I know this column will upset a lot of Potter-heads, but I refuse to watch any more Harry Potter movies. Before you turn the page, please let me explain why.

When the film version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released to theaters, I was in fourth grade.

I was thrilled that the book was in theaters, because I had read all the books that were out at that point and had loved everything I had read.

When my fourth grade class took a field trip to the local movie theater to see the film, I can say that I was less than pleased.

The movie had left out what I felt were some of the best parts of the first novel.

At the time, being just ten years old, I didn’t quite understand the economics or logistics of filming a movie or why they couldn’t have translated the entire story into film.

After that, I watched the next couple of

Potter movies, now understanding the reason why Warner Brothers didn’t get into every detail of every page of every chapter.

Nonetheless, I was still disappointed. Since then have not made time to see any of the subsequent Potter films.

I am just too much of a fan of the books to watch the movies, which I’m sure will irritate any of the die-hard fans still reading.

I just think that it would be too hard and too expensive for Warner Brothers to produce movies that featured every single detail included by J.K. Rowling.

I have read every novel in the series cover to cover at least three times each.

Almost every time I found myself reading through the night and not sleeping because

the books were too good to put down.

That is exactly why I don’t want to see any of the movies.

When I saw the first three movies, the magic was kind of ruined by the fact that it could never be adequately translated to video.

Having considered all the factors involved, I don’t think it will ever be possible to translate the inherent awesomeness of Harry Potter to film.

There is simply too much information, too many interweaving plotlines and too much magical hullabaloo to translate to the screen.

Part of the magic of Harry Potter, to me at

least, is the fact that without a visual representation, your imagination can take over and allow Rowling’s words to create a world which can only exist in your mind.

What the movies have done, however, is watered down the magic world into something tactile, something mortal, something more realistic than was originally intended and that just ruins the phenomenon.

That is why I refuse to watch any more Harry Potter movies, including the one being released at midnight.

Brad Kupiec is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or at

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