1. MAGIC out of school!!!!! What on earth is up with that anyway? An essential piece of the books is completely trampled over by these movies, starting in the third movie I have always frowned upon this particular aspect.

2. Adding things that weren’t in the books, I know you have to cut stuff to fit a book this size into two hours, but personally I feel Rowling did a fine job knowing what to put in and what she thought important was plenty.

Also here are a few scenes that should have been cut and replaced by something more important:

1. The train/diner scene at the start, get rid of it completely, start with bellatrix and narcissa, then with albus showing up at privet drive (I miss the dursleys).

2. The whole attack on the burrow, what a waste of time, use the time later and put in two more pensieve memories. The one where we see the Gaunts, and where we see Hufflepufs cup and slytherin’s ring, how on earth is Harry supposed to know what the horcruxes are going to be?

3. Finally, either play up the whole slughorn’s party with Luna (great actress) or cut it down a little and add some Harry to Dumbledore discussion concerning what and where the horcruxes are.

All in all I think it was worth seeing but am greatly dissapointed by the storyline in some places.

As for complaining about the changes in the book. It's true that that's what they've been doing all along, but it's also for that reason that my friend thinks that the movies have been getting progressively worse. She hated Order of the Phoenix, and hated this new one. I don't hold out much hope that she'll be at all satisfied with the last two for Deathly Hallows. But I could be wrong.

At this point, the films have been following their own personal canon. I think the films have been following their own personal canon since movie 3. That's not to say that the films are completely off the rails from the book, but that the film focuses on certain things that the book does not. For example, in the 5th movie, at then end, we see this moving scene where Harry is trying to reject Voldermort. We get flashbacks and it's very cinematically dramatic and gorgeous. After the film I asked my friend if that was in the book (I've only read each book once…a thousand years ago) and she looked it up and said that whole rejecting Voldermort scene was ONE sentence in the book.

The HP film co. knows what they're doing–they know what scenes will work in a film and what scenes won't, and they cut and add acccordingly. And I think complaining at this point about stuff that's been left out is kinda weird. They've been doing that for the last 5 movies. It really shouldn't come as any surprise.

I think the films have been getting progressively better since HP3 (which I also loved!). Chamber of Secrets – both the book and the film – can suck it, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a fan of either.

i also generally enjoyed HP6. but i didnt read the book (my policy is to never read anything with more words than pictures). the direction and cinematography and most of the acting were pretty strong (i disagree with u about ms. granger). however, there were too many random events that weren't sufficiently dealt with by the story's characters that made the movie feel somewhat disjointed and arbitrary. HP3 is still the best.