Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 fantasy adventure film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the second of two cinematic parts based on the novel by J. K. Rowling. The film, which is the eighth and final instalment in the Harry Potter film series, was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman, David Barron, and Rowling. The story continues to follow Harry Potter's quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Principal photography began on 19 February 2009, and was completed on 12 June 2010, with reshoots taking place in December 2010, marking the series' closure of ten years of filming. Part 2 was released in 2D, 3-D and IMAX cinemas worldwide from 13–15 July 2011, and is the only Harry Potter film to be released in 3-D.
The film became a financial success and was one of the best-reviewed films of 2011. At the box office, Part 2 claimed the worldwide opening weekend record, earning $483.2 million, as well as setting opening day and opening weekend records in various countries. As of 2015, the film is the seventh highest grossing film of all time, the highest grossing film of 2011, the highest grossing film in the Harry Potter series and the ninth film to gross over $1 billion.
The Blu-ray and DVD sets were released on 11 November 2011 in the United States and on 2 December 2011 in the United Kingdom. The film was also released in the Harry Potter: Complete 8-Film Collection box set on DVD and Blu-ray, which included all eight films and new special features. Part 1 and Part 2 were released as a combo pack on DVD and Blu-ray on 11 November 2011 in Canada.
==Plot==
After manually burying Dobby, Harry asks the goblin Griphook to help him, Ron and Hermione break into Bellatrix's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees, in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Ollivander tells Harry that the two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and to Draco, but Draco's has changed its allegiance to Harry. Luna had told the trio while they were travelling, she, Ginny, and Neville reformed Dumbledore's Army at Hogwarts to oppose Snape's regime. She had been kidnapped and imprisoned due to her father's publishing protest against Death Eaters. Luna returns to the school afterwards.  
In Bellatrix's vault, Harry discovers the Horcrux is Helga Hufflepuff's Hufflepuff's Cup. He retrieves it, but Griphook snatches the sword and abandons the trio, leaving them cornered by security. The trio releases a dragon guardian and flees on its back. Harry sees a vision of Voldemort killing goblins, including Griphook, and accidentally lets Voldemort the awareness of the theft. The sword disappears from Griphook's grasp. Harry also realizes there is a Horcrux at Hogwarts somehow connected to Rowena Ravenclaw. The trio apparates into Hogsmeade, where Albus' brother Aberforth Dumbledore is reluctant to offer help. Aberforth is the man Harry saw in the two-way mirror shard and had sent Dobby. He berates the trio of Albus and Grindelwald's once struggle for power had led to a new order. Telling them to hide, Harry confides his faith in Albus saying the greater good is necessary sometimes. Aberforth instructs the portrait of his deceased younger sister, Ariana, to fetch Neville who then leads the trio through a secret passageway into Hogwarts and members of D.A. welcoming them.
Snape, as the headmaster, hears of Harry's return and warns staff and students of punishment for aiding Harry. Harry confronts Snape, who flees after McGonagall challenges him to a duel. McGonagall gathers the Hogwarts community for battle to buy as much time possible. The Order of the Phoenix and conjured knight statues confront the invaders. At Luna's insistence and Cho's knowledge, Harry speaks to Helena Ravenclaw's ghost, who reveals Voldemort performed "dark magic" on her mother's diadem, which is in the Room of Requirement. In the Chamber of Secrets, Ron and Hermione destroy the Horcrux cup with a basilisk fang. Afterwards, the two share a kiss. In the Room of Requirement, Draco, Blaise Zabini and Goyle attack Harry after he finds the diadem, but Ron and Hermione intervene. As Harry inquiries Draco for covering him back at the Malfoy Manor, Goyle casts a Fiendfyre curse and, unable to control it is engulfed up by the spreading flames while Harry and his friends save Draco and Zabini. Harry stabs the diadem with the basilisk fang and Ron kicks it into the Room of Requirement, where it is destroyed. As Voldemort's army attacks, Harry, seeing into Voldemort's mind, realizes that Nagini is the "final" Horcrux. Aberforth repels the dementors from the school with a powerful Patronus charm. The trio race through the entry courtyard, where a fierce battle is raging, to the Hogwarts' Boathouse, there they witness Voldemort telling Snape the Elder Wand cannot serve him properly unless Snape dies since he killed its last owner. Voldemort orders Nagini to have Snape dead. Before dying, Snape lets Harry to sample a tear of his memories to the Pensieve, and his last words are "You have your mother's eyes." Voldemort took Hagrid hostage then issued an ultimatum. In the chaos at Hogwarts, at least fifty students including Fred Weasley, Remus, Nymphadora, Colin and Lavender, who fought have been killed.  
