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

Out the door right now to go see Harry Potter. I do not have any friends who want to see this as only my ex was into it. And I'm not going to take that skank. So I'm going to be the weird 30 year old in the back of the theater by himself..

I'm going to the crappiest theater in the Parish, so no crowds.

My first time ever going to a movie alone. feels weird..

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Anyone else think that Harry should have ended up with Luna and not Ginny?

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Um, no. They really flubbed Ginny up in the movies, so it's hard to see it sometimes other than her being a pretty face that Harry falls for, but Harry and her just match in the books. I loved Luna and loved that Harry stood up for her in OOTP, but that was nothing more than friendship. The scene in book 7 when they are at the Lovegood house, and Harry finds the pictures of all them with the word "Friends" lace all around......that was an actual tear jerking moment for me. I always wondered if Luna would end up with Neville when I read the book, but they never touched on it. I liked how they incorporated that in the movie.

The Prince's Tale was money. The scene with the resurrection stone made me pretty misty. But I agree with someone who posted earlier: how do they miss up these epic endings? I didn't mind how they added a lot to Harry and Voldemorts final duel, because honestly, it wasn't much of a duel in the book. But they should have at least brought everyone else back to surround them in the final moments. He just killed him.....which I'm not sure if they explained how exactly he was killed in this.....and then they are just sitting around in the great hall. Everyone is just chilling. Even with Hagrid, he pats Harry on the shoulder, and moves on. What in the world? Just like they screwed up the final fight in HBP, they just flubbed this one up badly.

There's no denying that Ginny gets shortchanged in the films, and her and Harry's relationship is fairly unconvincing, however, the films have been hinting towards their relationship since Chamber of Secrets.

And I'm sure Kloves nor Yates would have had the balls to pitch it to Rowling.

I've only seen the movies. Thought the final one was pretty much summer blockbuster at it's finest.

My only real issue is with "the deathly hallows". At no point did the 3 objects come together to accomplish something significant. Did the books describe this differently?

The Deathly Hallows had a lot to do with Dumbledore's backstory, and why Aberforth hated him so much. I think he's only mentioned in the first movie, but there was another dark wizard before Voldermort, Grindewald, who was actually Dumbledores childhood friend, and they were both obsessed with finding and uniting the Hallows, to become the masters of death. After both of their parents were gone, Aberforth felt that Albus needed to stop the obsession and look after their little sister, Ariana, the girl in the painting. Grindewald got mad, a fight broke out, and somehow, Ariana got killed. Grindewald ran off, and later found the Elder Wand and used it to rise to power.

The reason that Dumbledore's hand was blackened was because he put on the ring, the resurrection stone, because for a foolish moment, he thought he would be able to bring Ariana back. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione find out about the Hallows, Hermione is skeptical beyond belief, but they acknowledge that the cape exists, and Harry knows that Voldermort is after a new wand after what happened in the escape to the Burrows, and after a while, Harry realizes that the stone is in the snitch Dumbledore left him. It becomes an obsession with Harry as well, as he starts to think getting the Hallows together will be his only chance to beat Voldermort. Hallows vs Horcruxes becomes a big battle with him.

His decision to talk to the goblin before Ollivander first at the shell cottage was Harry finally deciding that Horcuxes were more important. The whole time they are having the conversation with the goblin, Harry is watching Voldermort raid Dumbledore's tomb. A key part to the conversation with Ollivander was left out of the movie, when Harry asks him if it was necessary to kill the previous owner of the wand to gain it's allegiance, and he tells him no. "It has a bloody past, but that might just be because it's such a desirable object." That was huge, because that misunderstanding led Voldermort to believe that Snape was the master of the wand, and that he had to kill him. It never occurred to him that Draco was the master simply because he had disarmed Dumbledore.

I thought that this was a very nice addition to the film that differs from the book. Plus Draco's reaction to the creepy uncle hug really sells it:

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I'm having a tough time remembering this...

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In the novel in order to keep Harry from interfering, Dumbledore freezes Harry and it costs him his wand when Draco disarms him at that moment. In the film Draco beats Dumbledore to the chase by just out right disarming him, something that I don't think is likely to occur. Dumbledore did not intend for this so he was defeated in a duel by Draco Malfoy technically.

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I mean u have children doing everything. Where the he'll are all the powerful adults?

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you need to read the books before you make stupid statements

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I feel like there should be more. LOTR was more fulfilling IMO.

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your opinion is pretty worthless if you didn't take the time to read them.

Never read the books, and probably never will, but this movie was fantastic.

Damn, I was so tired, and the show was so late. I fell asleep at the end. I remember Voldermort fighting Harry. The part where they both go over that cliff. Next thing I knew I was waking up and I was the only person in the theater.