Artist: Nicholas Hooper
Distributor: Warner

Soundtrack Rating: 4/5

Fashioning a foreboding, violin-quivering air of disquiet, Nicholas Hooper’s second contribution to the musical world of Harry Potter signals dark days to come. From its opening gasp, first track ‘Death Eater Attack’ establishes the tone – sombre, expectant, moody – while strings swell and sigh through ‘Snape and the Unbreakable Vow’, ‘The Drink of Despair’ and ‘Dumbledore’s Farewell’. ‘Wizard Wheezes’ ushers in a brief, kitsch ‘40s edge, while ‘Living Death’ offers a spritely, xylophone-tinkling breather. But emphasis is firmly on the gloom for Potter’s penultimate year at Hogwarts. Group hug, anyone?

Via Total Film