I still contend that the biggest wasted opportunity was not showing more of what was going on away from Harry in DH2. Yeah, I know the book is 3rd person limited, focused on Harry, just like all the other books. That was the narration style that Rowling wrote all the previous books in, and so that was the style that she had to write the last one in (a couple of scenes excepted, of course).But there was no reason why the movie had to stick with that style. I would have loved to see a scene or two of the Order at work, or the assassination of Scrimgeour, or the struggle between Dumbledore's Army and the Carrows.It's symptomatic of the way that the Harry Potter movies operated, though. None of them are truly excellent movies, IMO, because they were too conservative. Decent movies, sure. Good movies, in some cases. Generally fun movies. But not exceptional. Virtually none of the changes they made showed any daring at all, instead being made for the sake of limited run time. Movies are different from books. Great movies based on great books reflect (and in some ways benefit from) this difference.The closest they ever came to being daring was PoA, and that's why it's still among my favorites in the movie series.Also, you and your love of Hermione-torture. I'm fine with that bit; the original was arguably softer than the movie version as it is...though to me it was somehow more chilling than the movie version.