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Azkaban also adds the first hints of doubt into Harry’s mind. It often feels like a pause in the action, focusing on Harry’s growth as a character rather than his ultimate destiny, but with strong work from the increasingly confident Radcliffe, we don’t mind it one bit. On the other hand, Cuaron brought an elegance to the camera work and a spookier look at Hogwarts that lent Prisoner of Azkaban a distinctive identity. Many of them felt that Cuaron took too many liberties with Rowling’s text, particularly with the enigmatic Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) whom they felt received short shrift on screen. The third entry in the saga brought a new director – and not just any director, but the renowned Alfonso Cuaron – along with a fair amount of controversy among longtime Potter fans.

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Add to that a scarier threat, gorgeous effects and the sterling work by the supporting cast (including Harris, who died before shooting on the third film began), and it sets a solid bar for the remainder of the series to match. It’s not because of some magical destiny, but because he’s clever and brave and can figure out solutions to things that other people wouldn’t consider. It allows us to share the wonder and excitement of the books, to invest us in the outcome, and to see why the great and wondrous Harry Potter is so great and wondrous. Chamber of Secrets soars when the first film merely crept, enthralling where the first film just explained.

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(For example, the Room of Requirement in later entries hides Harry and his friends from Professor Umbridge… then hides Malfoy from them just one movie later.)Īnd Columbus, freshly primed from the first film, takes full advantage of the opportunity.

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The conceits in play exist free of the plot, and can actually turn around and bite the heroes on the ass if they’re not careful. That sells us on the universe completely. We see where it “lives,” we note its actions separate from Harry’s narrative, and as it so adroitly informs us, it knew what it was talking about when it suggested that Harry join the hated Slytherins.

The Hat – used as a modestly cool plot device in Sorcerer’s Stone – suddenly gains a reality and an existence beyond the needs of the story. “I stand by what I said last year: you would have done well in Slytherin.” So says the Sorting Hat towards the end of Chamber of Secrets… and in that moment brings the totality of Rowling’s genius into sharp relief.

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(As the set’s extra features show, he also took pains to make his young cast’s lives as normal as possible, which probably explains why they’re not freebasing crack or holding up liquor stores these days.) The Sorcerer’s Stone is the series’ weakest entry, but only because it has so much to do… and in the final equation, ends up doing it fairly well. Columbus, often derided as a by-the-numbers studio hack, proves to be a sterling steward of Rowling’s work: getting the ball rolling with respect and reverence instead of glomming his own “vision” onto hers. More importantly, it does so in a manner that feels inclusive and friendly to newcomers instead of just pandering to the fans. The Sorcerer’s Stone unloads huge tracts of the universe to newcomers – quidditch, Diagon Alley, the school houses, key players like Dumbledore (Richard Harris) and Snape (Alan Rickman), and the dark history between Harry and Lord Voldemort – that need to be in place for the saga to work. The results mute the magic considerably… but at the same time do a great deal of the heavy lifting that helped later movies thrive.