Hey, guys! It’s been awhile since I posted part one. The truth is that I spent a lot of time intending to edit this but procrastinated instead. These past few weeks have been a lot. Both of my grandparents are  in Bangladesh and have fevers, and we’re all very scared. Please pray for them.

The other reason why I didn’t publish this last week is that J.K Rowling said some very fucked up things and I didn’t think it was the time to talk about the Harry Potter movies. I do not agree with what she said. To repeat what Daniel Radcliffe said, transgender women are women and transgender men are men. I hope her comments haven’t ruined this story for you or made you feel isolated in any way. Now that it’s been a few weeks, a lot of people are taking the stance of enjoying the story without condoning the author. Separating the art from the artist so to speak. Either way, I’m so sorry about what she said and about everything going on in the U.S. regarding the medical rights of transgender citizens.

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When I was watching the movies in May, I kept a notebook with me when I watched the final three movies, so I have so many more notes for them than I do for Order of the Phoenix. I also haven’t reread the last two books yet, so those commentaries will likely be a bit different from the others. This will just as nonsensical as the last post, but I hope you enjoy.

Part 1 – Random Thoughts I Had While Watching The Harry Potter Movies (1-4)

//Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Why would you bully someone about being an orphan?
• I wish they showed what the dementor attack looked like to Dudley because he would’ve seen Harry being lifted and pinned against a wall by nothing.
• Lol. Harry just hit the dementor with his wand like it was a stick before conjuring the patronus.
• This is the first time I’ve seen Mrs. Figg in the movies. I don’t think it was mentioned in the first film that she used to babysit Harry.
• I wish they showed Harry telling the Dursleys that he saved Dudley’s life instead of the Dursley’s just blaming him and taking Dudley to the hospital.
• Harry and Sirius hugging for the first time since the third movie is so touching. They literally cling to each other. In the books, they saw each other a few times I person in the Goblet of Fire, but I don’t think they’ve seen each other since Sirius’s escape in the movie version.
• Tonks joking with Ginny and changing her nose to a pigs nose is a nice way of showing her powers without outright telling the audience.
• Mr. Weasley’s reaction to the ticket machine is so perfect. Very spot on with his character.
• I love how grand the set for the Ministry of Magic is.
• This trial scene is one of my favorite scenes in the books because of how Dumbledore argues everything Fudge says and wins every time.
• We never get an elaboration on what happens to Neville’s parents. Sirius just says that they suffered a fate worse than death. (It was nice seeing him see Harry off).
• The movie also portrays Harry’s PTSD well (his vision of Voldemort in Kings Cross Station wearing a suit). The aftermath of the Tri-Wizard tournament wasn’t handled well. He barely had any support because Ron and Hermione weren’t allowed to write him letters.
• Luna!
• Neville is just sitting on the carriage hugging a cactus.
• The casting for Umbridge couldn’t have been more perfect.
• Is Ron wearing a prefect badge? He and Hermione are prefects in the fifth book, but that’s never addressed.
• My dislike of Umbridge is a lot more manageable in the movies than with the books. In the two other times I read Order of the Phoenix, I’d feel furious every time she was in a scene. The movie also got rid of some of the awful things she did, like ban Harry, Fred and George from Quidditch and making Harry cut his hand every day for hours at a time (He only had to do it once in the movie).
• Lol. Every time Umbridge tries to climb up the stairs to be taller than McGonagall, McGonagall climbs up with her.
  • (I wish the movie had the career meeting scene because McGonagall’s argument with Umbridge there was one of my favorites in the book)
• The Umbridge montage does a good job at showing how awful she was to Hogwarts without taking up too much screen time.
• She just measured Flitwick with a measuring tape.
• Time to start Dumbledore’s Army!
