Avada Kedavra!

Yes, the forbidden curse to a horrid movie. At first I wrote this post thinking the movie wasn't too bad when taken for itself (I kept telling myself in the theater to avoid refer to the books - just take the movie as it is) but writing this I realize how much more disappointed I was by the film and had to start over.

There were good parts in the movie - Hermione in at the Yule Ball (which is also one of my favorite scenes from the book) but it was all shot to hell when she cried because "Ron ruined it all". Hermione is a strong role model and shouldn't have been played so emotional. For heaven's sake in the last movie she punched Malfoy for running his mouth!

All in all the movie seemed choppy like so much was missing (and it was). I wonder if people who never read the book caught the repeated reference to polyjuice. I don't think they might have remembered from the earlier movie. There was no focus on the lead characters so that you could identify with them.

Book four is probably my favorite of the series so far (I have high hopes for 7) with book five in a close second followed by book two and then book one (in case you were wondering) so I was a bit more critical of this film than I might otherwise have been.

Where the heck where the house elves? Leaving out how Barty Crouch got out of Azcaban was silly. And why even introduce Rita Skeeter if you didn't play out her entire character! The Quidditch world cup, George and Fred and the blackmailing story (their future joke store can't be left out!), oh I could go on...

Maybe I need to watch it again but right now I am too disappointed. I wait full of anticipation for book seven but also with a tinge of sadness because it will mean the end of something I have loved for such a long time.