That pesky wand-core thing

[David]

Is it just me forgetting/misunderstanding canon, or was the constant laser show between LV & Harry's wands nonsensical? JKR made a huge deal out of those twin cores, but once LV loses his original wand, then there are no longer twin cores to cause this. LV gets LM's wand, Harry gets, oh heavens, a million different people's wands, and the same thing happens again and again. Or is is not the laser show that is caused by the twin wands, but the priori incantatem (which, I freely admit, did not happen in the film)?

And yes, five more seconds for Tonks to mention her impending motherhood (in Part I), and fifteen seconds for Lupin to pass out metaphorical cigars at Shell Cottage and name Harry as Teddy's godfather (in Part II) would have made Harry's cryptic comment ("What about your son?") not, well, cryptic.

And, yes, OMG, how difficult is it to make James Potter at least have black hair, if you're not going to bother giving Lily, heaven forbid, Harry's eyes, fer cryin out loud? If we can give Hermione Harry's eyebrows (that was the best part of the Seven Harrys scene in Part I), we can surely give Lily Daniel Radcliffe's eyes.

I also wish Hermione would've magicked off the remaining chains on the dragon's neck. 

But I am still astonished that the director (like me) adored Snape enough to give him his due. I was boohooing all over the place. Alan Rickman can do no wrong in my book, and I was thrilled that he wasn't shortchanged, as he was in HBP -- taking out his absolute best line, "Don't...call...me...coward!" was negligence, punishable by Death by Skrewts.

Okay, that's enough from me.