Well, folks, it's over :*( The last movie installment of the Harry Potter series released last Friday, and for much of the boy wizard's fans, it is a bittersweet ending to the last 11 years of our childhood, worth of a sniffle and a tear or two.

There's no doubt that ever since 1998 when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in the US (1997 in the UK) the story of the boy wizard has conjured up a very powerful spell on children and adults alike. With 389 million copies of the book...