


It therefore demands extensive prior knowledge on the part of the audience, but then again, if you are joining the story for the first time at Part 7.5, you must be a pretty strange Muggle. Harry and Voldemort face-off for the final time.

The film hits the ground running, picking up where Part 1 left off, with Harry, Ron and Hermione hunting down the Horcruxes - items into which the Dark Lord Voldemort has embedded pieces of his soul - and the three Deathly Hallows, which "He Who Must Not Be Named" believes will grant mastery over death. Mercifully, it's a suitably spectacular finale to this most towering of celluloid achievements an emotionally draining journey into the heart of wizarding darkness, with battles fought, lives lost, and secrets uncovered that call into question everything that has gone before.
