Prepare for an uber long post, and be wary of spoilers, etc ;p
I need to watch it a couple more times before I can decide if it was "good" or not because I was effing tired. Me and Maddy dressed up and got some pics but not too many since her camera died. I forgot a lot of stuff but things that stood out to me:
- The inferi hand. Efff, everyone in the entire theatre (and there were four screens going) jumped at that. I almost had a heart attack.
- Slughorn made me think of a crazy old uncle that no one really wants to be seen talking to, but they do to be polite. He wasn't how I pictured him in the book but I liked it.
- It felt like Luna and Malfoy got way more screen time than they did in the book (Luna rescuing Harry from the train instead of Tonks; all those scenes showing Malfoy and the vanishing cabinet; etc) and I was glad for it, Evanna and Tom embody their characters so it's a joy to watch them on screen.
- Slughorn said, "Merlin's beard!" five whole times in the movie but not once in the books.
- Harry x Ginny was WAY awkard and creepy, and I feel like part of the blame should go to Daniel and Bonnie for their protrayals. In the books Harry shows much disdain for attention whereas movie!Harry relishes it. In the books Ginny becomes flamboyant and cheerful whereas movie!Ginny is docile and subdued. Specific instances of creepy Harry x Ginny moments:
~ Harry talking about how nice her skin is.
~ Ginny force feeding Harry.
~ Ginny tying Harry's shoelace.
~ RoR scene. Am I the only one that doesn't think that Harry nearly killing Malfoy is the perfect mood-setter?
- Emma Watson was a much more convincing Hermione to me in this film! I loved potions class especially.
- The diadem will be hard to explain in DH indeed. A random epiphany on Harry's part will seem pretty contrived.
- Lavendar Brown wasn't how I pictured her visually but she got the annoying part down. Her jumping on Ron for a piggy back ride made me laugh.
- NOT ENOUGH SNAPE. We don't even get to see him teaching DatDA!
- I got sooo annoyed at the part where the trio are sitting in Ron's room at the beginning and Ron's talking about how his mother didn't want her kids going back to Hogwarts. That was a LOLWUT moment for me considering that she's in the Order and she should know that Hogwarts is the safest place her children could be.
- Speaking of the Order it's not mentioned at all.
- No Scrimgeour but we get him in DH at least.
- Ron and Harry's "high" scenes were hilarious! (Ron on the love potion and Harry on Felix.)
- Not enough Hagrid too. I thought it was waaay weird how Slughorn was like, "Sup Hargid, can I get some juices from your spider friend?" and Hagrid was just like, "Oh okay then". Not very tactful.
- The twins aren't as fun to watch anymore. In their store they felt kind of blah.
- Cormac is hilarious! I loved him on screen. When he puked on Snape's shoes I was like OH NO YOU DIIIDN'T.
- The party was pretty good, Luna looked supah pretty in that funky dress.
- The whole horcrux scene... it was alright but I really miss Dumbledore's line to Harry (not exact ->) "I am not worried, Harry, I am with you."
- Malfoy looked agonizingly distraught at the tower scene, very nice.
- Harry rarely ever uses his invisibility cloak which just makes things seem unrealistic to me. At the tower scene, what was stopping Harry from hexing some of the bad guys considering he wasn't petrified? Sure one could say that he kept out of the way on Dumbledore's orders but I think that Harry, book!Harry at the very least, would let his bravery overtake his common sense and do anything to help Dumbledore.
- Dumbledore falling slow mo out of the tower... very cheesey.
- Oh yeah! When Snape pinned Malfoy against the wall and Malfoy said, "I don't need protection!" I busted up laughing. Heh, heh.
- I cried for Dumbledore, I'm a weeny.
- Playing cheery music over the credits right after Dumbledore died was duuumb. A slow song would've been much more fitting.
- Instead of adding scenes in like the Burrow attack I think they should've focused more on horcruxes and memories.
- No apparation tests, how are they gonna explain that in DH?
- Tonks and Lupin are already a couple and yet Tonks looks a lot less cheerful than in OotP, weeeird.
- Ron and Hermione were way cute.
- TOO MUCH ROMANCE AND NOT ENOUGH COOL STUFF, LIKE VOLDY AND ALL THE BAD GUYS.
- Narcissa's head looked like a skunk.
Haha, I think I'll stop now but there's sooo many things. I really want to see it again because I feel like I've forgotten most of it~
Oh, and being at the midnight premiere was way fun but all the theatre employees were mucho asinine. I lost my ticket stub and had to go out to the car with Maddy to put away our glowticks- because they made us, mind you- and I wouldn't have been able to get back in if Maddy hadn't ran in and borrowed someone else's ticket. T_T
But yeah. HP, woo~
