First, I want to warn that I will be posting spoilers. If you haven't seen the movie or read the book and don't want to know what happens, please don't read.

Book 6

Let me start with Narcissa. The movies have shown Narcissa Malfoy before and they had her perfect. Tall, thin, whispy blond (almost white) hair. Now, I don't care if they couldn't get the same actress but what is the deal with the replacements hair? Couldn't they afford hair dye or a wig and make her hair pale like it's supposed to be? I know it's petty but come on!! If you can't get a simple thing like hair right how am I supposed to trust you for the big stuff.

Next I want to take a couple of minutes here to cover some other trivial stuff before hitting the biggies. Why is Draco with his mom in Knockturn Alley? Isn't he supposed to have snuck away? I was hoping for the scene with Hermione trying to get Borgin to tell her what Draco was laying away and failing miserably, just for the comedy. The train compartment was wrong on the Hogwarts Express. While the outside of the cave, where the Horcrux is, is perfect; the inside is so wrong! It looks like Voldemort borrowed the 'Fortress of Solitude' from Superman!

#1. When in the book do the Death Eaters destroy the Weasleys Home? You have time, budget and special effects to make quite a long sceen of something that doesn't happen (I mean, now when movie 7 comes where will Bill and Fleur get married *see #2 below*) but you can't do some important stuff (also see below)

#2. No mention or showing of Bill and Fleur at all. The wedding kicks off book 7 and should the movie when it is finially released but now, if it's there, it will be a complete surprise to movie goers that don't read the books. Remus and Tonks had their relationship revamped as well, losing some of the angst and again a set up for book 7.

#3. Memories... we get to see two whole memories in a book full of them. Leaving the set up and story behind Dumbledores hand out. Also leaving the set up for another Horcrux out (the Hufflepuff cup). The one with Dumbledore meeting Tom Riddle is so messed up that they might as well left it out. Side step but close to this subject is, why did they change the events/lead up to Aragog's funeral? When you see him dead your like "Huh? How and when did that happen?"

4. Apparating, fighting and other stuff on top of the astronomy tower. Even Dumbledore can't apparate out of Hogwarts or into it either, leaving the chance for a last minute thrill ride on brooms out, when David Yates decides Dumbly can do whatever he pleases. Then Harry, instead of being petrified and unable to help, willingly hides while Draco, Bellatrix and others talk trash to Dumbledore. When Snape shows up next to Harry and gives him the old finger to the lips 'shh' move, Harry complies. Standing there stupidly while three of his most hated enemies are close (two unaware he is even there) and kill Dumbly! Even the Harry of the movies wouldn't just stand there!! He hates Bellatrix (chasing after her alone in THIS movie) after what happened with Sirius but there he stands... UGH! Again we have time to put stuff that isn't so important (Hagrid's house being set on fire) but not stuff that is (a huge battle between the OotP and the Death Eaters.) Nice time for some action in our 'summer blockbuster' just left out because?? Who knows with this dolt!

5. The cave. Where is the green glow of the potion in the middle of the still lake? In the movie the potion glows not at all. Why? They make Albus cast some sort of light spell when they could have put the green light in and save a couple of bucks and some CGI. Green has kind of become Voldemort's signature color (the Avada Kedavra curse being green) so why skip it? Harry's fall into the water also bugged me. It's creepy, he's seen things floating in it and Albus told him not to touch it, he wouldn't just fall in.

More little things, he he he! Snape was looking very clean and his place was really nice and in a normal town. Snape is well known to be a greasy looking or dirty looking fellow (movies and books) but here his hair is nice and bouncy. His place should be kind of messy and the furniture second hand or old looking in a town very close to 'ghost town' status, felling dejected, dirty, used up and forlorn but in the movie that little character trait (so telling when we find out about Lily) is lost.

The movie was more concerned with wasting time to CGI a looping roller-coaster type feel opening with Death Eaters flying aroung England and colapsing a bridge. Plus more time pushing the 'love' stuff between Ron, Hermione, Lavander and Romilda (never remembering to explain how the love potioned chocolates had gotten in the room) and between Harry and Ginny (adding weird cuts like Ginny tying Harry's shoelace).