• Who is this Nigel, kid? I remember seeing him in Goblet of Fire, assuming he was Dennis Creevy until Ron said, “Thanks, Nigel.” Why did they create a completely different character?
• Dobby’s storyline and everything with S.P.E.W. were completely cut out in this film. I love Neville, but it was Dobby who found the Room of Requirement for the DA.
• I never noticed how many great montages this movie has. Harry training Dumbledore’s Army over the course of many months paired with Umbridge’s actions makes for some great scenes. They packed in a lot of chapters here.
• Why is Cho and Harry’s first kiss longer than his first kiss with Ginny and Ron’s first kiss with Hermione?
• Harry didn’t start occlumency immediately after his vision of Mr.Weasley. They went straight to Grimmauld Place. The movie also skipped all the things regarding St.Mungo’s where they see Lockhart and Neville’s parents.
• [Christmas Dinner] Why are you here Hermione? Aren’t you  supposed to be skiing with your parents? (When I got to that point in the book later on, I saw that she skipped the trip because of Mr. Weasley’s attack. That still doesn’t make sense to me because there wasn’t any Order business.)
• Harry and Sirius’s last in person conversation 🙁 “When all this is over, We’ll be a proper family. You’ll see.” And he strokes Harry’s hair as they hug.
• Hagrid is back and Umbridge is already interrogating him.
• Bellatrix has just escaped. Her evil laugh it perfect. I love that they show Neville’s reaction when reading the newspaper, even though the movies don’t show the extent of what she did to his family.
• Neville: “I’m quite proud to be their son” <3
  • Also, I never noticed that Neville is a head taller than Harry.
• Patronuses (Patroni?)
• Umbridge has found them (and almost killed Nigel)
• [Dumbledore escapes using Faux and setting himself on fire] Kingsley: “Well, you may not like him, Minister, but you can’t deny. Dumbledore has got style.”
• Cho isn’t the one who reveals the Room of Requirement in the books, but here everyone shoves her as they walk out of detention. There wasn’t really a breakup either. Cho said, “Harry” and he glared at her and walked away without letting her explain.  I thought it was because her mom worked at the ministry, but we later find out that Unbridge gave her truth serum.
• It’s Grawp! Ron didn’t meet him in the books.
• Harry just saw Snape’s memory of the Mauraders. It’s a lot shorter in the movie, but it got the point across.
• Aaw, Fred and George are comforting a first year who had detention with Umbridge (and had to cut his hand).
• Fred and George have just pulled off the greatest prank in Hogwarts history. Even the professors approved of their prank on Umbridge. (I loved the music paired with the fireworks )
• (They just sneaked into Umbridge’s office and got caught)
• So Umbridge used Veritas serum to get the information out of Cho. Which means that Harry was a dick to her and never apologized since it wasn’t her fault.
• I love how Harry says, “I’m sorry professor. I must not tell lies.” when Umbridge told him to save her from the centaurs by telling them she meant no harm.
• This ministry sequence is a lot cooler in the books in my opinion. I loved seeing the action in the film, but there was a lot more to it in the books. They had to get through many more obstacles.
• “Neither shall live while the other ____” Fill in the blank guys.
• Go Sirius! He straight up punched Lucius in the face after saying “That’s my godson.”
• The Order’s entrance was perfect. Okay. The action is getting good now.
• Harry and Sirius battling Lucius together is such a well coordinated scene.
• Oh! Bellatrix kills Sirius with the the killing curse, and he falls into the doorway. The doorway doesn’t kill him in the movie. He’s already dead.
• Lupin holding Harry back as he screams is such an emotional scene.
• Harry: Runs towards Bellatrix in anger/
  • Lupin: Watches him run away and doesn’t move
• Dumbledore and Voldemort are battling!
• Look at Dumbledore water bending.
• Dumbledore literally just turned flying shards of glass into sand.
• This is something the movie does better than the books. Harry’s possession wasn’t as emotional in the books as it is in this scene. Watch the clip below. It’s crazy good. I completely forgot about it since I hadn’t seen the movie in years.

• I love how looking at Ron and Hermione are what ground him to reality. <3
• Cornelius Fudge: “He’s back”
  • No shit Sherlock.
• The news reel transition gives us a lot of information at once. If you don’t read it fast enough, you could assume that Umbridge is dead.
• Dumbledore is explaining the prophecy to Harry now.
• Poor Luna. People hid her stuff,
• (Is this ship bating Harry and Luna?) She just held his hand and they looked into each other’s eyes.
• Harry is wearing a blazer over his T-Shirt on the way to the train. Why is he dressed so formally?

//Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

This was the first Harry Potter movie I watched in theaters.

• That’s a really good opening shot.
• The special effects have gotten so much better. I’m glad they’re showing how Voldemort returning has affected the muggle world.
• I wish we could’ve had a Dursley scene in this movie. In the books, Dumbledore scolds them for being abusive towards Harry and not treating him like family. I guess I’ll have to make do with Dumbledore making Harry ditch his date with the waitress (Are there restaurants like that in the Tube? I didn’t see any when I went to London. Also, Harry has never been that suave with girls.)
• Slughorn coming out of the chair was great. There were a lot of really awesome special effects throughout his first scene, like when they put the dilapidated house back together.
• Was this the first reference to Regulus Black? I don’t remember Sirius talking about him in the last movie, but I’ll have to double check.
• So…in this version, Harry just never goes back to Privet Drive. The Dursleys think he’s out for the day and never comes back.
• Harry literally just told Dumbledore that he can ask the muggle girl out and explain the next night with so much confidence, then it cuts to him looking at Ginny through the window a minute later.
• I know everyone compares the Hermione/Harry hug to the Ginny/Harry hug in this scene to show their lack of chemistry, but can we talk about the hug Ron gives Harry. By far the best hug in this scene. (Bottom photo)

