Hogwarts Will Always Be There To Welcome You Home.

[rionaleonhart]

It was my birthday yesterday, and to celebrate I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II! Here are my thoughts on the film.

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[vzg]

Perhaps I am crazy (oh, hell, it's a given by now) but I didn't see the Slytherin thing as that bad? She only said they were to be brought to the dungeons. That's where their common room is. I saw it more as a "get them out of their way, plenty of them have parents out there and aren't going to fight against them" deal.

I also think they didn't go to Azkaban because they were about to be killed by Voldemort-aligned goblins. Yeah, Voldy didn't think much of the goblins, but they seemed pretty eager to go along with everything he said, which wouldn't have been bad in and of itself (obviously others did the same), but the whole trying to kill the people trying to stop him probably made most people go, "Oh. Well, yeah, I guess that's understandable, then." That, or since only goblins saw it and all the goblins there were brutally murdered, maybe the trio just went, "Dragon? What dragon? I have no idea what you're talking about.'

YES LUNA/NEVILLE. (Although I actually wanted something more like Ginny/Neville and Luna/Harry, but they're too adorable to not like together anyway.)

And I guess I didn't think the Malfoys were so much evil as they were utterly spineless. I mean, clearly they did many awful, horrible things, but their main motivator seems to be that they're completely terrified of being smashed by Voldemort. Although I guess most people might see acts as a result of cowardice as being about on the same level as acts as a result of genuine hatred and greed, but it was the fact that they were essentially a family of wusses that made me love them (well, Draco at least, and Narcissa a little - though moreso in the films; Snape was also much more likeable to me in the films, as a character, because I was significantly less creeped out by Alan Rickman's portrayal of his obsession with Lily).

Oh oh oh! And was Percy there? I don't actually remember seeing Percy. (And I wished Fred's death had more focus, because I loved how heart-wrenching and cinematic it was in the books, but I know it only would have made children cry and not really contributed to the plot.) That bothered me, but then I realized I couldn't remember what he was doing at the time in the books either.

[heidi8]

Percy was there from the start of the battles at Hogwarts, and in one of the posters, he's in the background right between Harry and Hermione which I find adorably amusing. Chris says he did have lines in scenes that were filmed so may e we will see them on special features?