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(SPOILER)Not bothering with spoiler tags. If you don't want to be spoiled, why the hell are you in a thread marked with a warning?

I did not feel that anything that they changed has been quite so awful as some of the mistakes they made in previous movies, and they've already started moving towards correcting some of those mistakes, for example Slughorn introducing us to Regulus Black.

I agree with Bunny's explanation for the funeral. They can just as easily put that at the beginning of the next movie (and given that Harry has yet to tell Ginny to stay away, I imagine they may do just that).

Ultimately, I think this was by far the most successful adaptation by far. It was enjoying to watch, and at least this time I haven't left the theater mumbling about all the reasons they've just smurfed themselves.

YOU'RE BOTHERING WITH SPOILER TAGS NOW, HOMEBOY. ~Shlup
I tend to agree with all of this. I thought this was the best adaptation thus far.

But seriously, the person next to me very apparently did not know that... it happened. She put her hand over her mouth to avoid screaming. It was obvious that she somehow never knew. I don't know how that's even possible!

I watch the movies as individual ones now. With four directors, the series is not going to flow perfectly, and you're not going to cover everything. I would abhor seven adaptations like CoS, word-for-word re-tellings of the books. I'm fine with them changing stuff.