Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1: Difference between revisions

 

 

After unexpected events at the end of the previous year, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are entrusted with a quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality – the Horcruxes. It is supposed to be their final year at Hogwarts, but the collapse of the Ministry of Magic and Voldemort's rise to power prevents them from attending. The trio undergo an arduous journey with many obstacles in their path including Death Eaters, Snatchers, the mysterious Deathly Hallows, and Harry's connection with the Dark Lord's mind becoming ever stronger.

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: Voldemort contemptuously snaps off the ornate silver handle of Lucius Malfoy's wand when he 'borrows' it to use against Harry Potter. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Remind you of anything?]]

* [[Breather Episode]]: ''Deathly Hallows, Part 1'' notably takes a break from frantically trying to cram as much plot as it can into the movies, instead focusing on long, atmospheric shots of the characters and scenery. It really emphasizes how the Trio are now on their own.

* [[Broken Heel]]: While rushing to aid Harry in Godric's Hollow, Hermione trips over a pile of books on the floor ([[Badass Bookworm|ironically for her]]).

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: {{spoiler|Voldemort obtaining the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's grave}}.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Seen when the Golden Trio are wandering through Britain, with [[Scenery Porn]] of beautiful yet cold and empty fields and highways, the scorched remains of a caravan park where the Death Eaters have struck, and their dark contrails overhead.

* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: Kingsley Shacklebolt wears a daishiki.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:

** The scene where Hermione is tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange. It happens offscreen in the book, but you get to see plenty of it in the film adaptation, [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|and it strongly resembles rape]].

* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: The waitress at the diner is in the kitchen with her back turned and headphones playing music on, and doesn't hear the loud and destructive wand battle between the Trio and a pair of Death Eaters.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: What ultimately drives Ron to {{spoiler|destroy the locket}} is {{spoiler|the soul fragment presenting itself as Harry and Hermione mocking him and then making out}}, the very thing it was driving him to think was happening earlier on.

* [[Medium Blending]]: Has an animated segment for "The Tale of the Three Brothers", the legendary story of the Deathly Hallows. It's CGI that looks like [Jim Henson]] fantasy productions like ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' or ''[[Labyrinth]]''.

* [[Multi-Part Episode]]

** Albert Runcorn's leather trench coat, when combined with his duties and demeanour, give him the appearance of a Gestapo operative.

** Also from this film, Bellatrix {{spoiler|carves "mudblood" into Hermione's arm, much like how the Nazis tattooed numbers onto the skin of Jews during the Holocaust}}. You know, just in case the allegory was still too subtle at that point.

* [[Scare Chord]]: The post-Bathilda Nagini coming from downstairs after being 'killed'.

* [[Schrödinger's Cast]]: {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew's death is omitted from this film. He doesn't return in ''Part 2'', and it's never mentioned if he dies}}. Also a case of [[Karma Houdini]].

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