I would have handled Voldemort's death differently...have him lay there like any other body to show that after everything, he was still a human being prone to the same weaknesses.

Except he wasn't...

I think his death in the book was perfect. He takes his own rebounded killing curse with a look of shock and fear on his face as he falls backward to the ground, eyes frozen and his body seeming frail and diminished. The surrounding crowd is stunned in silence for a moment, then cheers erupt. WHY CHANGE THAT!?

Because a twenty second fight as the culmination of twenty hours of film doesn't work.

Imagine if Anakin vs. Obi-Wan was just two quick lunges at each other, then Anakin falls into a volcano.

What I want to know is what Cho was doing in this movie. She was a year above Harry. So what did she fail her 7th year lol?

The movies made Cho the same year as Harry and co. In Order of the Phoenix Hermione says Cho is worried about OWLs.

Oh good, glad they explained that. That makes a lot more sense.

I kinda dislike the last 30 minutes of the film, the epilogue was a complete shit, and Bellatrix death was so dumb, too many things without a solid conclusion,,,,, but overall a descent film

What I loved: McGonagall's action scenes,,,, Snape as the real hero of the complete saga,,,and Hermione as the smartest and most beloved character of the series


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she looked stupid on her acting, but what I read is that JK Rowling made her marry with a muggle

The more and more I think about the movies, the more and more I despise them.

The movies are all about Voldemort with thrown in bits about Snape and practically nothing about Dumbledore. They could have had the twenty second battle between Voldemort and Harry because the climax isn't meant to be their battle, and well I suppose the books can do that because they do build more themes besides just heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of adversity. I mean the emotional impacts of learning about Snape makes up for the small battle between Voldemort from an emotional point of view, and the build up in the seventh book was moreso about learning what is the mystery behind Dumbledore, which is completely left out of the movies altogether (the biggest crime of the last two movies).

Azkaban is still better. I can't believe that, even with splitting the book in two, this still feels rushed.

But I can't deny the fact that it's quite moving and terrifically put-together, even if paced kinda poorly.

And the epilogue sucks because it makes all the guys look like creepy pedophiles. At least Hermione still looked the same.

I loved both parts overall, but what the hell was Yates doing?

Mad Eye Moody, Minister of Magic, Lupin and wife, Wormtail, and Fred all killed off screen. Hell they could have put Wormtail in the final battle and it wouldn't have mattered (Maybe Lupin vs. him) Yates is just bad overall with his pacing, just like his other 2 films. He had the fortune of having probably the best group of actors, and film crew so all he really had to do was yell action and cut, but God, why couldn't he just flesh out the action scenes a little better, or even the Ron and Hermione kiss (Hell a slow motion wizards being destroyed through the eyes of Magonical or something) In the end, Yates really didn't take any chances, but the source material and all involved are so invested it was impossible to at least not make a very well done conclusion (Snape's backstory was truly marvelous) Though ROTK did the opposite and I hated that film so maybe its good they just moved along (But still that adds the film by like 6 minutes)

I think this is one that I can't make a proper decision until I watch both back to back, maybe with some extended cuts. But overall, I think its the overall fitting conclusion to the most consistently great franchise in quite a while.

To be fair, they all died off-screen in the book, too. You can't show Mad-Eye's death without ruining the reveal of Voldemort going after Harry. Putting Scrimgeur's death on screen would be sort of impossible.

And Wormtail doesn't die off screen. He just doesn't die at all.

This is coming completely from someone who is only from the movie side, but isn't it pretty much understood that Voldermort is always after Harry. Seeing a supposed allied betraying everyone and killing a great Wizard on screen would show even better on screen knowing that Harry isn't safe even among friends as Voldemort grows stronger, I had forgotten about Wormtail even in the first film, and Hagrid, who seems to only be in the first scene of the first film and last scene of this one. How did he get captured?

I just think they could have shown it in the movies. For characters that have been around fort 5+ movies in some cases, it kind of sucks. It's like Hicks and Newt/ Christopher Lee in ROTK. Sure it may be a liberty with the source material, but in a visual standpoint it pisses me off and an obvious extra emotional punch that the films could have used.

What are you talking about? What ally betrays everyone?

Voldemort showing up to kill the real Harry in the Seven Potters scene is supposed to be a shock. Therefore, having him earlier appear to off Mad-Eye would be a mistake.

Hagrid's in three scenes in DH2.

I think the film would have been just about perfect if they had left off the 19 years later part. Where that was fine for the book, it wasn't needed for the film, in the same way we didn't need to see Samwise return home at the end of ROTK.

Oh, I have to see part 1 again. From what I recalled, one of their protectors was really a Death Eater and he killed Mad Eye Moody

No. One of the protectors was with Mad-Eye, saw Voldemort, and ran away terrified, leaving Mad-Eye on his own.

That is hilarious in the movie, and even funnier now!

After dropping from the dragon and emerging from the lake, Hermoine dripped something or other on Ron and Hary's fingers, what was it?

I assumed it was something to warm them up.

The book was better. But it always is.

The movie does feel rushed, and like the first is only half a movie. Yet it is still Harry freakin Potter. I've read the books a million times each and still love seeing my favorite moments on the big screen. Cuaron's Prisoner of Azkaban is still the best.