These include various types of media texts including newspapers, film and digital texts, junior and
early adolescent novels, poetry, nonfiction and dramatic performances.
For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy
novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the
early entries to the darkening
adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.