I don’t often fall asleep during a movie, but I was lacking a lot of sleep at the time and, really, the first part of the movie is quite boring. And yet, on second viewing, and once I got past the fact that Harry Potter movies are definitely too naive and nice and lacking cynicism, goddamnit it’s the twenty-first century now and if you’re gonna start wearing Gap clothes you might as well get a little more real too and I really don’t understand how adults can be fans but maybe it’s just me getting really too cynical and if you’d told me ten years ago I’d become who I am now I’d never had believed you, and even though the twist ending was the only thing I remembered from the first showing, it’s the first time I find a Potter story so engaging.

So… kids evading their Cinderella families through magic, that doesn’t touch me (which is a bit odd, considering); the whole magic school neither, okay; and the revenge over dead parents even less (which isn’t that odd); but Sirius Black does.