Instead of focusing on The Half Blood Prince or the true story going on. They make up something 'thrilling' to start with, when they should have played it slow, letting the tension naturally built in grow, using that time and graphics to hit us with the three step punch at the end. (It could have been) The cave set darker with that lone beacon of green barely letting us see our heroes, to be set upon *splash* by the horror within the lake. Off to Hogsmead and the thrilling (now use the roller-coaster feel) broom ride to the tower, sinister green Dark mark glowing over it. On the tower, poor Harry covered with the cloak and petrified by Dumbledore but mad as a hornet, as Malfoy realizes he can't kill (showing that human side) and then Snape! Oh salvation, Snape standing, Dumbly about to fall whispering "Please.... Severus" begging for help, the pause, then Avada Kedavra! *theatre would explode instead of the silence that greeted this scene in the movie, it didn't even get an ahhh* Finally the mad dash/chase through the guarded castle, spells flying, movement everywhere and an escape of just inches of our 'bad' boys.

A little less kissy kissy and some more memories. Dark ones showing Voldemort growing to power, getting the cup and the ring. Dumbly tell us what happened to that poor balsted hand instead of waving it around like a trophy. I would have rather seen no Quiddich at all than the atrocious, bad dialog having, poorly acted tripe that was on the screen.

 There are large amounts of things missing at the end of this. Some of it you could try to lay of on the 'it's just personal, family, relationship stuff and thus not important.' And since they didn't get into Bill/Fleur and Tonks/Lupin in the movie, how they finish out in the hospital would have been pointless. Other things were important to know.

I would normally point each one out and why it should have been included and why David Yates is a complete imbecileto leave it out. Truth is, I am so utterly disappointed in this movie and the fact that the 'fans' gave it good reviews pretty solidly across the board makes me wonder if maybe I'm just too picky. If JK is OK with this (I don't see HOW she could be from a cannon point of view) *read note* why shouldn''t everyone else be?

*NOTE* I'll tell you right now that if I had spent as many years writing these books, I wouldn't care if they had one reader or 20 billion, there is NO way I would have allowed ANY of the movies since(and including) HP and the POA to release in the form that they did. I would have required them to be more faithful to cannon, even if I had to LotR the movies in length. Also I do think that the changes in directors did effect the movie. That's not saying Director of movies 1&2 is the best evar or even that David Yates is the worse. I'm saying it should have been made quite like LotR, by the same people.. continuously, checked for accuracy and released. When the books got looong 5,6 and 7, I would have tried for the Gone with the Wind release method first. If, IF, unable to do it then I would have done the two part release but the date between releases would have only been a month or so. The fact that HP has millions, maybe billions of reader would have made me want to stay true to that story, not go away from it. Also I know, no matter how good/popular a book is some people wait for the movie instead of reading it. Just another reason to tell the whole story in the movie then if they read the book afterwards or are talking to someone about HP they're not running into 'That never happened in the book!' or (and this is my biggie) 'Where was THAT in the movie it was cool/awesome/important!' *

After watching HBP again I realized that they have left something super important out! Something that IF they follow the book more closely in movie 7 is going to confuse the audience.

Sirius, Kreacher and Grimmauld Place. Before our good pal Sirius dies, he is smart enough to make and leave a will. A will leaving everything to Harrry. Everything, which includes Grimmauld place and Kreacher. These two things are so important in Deathly Hallows. They hide at Grimmauld Place for weeks, planning their attack on the Ministry of Magic for the locket. A locket they only know where it is by having and befriending Kreacher. A locket that is a horcrux!

Apparation In the book, when Harry and Dumbledore are done in the cave and the potion is making Albus weaker and weaker. He is unable to take them back to Hogsmeade so Harry does it. In the movie you aren't really clear who is apparating them back. Anyway, my complaint is, they never show Harry, Ron, Hermione or anyone else learning how to apparate yet those three are doing it all over book 7. How do they know how to do it??

Apathy. In general I have always greeted a new HP movie with exciment and a bouncy happiness of wondering how long it will be till the next one. However, movie 5 was so poor and HBP worse than that, now I dread Deathly Hallows. Yates has left so much out and gotten much of what he included twisted or just plain wrong that even if he takes book 7 and shoots it scene for scene, line for line leaving out or changing absolutely nothing, it won't make sense. I mean, it will to the book readers, they already know what is going on. People just watching the movies won't though. Of course, any hope I have that he might actually do THAT is nil. David Yates is going to make some lame duck POS and it's going to clear 300+ mil because it IS Harry Potter and here I am going to sit, chunking soda and popcorn at the screen because it blows skunks. Any fan that really cares about cannon and how or if the movie follows it, lost interest at movie 4.

My real hope... in about 10-20 years someone good will remake the whole set, or at least Movie 4-7. Staying true to cannon and JK Rowlings vision for the magical world. I wonder what kind of permission I would need to make a CGI anime (like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) version of HP... maybe I'll call a copyright lawyer. :)