Excitement has been growing steadily over the past few weeks for the seventh installment of the "Harry Potter" franchise, which is hitting theaters this Thursday at midnight. The movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," is the first of a two-part epic. As this movie is the beginning of the end, there is much anticipation in New York City — and the NYU community specifically — for the upcoming premiere. Many residence halls in NYU have held events leading up to the premiere on Thursday. Coral Towers residents have been watching one "Harry Potter" movie a week for the past six weeks.
"These movie nights had a great social component for students to meet other Coral residents," said Katie Bisang, residence hall director of Coral Towers. "There is a huge following for Harry Potter and this was a great way to create a community using this fan base."
Other residence halls, like University Hall, are participating in other Harry Potter related events.
The dorm is having a Harry Potter pre-party at 8:30 p.m. in the UHall Commons before residents will go see the midnight showing. At the event, they will watch the sixth movie and play a "Harry Potter" trivia game.
But the Harry Potter phenomenon is citywide, making it difficult to get a ticket to the midnight showing.
Between 300 and 400 tickets were already sold at the AMC Loews Theater on 34th Street. But for those who have not bought their tickets already, the theater still has some midnight tickets available.
The AMC Loews Theaters will be having an exclusive Harry Potter Adventure. For $20, you can see the fifth and sixth movies back-to-back, all culminating with a midnight showing of the seventh installment.
Unsurprisingly, some of NYU's most excited fans come from in its very own Quidditch team, the Hipster Horcruxes. Lizzy Denning, a sophomore at Tisch and one captain of the NYU Quidditch Team, said many members of the team plan to go to a midnight showing.
