It's too bad dad couldn't be around to see this. He was all about the Harry Potter series, and enjoyed the movies a great deal. I remember telling him about one of the particularly awesome scenes from the fourth film, and he was so into it. He asked about some detail, to see if the scene had been true to the book. It was very cool to see how excited he was. Of course I knew how much he loved the books, since he discussed how clever J.K. Rowling is, and what neat troves of treasure each of her novels is. For as long as I can remember (probably for longer than I've been alive), he was all about The Lord of the Rings books. He mentioned them fairly often, and I got a sense for them well before I ever picked them up. This was not unusual, my dad included works of literature--great and crummy, notorious and obscure--in lots of conversation. But the Harry Potter series really captured something in him, as it clearly did in a lot of people, and he loved to re-read the books for subtler, missed pieces. I never read beyond the first book, but from his excitement, I was pretty into it.

So, I'm sad he didn't get to live to see the whole series get put up on screen. He would have watched this trailer many times.