Disarmed…

Back on 16^th November 2001, over ten years ago, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released some time after the publication of the fourth book.

I don’t remember the exact date that we went to see the film, probably a while after its release. Films take a while to arrive at the cinema above the library in Pwllheli, but since then we’ve seen all of the other films at in Pwllheli cinema from Stone to Deathly Hallows One and Holly has grown from an excited little girl to an excited teenager. It’s a nice old place, comfortable and warm, with plenty of popcorn and prices that must be hard to sustain.

But for this final film, Deathly Hallows Two, we’re breaking with tradition and watching it in 3D at Altrincham cinema.

Well, there’s been a lot of change recently with more to come, and the old things and old ways are having to make way for new. It’ll still be Harry Potter, and it’ll be in 3D, and we’ll all be watching it together like we did that very first film way back when life seemed simpler and more ordered. Somehow though, I’m expecting just a touch of sadness alongside the excitement as we sit in that shiny, new space wearing our glasses watching Harry, Ron, Hermione, Snape, and all manner of creatures jump out of the screen towards us.

It’s Holly’s birthday treat. How nice that at seventeen she’s still happy to go to the pictures with her mum and dad, although I have a feeling that this might be for the last time.

Oh well; ‘Expelliarmus!’ as Harry would say.