User blog comment:Kacieh/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 1 Review Page/@comment-3238713-20101128212224

WARNING: SPOILERS! This movie is by FAR my favorite Harry Potter movie to date. (I'm sure that it will be surpassed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 come this July, but as of right now Part 1 is number 1!) The scene in the beginning with the multiple Harry Potters is almost exactly as it is described in the book. The wedding is very accurate other than Viktor Krum not being there and getting upset at Xenophilius Lovegood for wearing the mark of Grindelwald (the Deathly Hallows mark). The rest of the movie was extremely well done and I'm so glad they brought back Dobby. I'm sad that he wasn't in the movies more like he was in the books, but at least he was the one to save Luna, Ollivander, the goblin, Harry, Ron, and Hermione from the Malfoy's house. At the end of the I love the scene in which Bellatrix is torturing Hermione. No, not because she's torturing poor Hermione, but because she sets up Part 2 when she screams "What else did you steal from my vault?!" That insinuates that there are things in the vault that are very important or valuable. There is a portion of that same scene in which Ron and Harry are at the top of the stairs and Hermione is still laying on the ground when Bellatrix turns quickly and the audience can see a single hair of her's fall onto Hermione's jacket. That is absolutely KEY and just like the vault comment by Bellatrix, this seemingly unimportant hair leads ever so nicely into the last part of the epic saga. The production, the new actor castings (especially for Scrimgour and Xenophilius), and direction was SO much better than the other movies, though I love each and every Harry Potter movie.