Lost has finished, 24 has finished, U2 are crocked, nobody likes Justin Bieber any more – this is a time for endings.
That goes for Harry Potter, too. In six months, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows will be released – and that’ll be the last we hear of Harry Potter. Apart from the second part of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, which comes out six months later. But that’ll be the last we hear of Harry Potter. Apart from the theme park. And the conventions. And the 2025 made-for-TV reunion show put together to pay off Rupert Grint‘s tax bill, obviously.
But despite all this, filming is coming to an end on the Harry Potter series. And apparently the Harry Potter stars are quite sad about it. Who knew?
To most people, the Harry Potter films are just something they’re dragged to see every couple of years because they lack the balls to stand up to their girlfriend. But for the stars of the films, Harry Potter has been their entire lives. They started off as children and now they’re adults. They’ve been through every conceivable stage of biological development – the stage where they catch swine flu, the stage where they find dreadful indie singers attractive and the stage where they decided to get their penis out for paying strangers night after night. We’ve all been there.
Anyway, throughout all of this, they always had Harry Potter. But not any more. There are only two weeks of filming left on Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, and Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have been describing how sad they are to see the series come to an end. But, hey, at least they’re being rational about it – it is only a film, after all. Right, Emma? BBC News reports:
“I feel like someone’s dying, it sounds like an exaggeration but I really do,” said Watson… Daniel Radcliffe, who has played Harry Potter since the age of 11, said: “I’m going to be devastated to some degree. It’s going to be very sad because it’s been such a part of my life.”
OK, maybe not rational as such. Sorry.
Still, if Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe want to keep making Harry Potter films, they should. Just because JK Rowling has stopped writing books, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any stories left to tell. There’s plenty of Harry Potter fan fiction knocking around for example. Maybe the next film should be based on the story where Harry Potter gets shot off to another dimension and then dies, or the one where Harry Potter has fairly graphic sex with Draco Malfoy. You’d watch that, wouldn’t you? Anyone? Hello?
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