This concerns the eight films

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2013)

Eight films for seven volumes. The whole saga in these films. A real treat.
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The films also concentrate slightly too much on the fact that Harry Potter is a young teenager and then a young man who is attached to men of all sorts. The story as it is revealed in the end clearly identifies his fate to the decisions of a few men and to the fate of these few men. The only woman that has counted in his life was his own mother who saved him from annihilation with her own love and nothing else. This vision of Harry Potter being a man of many men is very sexist in a way and this world of wizardry is very sexist in all kinds of ways and it is not the Weasley sister and Hermione who save the story from being a man's story for men and only men. Girls and women just have to look, watch, admire and applaud but they have no real role to play, or hardly some ancillary roles here and there, like cleaning the teacups. The books were slightly less sexist and we could have expected the films to change that kind of bias.
Harry Potter is entirely dependent on Dumbledore who never tells him the truth and that his fate has been decided by three men: Voldemort who wants to kill him to be unique and sole master in the world, Dumbledore and Snape who want to bring Harry Potter to his resurrection in order for him to destroy Voldemort, because Harry Potter can only do that if Voldemort tries to kill him and succeeds, though he will only kill in Harry Potter the part of himself, Voldemort, he had invested in the kid when he tried to kill him the first time when a baby. []
That makes three men, and two will have to die for Harry Potter's Voldemort part to be killed by Voldemort and for Harry Potter then to be able to kill the third man of this triad.
Three more men are necessary for Harry Potter to survive through it all. []
When you add to these two triple sets the giant Hagrid in the back of all these men you have it nearly all since you should also see the short-lived and evanescent role of Harry Potter's godfather Black who will be important all along, or nearly, since his elf will be crucial in the seventh and last episode when Harry Potters is trying to bring together the three Deadly Hallows that will bring Voldemort down.
Only two maybe three women are important: Mrs Weasley, Ron's mother, in her great motherly quality essentially knitting pullovers for the boys. Then Hermione who is a mixed blood and will be divided between Ron and Harry all along, though she will marry Ron in the end. And Ron's sister who will eventually marry Harry in the end. Both marriages produce children, with a third one in the back: the son of the Slitheryn opponent to Harry Potter who nearly ended up as a direct servant of Voldemort, and Harry produces a boy with a triple name, two given names and Potter, the two given names representing the main men who supported Harry in his adventures.
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Harry's mother is married to Harry's father but Snape is in love with Harry's mother and Harry has the same protection against Dementors as Snape, a doe. Harry is the son of his father and his mother but he carries some part of Voldemort in him and hence has three parents. Voldemort will have to kill his own contribution in Harry to become killable by Harry, provided he has some help from a triad of students behind, but Voldemort can only have the opportunity to do so if Dumbledore and Snape are killed, if possible Dumbledore by Snape and then Snape by Voldemort.
Finally in the end Harry Potter has – with some help from three friends – killed Voldemort and he has recuperated the famous wand that was in Dumbledore's possession and then had been stolen by Voldemort from Dumbledore's own grave. Harry Potter, as the third owner, destroys it. It will not have a fourth owner and Harry Potter has three reasons to do it: He cannot possess it (and you possess a wand only if that wand chooses to be possessed by you) because only someone who has killed the person he loves can possess this wand. Dumbledore had killed his own sister? Voldemort had killed so many people he should have loved but he never loved anyone anyway, and thus he can't possess it as he says himself to Snape who is the proper owner because he killed Dumbledore who he loved. []
A last remark on Daniel Radcliffe. He is a great child-actor and we can see him growing but he is developed as a very stiff character, static in expression and action. That is a handicap in this profession. He could have learned how to be active and how to build a real rich and passionate character he would impersonate in its deepest feelings and emotions since he is far from being a child in the last films and his character is old enough not to be a child any more and become a passion ate teenager. He can't satisfy himself with being that stiff and cold an actor forever. Methinks he could have been directed better in the last three or four films.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU