There are a number of other invisibility cloaks, but they are fairly rare. The others that have been produced lose their enchantment over time. However the one Harry now owns has been passed down from father to son for generations and is the true invisibility cloak that was fashioned by Death and will work perfectly until the end of time.
If memory serves Harry’s cloakdoesn’t even react to the Accio spell which was a mystery even to Dumbledore.
I’ve not read any of the books. I only seen the first two films on cable, but not really paying full attention. I know little about the Potter-verse except what I get from my daughter and wife. However, now that my daughter is away in university, I was forced to accompany my wife to this movie.
What struck me most is that instead of guns, they have wands, which are line of sight weapons. That just struck me as wrong. I mentioned that the pendant was “The One Ring” to my wife. I knew it was trying to get away from the sword. When Bonham-Carter threw the letter opener, I knew Dobie was getting it. I also mentioned that to my wife, who had read the books, so she didn’t think me so smart.
I also mentioned at the beginning that Harry riding with the Robbie Coltrane character was the most obvious pairing (from my limited Potter knowledge), thus defeating all the disguises.
Just got back from this. I was a little disappointed, honestly. I haven’t read the books, but I’ve seen all of the movies at least once (the last few multiple times, as I’ve liked them enough to stop on them on ABC Family on occasion), so that’s the perspective I’m coming from. It’s very possible that the below criticisms are more of the book than of the movie.
The first… 40 minutes? Hour or so? of this movie were excellent. The flight with the decoys, seeing the stress and tension that the Good Guys are under, the attack at the wedding, the three of them sneaking into the Ministry to get the locket, everything remotely related to Delores Umbridge - all awesome. I love the dark atmosphere and the sense of foreboding we are getting from all directions, and it seems like we’re building up to something really interesting.
Then we get to the Randomly Wandering Around portion of the story. For all that there were some great moments, this ended up feeling like it was taking way too long to get anywhere. The highlights for me were the creepy almost-getting-caught at the initial camp, and the little dancing scene, which was simultaneously awkward, cute, and romantically tense. I’m sure I probably missed a lot of context not having read the book, but I don’t feel like the time was particularly well used in this entire section of the movie. Also, the effects of wearing the locket were a bit underwhelming in how exactly they mirrored the effects of carrying the Ring, making large parts of this section really predictable.
Finally, we have the Lovegood house through the imprisonment and escape at the end. Not bad, but not really great, either. The scene at the Lovegood house felt a bit off; not sure if it was the actor they had doing Xeno or if it was just me trying to recover from shock at seeing someone else talk, after an hour in the woods. Then we have an obligatory chase scene, where we have some (at least movie-wise) nameless Death Eaters that we’re supposed to be super scared of chasing our impotent Chosen One and catching him, basically without a fight. A couple minutes in a tidy and well-lit dungeon, a couple abbreviated scenes with the more interesting characters, and we’re left with a deus ex machina rescue from an “elf” that we had five minutes with earlier in this movie, mostly to remind us who he was, since he hasn’t had extended face time since… what? the second movie or so? And then it’s a Very Special Moment when he dies, in the most predictable death I’ve seen in a movie in a pretty long time.
Cue re-tread “evil guy finding what he wants and making threatening gestures, portending the end of the world”, and bring on the credits.
I will probably come and chat more about it later, but I had to get that off of my chest. 
No. Harry’s is the one from the story. Peverell, I think, is the Potter family and it passed down through that line.
His is the one and only true invisibility cloak.
SWMBO and I just got back home from watching it. Damn good movie!!!
The dance scene was not in the book and the movie accurately portrayed the “wandering lost” aspect. Believe it or not it was seriously condensed onscreen.
Looking back on the book, I’m surprised the scene at the Malfoy residence didn’t focus on the teacher that Voldemort kills for entertainment. I expected the camera to focus on her and specifically Draco’s expression as he sees one of his teachers deliberately dangled above him and then killed with the body slamming down in front of him. It would have been easy to convey the horror of it through Draco’s eyes but the Director fell back on a computer generated snake to spring toward the movie crowd.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they re-release the film in 3d sometime in May-June.
Just got back. I loved it, but then I’m a big fan of the books. My husband, who hasn’t read them but has enjoyed the previous films, didn’t care for it that much. He said he felt lost much of the time, which is curious to me because I’ve always thought the previous films would have been confusing for non-readers (with the exception of the first two), and that this one explained things more fully.
Random thoughts:
–I think they focused on Snape rather than Malfoy in the death of the Muggle Studies teacher because Malfoy would never have had her as a teacher. He probably never knew her. But she knew Snape–she was his colleague, his peer, and as she said, his friend. I think that was a lot harder for him than for Malfoy.
–I, too, liked Hedwig’s death better here than in the book.
–Loved the multiple Potters scene–Fleur as Harry was really funny.
–Anybody else notice The Burrow had been rebuilt as a much “tidier” house than before?
–Wished we could have had Kreacher’s full story, but understand why it was cut.
–I thought they did a really good job with the Locket!Horcrux destruction scene–the way Hermione was, as in the book, Hermione, only somehow prettier. And that kissing scene was pretty erotic!
–I thought they went a little too fast with the Malfoy Manor scene–It wasn’t very clear why Bellatrix was so upset to see the sword. But maybe that will be clarified in the next movie.
–I loved, loved, Loved! the animation of the Tale of the Three Brothers. I thought it looked really cool and creepy.
I missed one little part because I was explaining to my husband what “the Trace” was. It was right after the fight in the Muggle coffee shop, and they’re walking down the street, and Hermione says something about having missed Harry’s birthday. What did he say in response? Anybody remember?
Overall I think this has been my favorite adaptation so far, because they were able to take their time with it. The other movies have all seemed rushed and crammed in to me; I felt like I could breathe watching this one.
And I have to say this, too. I understand why some people don’t like all the wandering around and camping in the book because it drags and seems to go nowhere. I disagree that it’s bad writing, though. I actually think Rowling did a pretty good job there–HRH *were *wandering around for a long time, accomplishing not much of all. It was tedious and boring and frustrating for them, too, and Rowling makes us feel that. But that’s just my opinion.
In the book, Malfoy couldn’t stop looking at her and he falls out of his chair when she falls dead. He also admitted knowing her when asked by Voldermort. He is clearly a frightened child in the previous movie when confronted with the task of killing Dumbledor.
I’ve taken an interest in the movies beyond their entertainment value like I would a car taken apart to see how it works. It’s interesting to see the mix of acting, special affects, sound affects, scripting etc… that goes into each movie. It’s the little things like using a ringing phone as a backdrop sound to convey intensity in the earlier movies which is now replaced by the sound of a whistling tea-kettle in this one. I liked the original special affect of Sirius talking to Harry in the fireplace in the Goblet of Fire and was disappointed that they changed the affect in the following movie. It’s been interesting to see the advancement of CG backdrops from the first 2 movies compared to the rest of them. I can see them re-releasing the first 2 with finer detail.
Just got back from seeing this.
I enjoyed it, but there’s one problem I had that perhaps could be explained to me by those who have read the books (I have not): the “escape” at the beginning.
I had 3 major problems with this:They have this [seemingly] elaborate escape plan involving disguising a half dozen people as Harry and they all [presumably] go off in different directions. Now:
#1 - despite the fact that they get found out immediately they still all go to the predetermined meeting place which
#2 - is Weasley’s house (as if the bad guys aren’t going to look there), and then
#3 - they then proceed to have a freakin’ wedding! Is it just me or was that a shitty plan?! It’s like if someone wanted desperately to kill one of my friends so our big plan to hide him is to come to my house and then have a party.It just seemed like a blatant plot convenience.
They all go to different locations and secretly port-key to the Weasley house. After the Ministry falls the bad guys show up at the wedding looking for Harry who in the book is in disguise.
It’s not hard to find logic flaws in either the book or the movie.
Sorry, but you’re misremembering. He denies knowing her when Voldemort asks. He does fall out of his chair, but all of the Death Eaters jump back. I think his reaction is a bit stronger just because he’s still so young and relatively innocent, not because he had a connection with Burbage.
From the book:
“And you, Draco?” asked Voldemort, stroking the snake’s snout with his wand-free hand. Draco shook his head jerkily. Now that the woman had woken, he seemed unable to look at her anymore. “But you would not have taken her classes”, said Voldemort.
Unlike nodding which is specific to up and down motion, shaking can be either direction. Since Draco was the only person who kept looking up at her the assumption is that he knew her from school.
Well, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on the meaning of “shook” here. But even if he did recognize her, I don’t see how she could have been more to him than a familiar face in the halls of Hogwarts. He wouldn’t have taken her classes.
Whereas Snape clearly had a real relationship with her, which makes his reaction to her death more poignant, which was the original point.
Putting the interpretation aside, Snape has to deadpan his reaction to her as part of his deception whereas Draco can and is scared by the whole thing. We know the Malfoy’s are deathly afraid of Voldemort at this point. Draco was the perfect vehicle to portray this. Imagine focusing on his terrified face and instead of the snake lashing at the audience (with the loud sound effects it was given) the sound of her body is brought front and center using the technique of lowering the sound (focusing on Draco) and then WHAM. Quickly switch to her dead face and then Draco flying out of his chair.
There is another point to it. The previous books (1-6) are basically each a full school year: every book starts with the beginning of a new semester. Book 7, however, takes Harry, Ron and Hermione outside of Hogwarts. Their wandering around makes them having spent the equivalent of a school year when the story’s finished.
Saw it yesterday. This is my first HP movie I have seen since reading the books last summer. I liked it and I was happy because when reading Book 7 I took a guess as to where they would break the story in two for the two movies and it turned out I was right.
One question though, as it has been a while since I either saw the movies or read the books:
Ron said they had three Horcruxes to go. By my count they destroyed three: the book, the ring and the pendant which would leave four left. Which one am I forgetting?
You aren’t. Ron and the others don’t know that the scar is a horcrux. So when Tom Riddle talks about splitting his soul into seven pieces, he’s including himself as one of them. There are in fact 8 pieces of Tom Marvolo Riddle floating around out there.
Just got back from seeing it. This movie is boring as shit. In that sense it was true to the book. Lots of shots of them wandering in the woods. Scenes of people sitting and reading, without any good sense as to what it is that they are looking for. At least they know what it is when they see it.
Lots of manufactured angst between the teenagers.
At least my nine year old enjoyed it. That’s ultimately what it’s supposed to be for.