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" Harry Potter has done a lot for magic: made it dark and brooding, vaguely Latin-sounding, and, of course, popular to just about everyone under the age of fourteen. But Hollywood isn&amp;#039;t exactly known for the accuracy of its onscreen occupations (see: Police Academy), so we decided to send a group of real-life magicians in New York City to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and final part in the movie series, and survey them afterward. We&amp;#039;ve excerpted some of their more insightful thoughts below, including lessons on wandwork \u2014 and why all that CGI might not be so impressive, after all.  Sam Eaton Star, Quantum Eye, the longest-running one-man Off-Broadway magic show &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been reading the books since they first came out. And doing a show that children come to, as well as adults, you start to see the show through children&amp;#039;s eyes. They always refer to things that they&amp;#039;ve seen in the context of Harry Potter because that&amp;#039;s how they see magic these days.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I would say it&amp;#039;s what every child wants magic to be.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Obviously we&amp;#039;re not going to produce a dragon, but I&amp;#039;m sure there&amp;#039;s an illusionist who&amp;#039;s turned out a dragon or two.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I think I may have thought [Deathly Hallows: Part 2] was the best one yet.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I thought [Harry Potter&amp;#039;s] technique was young and brash, actually.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I was a big fan of Snape&amp;#039;s wandwork, never having held a wand myself.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Ron really has to improve his wandwork. It&amp;#039;s all over the place. Enthusiastic, but...&amp;quot; &amp;quot;While the audience is in the show, they should believe in magic. After the show, maybe less so.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Every spell done in the movie is something real magicians can do, given enough time and resources and pyrotechnics. But when Harry uses the Pensieve to access Snape&amp;#039;s memories \u2014 that&amp;#039;s magic. That&amp;#039;s something every magician would like to do.&amp;quot;  Michael Chaut Producer, Monday Night Magic and Magical Nights, New York City &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like what we do \u2014 for two hours, people get to go into a room, forget everything they&amp;#039;ve left outside, and be made to feel good.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not fair to compare Harry Potter to the real world \u2014 he&amp;#039;s a much better magician than I am.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;A sword is very impressive. But Lance Burton, in his show, had six stage girls come out of a giant hat one time.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The sort of people who talk to the dead, for example, and use that as a method for empowering themselves, both professionally and monetarily, and there are a lot of people who do that... Those would be the dark wizards of our world.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;A goth magician was on America&amp;#039;s Got Talent last year. And he&amp;#039;s got a really big following. It&amp;#039;s not personally my cup of tea.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re presenting an illusion of a sixth sense. We don&amp;#039;t actually have one.&amp;quot;  Janet Oldenbroek Assistant, Quantum Eye &amp;quot;[Killing people] is highly frowned upon on stage, yes.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s not forget that Harry, Ron, and Hermione have been in school full time for seven years! They&amp;#039;re not just coming in after a year of holding a wand.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Ron relies on Hermione. She&amp;#039;s the brainchild, and he hides behind her too much.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m guessing I would be one of the cats, like Mrs. Norris. I help out a lot, and keep things clean, and distract when needed.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m just distracted by the word &amp;#039;wandwork.&amp;#039; And &amp;#039;cups and balls.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Magician photos by Elizabeth Griffin for Esquire.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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