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   From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9:56:01 AM UTC-7, Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2   
   >                (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)   
   >   
      
   > There are some problems in the story.  The very biggest is that   
   > this should have been--among other things--Voldemort's film.  This   
   > is the final confrontation between Harry and the evil lord.  This   
   > was where we could expect to learn what Voldemort's story was.  Why   
   > was he this incarnation of evil?  What made him this way?  What was   
   > his goal?  In short, what is his motivation?   
      
   Harry and Dumbledore explored Voldemort's backstory during "The Half-Blood   
   Prince".   
      
      
   Instead we leave the   
   > series never knowing the wizard who is perhaps the most important   
   > character in the series.  Through eight films he is the reason why   
   > everybody is doing what they are doing.  So who is this Voldemort?   
   > Minor spoiler: I still don't know.  On the other hand, we learn   
   > considerably more about the motivations of the perennial red   
   > herring Severus Snape who at last becomes a character of some   
   > interest.  Speaking of things I still do not know, most of my   
   > memories of Hogwart's are of the hallways choked with young   
   > magicians and stairwells that disintegrate and reintegrate as   
   > needed.  At Hogwart's you seem to see the staff and only one class   
   > of students.  It is almost like they admit students of about the   
   > same age, and then wait until they are all adults before bringing   
   > in the next batch.  The fighting we see in this film might have had   
   > a very different tenor if there were young students running around.   
      
   In the book, the younger students were evacuated.  Only the older students   
   (16-17) were allowed to fight.   
      
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