5. Magick Moste Evile
Possibly the darkest book in the Harry Potter series, this book hangs out in the Restricted Section of the library and features all kinds of terrible stuff, including the inspiration for Voldemort's Horcrux-themed plan. Yet just because Voldemort was defeated, it doesn't mean that we have to put Magick Moste Evile away and forget about other things that might be within its pages. My logic for this adaptation goes like this while Harry Potter is read and enjoyed by people of all ages, the first book's original audience (and arguably their biggest fans) are now older, uglier and less inclined toward optimism. Perhaps Rowling saw this already in her original canon, thus showing us why her books got progressively darker. After all, there's a big jumping-off point between the wonderment of the original film and the dessicated blood-spattered Volde-soul in the last film's afterlife. And really, the whole darkening of the tone worked well for Rowling in the original run (massive understatement there), so why not take this tonal progression to its logical end-point? The sales and box office of the Deathly Hallows book and films seem to show that it's what the people want, after all. Look, I'm not saying that the Potter-verse has to suddenly go 18-rated on us, or even 15-rated. What I am saying is that if a film featured on a similar part of heinous magic from Magicke Moste Evil, we'd certainly have a clear-cut villain and an interestingly mature tone. It's worth a thought, at least.
Edward Owen
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