Okay, I finally saw it.
I need to see it again, because my brain got confused. As usual when watching the movie adaptation of a book I’ve memorized, my brain was trying to fill in the gaps and couldn’t keep up.
The movie would leap ahead, while my brain was still on page 243. Nice job of combining several events into one on a few occasions, but my head hurt a few times trying to reconcile what was going on with what my brain THOUGHT should be going on. I had the same problem with GOF.
Lesson learned: Don’t read HBP again until after the movie, and don’t think so hard.
It had some funny moments, but there were a few times it dragged a bit. Too much time laying the ground work for the final scenes, and someone who hasn’t read the book would probably have no idea what was going on in a few places.
I did enjoy it, though. I just need to adjust my brain when I watch it. :-)
That's actually good advice in general! LOL
When we got home my husband was asking me all sorts of questions about why different things happened. That's when I realized I didn't remember Umbridge saying she was the one who sent the dementors. Does anyone remember movie Umbridge revealing that little bit of info? If she did my husband and I completely missed it.
We're going to go again in a couple of weeks and see it on the Imax. Kreecher totally creeped me out. I don't know what it was, but he was just so icky. I guess I pictured him to look more like an old version of Dobby. He had a very menacing quality about him.