Never read the books, but have seen the movies... this one is the best. It's an actual movie with characters that are actually using powers that they say they can do rather then being a bunch of wimpy little magic spells that are boring... However, seeing all the magic that they can possibly do, i still don't understand why everyone can't just fly around and sneak up on people and kill them, it's a movie I know but put a tiger in the vanishing box and send it to the bad guys. And how come the old guy dies? Couldnt he teleport or whatever he did again when he saw it coming?