Perhaps some of those questions will be tied up in the final two films? Meh. Probably not. I suppose it’s just difficult cramming 700 pages into 2 and a half hours. I’d love to say that I’d read all the books before the next two films come out, but since I’ve been reading Yes Man for the last four years and I’m still only half way through, it seems pointless even suggesting that.

As I said to you this was the first movie that really felt like they had been forced to leave whole chunks of the book out. The relationship stuff was amusing, though I personally think that the film where Harry first gets a girl friend (goblet of fire????) was funnier. It just felt like they had reduced the main plot to the bare minimum.

You already mentioned the apparent redundancy in the whole Slughorn story but there was also the whole half blood prince bit which I am sure was meant to seem sinister and dramatic but just came across like Harry had found a way to cheat in class. The big reveal at the end of who the HBP is seemed completely pointless and had no dramatic effect because the whole HBP plot line had no drama to it at all.

In fact the whole end of the film seemed to belong to a different movie. I also don’t think they did a very good job of explaining why snape went evil. Not that it was all bad. The guy who played the evil kid was very good and like you said it was rather funny in places.

Not one of the best movies but not one of the worst either. Could have done with less relationship stuff and more plot though.