• [In Weasley Wizart Wheezes] Look! It’s Nigel!
• Also, the twins put a talking Umbridge puppet in the store. That just made me laugh.
• Luna hearing Harry say “You are my friend, Luna,” after Luna says it’s like being with a friend when they walked together. <3 She pauses, then says, “That’s nice.”
• I forgot about this exchange:
  • Flitwick: [As Luna and Harry approach] “Oh, about time. I’ve been looking all over for you two. Right. Names?”
  • Harry: …Professor Flitwick, you’ve known me for five years.
  • Flitwick: “No exceptions, Potter.”
• The first potions lesson really shows that Harry can be good at potions when he has directions. He just needed a good, non-abusive teacher. The movies really don’t portray how awful Snape was to his students, not just Harry. I mean, you have to be a really awful person to be a student’s greatest fear (Neville’s Bogart).
• All of Ron’s dreams from the Mirror of Erised came true in the fifth book, but the movies never showed him becoming a Prefect or join the team in Order of the Phoenix. This tryout is the first time we ever see Ron play Quidditch in the films.
• Iconic Line:
  • McGonagall: “Why is it when something happens, it is always you three?”
  • Ron: ” Believe me Professor. I’ve been asking myself the same question for six years.”
• Dumbledore asking about Harry and Hermione being a couple is prime example of how the movies push that ship more than the books. I’m all for it. I don’t ship them in the books, but I do ship it in the movies because they add so many great scenes with them together in the books.
• In the first Tom Riddle flashback, the door in the orphanage is wide open when Dumbledore sets the wardrobe on fire. Literally any muggle in the hallway would be able to see it.
• Isn’t Dean their roommate? Ron and Harry are talking about Dean and Ginny’s relationship while lying in bed about to go to sleep. Isn’t Dean in the room with them?
• Riddle had such a rich back story. I wish the movie focused more on that instead of on the Ron-Lavender-Hermione love triagle.
• I like how Luna is wearing the lion hat described in Order of the Phoenix at the Quidditch tournament.
• Ron and Harry just did the bro handshake
• Wow, they don’t show Harry playing Quidditch at all. This is the only time we have the opportunity to see him as captain, and they barely show him doing anything. (Just watching Ron play)
• Harry and Hermione hugging on the stairwell crying over their mutual singleness is sweet.
• It’s cool seeing what Malfoy is doing while the trio is off doing other things.
• Can Snape give Cormac McLaggan a month’s worth of detention for throwing up on his shoes? It’s not his fault. Seems out of Snape’s jurisdiction.
• Are Tonks and Lupin togethe already? (Tonks just gave Harry a mother look like “no point talking to Lupin about this”
• Even Artthur thought the Ginny/Harry scene was awkward. It was so awkward that he left. (Also, isn’t Ginny still with Dean?)
• I miss the twins being at school.
• I guess they are together already (Tonks & Lupin). She called him sweetheart
• Ginny was so awesome in the books! They could’ve done better than have her tie Harry’s shoes. The actress is great. The script just didn’t give her anything to work with.
• The deatheaters attacking the Burrow is a pretty good scene.
• How does Bellatrix and Greyback apparating through the house set it on fire?
• I’m glad Hermione is finally spending Christmas with her parents.
• All the time used on Ron and Lavender’s relationship could’ve been used for Harry and Ginnny or to add more to Tom Riddle’s story line. Both of those things are much more relevant in the overall plot.
• Wow, they got rid of a lot in this movie. Like, major plot points, not just little things. Order of the Phoenix left a few things out, but the essence was still there. This film was based off of a shorter book but got rid of so much.
• I appreciate that some of the lines between Harry and Slughorn are word for word from the books.
• When did Ron get so buff? He’s wearing a tank top and I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen his arms
• Ron thinks Slughorn is Romilda. Lol.
• It’s the same day? I thought it was showing a time jump showing Harry approach Slughorn multiple times over the course of a few days, but this just means that Harry asked Slughorn about the memory multiple times before nightfall.
• Hermione has barely been in this movie. I don’t think I’ve seen her in 15 minutes
• God, I wish he said, “Harry” in the hospital wing instead of “Hermione.” I don’t ship them. I’m just so over Lavendar and Hermione’s rivalry that I want Harry to push past the girls dramatically and sit with his friend.
• Is Katie Bell the girl they badly CGI’d in the first movie?
• Oh My God! I just realized why Harry and Ginny don’t work in the movies! They don’t talk! There is almost no dialogue between them! Anytime we see them interact, they each say one or two sentences then proceed to an awkward action (like Ginny feeding Harry the tart, tying his shoe, or Harry zipping up her dress).
• I love the music score for Harry and Ginny’s first kiss, but this is also the shortest kiss in all the movies.
• Harry after drinking the felices potion is so funny. He looks high and has the goofiest mannerisms (like when he imitated Aragog’s pincers).

//Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

• I forgot that Scrimjour was in the opening scene. This is the first time we meet him in the movies even though he was the Minister of Magic in the Half-Blood Prince book.
• Hermione removing her parents’ memories was a really well-done scene. The audience didn’t have to be told verbally that she was removing their memories. It was shown through her image being removed from the photos around the house.
• I wish they had included Harry’s final interaction with the Durselys. That storyline wasn’t wrapped up well. We just see them driving away. It would have been nice to see Dudley’s redemption and hearing Petunia talk about losing Lily.
• Okay, you can’t tell me they didn’t have time to include the deleted Dursley scene because they used so much screen time on the Deatheaters sitting around a table. The muggle studies teacher (who we’ve never met) being killed wasn’t as important to the plot as the Dursleys leaving Privet Drive.
• Aaw, they zoom in on Harry’s tin soldier toys from the first movie inside the cupboard under the stairs.
• Wow…Harry has just met Bill for the first time. Like, he just shook his hand and said “Pleasure to meet you” then hugged Fleur (who we haven’t seen since the Triwizard tournament). They quickly do the exposition of Bill being attacked by Greyback (which would’ve happened in the last movie) and that Fleur and he are a couple. It’s amazing how much plot and backstory they were able to squeeze into five seconds of dialogue.
• Wait! They introduce Mundungous here, too?
• Hermione’s transformation is the strangest.
• I love the twins.
• What makes this scene even funnier is that Daniel Radcliffe had to dress up and act as all the characters over and over again.
• “I knew she was lying about that tattoo” doesn’t work here because we never saw that conversation! So much Harry and Ginny wasted potential. (Context: When Harry and Ginny were a couple in the  Half-Blood Prince book, there was a scene where someone asked Ginny if Harry had a Hippogriff tattoo, and Ginny said it was a Hungarian Horntail)
• This escape scene is a lot cooler in the movies.
• Hedwig 🙁
• When did they rebuild the burrow? Didn’t it catch on fire six months before?
• The trio hug <3
• 3 deaths in 20 minutes.
• No one talks about Ron’s great scenes. I forgot about the scene where he talks Harry down when he tries to run away after a nightmare
  • Also, this is the first mention of the wedding.
• Rita Skeeter was just mentioned because she wrote the book about Dumbledore. She had a whole story line where Hermione blackmailed her for being an unregistered animagus that was never addressed.
• He’res another example of Harry and Ginny. There’s no Ginny real dialogu. They each say one sentence, Harry zips up her dress, and Fred walks in on them kissing. This is their second interaction since the movie started and I think this is the first time they’ve been alone together.
• Is Babbity Rabity their version of Peter Rabbit?
• Luna has the best lines: “Come, daddy. Harry doesn’t want to talk to us right now. He’s just too polite to say so.”
• No one saw [Harry, Ron, & Hermione] apparate in the middle of a busy London street? They literally just appeared in front of a bus.
• This short fight scene in the cafe is also a lot more entertaining than it was in the books.
• Hermione can play piano?
• Kreacher’s animation has improved.
• Dobby! I forgot he appeared at the beginning of this movie too. Harry hasn’t seen him since the second movie. His death would’ve hit a lot harder in the films if we saw him throughout the movie series, but it was too much work to animate him that often.
  • It was so cute when Ron shook Dobby’s hand. And when Dobby doesn’t let Kreacher interrupt his long monologue.
  • Lol. Kreacher just stabbed Mundungous with a fork.
• Imagine being the actors the trio turned into when they infiltrated the ministry. The children of the adult actors must’ve been over the moon.
• Lol. Neville called the death eaters idiots.
• “Ron, you don’t have a wife.” After Ron started panicking about his transformation’s wife being in the interrogation room alone.
• The set for Umbridge’s office is so detailed.
• Ron continues to pretend to be her husband, “This will be a fun story to tell the kids,” when they ran out of the courtroom with Harry.
• Can’t they apparate in the ministry? I’m sure I remember Arthur saying he could and the only reason he didn’t in the fifth book was that Harry was with him.
• Rupert is a pretty good actor. He portrayed the pain of being splinched really well.
• He’s holding the mirror from Sirius. 🙁
• That background screeching noise stopped once he took off the locket. That was a nice touch.
• So that’s how they find out how Snape is the new headmaster (Radio)
• Hats off to Hermione for wearing perfume in the woods.
• This montage really shows the deterioration of Ron’s mental health
• Ron left…
• This dance scene is so cute <3 I did not ship Harry with Hermione when I first read the books, but the movies add such great scenes of them together. All the other ships also kind of suck in the movies, and Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have such good chemistry. (They also gave some of Ron’s lines to Hermione. In the third book, Ron is the one who says, “If you kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us, too.” Hermione says it in the movie.)
• The haircut isn’t that bad (Context: Hermione just pushed back Harry’s hair and said, “Never let me cut your hair again.”)
• At least the movie acknowledges why they didn’t use polyjuice potion like they did in the books before entering Godric’s Hollow. (Harry says he wants to go back to the place where he was born the way he left. As himself)
• I love the way they show the audience that Bathilda Bagshot was killed. We never see her body. We just see Hermione go to the room her dead body is in with blood on the walls and flies flying everywhere. I thought it was a nice touch.
• Okay, here’s another example of the movies pushing the Harmony ship. I don’t remember this being in the books, but there’s a scene in the Forest of Dean where Hermione says, “Maybe we should just stay here Harry. Grow old.” And the build up to that line just made it hit harder.
• The necklace almost drowning Harry when it was dragging him away from the sword was really great. Deathly Hallows is killing it with the action scenes, thus far.
• Ron!
• When did Harry get so buff?
• This naked making out scene was unnecessary and the chemistry only fueled flame that Harry and Hermione should’ve been together in the movies. (Ginny was awsome in the books and she and Harry had so much potential in the movies if she had been given actual lines. I bet if I counted all of Ginny’s lines since the first movie, It would be less than 30)
• Harry: “I don’t know where your wand is” when Hermione tries to attack Ron
• Ron’s romantic speech would’ve hit a lot harder if it was’t in the Forest of Dean mere hours after Hermione told Harry they should stay there and grow old together.
• Emma Watson is so pretty.
• Did the makeup artists have to measure Radcliffe’s forehead to put the scar in the same place every time? Did they have to account for his face shape changing as he got older (like, were there calculations involved)?
• The animation explains the “3 Brothers” story really well.
• Xenophillius draws the deathly hallows so slowly. Which I guess makes sense since he wants them to stay long enough for the Eeath Eaters to get there.
• Another example of the action scenes being better than they were in the books. It’s probably because I haven’t reread Deathly Hallows in a few years, but this didn’t feel nearly as high stakes in the book.
• Draco’s redemption makes a lot more sense in the movies. In the books, he is not a great character, but people love him so much because of Tom Felton. The film set up an arc for his redemption and even filmed a scene in the last movie that never made it in the movie. I kind of wish it did because even though it wouldn’t follow the books, it would work with everything they’ve set up since Half-Blood Prince.
• Dobby is wearing shoes <3
• Luna just called Dobby sir, and he blushed <3
• I feel like I’m just going to gush about Dobby for the next few sentences. The scene where Dobby attack Wormtail was awesome. And it’s very satisfying watching Dobby destroy his old master’s house and beating them at magic.
• Bellatrix is the worst. She tortured Neville’s parents, killed Sirius, and now she’s killed Dobby.
• You can see the pain in Harry’s eyes as Dobby dies in his arms.
• (To Ron and Hermione next to Dobby’s grave): “Hug Harry! Not each other” while Harry sits alone.
• So Dumbedore was buried on a remote forested island?

//Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

• Look, it’s Snape. Haven’t seen him in awhile.
• This is very much the second part of one story. They transition seamlessly together. It’s not two separate stories like a lot of part 1&2 movie adaptations.
• The beginning of this one is pretty boring to be honest. It’s a lot of set up, but not in a fun way like the last movie.
• I wonder if they got the same actor to play Olivander as the first movie
• Helena Bonham Carter did a great job acting as Hermione pretending to be Bellatrix.
• Has Harry Potter done all the unforgiveable curses now? (He just performed imperio on the Goblin and he used crucio on Bellatrix in Order of the Phoenix. I think he also tried to use the killing curse on her.)
• The roller coaster based on this sequence (Escape From Gringotts) is amazing.
• The action here is good but short. That makes sense since they needed to save time for the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Hermione jumping on the dragon was bad-ass
• Well, Griphook is dead. I’m glad they showed the sword vanishing from his fingers for context later.
• (Harry’s vision) Rowena Ravenclaw is so pretty.
• The way the camera pans around them while they change their clothes and discuss the next step of their plan was shot really well.
• Aberforth talking about Dumbledore and his relationship to Harry would’ve hit harder if it had been set up better in the beginning.
• Neville!
• Imagine this being your first year at Hogwarts, and the professor had the upperclassmen use the cruciatus curse on you. I’d never want to come back. Especially if I were a muggle born.
• Harry walks in and the background music plays his music score like Infinity War did when the OG Avengers arrived.
• Harry hugging everyone <3 (Seamus, Dean, Padma, Lavendar, Cho, etc.)
• Harry and Cho’s relationship ending was not explained well at all. In the books, Cho was kind of annoying and very emotional about Cedric and was jealous of Hermione. In the movies, she was forced to take truth serum from Umbridge to expose the DA (which wasn’t her fault) and they showed Harry finding out. But they never showed them breaking up. The movie version of Cho was wronged!
• Seamus gets the funniesst lines:
  • Ron about Ginny when she sees Harry: “She hasn’t seen me in 6 months. I’m her brother. “
  • Seamus: “She’s got loads of those. Only one Harry.”
• Also, more gazing and monosyllabic conversations between Harry and Ginny, which would work better if the actors had any chemistry.
• How did Luna get back to Hogwarts without the Death Eaters taking her again?
• This made me laugh:
  • Filch: “Students! Out of Bed!”
  • McGonagall: “They’re supposed to be out of bed you blithering idiot!”
• Sending all the Slytherins to the Dungeon seems a bit rash.
• Harry told Neville to “hold the fort” while he went to search for the Horcruxes <3 It shows how much he trusts Neville and how much of a leader Neville has become for the DA.
• Seamus looks so giddy when McGonagall said he and Neville could blow up the bridge.
• This movie shows all the coolness that is Minerva McGonagall. I wish the other movies included some of her best scenes.
• Molly looks horrified while McGonnagall is smiling, “I’ve always wanted to do that spell.”
• Luna: “Harry Potter!!! You listen to me right now!!!!” I still remember my friend and my reaction to that scene in theaters.
• Is this the last time we see Fred and George together? 🙁
• The Death Eaters just set the Quidditch pitch on fire for no reason.
• Neville: [Yelling at the Death Eater Army] “You and what army!”
• Woo hoo! Ron and Hermione kissed! Finally! I just wish we had Harry making sassy comments in the background like in the book.
• Without the deleted scene, no one would know about Teddy in the movie version. Would he even exist? It’s only been 6 months since they escaped the Dursleys when Lupin and Tonks wanted to announce it. Tonks was supposed to be near the tail end of her pregnancy at the beginning of the movie. The timing doesn’t work well here because she’d have joined the battle of Hogwarts less than a month after giving birth (and that’s being pretty generous with the time).
• Run Neville! (I remember watching this scene in theaters, when the bridge collapsed.)
