OoP Big Ending Let Down

[Justin Hart]

No: HPFGUIDX 66451

I was totally engaged in the book... I thought the scene in 
Dumbledore's office where Dumbledore takes out Fudge & co.  was 
tremendous... Fred and George were superb, the Umbridge/Quibbler 
magazine thing is fantastic...

But it all went downhill at the end...

I thought that Hermione's plot was clever and it worked ok... but the 
whole Giant interruption was all but lost on me... but I lived with 
it.

The big problem happened when the rest of the group showed up (Ron, 
Ginny et al.)  I would have loved to see Harry and Hermione burst 
into the office, wands raised only to find Ron, Ginny, Luna and 
Neville standing over Malfoy and co...

It just seemed rushed to have them show up in the forest finding 
Harry and Hermione...

Then there was that pointless debate about who should go to London... 
and how many animals there were to ride... and who could see them... 
it just didn't work for me...

And how far is London anyway from Hogwarts?  Any why didn't they just 
use the floo network in Dumbledore's office?

...then the excitement seemed to build... but how many ways can 
someone get hit, fall unconsious, and generally use and defend in a 
wand fight?  There were no clever moves... no keen magic involved... 

... and then to have this strangely mundane accidential breaking of 
the prophecy... it just seemed odd

... on top of that: the chasing through the rooms seemed 
unneccesary...

... and of course the big let down: SIRIUS BASICALLY TRIPS INTO THE 
VEIL AND IS GONE!!  WHAT KIND OF HEROIC EXIT IS THAT?!!!!  And he 
goes out bragging?  

... Then Dumbledore shows up and has this brief fight with Voldemort, 
and Harry just sits there?  I just don't get it

It was building so nicely during the whole meat of the book and then 
just fades into nothing at the end...