Harry Potter posters have always been released weeks or even months before the screen date to hype up the movie. Recently it was rumored that a teaser poster was released for the last movie installment of the Harry Potter series. Based on the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, this last installment was said to be divided into two separate movies. Harry Potter fans everywhere have a lot to expect with this news, but this new poster doesn’t tell much about it.
Most of the Harry Potter posters out from previous movies have the actors posing grimly as if contemplating on an extremely complex problem. You see some characters portrayed looking outwards, almost directly to spectators; seemingly, and intensely at that, burdened by a heavy responsibility. While some others portray these same characters looking to the sides, staring far away to some imagined place. Some of the posters have their backgrounds appear morbid with the use of dark colors and even darker lighting, as if shouting out to the world that the movie itself will be just as nefarious. While some others merely display bland backgrounds, suggesting that the characters are more important. The new poster however, is more of an enigma, a real teaser at that. The setting is at nighttime in the forest. It would seem just like any normal forest at night. Except that right smack in the middle of the poster is a glowing, translucent image surrounded by orbs of light, swimming in the darkness. Scrawled below the image is the title of the movie, but above the image, is an ominous message, which says: one way, one fate, one hero. It doesn’t get more enigmatic than that.
The reason that this poster is so different from its predecessors, however, is that the poster is fan-made. Harry Potter posters, or at least those who make them, could probably take a lesson or two from the makers of the fan-made poster. Rather than focusing on just the actors and actresses, the fan-made one gives its viewers something to think about. Like, what is that glowing translucent thing? Or, what do those ominous words mean? The depth in the stories created by JK Rowling, more than the coolness of the actors and actresses, is the reason that people go watch Harry Potter movies in the first place.
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