They sometimes seem to stand alone amid the alarming mysteries of Hogwarts, where even the teachers, even the august headmaster Albus Dumbledore ( Richard Harris), even the learned professors Snape ( Alan Rickman) and McGonagall ( Maggie Smith), even the stalwart Hagrid the Giant ( Robbie Coltrane) seem mystified and a little frightened by the school's dread secrets. In the new movie, Harry ( Daniel Radcliffe, a little taller and deeper-voiced) returns with his friends Ron Weasley ( Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger ( Emma Watson, in the early stages of babehood).
The story is about personalities, personal histories and eccentricity, not about a superstar superman crushing the narrative with his egotistical weight. Although the young wizard Harry Potter is nominally the hero, the film remembers the golden age of moviemaking, when vivid supporting characters crowded the canvas. Rowling, who has created a mythological world as grand as "Star Wars," but filled with more wit and humanity. What's developing here, it's clear, is one of the most important franchises in movie history, a series of films that consolidate all of the advances in computer-aided animation, linked to the extraordinary creative work of J.K.
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