of a magical utopia. You know it is fiction, yet it is as real & palpable as anything. What makes this epic saga such a great success is not only the imagination of it narrator, but also the artists like Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell & last but certainly not the least David Yates. These visionaries tried to put the imagination into as much reality as humanly possible. Hats off to all of them!
Take nothing away from the ones who portrayed these characters
Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall,
Brendan Gleeson as Alastor Moody,
Richard Griffiths as
Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy,
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley,
Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew,
Emma Thompson as Sybill Trelawney,
David Thewlis as Remus Lupin,
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley,
Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley.
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid,
Outstanding performances by
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange,
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy,
Gary Oldman as Sirius Black,
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort,
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape,
Richard Harris & the great Michael Gambon as Professor Albus Dumbledore,
And the most importantly
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger,
Rupert Grint, as Ron Weasley,
and Daniel Radcliffe as the boy who lived ‘Harry Potter’
(Cast list: Courtesy Wikipedia)
The thing that is really moving is that all three youngsters always lived up to their characters for 10+ years. They had the money & fame to get blown away, yet we heard of no misdemeanours from any of them. You really can't imagine what if we had to replace one of them. This series has not only given us a new fairy tale of our age but also some larger than life real-life characters. Why I call this epic saga a fairy tale is because it also gives us all the values that all others do too. I thank these all for making it such a memorable pleasant experience.
I for one certainly cherish my time watching this saga in the making. It will be remembered for a long time to come, I am sure. But, there’s no next episode coming. I will badly miss it.
