review of the Harry Potter MOVIES. Not books, MOVIES. Two completely different things.
The movies are complicated. On one hand, the acting and scripting are amazing, the cast is stellar, and the special effects are- as they should be- magical. But if you're rating them on how they relate to the books, they suck . Horrible. The leave out a bunch of stuff that's really important to the plot of the entire series, and put in a bunch of random stuff that's not relevant to the plot at all, while they could have been filming the good stuff! They left out Peeves the Poltergeist!! In #4, they left out Ludo Bagman and Winky and S.P.E.W. (Society for the Protection of Elvish Welfare)!!!!!!! HOW COULD THEY???????? And, this might be going overboard, but what the heck: In my personal favorite scene, Hermione* tells Ron that "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," And she says it "waspishly". In the movie, she only says "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon!" That...