"HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - Part II" (2011) Review

[ashmh]

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[jdnightghobhadi]

Earlier, I had stated that "DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART I" should have ended a little sooner - with the Snatchers' capture of Harry, Ron and Hermione. I usually dismiss other people's attempts to rewrite movies already filmed and released. But now, I find myself doing the same. After watching "PART II", I realized that if "PART I" had ended with the trio being captured by the Snatchers, "PART II" could have featured the Malfoy Manor sequence, Dobby's death and the Gringotts Bank sequence before the film moved on to the Hogswarts battle.

I disagree. There wouldn't have been much going for the ending if that were the case (as far as the peak of rising action and falling action goes); there wouldn't have been much closure to the end of the camping. It would have been too much of a hanging ending. The original ending in the script did end right before the trio are taken into Malfoy Manor, but ultimately the filmmakers changed it to when Voldemort receives the Elder Wand for so and so reasons. The ending either way in't perfect, but the latter

[ashmh]

I disagree. "DEATHLY HALLOWS" could have ended with the Trio's capture by the Snatchers . . . and Voldemort's discovery of the Deathly Hallows inside Dumbledore's casket. Then Part II could have continued with the rescue from the Malfoys' manor, refuge at Shell Cottage and the heist at Gringotts, before moving on to Hogwarts. Considering that the Battle of Hogwarts came off as anti-climatic (even in the novel), less scenes of that event would have suited me just fine.