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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 Review with Spoilers First off I would really like to say that this was the greatest Harry Potter to date but unfortunately I can’t. It was good but wasn’t great, with all the hype I thought it would live up to it’s expectations, not so….

The things that made me disappointed :

* Fluer’s accent suddenly changed from French to British even if it was another actor, at least try and pretend to do a French accent. * The fact that Tonks and Lupin didn’t disappear from the wedding because of the ministry being very anti-werewolf * That Lupin didn’t share the big news with Harry, Ron and Hermoine in Grimmauld place * And we didn’t see Sirius’ Mother’s Potrait * That the real Harry and Hagrid didn’t end up at Tonks parents place before reaching the portkey. * That Harry’s birthday never really happened before the wedding * That Harry never did end up as a relative of the Weasley’s so he could attend the party, and that Luna actually knew who he was because of the same expression he wore. * We never did get to see Luna’s room or her drawings/paintings on the wall with Harry, Hermoine, Ron etc.

* and lastly that about an hour of nonsense could have been cut out for more of the actual book plot.

Okay I am sure I have missed so much more that made me disappointed there are also things that made me want to hit the director and say “What the bloody hell are you thinking?” and the same with J.K.Rowling for allowing such wonderful writing to be put into this sort of category.

Now here is my cringe worthy list:

* Harry and Hermoine have a dance in the tent after Ron leaves, I think the director still has his mind set on Harry and Hermoine getting together but in honesty it was ridiculous. Everyone in the cinema cracked up laughing at how ridiculous it looked, at how ridiculous it actually was. I know he was trying to ease tension but that just wasn’t the way to do it. * When Ron goes to defeat the locket with the sword, the “evil” Harry and Hermoine say some nasty things then start kissing, and all of a sudden they are naked! Everyone in the cinema kind of turned to each other their mouths a gasp. Everyone was like “What the hell just happened?” One minute their fully clothed the next they are making out like in a soft porno film, so not on, we know Ron fears Hermoine falling in love with someone else even Harry, but naked??!! Kid friendly this wasn’t. * When Hermoine starts telling the story of the deathly hallows and we get animation (by the way what kind of kids story tells of people killing other people by slitting their throats? Most stories/fairy tales have an implied notion, not a straight out: yep slit his throat.)

The best bits in the movie came with I hate to say it, Voldermort they had most of his bits from the books down pat, as well as Bellatrix who tortured Hermoine very well by the sounds of her screams. Draco, Lucius and Narcissa weren’t the same as usual but Draco did try and figure out if it was Harry Potter or not.

The best bit of the movie and most touching for me was actually the most saddest of occassions, and was portrayed perfectly.

* Dobby’s death, Harry holding onto him like a baby and asking for Hermoine to give him something to make him well. * Luna closing his eyes to make him look like he was sleeping * Harry digging a grave for Dobby * Harry, Hermoine and Ron laying Dobby to rest.

The other thing that got me was when Dumbledore’s grave was shattered by Voldermort that only Dumbledore’s hand had decomposed which I found very strange because I never read anything about him being embalmed or anything else, his face wasn’t even sunken or hollow. Of course it ended right where everyone thought it would, so we all kind of groaned as well at that, if it was in the midst of a battle it would have been better, we probably would have groaned as well but more people would be asking about what they thought might happen in the next one. As people were walking past they weren’t even talking about the movie, not one of them, they were talking about the actors and what talk shows they had been on. It was only my cousin and I who sat there and bothered to analyze where the director went wrong, and I am sorry to say it, he did go wrong.

After coming out of the cinema my cousin actually stated that some of the students are considering already re-making Harry Potter, the way it should have been done from book one. (Most of these students if I am correct are actually film students and are fed up with people not doing justice to books they really love.) So we might be seeing remakes sooner than most think.

Okay so if I had to rate this out of stars it would probably be a 6 out of 10. Highly amusing if you have never read the books, disappointing if you have. And to the director: “What fans did you listen too? Cause obviously they had no idea about anything, that’s if you ever listened at all!”