The Harry Potter Thread (SPOILERS)

[WildHearted]

Overall, I have to say I was kind of disappointed. I must be one of the few who was never too big on the Snape/Lily thing. I guess because I'd been hearing people speculate it for years before the book came out, that I was never really shocked/surprised/enthralled/moved by it in the book. I teared up a little at Snape's death but was more interested in Dumbledore saying that Harry was meant to die all along than anything they revealed about Snape and Lily.

My point is, is that the way they portrayed that in the film did nothing to rectify how they messed up or omitted a whole bunch of other stuff. For me, at least. There was a lot of little things but this is what bothered me the most:

- Three Words: Grindelwald and Dumbledore. WHERE WAS IT?

- They did an awful job explaining the Helena Ravenclaw / Diadem thing. In fact, I wouldn't even say they explained it at all. If you hadn't of read the book, how on earth were you supposed to understand why she wanted the diadem destroyed or what her deal was anyway?

- The end of the battle. Why didn't the Neville/Nagini stuff and Harry/Voldemort stuff happen in front of the crowd like it did in the book? It took away the greatness for them to be alone when all of that happened. Also, I could have done without the 5 minutes of Harry/Voldy jumping off cliffs and zooming around the castle. After all that, his death was pretty anti-climatic.