The ongoing saga of the wizard and his charming little friends continues. The story is well known. Harry ends up at hogwarts, Voldemort concots a bizarre, convuluted plot to get Harry to do something absurd, Harry partially foils the trap and the scooby gang of Hermione and Ron help Harry wherever they can.

Spoiler so please skip next paragraph.

In this installment of the story, Voldemort, concots the most elaborate scheme of them all. He gets Harry to enter the Triwizard contest, helps Harry win the contest, just so Harry can grab the Triwizard trophy and end up at graveyard where his blood is the key secret ingredient to finally bringing Voldemort all the way back.

End of spoiler.

Amazingly this plot took JK Rowling more than 100 pages to write. Further confirming my wife’s comment that within each book there is a good book.

As for myself, I am not a Potter fan. I find the books to be poorly written nonesense that might amuse children, but can not be called literature, more like trashy fiction for the under 12 set.

But the movies, are a different story. The movies are flights of fancy where the visuals can collapse hundreds of pages of description into seconds of screen panning. The characters continue to have a vitality and energy. The story continues to amuse, as long as you avoid thinking at all too deeply.

One discordant note, the computer graphics in this installment, were not as good as they could have been. For a movie that makes a billion dollars, they could have tried harder to get their water effects to look more real. But maybe I am being churlish. This is fantasy, not reality and who am I to say what a carriage full of girls being pulled by Pegasi looks like…