The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hit the web last night, and it's as frenzy-stoking as one could wish for. It's all appropriately epic-scaled and stirring, with plenty of teasers for great-looking action sequences and ominous Voldemort voiceovers, delivered in Ralph Fiennes' evil, whispery purr. The quiet, almost elegiac opening seconds, though, are what get me the most, especially that poignant shot of the two hands almost-grasping—I have no doubt that this final showdown is going to be a fist-pumping glory, but those brief glimpses give me hope that the human element won't get lost in all the wand-slinging battles. 
 
 
 
 The film opens July 15. 
 
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 What are you doing July 14? Dressing up as a grindylow and waiting in line for a midnight screening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″? That’s what we thought. The first trailer for the film has just been released, and its tone can only be described as epic. Fire, green light, dirt-stained faces, grandiose fate-related pronouncements, everything we’ve come to expect from HP movies is all there. Will the full feature film deliver on the trailer’s promise?
– The end of the Harry Potter series is that much closer with the release of the trailer for the grand finale. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is out July 15, and the tease looks promising. "The quiet, almost elegiac opening seconds, though, are what get me the most," writes Nina Shen Rastogi in Slate. "I have no doubt that this final showdown is going to be a fist-pumping glory, but those brief glimpses give me hope that the human element won't get lost in all the wand-slinging battles." The trailer indeed looks "epic,' notes the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog, which hopes the movie lives up to it.