Maybe I wrote too soon when I lamented in my post about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows – Part 1 when I expressed how I wish they would have included Dobby’s gravestone. I felt that the gravestone left me with such an emotional feeling, I truly felt the loss that Harry felt, that it would have been a powerful scene in the movie. I recently watched Part 2 and was happy to see the gravestone included in the opening scene with Harry. However, I maintain that it would have made for a better ending to the movie than the beginning. I think having just seen Dobby killed but Belatrix’s knife before seeing the gravestone would play our emotions better. I was happy when I saw it on screen, not sad like I should have been.

As I have stated, the Harry Potter movies get stronger in all aspects as the films progress. The story is told better, the acting is better and the special effects are far more pleasing. Deathly Hollows – Part 2 was the accumulation of perfecting the film franchise.

I must admit, there were many aspects of the book’s story that I had been wanting to visualize ever since reading the book for the first time. When each aspect came on screen, shivers literally ran down my spine. I was giddy with excitement when Professor McGonagall brought the castle statues to life. I rooted out loud for Neville in his critical moment at the end. I was completely engrossed in the film and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I was disappointed in the means that Harry, Ron and Hermione went about destroying the diadem horcrux. If my memory serves from the books, the horcrux was destroyed by the fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement not by the basilisk fang and then thrown into the fire. I understand the purpose of this in terms of the movie but I still wish it was more true to the book. Had it been destroyed only by the fire, Hermione would have had to explain to Harry and Ron what happened, taking up crucial screen time when there were more important things at hand.

One of those important things was the fact that Gregory Goyle’s actor was replaced by a black guy. I mean, we all go through changes during puberty, but does anyone change that much?

I was happy to see the scene at King’s Cross come to life. There was a lot about it I wanted answered and I hoped that seeing it would answer my questions. I think only one of them was answered, however. When we were shown the crying baby covered in ketchup, I knew immediately that it was supposed to be a form of Voldemort because of the slits for a nose. Dumbledore was still as wise and vague as ever and I felt like Harry must have felt with the information he was given. Still, it was good to see.

Can I get an “AMEN” for Molly Weasley? It never get’s old reading or hearing her yell, “Not my daughter, you bitch!”

I need to find out what Harry, Ron and Hermione are drinking to look so young nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts.

I didn’t watch all the way through the credits, though in retrospect I wish I would have. You never know if there’s a tag sequence and in this case it might have been a shot of Harry looking into the pensieve at one of Dumbledore’s memories to find out that Dumbledore was gay. You know, that’s the kind of thing that might happen after the movie is over.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend rounding off your viewing of the Harry Potter series. Like I’ve said, this is the accumulation of perfecting the film franchise.