“The Harry Potter” film series is one of the most famous and successful film franchises of all time. It consists of eight films, the last of which grossed nearly one and a half billion dollars at the international box office (Numbers, 2015). Based on the world famous books by J.K....

One of the most important questions when a book is transformed into a film is whether or not the film remains true to the spirit of the original. The Harry Potter books have been extremely popular across the globe, making their adaptation to the medium of film particularly subject to...