# Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 discussion thread(spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952 "2011-07-14T00:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/21 "2011-07-14T18:26:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My daughter is going to the midnight show tonight. I am hoping we can catch a screening during our vacation to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter week after next. If she’s going to the AMC Maple Grove, I’ll be with the Luna and the Angelina Johnson lookalikes (TheKid naturally looks like Luna. Sometimes acts like her, too) ---
**Author:** ![With\_Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/22 "2011-07-14T18:42:31Z")
I’ve also got tickets to a 9 pm/midnight two-fer double feature tonight; can’t wait!! If they had offered a straight-through 8-movie 24-hour marathon, I would have done it. I heard there was a place in Texas that did this, but the only special marathon presentations close to me I found went the wimpy route and split up the eight movies into two or four days. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/23 "2011-07-14T20:15:50Z")
> [@bup](#): > > He dies. > > But he gets better. But will he get nekkid? That’s the question. I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. And please please please have the “Not my daughter you bitch!” line. On the “making of” specials that have been airing there was kind of a sweet scene of a teary eyed Alan Rickman saying goodbye to everybody after his last day of shooting. Kind of jarring seeing Snape and Harry et al smiling and hugging. ---
**Author:** ![carimwc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@carimwc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carimwc)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/24 "2011-07-14T20:26:57Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > But will he get nekkid? That’s the question. Sadly no. > [@](#): > > I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. the Gringotts break-in > [@](#): > > And please please please have the “Not my daughter you bitch!” line. It’s there and awesome! > [@](#): > > On the “making of” specials that have been airing there was kind of a sweet scene of a teary eyed Alan Rickman saying goodbye to everybody after his last day of shooting. Kind of jarring seeing Snape and Harry et al smiling and hugging . ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/25 "2011-07-14T20:27:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > But will he get nekkid? That’s the question. > > I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. > > And please please please have the “Not my daughter you bitch!” line. > > On the “making of” specials that have been airing there was kind of a sweet scene of a teary eyed Alan Rickman saying goodbye to everybody after his last day of shooting. Kind of jarring seeing Snape and Harry et al smiling and hugging. 1. I read that the director did not have Radcliffe get naked. It would have been tremendously distracting to the scene. 2. From what I’ve heard(haven’t seen it yet), the “bitch” line is in the movie. It was too good to not include. No idea about that scene from the trailer. I agree that it is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/26 "2011-07-14T20:37:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 1. I read that the director did not have Radcliffe get naked. It would have been tremendously distracting to the scene. Well, at least some people cared enough to smuggle footage (inchage?) out of EQUUS. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/27 "2011-07-14T20:39:29Z")
I’m sure I’ll be seeing it in the next week. Is this one a good 3D movie or a bad 3D movie? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/28 "2011-07-14T20:43:02Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. Seems kind of like a boneheaded thing to do to someone protected by horcruxes (horcruces?) when you aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/29 "2011-07-14T20:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Is this one a good 3D movie or a bad 3D movie? -Joe [/QUOTE] I don’t think it’s “born 3D”- the 3D was added. General rule of thumb is 3D works best for animated movies. I plan on seeing it in 2D by choice (I don’t like the light levels and all of 3D glasses) but will be curious to hear what others have to say. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/30 "2011-07-14T20:58:37Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Seems kind of like a boneheaded thing to do to someone protected by horcruxes (horcruces?) when you aren’t. Exactly, so I was wondering if it was a dream sequence, or perhaps some new Wizarding World dance craze (The Enemy Leap or Hogwart Hop or whatever). ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/31 "2011-07-14T21:08:14Z")
It’s really awesome, though I’d have to see it again to decide whether it’s my favourite of the series. The midnight screening atmosphere was amazing (you could feel the anticipation in the room when it came up to the Molly/Bellatrix showdown, many people, like me, were leaning so far forward in their seats that we were almost standing up), and my sister, a crazy Harry Potter fan, spent much of the movie weeping. She’s a very emotional person. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/32 "2011-07-14T21:09:13Z")
