Harry Potter and Who?

I went and saw the new Harry Potter movie on Wednesday.
That's right, opening day. I don't do it often, but I've been waiting for this one for a while now.

I must admit, I was a little disappointed by this one. Not all that much, but just a little. The movie was good, the acting was just as good as ever, and everything worked well. It was more a question of content. There were a bunch of things that I was really looking forward to that just never showed up. I know that they have to drop content for the movies, especially on this one since it was the longest book of the bunch, but geez. One of the main things that I had been looking forward to seeing was the Order itself, and they just weren't in it that much. So many of the great characters that make the first part of the book so good, Tonks, Moody, Lupin, Sirius, and the rest of the Order just weren't there much. Maybe ten minutes right at the start, but that's about it. Sirius shows up a little more then the rest, but again, just not that much. In fact, other than Harry, the characters you run into the most are Umbridge and Finch. I think Finch was in this more then the rest of the series
combined actually. I understand that Kreacher was going to be cut from the film entirely, but Rowling told the producers that he would be essential to the seventh film. One of the cuts that was made was Cho's friend who she brought to the DA meetings and who eventually ratted them out.

One of the things that really impressed me, and I don't know if it was supposed to or not, was just how haggard the actors looked. By this I really mean the people who were in the Order proper. Mr Weasley, Lupin, and even the twins, Fred and George, looked they had lost weight and a lot of sleep before stepping on cam. Most of them also had longer hair in the last movie, while this time many of them went for shorter, more in fashion looks.

So it's not really a question of whether or not it was good, it was. It was really good. It just didn't have a lot of the things that I thought made the fifth book the best. Oh well.