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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer. Is This the Last We'll See of Harry? Maybe. Maybe Not

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (31)

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It’s been 10 years since the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s been 14 years since the book it was based upon was released. I know for a lot of you, Harry Potter has been a large part of your lives for the last decade plus. I suspect, regardless of how you’ve felt about the movies, Deathly Hallows Part 2 will feel a little like closing a chapter on your lives. I’m sure you can remember a dozen different places where you read the novels or saw the movies, and there’s an extraordinary amount of memories wrapped up in those moments. It’ll be a bittersweet farewell.

Below is the last trailer for the last movie in the Harry Potter series. Maybe (more on that after the trailer). The trailer looks great. It’s also kind of beside the point. Even if it didn’t, Harry Potter is more than a movie to many of us and, as much as anything, the final Potter is about marking a point in our lives. Bidding adieu. Saying goodbye.

Farewell, Harry.

Oh, well now wait a second. What’s this? A new website set up by J.K. Rowling herself? A mysterious website called Pottermore. Could it suggest more Potter. And a Youtube video suggesting a big announcement on June 23rd? Could there be more after Deathly Hallows or is this just another way to promote the final movie (as if the damn thing needed promoting)?

We’ll find out in a week. My money’s not only on a new book, but an entire new series of books focused on an adult Potter, which basically means another decade of films, at which point the current run of films will be ready for remakes. That’s the sweet sound of commerce, folks.

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Comments

On the one hand, more Harry Potter is good Harry Potter. On the other hand, if Rowling is just doing it for more money, that's absurd! She already lives in a castle in Scotland, for Dumbledore's sake! How much more money could she possibly need?

Posted by: AngelArm45 at June 17, 2011 12:06 AM

*unintelligible noises of glee and excitement*

Posted by: Lauren at June 17, 2011 12:07 AM

I think Pottermore is going to be . . . answers. Every missing detail and background tidbit and mentioned canon factoid complied into a searchable database.
*hopes fervently*

Yes, I am a dork.

Posted by: Lauren at June 17, 2011 12:11 AM

Lauren, you're probably on the right track. Unfortunately, JKR's PR team and lawyer have both confirmed that it's a not a new book series, and as mentioned in a few articles, WB bought the Pottermore rights last year for social-y media type things.I realllly hope it's more of an encyclopedia/fan community because I'd rather learn more about the world itself before getting any more books.

Posted by: michaelceratops at June 17, 2011 12:46 AM

BOOM Awesome sauce. Loved the glimpses of Mrs. Weasley and Professor McGonagall being badasses.

Also, pretty sure at one point it was said Rowling had more money than the Queen... of ENGLAND. She doesn't need the money.

AND
Why are you posting this at midnight?? I feel like you're dumping this post. It feels sketchy especially 'cause you did this with the other trailer posting.

Posted by: kilmo at June 17, 2011 12:47 AM

I think Pottermore is going to be an Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Experience (MORE). I'm not quite nerdy enough to have figured that out myself (I heard about this earlier today on a site and it was their speculation), but I am nerdy enough to have squealed with glee.

Posted by: Tits McGee at June 17, 2011 12:54 AM

HELL FUCK YES GOOD TRAILER

*clears throat* What an effective bit of marketing.

Also, I think I saw Molly's bitch moment. EEEEE!!!

Posted by: MyySharona at June 17, 2011 12:58 AM

My money’s not only on a new book, but an entire new series of books focused on an adult Potter...

If this is true, then SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Posted by: Vi at June 17, 2011 1:48 AM

Erm, does Pajiba not like Harry Potter? I have to ask because I agree with kilmo. It always seems to get dropped by the wayside around these parts and never gets much love on the site. Boo to that. Harry Potter's incredible and that trailer, fuck it, I'll admit it, made me tear up. It's a series that helped define my childhood and got me through some rough times as well. I'll be seeing this at midnight. Possibly in costume. No shame whatsoever.

Posted by: beckster at June 17, 2011 1:57 AM

Screwadult Harry Potter. I want a book series dedicated to Luna and Hagrid with their pet basilisk traveling around the uk and kicking ass

Posted by: Minto at June 17, 2011 2:11 AM

AHHHH I got teary-eyed!

Posted by: denesteak at June 17, 2011 3:18 AM

Who would've thought, just five, six years ago, that a Harry Potter movie could ever get me excited like this? Almost as excited as a Harry Potter book.

I'm very. Very. Excited. Just one month to go.

Also, Mrs Rowling, if you're reading this: Please, spare us the grown-up-Harry-books, or (even worse) "The adventures of Albus Severus, James Sirius and Lily Luna Potter (featuring Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy as the mischievous sidekick who must eventually fall in love with Lily Luna)". Please.

Posted by: Rooks at June 17, 2011 4:11 AM

I'm going to agree with the others who have said as much. I think it will be an Encyclopaedia and/or MMORPG.

I'd love more books, personally, but its already been said that's not what it is.

I'll be in the UK when part II comes out. I am so going to a British midnight showing, and I'm STOKED.

Posted by: DominaNefret at June 17, 2011 4:41 AM

two words:


Bellatrix Porn

/pornography
//featuring Bellatrix
///slashies

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 17, 2011 6:44 AM


first half of the trailer seems totally ripped off from the last two films of lord of the rings and their respective theirs, right down the the music....Oh snaps. Can we count the last battle as going into mount doom?