I’m just back from seeing it! Not for the first time, the time difference between Europe and the US leaves me feeling unreasonably smug. > [@Sampiro](#): > > Plan to do the midnight showing. I promise to stay through the credits and let others know if there’s any reason to.😉 I stayed through the credits and I can say that there’s no extra scene or anything special at the end, but it was worth it to sit there and marvel at how many people were involved in making the film nonetheless. > [@Shodan](#): > > My daughter is going to the midnight show tonight. I am hoping we can catch a screening during our vacation to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter week after next. > > Not sure my daughter can keep quiet about it until then, but I know how it turns out anyway. > > In a way, I am desperate to see it - in another, reluctant. It sounds sentimental to say it, but it will be the last time I experience any part of Harry Potter for the first time. > > Regards, > Shodan I absolutely and in every way know what you mean with that last comment. That was part of why I stayed in my seat until the final Warner Brothers logo came on the screen and the the lights went all the way up. Time to reread the series from the beginning again! Oh, bollocks, I messed up the multiquote. Give me a minute here to find my place again. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/33 "2011-07-14T21:17:39Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > But will he get nekkid? That’s the question. > > I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. > > And please please please have the “Not my daughter you bitch!” line. > > On the “making of” specials that have been airing there was kind of a sweet scene of a teary eyed Alan Rickman saying goodbye to everybody after his last day of shooting. Kind of jarring seeing Snape and Harry et al smiling and hugging. I’ve seen it, and yes - it lives up to the hype. To answer your questions… Does he get nekkid? Actually, 1/2 yes! He and Ron BOTH take their shirts off. Hermione looks like she’s about to strip too… then sadly puts a giant towel on instead. Is the line in there? yep The “plunging off the castle scene”… Happens just before the climactic Harry/Voldemort duel. It’s how they get from the castle to the courtyard and it’s actually probably gonna scare the poop out of some younger kids. By grabbing V and throwing them both off the tower, Harry forces V to use that strange black-cloud-flying trick he does, and the extreme close-up shots of V grinning/possibly trying to bite Harry (in 3D no less) are rather unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/34 "2011-07-14T21:20:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books. > [@carimwc](#): > > the Gringotts break-in Well, no (to the spoiler). It’s part of the final battle at Hogwarts. I have to say, I was enthralled the whole time. The acting was by far the best of the series, from all hands. Daniel Radcliffe has grown amazingly over the course of the movies. Since reading The Deathly Hallows, I have been tapping my foot waiting for the movie to see Neville and Molly in their big moments, and I was not a bit disappointed. The audience erupted into applause at both points. Most definitely bring tissues for Alan Rickman’s scenes close to the end. Colin Firth is still on my list to be my children’s future stepfather, but I would so have a fling with Mr. Rickman. That _voice_. Ralph Fiennes brings great expression to a noseless role. Helena Bonham Carter is just as lunatic as Bellatrix as before, but where she blew me away was in the scene at and outside Gringott’s, in which she played Hermione playing Bellatrix and just nailed it. I saw it in 2D. I don’t know if the 3D version would be an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/35 "2011-07-14T21:28:49Z")
I’m pulling a double tomorrow at work, so I’m not going to go to the midnight showing (also, I’m pretty sure trying to buy tickets at the last minute would be unwise, at best), but the bf and I will probably see it at the earliest opportunity. Also, **NEVILLE**. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/36 "2011-07-14T21:58:50Z")
Saw it this evening. Firstly, so much better than part one it just isn’t funny. Secondly, it is quite possibly the best of the lot. Really very, very good. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/37 "2011-07-14T22:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=shantih] I stayed through the credits and I can say that there’s no extra scene or anything special at the end, but it was worth it to sit there and marvel at how many people were involved in making the film nonetheless. [/QUOTE] **THANKS FOR THIS INFO!** (Bolded so others will note it.) I hate waiting through 12 minutes of drivers and fifth lighting assistants and key grips to find there’s no real reason to do so. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/38 "2011-07-14T23:19:26Z")
i’m so, so glad to hear that some of my favorite scenes (molly, neville, the prince’s tale) have been done well. this is going to be very emotional for me. i teared up seeing the scene with the resurrection stone in the trailer. when harry tells his mother “stay close to me” right before going to die, that’s about the point in the book where i break down. i hope that line is in the movie. heading for the theater in a couple hours to line up for the midnight show. really, really can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/39 "2011-07-14T23:24:24Z")
Has JK Rowling ever done a cameo in any of the movies? I know that Bill Weasley is played by the real life son of Brendan Gleeson (Mad Eye Moody), but are there any other relatives on screen other than the twins? I’m eager to see how they do the “years later” scene at the end. I read it gave the makers headaches; they’d originally wanted to cast 30-something actors with strong resemblances to the younger actors but then decided “No, people don’t want it to end on actors who aren’t Radcliffe/Watson/Grint/etc.”. Did they do a good job of making the actors look older? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952/40 "2011-07-15T00:30:49Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > I’m sure I’ll be seeing it in the next week. > > Is this one a good 3D movie or a bad 3D movie? > > -Joe It’s a post-conversion 3D movie, though done carefully. I’d see it in 2D, though. That’s how it was filmed. > [@Sampiro](#): > > Has JK Rowling ever done a cameo in any of the movies? Nope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-discussion-thread-spoilers/588952.md?page=3)