The ending of GoF (was: Random ramblings on GoF)

[cubfanbudwoman]

Alla:
> > Yes, I did not "feel" the ending at all.
 
Alora: 
> I have to agree.  I disliked the ending.  I think they were trying to 
> end it on a "high" note, but how can you?  The Dark Lord is back.  I 
> wanted to hear Hagrid say, "What's comin will come and we'll face it 
> when it does"  thing.  I really wanted it to stay true to the feeling 
> that everything is not going to go well, even if they did leave out 
> the hospital scene.  Somewhere, that feeling of impending doom could 
> have been snuck in.  Oh well, I can't have it all....


SSSusan:
As I admitted in my last post, I've seen it 3 times now, and I have to 
agree that the ending is... not quite enough.  

Not that I object to Hermione's saying, "Everything's going to change 
now, isn't it?" and Dan's response, "Yes."  Because that's the honest 
answer.  

But it was abrupt.  I felt the scene started fine, with Rupert 
asking, "Are we ever going to have just a slow [? - what was the word?] 
year at Hogwarts?" and grinning.  But without, as others have stated, 
any mention of the Order, any discussion about what might happen now, 
without any Snape-shows-Fudge-the-Dark-Mark scene, without DD's sending 
Snape on his mission, it was just kinda of BOOM! the year's over.

As to whether they were attempting to make this a high note kind of 
ending, if that was the goal, I think it failed!  On the three viewings 
I sat through, the theater was in *total silence* at the end of each.  
I thought it was a *sobering* ending.

Well, either that or people were puzzled, thinking, "Huh.  THAT'S the 
end?" ;-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan