harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 soundtrack

In “Severus and Lily”, the true nature of Snape’s story is finally revealed to Harry (and to the viewer), and Desplat uses “Lily’s Theme” again as the basis for the early part of the cue before a fresh melody takes over, awash with emotion, particularly anguish. Its use in “Snape’s Demise” is wonderful – after a dark opening, Desplat reveals the theme in a glassy, sombre arrangement, tragedy at the fore. In “Dragon Flight”, the theme gets an extraordinarily rousing workout – it’s a brief track, but will be many people’s favourite on the album.

It’s a very fine piece, sweet and lovely, heard through many of the film’s more pivotal moments, frequently with wordless female vocal adding an ethereal quality to it. The score’s emotional centrepiece is “Lily’s Theme”, a lovely, lilting melody representing Harry Potter’s mother and her importance to the story. While it’s a shame that John Williams didn’t work on the series throughout, having established such a memorable base for it on the first three films, Desplat was able to do a very fine job himself on these last two films that comes far closer to providing consistency with Williams’s sound than either Patrick Doyle or Nicholas Hooper’s scores for the instalments in between.

The more epic sweep to the second part allowed him to paint on a more expansive canvas, extending a few ideas from his first score but providing plenty of scope for new ones.

Returning from the first part of the finale was composer Alexandre Desplat, whose first score offered much promise. With a total global box office take of an eye-watering $7.7bn, the film series was a spectacular success – some of the films were considerably better than others, but Yates grew into them as he went through the final four, with the last two being probably the best. Ten years after the first film appeared, with its eager little cast and bright, busy direction from Chris Columbus, the Harry Potter series ended in cinemas in late 2011 in grand style, Potter finally facing his nemesis in The Deathly Hallows, Part 2, David Yates’s fine conclusion to the series based on J.K.

Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 soundtrack