Okay, oh God. It was SO intense. I was on the edge of my seat during most of it, even if I already knew what would happen. Cried a lot, and regretted putting on the bit of make up that I did, because it stung like a little *****. Plus I watched it in 3D and the glasses started getting wet and oh God lol (btw the 3D effects were AWESOME, coming from someone who would rather watch films in 2D). Anyway, let’s start from the beggining.
The logo came on and my heart was beating oh so fast, my best friend and I were squealing along with the whole theater, and everyone clapped and we could just sense the excitement everywhere, it was so cool.
The Dobby grave was on and my eyes were all teary haha, but then I calmed down when it really started.
The Shell Cottage part was pretty good, I mean, I understand that they couldn’t have possibly put on all the other days that they were there and well taking Dean off I understand as well, it was pretty faithful, although I would have liked if they kept the part where Remus announces that Teddy’s born and they all toast and Remus tells Harry he’ll be godfather.
Then the whole Gringotts scene was pretty amazing, I loved it. Helena as Bellatrix-Hermione was INCREDIBLE. She acted just like Emma and whoa, just whoa. Then the flying part with the dragon and all, incredible, the view <3
Then they decided to get to Hogwarts, all good, Aberforth, pretty good as well, even though we didn’t get to see the ‘Stag? It’s a goat, you idiot!’ haha, but oh well, what really bothered me though, was that they didn’t explain ANYTHING about Dumbledore’s youth. The whole Grindelwald thing, how Arianna got killed, they just decided to skip over it -_-
Haha I LOVED when they got through the hole into the Requirement Room and then Ginny appears and it’s all like Harry! And Ron’s like, I’m your brother! And then Seamus says something and Ron says ‘Shut up, Seamus’. Hahaha I thought it was pretty funny.
Then the part where Snape makes all of the Hogwarts students go into the Great Hall. It was really cool how they all had to walk organized, like Hogwarts was so changed and they all were like in military school and everything was so serious and organized now. While I really did like how that looked, what the hell was that scene where Snape tells everyone that he knows Harry is in the castle?? I mean, what? Haha, and then Harry just decides to show up in a Hogwarts uniform, I was so confused, but oh well, things kind of regained their order after that when Snape ran away through the window.
McGonagall was SUCH A BAMF, whoa. <3
I think it also looked amazing when all of the Death Eaters were outside Hogwarts, I mean, obviously, it was an exaggeration because the Death Eaters were like 15, not 300, but it looked cool nonetheless.
WHAT was that with Neville being in love with Luna??? Hahaha so unexpected!!
Then, the Ron/Hermione part, well it was alright, I think it was rather cute when they smiled after each other after the kiss. But there was no Harry screaming ‘Oi! There’s a war going on here!’, which I thought would have been great, but oh well, at least here he wasn’t a cockblocker haha <3
I really really liked the Room of Requirement/Horcrux search part in there, with Malfoy, Goyle and Zabbini. Was Crabbe the actor who got arrested and fired? If so, then I understand why they changed the character. I loved when Ron runs and’s like ‘Goyle is setting everything on fire!’ or something haha, and then when Harry saves Draco haha
CAN I JUST SAY HOW MUCH MY HEART ACHED WHEN I SAW FRED WAS DEAD AND GEORGE CRYING SO MUCH, AND ALL THE WEASLEYS AND RON OMG AND REMUS AND TONKS, I SERIOUSLY WAS CRYING SO MUCH.
Okay now, the Snape part was almost perfect. It was amazing, completely amazing. Alan Rickman deserves like a thousand awards, every award in the world, for his performance. I cried like a child. Although when he looks at Harry and says ‘you have your mother’s eyes’ lol wut, Snape doesn’t say that, it was probably really strange and creepy for Harry at that moment when he didn’t know anything about Lily and Snape haha. And then while in the Pensive, the part when Snape holds Lily after she’s dead, I was about to scream, whoa!! And the kid-Snape was soo cute! So ****** that they cut off the part where they explain why Snape and Lily stopped being friends though, because I mean, if they cut off the ‘mudblood’ bit and how Sev started hanging out with Death Eaters, then why did they stop being friends? They don’t explain that bit properly.
My brave, lovely, perfect Harry <3 I love him so much when he realizes he needs to die. You can tell he’s so scared, yet he’s so brave and is willing to do it, and it’s such an internal battle and he just feels so betrayed by Dumbledore and feels like his whole existence hasn’t meant anything, that part is just one of my favorites in the whole series, it’s so ****ing perfect and sad and I don’t even have words to describe it. One of the things that REALLY REALLY REALLY bothered me about the film though, was how he met Ron and Hermione on the way to the forest, and how he told them what he was about to do, and how THEY LET HIM GO, I mean seriously, as much as they knew that it needed to be done to defeat Voldemort, I’m completely sure that Ron and Hermione would NEVER EVER have let Harry go and sacrifice himself, ever. And Ron just stands there and doesn’t even tell Harry anything. 7 years of being best friends, and Harry is about to sacrifice himself, and he’s going to let him go without a word, nothing. Just no. They should have made it like in the book, where he just meets Neville and lies to him and Ron and Hermione don’t know anything.
Anyway, once in the forest and the whole scene with the Resurrection Stone, I started crying a lot again. So great and sad <3
Haha at King Cross, Dumbledore looks like he’s God, with all the light behind him, I couldn’t help but laugh. And ew omg the bit of Voldemort’s soul, gross haha.
Great, the Narcissa part <3
Then I was pretty disappointed by the part when they all think Harry’s dead, because that’s one of the most emotional parts for me while reading the book, I mean, I always cry when I imagine Ron and Hermione and everyone’s reactions at seeing Harry dead. In the book it specifically describes Ron and Hermione’s desperate yells. In the film they all just stand there like oh well, how sad. The only one who yells is Ginny…
Then when they realize he’s alive, they smile and all, but I just can’t feel the emotions like I wanted to feel them at that part
Loved the Malfoys’ part <3
Ron barely talks during the whole war =/
Molly’s part was so ******. The whole theater cheered when she killed Bellatrix.
Then the other thing that REALLY made me mad and that I didn’t like at all, was how Harry and Voldemort just started fighting on their own with nobody there, and how Harry called him Tom with nobody watching, they were all supposed to be watching when Harry explained the Elder Wand thing and EVERYTHING, yet they’re alone and they weirdly jump off a cliff and become one and idk wtf haha and then he just dies there without anyone to see. -_- They were all supposed to cheer and cry of happiness and hug him and be so relieved that the war’s over, and in the film, Harry walks alone into the Great Hall, and nobody really pays him attention, nobody seems to care much THAT HE JUST ****ING ENDED LORD VOLDEMORT. They all just kinda smile at him like he’s just done well in a test or something, what the ****! And then Ron and Hermione come up holding hands and they don’t even hug Harry or anything!! -_-
And then the three of them just left to stand in the middle of destroyed Hogwarts, and Harry explains the wand thing to them, and they’re like what oh okay. And then they stand there and well it was kinda nice to see them standing there, everything finished, but it was not the end I was hoping for.
The epilogue was pretty nice, though, but I would have liked for James to start picking on Albus and for them to talk a bit more, too.
The film was not nearly as long as part 1, so I don’t see why they had to skip over such important details. But overall, I did like it, and I think it does it if not justice, at least really close to it. It was really emotional and it didn’t dissapint except in those points I made above marked in bold, which were the ones I was really upset about.
I can’t believe it’s over, I just can’t. Oh my poor aching heart, will it ever heal? I feel as if I’ve lost my childhood friend, and I just feel empty and numb.
<3