Neville Longbottom rules all. I could say more about it, but that's what will stick with me: Neville and his crowning moments of awesome.
(Which got a big hand in the theater, along with Molly Weasley's highlight.) Also, I have to confess that I totally teared up at the scene with Harry meeting his parents, Remus, and Sirius in the woods, and I rarely cry at movies. It's been long enough since I've read the book that I didn't really notice or mind the changes. So I am, overall, satisfied. All is well.
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