Ordinary Day

I really had great hopes that they'd make the movie much better than the book and have all the interesting stuff on screen because they aren't necessarily as wedded to Harry's POV for the films. I was disappointed in my hopes, clearly. Seriously, though, you coulda made that movie into a really exciting 20 minute intro to the second half of the book (Hedwig dies! Steal the horocrux! Harry and Ron fight! ACK A SNAKE! Find the sword! Dobby dies! Move on, new cup!), instead of an excrutiating 2.5 hour movie of its own.

Furthermore, I'd have to re-read the book to be sure, but I'm pretty sure the _one scene_ in the entire book I was looking forward to came immediately after the find-the-sword scene, and it wasn't in the movie. *headdesk*