The added scenes, such as the destruction of the Burrow, were totally unnecessary. These could have been easily replaced with scenes such as the first battle of Hogwarts or Dumbledore's funeral. These are scenes that are sad in their own right and don't need over acting to be achieved, unlike the Burrow scene. Comments from the directors that they didn't put the battle in so that there wasnt repetition are just stupid. The battle in the 7th book is completely different to that of the 6th. Only D.A. fight in the 6th book and then are finally relieved by the Order of the Phoenix, whereas the battle in the 7th book is a full scale fight, with everyone that wants to fight, including giants, centaurs, werewolves and giant spiders, fighting.

I think the best part of the film for me was the death scene of Dumbledore, but unfortunately they have made Snape out to be an even worse person than he is in the books. The death scene was tragic and the music was PERFECT! I knew it was coming, I've read all the books and I was still reduced to tears. That is good film making. However I think they should have done the funeral scene to finish the movie… I was really looking forward to hearing the Phoenix song and the Mermaids but it sadly never happened. The ending was just too corny for what had just happened

Cinematography was beautiful and the conflict scenes are wonderful. If the movie was a little more coherent to the book then this would be the best movie I have seen in a long time…

As far as people complaining about a favorite scene left out, well… It’s kind of hard to explian, but I’ll try to anyway (and I get the feeling you already know this, so I may be wasting my breath, so to to speak). The Harry Potter books, to me, at least, are captivating in that they make magic seem like so much a part of everyday life to the reader. For example, the scene in (I think it was PRISONER OF AZKABAN, I could be mistaken) where Harry is at the Burrow and they’re going to have dinner outside. Harry hears this crashing noise and when he looks outside, Bill and Charlie Weasley are smashing tables together in midair, trying to destroy one with the other just because they can do it – there’s no reason for them to do it, they’re just screwing around. I absolutely love those touches Rowling sticks into the stories – it makes them more real in some odd way. The fact that you’ve got these amazing (to us) things happening all the time in such an offhand manner is great. The filmmakers, to their credit, do manage to stick little throwaway things in throughout the movies, and I appreciate that. I realize these guys are doing the best they can within the time constraints they have to work under, but sometimes all their admittedly awesome work is a little underwhelming. The fact that the head of Warner’s decided for absolutely no reason at all to hold the premiere of the movie back for eight fucking months didn’t help either. I’m sure people would be bitching just as much if it came out in November of last year, but holding it back so they could make a killing in the summer rather than the fall was just slinging shit in the faces of the people wanting to see this movie.

And I DO miss the scenes with the Dursleys – the scene in GOBLET OF FIRE where the Weasleys pick Harry up at the Dursleys is an absolute classic, and I really woul dhave liked to see Dumbledore chew them out for the way they treated Harry his whole life. Again, not necessary scenes, but ones that would have been enormously entertaining to see on screen. But the movies are what the movies are.

I think I’ll see this one again and give it another chance – I could only get ticketys for the 3 AM showing and I was very tired when I saw it, so I’m sure that influenced my opinion.

The difference, imo, between this movie and the previous before is that HP and the HBP is an story at itself, not like the other 5, which were all a display of scenes from the book, but never a coherent story. Sure, a LOT stuff from book 6 wasn't adapted. But watching this movie felt finally like watching a tale. You might or might not like it, but it was a tale. A good looking one too and that's why I liked it.

That doesn't mean I don't have some troubles with this movie, especially when it comes to the soul of the last chapter in the HP saga: the horcruxes. This aspect was way to rushed. How does Harry know what the other horcruxes look like? This can cause serious problems for the next two installments of the movie-franchise. I don't understand why they left the other memories out; they could've beeen easily adapted without taking to much time.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is by far the most action-packed book, and I fear for an movie that will focus on the action, without presenting the story behind, so that the action will feel a bit empty. But we'll see.

The book was great – it spent the entire time focusing on setting up the final book, and really did a good job of it, a great job of revealing important information about the mains and about Voldemort in order to set up the final book/battle.

I think the movie fell short in this respect, I really think that way too much screentime was devoted to the “love stories” between the characters and could have been better spent explaining some things that were skipped over…

Honestly – I felt this was the worst in the series, and I hope that the final 2 movies strive to cover the gap left by this one… To me – this was a long series of poorly written attempt at romantic comedy, punctuated by an amazing cave scene, then a very anti-climactic death of Dumbledore and leisurely stroll through Hogwarts for those who just killed him…

I went into this trying very hard to not get my expectations up too high, going so far as to avoid reading HBP for three months before. Didn’t work. In the theater, I heard laughs at times I didn’t see anything funny. I found Bonnie Wright’s acting dry and wooden; everywhere I look online, everybody’s saying she’s the actor to watch, but I have to disagree. I damn near yelled “WTF??” when Snape didn’t lose his temper at Harry (but my 11yo daughter was there to reel me in). I thought they were over-obvious about the vanishing cabinets. In the tower, Harry would NEVER have trusted Snape to save Dumbledore. I’m not particularly happy David Yates is still on board – he’s the idiot who, in OOTP, told the kids, “Don’t act, don’t emote in any way – just stand there and recite the line.” In this one, again, there were a few spots that didn’t feel emotional enough. I’m not happy that he’s got DH one & two, but at least that lowers my expectations somewhat.

But despite all that, Tom Felton was brilliant – he’s going to have one hell of a career – and the cave scene was gorgeous, haunting (if not enough so), and creepy. Absolutely everybody in the theater jumped when Harry reached into the water – I think more so because it was utterly soundless for the few moments before. That scene alone will prompt me to buy the special edition as soon as it’s available – just as I did with GOF and OOTP, even though I thought they both had problems. They’re still wonderful movies.

And I did tear up when Dumbledore died (I still cry every time I read it), and I could hear sobbing. Maybe we didn’t get the funeral, but I thought what they DID do was elegantly beautiful. That doesn’t make me, or anyone else, a wuss – just a fan saying goodbye to a beloved friend. Hell, I’m gonna have to bring tissues to DH part two. lol

what I disliked most was the 'teen movie' side of the film. It felt like half of the movie was about
snogging and stuff and they sounded like silly teenagers. It doesn't feel the same in the book!

what's more, the wrinting was horrible ! it was soappy, made you wanna vomit.
Like hermione saying 'harry like the deseeeert' in a totally silly way.
or harry saying to dumby 'you have always be the same for me' (or something like that because I watched the movie in French). >>Take out the violins !
Tssss!

And everything has gone too fast, as if they wanted to cram the whole story in 2 hours and half's time (OK that’s what they did but we’re not supposed to feel it :P)
And when dumby found out they had to drink the water, it felt like he had been suggested this idea in his EARPHONE.! Really disappointing because it was the one of the best moment of the book.

Well the only thing I liked was the very first scene with London in a mess, the effects were great.
And also the humor was not bad !

Voilà !