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Harry Potter and the franchise of evolution. A critique and retrospective, from book to film, of what was, for 10 or so years, the king of blockbusters.

The rudimentary foundations of Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, the transcendent creativity of Prisoner of Azkaban, the troublesome mystery of Goblet of Fire, the streamlined safety of Order of the Phoenix, the controversially atmospheric style of Half-Blood Prince, and the contrived spectacle of Deathly Hallows; what can the variety in these adaptations teach us of how and how not to bring a series to the silver screen?

Chapter I: Philosopher’s Stone
0:00:00 From page to screen
0:11:12 Privet Drive and music
0:19:18 Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Express
0:25:25 McGonagall, Rickman, and Harris
0:32:58 First lessons, 3rd floor, and troll
0:40:20 Quidditch
0:45:01 Christmas and Mirror of Erised
0:49:36 The Forbidden Forest
0:56:24 Through the trap door
1:08:46 Twist villain and the stone
1:17:12 House cup and leaving Hogwarts

Chapter II: Chamber of Secrets
1:23:52 Intro and Dobby
1:30:35 The trace
1:39:30 The Burrow, Diagon Alley, and Lucius
1:48:59 Flying to Hogwarts
1:53:52 Filch the squib
2:01:08 Gilderoy Lockhart (and other incompetent professors)
2:09:35 Contrivance and adaptational fidelity
2:16:58 Acting and Columbus
2:24:29 Duels, petrifications, polyjuice, diary, and Aragog
2:46:05 The chamber, the Tom Riddles, and the basilisk
2:56:27 Dumbledore’s office, freeing Dobby, and endings

Chapter III: Prisoner of Azkaban
3:04:01 Passing the torch
3:11:29 Lumos, wizarding secrecy, and sound
3:17:26 From the Knight bus to dementors
3:24:43 Visuals serving story
3:29:23 Trelawney’s divination, Hogwarts attire, and Hagrid’s creatures
3:36:22 Lycanthropy and Boggarts
3:40:27 Patronuses and Prongs
3:51:29 Leftover setup
3:59:17 The Shrieking Shack
4:04:58 The marauders
4:16:25 The time-turner

Chapter IV: Goblet of Fire
4:33:57 An inauspicious opening
4:39:11 Cedric, portkeys, and foreign schools
4:48:00 The dark mark
5:02:35 S.P.E.W., Dobby, and Kreacher
5:15:42 Yule Ball, Hermione/Krum, and Rita Skeeter
5:27:52 An inadequate mystery
5:45:25 The Triwizard Tournament
5:51:12 The graveyard and Barty’s end

Chapter V: Order of the Phoenix
5:59:33 David Yates and franchise filmmaking
6:10:24 From Privet Drive to Grimmauld Place
6:16:08 Legilimency and occlumency
6:20:38 Lynch’s Luna and thestrals
6:28:01 Umbridge vs Hogwarts
6:40:23 Department of Mysteries and prophecy
6:51:01 Sirius and Harry
6:57:07 End of part II

Chapter VI: Half-Blood Prince
6:59:25 Controversial cinematography
7:06:36 A lack of action
7:14:01 Obligatory romance
7:28:20 Draco’s cabinet
7:32:59 Half-Blood Prince’s potions book
7:35:24 Horcrux memories

Chapter VII: Deathly Hallows
7:49:48 A two-part final
7:55:25 Seven Potters
8:02:49 Dumbledore and camping
8:13:35 Snatchers and Malfoy manor
8:21:37 Gringotts and the battle of Hogwarts
8:27:31 Prince’s tale, death, and love sacrifices
8:35:10 Last stand, wandlore, and arbitrary magic
8:48:30 End & epilogue
8:51:13 Conclusion

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This video is a compiled re-edit of 6 individual videos, now instead featuring copyright-safe music to ensure the narration remains preserved. In losing the original project file, (SSD died and I had no other backup, silly me) I had to make do with externally separating the vocals from the original music. As such, there are brief moments the original music is still audible or muffles the vocals, though overall I feel it turned out well enough to be worth uploading, should any of the individual videos get taken down or some narration removed by muted sections or anyone prefers to consume the retrospective in one long video. You may even find its alternate audio mixing, in which the music remains more suitably quiet compared to my varied vocals, to provide a superior listening experience.