![]() ![]() The movies, closely following Rowling's books, and all but one expertly scripted by Steve Kloves, have grown inexorably darker since the series began in 2001 with "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The films' rampaging innocence and invention seem worlds apart in quality from most of what passes these days as family entertainment. Even for those of us who have not found the films transcendent, there is some regret. ![]() The collective emotion arising from the last installment of the "Harry Potter" franchise, after eight films and a record-setting $2 billion at the box office (so far), is a sense of loss. Rowling sent a crowd of enthusiasts into a froth by saying "never say never." With the appearance of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," it has finally sunk in for a lot of people that Harry won't be having any new adventures, although at the film's recent London première, J.K.
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