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I understand what you’re saying, and I don’t necessarily disagree, but I did notice in the scene when Harry is leaving for the forest, he and Ron make meaningful eye contact over Hermione’s shoulder. We only saw it from Harry’s side, but I’m pretty sure they had a subtle, but definite, moment of “I love you, I understand, goodbye,” there between them.
Also, they knew he was going to die so I can understand their lack of reaction to seeing his body. They knew it was coming. Devastated yes, but not shocked or surprised.
My bullet points:
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[li]I wish they could have shown the actual death of Fred. I think it would have made more of an impact.[/li]
[li]Draco was awesome.[/li]
[li]Hagrid was barely there, which is not a bad thing in my book. And Grawp was completely absent, which is a wonderful thing in my book![/li]
[li]Liked the scene when Harry hid among the students and then confronted Snape in front of the whole school. Rickman was really chewing the scenery in that one![/li]
[li]Snape’s death was truly horrific.[/li]
[li]Again, Kloves shows his Hermione fanboy side: It was Harry’s idea to ride the dragon out, not hers! (Just as Ron stood on a broken leg between Sirius and Harry and told him he’d have to kill them all in PoA, not Hermione!) I love Hermione, too, but Harry’s the hero and Ron’s more than just comic relief.[/li]
[li]The Chamber of Secrets scene was cute. In kind of a scary way.[/li]
[li]Harry and Ginny’s kiss fell flat, to me. Which disappointed me because I’m a Harry/Ginny shipper.[/li]
[li]For a minute there, I thought they were going to take away Neville’s killing of Nagini, and I was about to be super pissed. But then he woke up and it was all okay again. :)[/li][/ul]
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re: ron and harry’s parting. i can see that, i guess. i think i just wanted to see a little more out of ron overall. i was bothered by a similar thing in part 1- the scene where hermione is being tortured by bellatrix. in the book ron is going out of his mind trying to escape, shouting her name, trying to apparate to go to her aid, just losing it because the girl he loves is being tormented. in the movie he just kind of stands there until dobby shows up. ron’s one of my favorite characters and i just expect a lot out of his pivotal scenes, i suppose. it’s like you said- he’s more than just comic relief.
i agree with a lot of your points, snape’s death was brutal. very well done, though. i also would’ve liked to see the actual death scene with fred, but i cried like a baby anyway. and yay no grawp, and just enough hagrid.
i was also worried about neville and the snake, even though i’d read he’s the one to do it!
some other points:
a lot of the appearances by hogwarts staff and such did feel like cameos, but i don’t really see any other way it could have been. i would rather have seen everyone just for a moment than not at all.
i actually liked mcgonagall’s line about “his name is voldemort”.the point isn’t to argue that his true name is tom riddle, she’s basically saying “fuck this not saying his name shit, he’s coming and he’s going to try to kill us” and i liked that. go mcgonagall.
i was quite disappointed not to see the kingsley/slughorn/mcgonagall duel with voldemort, and also the hermione/ginny/luna duel with bellatrix, but can’t have it all, i suppose.
