Harry Potter. Well, what can I say about it really? Maybe that it's one of the most popular, well known book and movie series out there? As of June 2011, the book series has sold about 450 million copies, and has been translated into 67 different languages, and the last 4 books consecutively set records as the fastest selling books in history. If you'd have known J.K Rowling before the Harry Potter craze, you would have never thought that in 2008 she was the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. She is equally famous for her rags-to-riches life story.

Now, the last book in the Harry Potter series had me laughing at one minute and reaching for tissues the next. And before the first part of the movie came out in November 2010, I actually did question whether the movie would be better than the book. And now, in September 2011, just under a year after watching the first part, and about two months after watching the second part, I can actually tell you that the movie was absolutely perfect. Perfect. There's no better word to describe it, really. It has been acted out and put together so carefully and flawlessly that it's like this actually really happened. All the special effects in the movie (especially in the battle) were incredible. I absolutely loved the Battle of Hogwarts; sad as it was, I enjoyed watching it so much that I just wished I could rewind my life to where I had never watched the movie, and just watch it all again.

As I said before, it was acted out so amazingly that I was on the verge of tears when watching it. I cried so much when Snape died, when Lupin and Tonks were about to die, when Fred was in the Great Hall, dead, like so many others. The part that made me cry the most was when Harry was in the pensieve, just after Snape died, looking into Snape's memories, and Dumbledore said to Snape, 'Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?'
Then says cries, 'For him?' Then casts the Patronus charm and it shows a silver doe Patronus bursting out the end of his wand, runs around the office and dissolves, then Dumbledore turns back to Snape and says, 'Lily.. After all this time?' And Severus says 'Always.' That made me cry so much.

The Battle of Hogwarts, the way it was acted out and put together, was breathtakingly beautiful. Honestly, no other movie has taken control of my emotions the way this one did. The way the camera just goes around and everyone's duelling someone else, looking very natural as though they actually are fighting, with real wands and jets of light, it's just amazing.

There were some differences between the book and both movie parts. I won't sit here and list them all, though. The way Voldemort dies is different. Harry and Voldemort's final battle in the book takes part in the Great Hall where everyone can see them, but in the film it takes part outside with no one else watching them. In the movie, Voldemort dies normally, and they take his body away, but in the movie it sorts of crumbles or flakes away and all the little particles fly away. Now, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, but it is different, and I liked it.

In the movie, you don't see Fred die. I would have liked that to be included in the movie, even though that would have made me cry even more than I already was. But, in my opinion, it was a moment in the book that stood out for me and I was pretty disappointed that it wasn't included in the movie.

So just to sum everything up, I'm just going to say that the movie was incredible. It couldn't have been done better (though there is one part that I would have liked to see in it: Fred's death) and honestly I would pay good money to go and see it again, even though it's not in cinemas anymore. When the second part of The Deathly Hallows comes out I will be buying the full set of Harry Potter DVDs, and I will never regret spending money on them.