Subject: Er... *cough* I saw it last night.
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Posted on: 2010-11-19 08:14:00 UTC

Time difference and a different release date, you see.

No spoilers (unless some strange person around here has not read the book), but I liked it very much! The only - and I mean ONLY things I would change are trading off a little of the epic landscape shots and character interaction during the Never Ending Camping Trip (which felt even more like so in the book than here) for a little more time with the Dursleys - who had a grand total of thirty seconds' screen time, and we didn't even see Dudley's face - or maybe a little more of Tonks and Nevill (we actually saw more of Hermione's parents than both of them together, which is a shame).

I think the spark has faded a little for me personally, just because time has passed and I'm more invested in new fandoms right now. The choice of where to split the two parts was just fine and I have no issue with it. They added several very funny moments and smoothed over the sections that had to be patched quite well. Dobby and Mad-Eye Moody got at least five amusing/endearing lines each, for pretty transparant reasons. They certainly made it darker, too - when they're in Malfoy Manor and Bellatrix has Hermione upstairs, she screams in such a way that made me shudder; like she really is being heinously tortured.

And... that's all the random things I can think about. Sadly, I think it will indeed herald a new flood of badfic, because new movie releases always do. It may be lesser than previous ones, though. I suspect the vast majority of it will be about the Harry-Ron-Hermione interrelationships - all shippers will easily find something to support their chosen pairings. Brace yourselves, mates.

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