re: Official Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II Reaction Thread

100% agree. I loved it. It was without question the best in the series.

I lolzed at the aged character thing. At least do a better job of attempting to make them look older if you're going to use the same actors.

Not without JKs approval will they reboot or further the series. And based on recent interviews with her I have to believe that it's finished. I wouldn't anticipate any type of reboot for this series.

I disagree with the others... as a standalone movie, I wish they had changed a little bit more. I feel as though the movie seriously went downhill once Neville gave his rousing speech after Harry died. And I hated the epilogue, but I always have. It's too much like happy fanfiction where everyone wins.

I think I liked the first DH better but don't get me wrong- I really enjoyed the movie. (I'm also glad I didn't go see it in 3D)

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Maybe they didn't need to, but it certainly served it's purpose. Killing the final horcrux is an epic cinematic moment for the series, and they tried to make it that. Whether or not they accomplished the task is up to you.

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I thought it was epic enough in the books - Voldemort is unable to silence the people resisting, Neville is tortured, and when V's spell fails he tears the sword out of the sorting hat, beheads Nagini, and Harry throws on the invisibility cloak and disappears. That's pretty awesome, leading up to...

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I'm not following you here. The final fight really wasn't drawn out much.

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I see that you didn't read the book. That's cool, but in the book Harry drops off, Lestrange and Voldemort go into the Great Hall, Lestrange is killed quickly by Molly, and Harry reveals himself to Voldemort. They talk for maybe a minute and then Voldemort is killed by his own rebounding curse. He doesn't disintegrate, he just drops dead. So making a three-minute final fight into 30 minutes of bad action is definitely drawing it out.

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it suited the moment

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No... it didn't. It's like if Darth Vader, right when he tells Luke he's his father, makes a pun about Luke having only one hand.

Aside from all that, they left out some great possible cinematic moments from the book. The centaurs come to fight, and that could have been awesome. Also, the residents of Hogsmeade come. It would have been better if Harry would have made himself invisible right before he went to the Forest, like he did in the book, and didn't have a pointless conversation with Ron and Hermione. I could go on, but you get the point.

Does anyone else think, even in the novels, that Voldemort is an absolute retard? I mean he may be intelligent, but he is certainly not clever or a skilled tactician. First of all, why would you hide a Horcrux in a location where apparently hundreds of people have been storing crap in there for centuries? He should know that Harry knows about the Room of Requirement since Draco found out how to use the Room to gain entry to Hogwarts. Shouldn't the first thing he should have done when he took over Hogwarts is move the Horcrux to a safer location?

Secondly why would he have taken Nagini to Hogwarts? Thats exactly what Harry wants and gives him an opportunity to defeat Voldemort once and for all. Thirdly shouldn't he have learned his lesson about making people sacrifice themselves for the good of others?

And finally, what the hell was he thinking about when after he killed Harry? I mean the snake is out there completely exposed, and he should know that in the very least two other people know of his Horcruxes, Ron and Hermione. Shouldn't the very first thing he should have done is kill them, and probably Luna for safe measure since she escaped Malfoy Manor with them? I probably would have relayed to the Death Eaters during the battle that those 2 were equally important targets to kill as Harry was.

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Did anyone else notice David grohl in the 19 years later scene?

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No, but I'll look for him next time.

Did it really take anyone else out of the film when Luna just shows up right the frick out of nowhere in Hogwarts, despite the fact we saw her 20 minutes ago at Shell Cottage? I'm sure there's a deleted scene with her and Cho entering, or something like that, but it did take me out of the scene briefly.

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First of all, why would you hide a Horcrux in a location where apparently hundreds of people have been storing crap in there for centuries?

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plain sight is often good hiding place. Dumbledore didn't find it despite being headmaster.

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He should know that Harry knows about the Room of Requiremen

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Line from the novel states that Riddle never knew what the Room was himself. He never took the time to learn about Hogwarts. Thought it was just another room in the building.

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Shouldn't the first thing he should have done when he took over Hogwarts is move the Horcrux to a safer location?

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Snape was now headmaster and he had already left a few Horocruxes in the hands of his followers. Diary-Malfoy, Cup-Bellatrix, so it fits that thinking.

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Secondly why would he have taken Nagini to Hogwarts?

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Well he had tried hiding things like the ring away from the world, and that didn't work, he tried letting his followers guard some items and that didn't work.

If you can't hide something, can't trust anyone else to guard it, best place to keep it safe is next to the most powerful wizard in the world himself.

Also don't forget that Voldemort never counted on anyone else but himself and his closest followers of knowing about the secret of the horcruxes.

You raise really good points... But don't forget that in the books, Voldemort didn't know that the horcruxes were destroyed. He wouldn't have known about the diary at all, unless he somehow saw it in Harry's mind. They played that up in the movie [his knowledge of the destruction]. I do agree though that some of his hiding spots were not fitting, and I find it especially odd that someone who has been made out to be a creature that trusts no one would hand his soul to two of his followers. He was explicitly described as one who didn't have a friend. It would make more sense that his horcruxes would be in remote places like the cave with the locket.