I wish they’d let McGonagall lead the desks in a charge.
i tend to agree, especially about watson and radcliffe’s onscreen chemistry. i almost kind of wanted something to happen in the dancing scene in part 1, even though i like ron and hermione together!
Mommypants and I saw it Friday night, really, really enjoyed.
How did Luna suddenly show up at Hogwarts? Wasn’t she left behind at the Shell Cottage? Really took me out of the movie when they show her with the rest of the DA. How did she get back to Hogwarts on the book?
Neville sends out the word via his DA Galleon, and several DA members apparate into the Hogs’ Head and enter the school through the secret passage. I think that the movie even kept Neville’s line to Aberforth where he said that a couple people would be passing through.
That’s how the Weasleys, etc ended up at Hogwarts for the battle.
Saw it yesterday. The book geek in me was disappointed in the changes, but the movie geek mostly agreed with the streamlining of the screenplay.
Biggest disappointment: Neville not delivering his speech of defiance.
Biggest thumbs up to a change: Moldyfart feeling the deaths of his Horcruxen.
Both the book and the movie needed more hot Harry and Ginny action. 
ETA: The little girls that played grandmother and granddaughter Lily Potters were adorable.
in the books ginny has echos of lily, the red hair, pretty, popular, kind, good at witch craft. the big family and brothers gave her a difference of view, how she approached things.
movie ginny is much closer to lilly, esp. as she gets older. she looks more and more like the woman who plays her.
from movie ginny you get the feeling that harry likes her because she is so like his mother.
bookwise harry likes ginny because of her personality and how she fits in her family, and not so much that she is very like his mum.
the movie has me thinking that harry married that cliche of marrying your mother.
I think that is because Nagini is actually alive, and acting more as a familiar because he is a parseltongue.
Hubby got us tickets for the 130 showing at the de lux in Foxboro … leaving in 5 minutes to go see it <squee>
I hadn’t actually considered that before - the Nagini/Voldemort connection is almost exactly the same as the Harry/Voldemort connection. If Voldemort had realized that Harry was a Horcrux, who knows what additional mischief he could have gotten up to (beyond sending Harry to the Ministry to rescue Sirius).
So, props to Ms Rowlings for writing that consistently.
I didn’t actually see that - besides, Harry never actually knew his mother - wasn’t he more-or-less one when she died? The Dursleys certainly never talked much about her - his only knowledge of her was some converstion with Sirius (and probably Remus), and then a couple of mind melds with Snape.
All of this. Favorite scene for me is Harry and AD in King’s Cross–one of my favorite in the book as well.
Too much snake (but I’m phobic, so there is that) for me. Just enough Hagrid, very little on the giants and no Grawp (thank god). I think Ron could have been better developed, but I’ve thought that since the 2nd movie–he is not just comic relief as has been said.
I loved the epilogue in the film, but will never voluntarily read the book epilogue again. It’s clunky and tacked on in the book. In the film, it makes a nice bookend. I do wish they had shot Ginny and Harry together in the epilogue-there are ways to show how devoted a married couple is to one another. Ginny’s ass is NOT fat in the epilogue–I doubt they gave her any padding there at all. I think posters with that opinion should come back to this thread when they are 36 and report on the size of their backsides(!).
I really enjoyed this movie. It makes a nice complement to Part 1 and ties things up very nicely. Contrary to others here, many people clapped in the theater when LV died, when Neville killed the snake and when Bellatrix finally got her comeuppance.
I am confused about one thing–it doesn’t matter for the film (because they have to take shortcuts), but I don’t recall AD’s wand being the Elder Wand at all. I thought it was the wand that Harry took off Draco before they escaped to Bill and Fleur’s cottage. Harry repairing his wand would have been a nice touch. So would him talking to AD’s portrait. But overall, I’m satisfied.
I cannot find this, but would love to see it. Anyone have any idea where I could find it online? Thanks.
Dumbledore won the wand off of Grindewald way back when and had been using it ever since. Remember D & G were best buds for a summer when they were young, and became obssessed with finding the Hallows. Then when Harry is seeing into Voldie’s thoughts, we find he is hunting for the wand. He starts with Ollivander, goes to Gregorovitch (another wand maker), who had it, but then had it stolen from him by a young Grindewald. Then Grindewald and Dumbledore had their big battle and Dumbledore deafeated him, winning the loyalty of the wand. (Which goes to show what a badass Dumbledore was…he defeated a wizard using the Elder Wand!)
Draco’s wand was just Draco’s wand until Harry won it from him. It was the wand that disarmed Dumbledore, which gave loyalty of the Elder wand to Draco, but Draco was never in possession of the Elder Wand.
It’s confusing.
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Who said Ginny’s butt looked big? I didn’t see who said that.
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Did people say that no one clapped/reacted when Neville killed the snake? My theater erupted. Haven’t seen that kind of reaction since Aragorn beheaded the Uruk-kai leader in Fellowship
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Oh, and Dumbledore’s wand was definitely the Elder Wand in the book. You may need to re-read that book.
In my theater people clapped at Bellatrix’s demise and the snake but NOT at Voldemort’s death because he slowly faded away. I think the midnight showing was full of people who read the book and there was a bit of a group WTH and then the moment passed.
I’m waiting to see it now (in 2D, though somehow I wound up with a set of 3D glasses?).
I could write a book about plot holes. The subject of the book revolves around magic so basically anything is possible. Each bit of magic introduced carries with it a “what if” plot hole. Example, the “time turner” allows anyone to go back in time and observe what actually happens so their legal system would be flawless. Sirius would never have been imprisoned. The Death Eaters would not be able to say they were imperiusly cursed., etc…
In the first book they protect the Sorcerer’s Stone with stuff that first year students easily get by.
The entire series is based on the premise that wizards exist unbeknown to the public at large even though they marry non-wizards and are born to non-wizard parents.
It can’t stand up to examination nor should it be required to. It’s light entertainment aimed at kids.
And that is how the Slitherin house is removed from Hogwarts. Hog’s Head is the entry/exit point which allows movement to the otherwise protected school.
Posts 77 and 79 comment on Ginny’s backside. I may be mixing up my HP threads on different message boards, but I thought some here found Neville’s contribution to be anticlimactic, which I don’t agree with. My new favorite Neville line is “People die every day!”. And who would know better than Neville (and Harry, too?).
I don’t want to reread HP7, really. I thought in the book that it was found to not be AD’s wand that was the Elder Wand, but apparently it physically IS that wand, but the master of it was Draco, then Harry. I found that book so confusing re even the number of horcruxes, that it’s no wonder I lost a detail like the Elder Wand.
I am looking forward to the DVD collection coming out. Anyone have any idea if they’re going to release extended editions like Jackson did for LOTR? I’d like to see some of the deleted scenes from this film–some of the editing (on second view) seems a bit overzealous.
True, but they were all smashed at some point during the series.