Harry learns from Snape's memories that while Snape despised Harry's late father, James, who had bullied him, he loved his late mother, Lily. Following Lily's death and Pettigrew's betrayal, Snape worked secretly with Albus Dumbledore to protect Harry from Voldemort over the years because of his love for Lily. Snape and Dumbledore had planned everything: Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him for Draco's sake and to ensure his alleged loyalty to Voldemort, since Dumbledore was going to die anyway because he had been infected with a killing curse from the Horcrux ring. Dumbledore had revealed to Snape that Harry himself became an unintended Horcrux when Voldemort originally failed to kill him, explaining why Harry and Voldemort share a connection, and foresaw Harry must die to destroy the piece of Voldemort's soul within him at a proper moment. The Patronus doe that Harry saw in the Forest of Dean what led him to Gryffindor's sword had been conjured by Snape.  
Before Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, Harry opens the Golden Snitch that reveals the Resurrection Stone to speak to his loved ones. His parents and Sirius provide him emotional support. Remus' spirit tells Harry his newborn son – Teddy Lupin, will eventually understand what he died for. Harry drops the stone. Voldemort conjures the Avada Kedavra on Harry, who finds himself in limbo of King's Cross Station, where Dumbledore's spirit meets him and explains a part of Voldemort within Harry was killed by his own curse. When Voldemort used Harry's blood to regain his full strength believing it would give him the benefit, this further protected Harry actually, allowing him to return to life if he chooses.
Voldemort forces a grieving Hagrid to carry Harry's presumed dead body and announces his apparent death to everyone at Hogwarts and demands they all no match. As Neville gives a defiant response and draws Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat, Harry reveals he is still alive. Many Death Eaters, including the Malfoys, lose faith and abandon Voldemort. While Harry confronts Voldemort in a duel throughout the castle, Molly Weasley kills Bellatrix in the Great Hall, and Neville decapitates Nagini, rendering Voldemort vulnerable. Several notable Death Eaters defeated, Harry and Voldemort's fight ends with Harry's Expelliarmus rebounding Voldemort's own Avada Kedavra as the Elder Wand still won't oblige to him, obliterating him permanently. After the battle, Shacklebolt undoes the Ministry's cruel discrimination. Harry explains to Ron and Hermione the Elder Wand really recognized him as its true master, not Snape, because Harry had disarmed Draco, who earlier had disarmed its previous owner (Dumbledore) as its allegiance changes upon defeat, not necessarily the killing. However, instead of claiming the Elder Wand, Harry uses it to repair his own broken phoenix-feather wand, then discards it. The three friends hold hands and gaze dreamily into the distance, wondering what will come next now that it is all over.   
Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny are married and working as an Auror and journalist of the Daily Prophet. Ron is married to Hermione. He also worked as an Auror and had resigned to help George out at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Hermione is the elected Minister of Magic. The parents proudly watch their children depart for Hogwarts at King's Cross station. Same thing goes with Draco and his wife Astoria Greengrass. Harry consoles his second son Albus Severus Potter, if being put in Slytherin is wrong, reassures him of someone (Snape) who was the bravest man ever in the house, then aboard the Hogwarts Express.
==Cast==
*Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
*Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
*Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
*Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange
*Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
*Warwick Davis as Griphook
*Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort
*Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
*John Hurt as Garrick Ollivander
*Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy
*Helen McCrory as Narcissa Malfoy
*Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy
*Gary Oldman as Sirius Black
*Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
*Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall
*David Thewlis as Remus Lupin
*Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks
*Julie Walters as Molly Weasley
*Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley
*Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley
*James Phelps as Fred Waesley
*Oliver Phelps as George Weasley
*Domhnall Gleeson as Bill Weasley
*Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour
*Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom
*Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood
==Critical reception==
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 received universal acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 96% based on 305 reviews and an average score of 8.3/10. The site describes the film as "Thrilling, powerfully acted, and visually dazzling, Deathly Hallows Part II brings the Harry Potter franchise to a satisfying – and suitably magical – conclusion." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on individual reviews, the film achieved an average of 87 based on 41 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim". The film received a score of 93 from professional critics at th Broadcast Film Critics Association; it is the organisation's highest-rated Harry Potter film. Audiences surveyed by Cinemascore gave the film A grade on average.
==Academy Award Nominations (2012)==
*Best Art Direction - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
*Best Makeup - Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
*Best Visual Effects - Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, John Richardson
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