• Neville: “That went well”
• Flitwick battling the giant was a gunny scene.
• The Neville and Luna ship doesn’t exist in the books, but I can root for it in the movies. I can see it working.
• This Harry and Ginny’s kiss [the one on the stairwell in the middle of the battle] was really cute, but this is another example of them not talking. They just kiss, and she says, “I know,” and that was the last time we ever see them talk to each other. This would work if they had spoken many times before and had an established relationship.
• It’s Malfoy, Goyle, and Zabini. I remember everyone making jokes about Crabbe changing the most in the movies. I had no idea that the black actor was supposed to be Blaise. Everyone just thought they were being lazy about casting Crabbe.
• The diadem is so pretty.
• Harry just asked Draco about not telling Bellatrix he recognized him. Draco’s reaction really works with what they planned for his redemtion arc, but there was no payoff because that scene was deleted.
• Ron yelled as he chases Goyle, “That’s my girlfriend you numpties!” After Goyle uses Avada Kedavra on Hermione.
• Ron’s expressions are so funny “Goyle set the bloody place on fire!”
• Since when can Hermione ride a broom?
• Well…Goyle is dead. (He was burned alive). I forgot about that part.
• Harry and Voldemort’s reactions each time a horcrux is destroyed are juxtaposed really well.
• Ooof! The music score is so perfect!
• Is Lavendar dead, or a werewolf? I can’t remember.
• Averforth fended off hundreds of dementors with one patronus.
• Where are Grawp and Hagrid? I’ve only seen the giant spiders.
• Why does Nagini kill Snape instead of Voldemort? Especially after making that whole speech about how he was the one who had to kill Snape to gain control of the wand.
• Snape looking at Harry to see Lily’s eyes when he dies. 🙁
• Did Parvati die? I can’t remember if she did in the books. Did Deathly Hallows literally kill off one of each pair of twins.
• I wish they had shown Fred’s death instead of revealing it like this.
  • Ron sobbing over Fred’s body with Molly is heartbreaking
  • Why does Ginny have such a blank face, while her entire family around her is sobbing?
  • Oh, look! Percy! His arc was never discussed throughout the movies. We just see him with the ministry in the previous films and with the Order now.
  • Tonks and Lupin 🙁
  • I really love Snape’s flashback sequence. I don’t think it undoes seven years of abuse enough for Harry to name his son after him, but I still love this scene.
  • Young James doesn’t have glasses yet.
  • Lily’s last words to baby Harry 🙁 <3
  • I wish they showed Dumbledore contradicting Snape on Harry being a humble and great student like in the book flashback in response to Snapes insults to Harry as a child.
  • Hug Ron Goodbye, too.
    • Nevermind. Harry just shook his head at Ron while hugging Hermione when Ron came down the stairs.
  • Harry seeing his mother, father, Sirius, and Lupin <3 This really shows how important Lupin was to Harry to be included with the other three.
    • How does Harry know about Teddy? They literally haven’t spoken since the wedding and Lupin and Tonks were interrupted by Moody when I assume they were about to announce the pregnancy. Even if he was told offscreen in the burrow, how does he know they had  a son.
  • There’s Hagrid!
  • Creepy, bloody, baby Voldemort was not something I needed to see.
  • Dumbledore has the best quotes. “Words are in my not so humble opinion our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.”
  • Draco’s mom helping Harry made a lot of sense here, but I wonder why his death wasn’t verified by multiple Death Eaters.
  • Neville found the sorting ha!
  • That hug between Draco and Voldemort was uncomfortably long. I wish they included the Draco’s redemption deleted scene in the movies. I just found out about it last year, but originally, they filmed a scene where when Harry reveals he’s alive, Draco crosses the courtyard and throws his wand to Harry to fight Voldemort with. It didn’t happen in the books, but I think it would’ve worked in the films because it was set up really well. (Someone edited the clip in at 3:55 in the video below)

