Harry smurfing Potter and the end of my childhood part 2

[Miriel]

Really enjoyed it. I felt like the movies consistently got better and better, as did the acting for Harry/Ron/Hermione. This really was as a nearly perfect ending.

I loved:
Everything with Snape. Perfect perfect perfect. Sobbing throughout it all. And "You have your mother's eyes" just killed me.

All the parts leading up to the battle at Hogwarts. McGonagall is a badass.

Harry & The Forest Again. Again, PERFECT.

A few nitpicks:
I didn't think the battle scenes were as good as they could have been. I would have liked less random students fleeing in terror, giants stomping around, and bricks flying everywhere, and more shots of characters we know battling it out. Everything felt frenzied and hectic, but by the end of it, you don't really see much of the characters duking it out with the deatheaters. Especially would have liked to see more of the twins. All we get is a measly single line for them each and then... well, you know.

I didn't like how they changed the final showdown. I think it was important for people to witness the end. Not a huge deal, but it bothered me. I did like how they uh, (SPOILER)disposed of Voldemort's body. that was really neat. But the staging of it was really strange. (SPOILER)Time and time again, Harry is made to stand before Voldemort and his deatheaters. He's always either walking into, or being dragged into Voldemort's territory, surrounded by Voldemort's crew. And for the rest of the world, Voldemort was this nameless fear and then he was supposedly dead, and then alive, maybe not really alive? So much misinformation about Voldy. But in the final battle as it happens in the book, Voldemort finally has to stand before Harry and all of Harry's friends, fellow students, teachers, in the great hall of Hogwarts and battle for his life. And finally everyone gets to witness his downfall at Harry's hands. No more doubts, no more rumors and speculation. I don't know why they would take all that away? I'm guess they wanted it to be JUST Voldy and Harry at the end? But it sorta made it a bit anti-climatic.

Harry/Ginny relationship was such poop. Really, he had more chemistry in a single glance at Cho than he did while making out with Ginny. Such a waste. I don't know if it's because the actress who plays Ginny doesn't have any sort of spark in her at all, or if it's because the writers never properly developed their relationship, but all the bits that involved Ginny seemed forced and tacked on.


Overall I really enjoyed it, and I cried a ton. Nearly everyone in my theater seemed to be sobbing their hearts out.