HBP movie related question (SPOILERS)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
 
Potioncat:
> Michael went to see it with the youth group at church. Between work and college-kids coming through and a trip to take Michal to camp, I haven't had time to see it. I wish I'd gone with the youth group.
> 
> Michael says it's awesome.

Geoff:
I've reported on one of our sister groups that I've now seem it twice, I usually 
like to see it in the cinema at least three times - it's got a little more "oomph" 
than the DVDs. 

I think I would second your son's view. I have to admit that I like all the films 
in their own way. The feel of each one does reflect the maturing of the 
Hogwarts students and their view of life. I always manage to feel that each 
film has left something out or put in something not in the books and this is 
no exception - an over-emphasis on Ginny and the destruction of The Burrow 
as examples but my initial reaction was  one of satisfaction [even allowing for 
the fact that the Millennium Bridge is an anachronism in terms of the book. :-)].

I have also commented elsewhere that I was particularly impressed by Tom Felton 
in this film. He lifts Draco from a vicious school playground bully into an almost 
tragic figure -tortured and torn between wanting to be one of Voldmort's elite 
and coping with the treat to his family.