• • Percy’s face looks so uncomfortable during Neville’s speech.
  • Harry’s alive!
  • I forgot that Hermione and Ron lured the snake towards them before Neville cut it’s head off.
  • Lol. They all just left Neville’s unconscious body on the ground, while they fight in the background.
  • How is Voldemort using magic with just his hands (without a wand). This is the second time in 10 minutes I’ve seen him move debris with his hand alone.
  • Go Molly! [Kills Bellatrix]
  • Uncomfortable Tom/Harry sequence (and Voldy trying to rip Harry’s head off). It goes on for a long time.
  • Voldemort’s body deteriorating looks like burning paper
  • It immediately cuts to Neville and Luna sitting next to each other.
  • I’m happy the first person Harry hugs is Hagrid.
  • Mrs. Norris didn’t die.
  • Fix your wand before snapping the Elder Wand in half!
  • The trio together in the end <3
  • …19 years later
  • Draco and Ron did not age well.
  • Albus is such a cute kid.
  • Daniel Radcliffe looks like the actor who plays  his dad.
  • The father-son hug was cute

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Well, that was fun. My next few blog posts will make much more sense, I promise. I just wrote this for fun in May and didn’t edit it all till now (very bad timing on my part). I’m finally getting my life together again despite the uncertainty that is life right now. Most of my family in New York contracted Covid-19 according to the antibody test, but thankfully, most of them didn’t die and/or had mild symptoms. Who knows what’s going to happen in Bangladesh.

I’ve decided to uncommit to my Tuesday blogging schedule because I’ve been very bad about posting on the same day consistently. I’ll try to post once a week, but it could be on any random day now. My Twitter and Facebook automatically share the newest post, so you can use that. I have a lot of quarantine related content coming up (What I’ve Been Up Do During Quarantine; Changing My 2020 Goals; Quarantining With A Person with Autism) along with some college stuff (An update on how I did on my college bucket list), so stay tuned for that.

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