Okay, so I've been on this Harry Potter movie madness for four days. I've watched and re watched the movies at least four times. I'm not kidding either. I'm losing my creativity here people. I love the movies. I noticed as the directors changed and the books grew in thickness the movies turned dark with each new volume. At the last movie I was like wow until the end. Key details that made the book have ah ha moments were left out of the movie. One major one is Wormtail being killed by the hand Voldemort made for him. This is so important. That one moment of regret that killed Wormtail yet redeemed him as well. He had remorse for not being a better man and standing up to Voldermort when it counted. We all have these moments I'm sure. I can look back on being a mother and think of several right now where I believed I felled in parenting my children. It haunts me at times when I see there mistakes or lose of courage. Yet my sons love for me keeps me in the now. Next was the ending. I know as a screenwriter you want action on film and action scenes that drive the movie. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is more than action. We needed to see Kreacher transform. This movie is about unconditional love at its root. It shows the power of it even when everything is against you. Now they were in the big hall when the last battle happens. Harry is under his invisible cloak protecting everyone is battling. The scene for with Mrs. Weasley is so wrong. She is fighting her for her family and killing Bellatrix was not one of triumph but done out of grief and necessary. The emotion at the end of the battle is too cliche.  I expected a longer battle as more emphasis on it than Harry and Voldemort. That is my next comment. You see Harry revealed to everyone who Snape really is/was and also his innocence as well. This is important. The ending needed to stick to the book because Harry has returned from the other side now. More fighting is just not necessary and dragged more than the dialogue would have. Having him duel Voldemort in the center of the hall with everyone watching would have been a great ending with just two spells thrown at each other and the dramatic fall of Voldemort. The ending now that I have seen it four times has not worked for me. Overall the movie works for me on a whole. It pulled me in with the life lessons of each scene. Friendship, jealousy and being mature enough to say I was wrong and go back to your friends. Accepting their apology and starting on a clean slate is how friendships work. Redemption. It keeps coming up again and again. We can change. We can grow, make different choices no matter how far down the unbalanced path we travel. Draco Malfoy is the example of this. He never desired t kill. The idea and act was too great for even him a bad boy to cross. Albus Dumbledore knew this. He knew the boy was all bolsiter and not a mean person. He was the product of his father and mother and had yet learned to question them until he saw true evil - Voldemort. and not using it as a weapon or hostage maker. So many lessons for young people, adults, nations. Well back to the nose blowing and soup.