Happy Birthday, Harry!

-spoiler alert-

I finally brought myself to watch the final segment of the Harry Potter films. I thought it'd be poetic to watch it today, on his birthday, as I was not mentally prepared to do it on the day the film officially came out.

I won't deny that it was brilliant, and all the images they created were everything that I had imagined, or better.

What saddened me, however, were the missing bits that I had spun in my head as vitally important to the story of the novel. For instance, the fact that the final Harry vs. Voldemort battle takes place in the Great Hall, amidst a watching crowd, and the thing that ultimately kills Voldemort, from what I recall, was a rebound from his own Killing Curse. Alas, the film version was very different, taking place outdoors, without witnesses, and without the freaking rebound curse. How could they have cut that out? It's the very method by which he dies! Or maybe they did do it, very subtly, and I missed it. Also, Harry is supposed to tell Neville to kill the snake, so that he knows it's important, instead of it simply happening by chance.

On a more minor note, I wish they'd created the scene where Harry is under the invisibility cloak in the Ravenclaw common room, and Amycus Carrow spits in McGonagall's face, and Harry fucking Potter unleashes his wrath because of it, and performs his first ever Crucio. I know it's not as large a component to the movie, but I just really wanted to see it.