gives us what may be the most compelling premise for a picture yet, because it’s the one least chained to an elaborate, mechanized plot. In narrative terms, not that much happens, but as for Harry’s emotional journey — well, it’s nearly epic. Still reeling from his standoff with the newly resurrected Lord Voldemort at the end of 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , and from the death of his classmate Cedric Diggory, the already melancholic Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is, at the start of the new film, downright disconsolate.
Sweating out another long, hot summer in the company of his boorish aunt, uncle and cousin, pining for the bygone days of Quidditch matches and shooting the shit with Dobby the house elf, he’s practically a poster child for teen Prozac. Just when it seems like things couldn’t get any worse, a couple of fearsome, faceless beasties called Dementors come along to shake Harry out of his malaise..
. by quite nearly turning him into dinner. Old Voldy, it seems, is stirring again, though few outside of the movie’s titular cabal — a secret society formed by Hogwarts’ redoubtable headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) with the express purpose of vanquishing Voldemort — will acknowledge it.
The officious Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, has even taken to planting anti-Potter screeds in the pages of the Ministry’s house scandal sheet, , sure that the boy wizard is but a pawn in a Dumbledore-plotted coup d’etat.
News RSS