Professor frink
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And like somebody already mentioned, the burrow scene was pointless and didn't even happen, i do not understand what would possess them to just add that rather than include the dramatic fight scene that really does happen at the end of the book at Hogwarts, i was looking forward to that, but rather we watched half a movie of Draco putting things through the vanishing cabinet, so the death eaters can get into Hogwarts only to do nothing more than stand and watch, they played no significant part, and was a little frustrating.
I think because that's how Deathly Hallows end's in a similar fight so they didn't want to finish two films with the same type of fight at Hogwarts which is a shame as the Burrow scene was an insult to the book's. Personally, I’ve read HBP 15+ times (I know) and the only real similarity between film and book is the name. Sadly the film cannot go into any depth due to its length and the fact that it would take ages explaining some things e.g. memories of the Gaunt’s and after about 15min in it goes off on a complete tangent to the book in terms of character development, story and themes.
Really hated this as some of the scenes made no sense e.g. Why would Draco wait until he did to let the Death Eaters in as the Vanishing cabinet had been working fine for ages? The fact that Dumbledore appeared inside the castle under the lame excuse of "there's a lot of advantages of being me" (or something similar) was a joke whilst there were so many simple details that they could have kept the same (at no cost or time increase) yet chose to change them e.g. using some sort of scooper instead of a goblet in the lake scene or changing simple words like 'murderer' to 'assassin'....Why change it?
The fact that Harry could have easily stopped Draco at the end and that he let Snape go straight by him was not needed and confusing. Easily the biggest and worst change was the fact that the world Horcruxes was not heard in the memory with Slughorn. The love triangle with Ron just pissed me off and the whole Harry/Ginny 'thing' made no sense and seriously WTF was up with all the students and teachers pointing their wands up in the air after Dumbledore died?
Nevertheless, people who have not read the book should like it but for the die-hard fans, like me, you really have to block out everything you know about HP to really enjoy it.