Posted by: meow at June 17, 2011 8:09 AM

Off topic, sort of... I've seen a lot of Emma Watson love all over the internet thanks to her latest modeling gigs and I agree she's a pretty girl with sterling behavior (so far) but I have to draw the line at "she could be the greatest actress of her generation" that I recently saw posted at HuffPo. Have I missed something? I thought she was adequate but not outstanding in her role as Hermione and I wasn't aware she's been in anything else that would afford a glimpse of this amazing potential. Sorry to sound cranky but ridiculous fawning like this gets my back up.

Posted by: snapnhiss at June 17, 2011 8:56 AM

@snaphiss

Very good point, Emma will just have to deal with the reality that she will forever be Hermione. The same goes for the Poter kid, if were a betting man, I would bet on Weasly becoming a successful character actor.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 17, 2011 9:25 AM

I just want JKRo to write more, and I want to hear Jim Dale read her audio books, not sure I really care if she carries on with Potter or something new...just more.

Posted by: MRod at June 17, 2011 9:54 AM

Harry can't deal with normal family life after a childhood of pure adrenaline. He starts getting involved with dark wizardry to chase that rush.
Hermione lives a life of quiet desperation, never intellectually or physically stimulated like she once was.
Ron becomes his father.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 17, 2011 9:56 AM

C'mon Rowles everyone knew yesterday it wasn't more books....

Posted by: logan at June 17, 2011 10:29 AM

I am far too excited about this movie. And I can't believe that the trailer made me tear up.

It looks like they are going to keep the Molly Weasley = badass part, which is one of the only things that I wanted. That, and Awesome!Neville. They keep those two things, and I will be the happeiest HP fan in the world. :)

Posted by: elleyezee at June 17, 2011 10:35 AM

I'm old and I LOVE the Harry Potter books. The school I went to in England when I was little was exactly like Hogwarts, only without the magic. Well, it had it's own magic, just not that kind.

I've gotten so many of my nieces and nephews to actually start reading by getting them hooked on the Potter books.

Posted by: BWeaves at June 17, 2011 11:23 AM

Optimus Rhyme, I think I read that fan fic story. Or several of them.

What? No shame in reading fic.

Posted by: RebaSays at June 17, 2011 12:19 PM

I'm with Slim. Rupert Grint will have a wonderful career. The other two will have fun at all the conventions.

Posted by: Odnon at June 17, 2011 12:30 PM

Yeah, she's talked about putting out an encyclopedia, so there's a good chance it's for that.

Not that I wouldn't love a story about adult Harry. I read the first six books when I was 19, then the last one when I was almost 21, just as I was getting old enough to identify less with the kids and more with the adults. They're some of my favorite characters in literature, but their high school dramas don't hit home for me anymore, so to have stories about them grown up would be great.

The snippets we got of Dumbledore's 20s stuck with me, and have helped me to process some of the phases I go through as a developing adult. In fact, I don't know if I would have come out of the phase of thinking that I was always right, that I knew how the world should work, without reading about Dumbledore.

Posted by: Lucas at June 17, 2011 1:23 PM

as long as the movie pt 2 has Molly Weasley saying "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!!!" I'll be happy

Posted by: LordNinja at June 17, 2011 8:07 PM

Voldemort dies, harry lives and porks jenny weasly the end. enough all fucking ready.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at June 17, 2011 8:33 PM

Am I the only one who finds Voldemort's scream repetitive? It happens like, five times in this trailer, and always sounds exactly the same.

Posted by: Torint at June 18, 2011 10:21 AM

If it's a new series of books, I vote for a story based on the adventures of James, Lily, Sirius, Remus et. al during THEIR time at Hogwarts. I'd be far more interested in the original Order of the Phoenix and the first rise of the Deatheaters than the stories of baby Potters & Weasleys. Especially since we know that they will be happy, clever little things, living in a world of safety & privilege. Boring. I mean - good for them, but that's picture book stuff.
Also, I may have watched the preview while holding my 15 year-old daughter's hand with tears streaming down my face. We've been on this journey together since she was five; we read the first book chapter by chapter, watching the corresponding scenes of the movie as we went. I've read every word of every book aloud to her, even when she was far too old to be needing someone to read to her - and we've seen every movie but the first on opening night. It's the end of a series, sure. But it's also the end of our little tradition, and if JK Rowling sees fit to write another book or series that will extend it even a moment longer? I'm in, baby.

Posted by: Tae at June 18, 2011 2:03 PM

I may have teared up a little when I saw Sirius again. I am more excited than I expected to be for this.

And this is the perfect excuse for a quick reread, I needed some more summer fluff, huzzah!

Posted by: Anne At Large at June 18, 2011 3:54 PM

Emma Watson needs to grow a bit as an actress before she will be considered any good. She's pretty pedestrian as Hermione, though in the last couple she's definitely gotten better.

Grint will prolly end up a great British actor in great British films or television. Something tells me he won't make it in Hollywood, because he won't want to.

Radcliffe is currently proving to many that he can have a career beyond Potter and is actually pretty good at it.

The problem I have with the stories (not the movies) is that they're complete bullshit. They're driven only by the need to keep Potter in danger and keep the suspense rolling. Why exactly is it that Voldemort has to be the one to kill him? Why is it exactly that he needs to do it with a wand? Why would the evilest most powerful wizard in the world, especially after the death of Dumbledore, need the most powerful evilest wand? So he could be moreso? How come all the adults are useless twats who can't save Harry or Kill Voldy?

Because JK wrote them that way, but it's complete bs. She writes to the ending she wants rather than placing the story in any kind of reality. Yeah, it's wizards and magic, not reality, but a story is a story and hers is about as real as pre-k kids stories, despite the 'real' dangers she throws at her characters.

Posted by: Protoguy at June 18, 2011 8:46 PM