Predictions for Part Two

OK, the final movie comes out at midnight. Paige and I, of course, are going. But what will we see? These are our predictions for the movie: all the things they will do right and wrong and what will be kept and changed from cannon.

Calie:
I expect it to be like every other film in this franchise. Adding action sequences while reducing (or eliminating) important non-action scenes. I also expect that King's Cross will lose much of its power because we have not seen any internal struggle, loss of faith in Dumbledore, and depression. It won't be the end of a long physical and emotional journey. I also worry about some of the scenes in the trailers that definitely were not in the books: Harry confronting Snape in front of a crowd, an inexplicable swandive off of Hogwarts, etc. This causes me to wonder if this movie will be like all the others: extremely important things being changed to put in more action.
Ok that is the bad. here are the things I am looking forward to. I can't wait to see the Prince's Tale and the whole Lily/Snape background. The battle will be awesome I'm sure. I also can't wait to see Neville in his element. The Gringotts heist should also be really cool. This franchise has shown that it can do a really good job with action sequences and most of the second half of DH is action. I have high hopes for these parts, JKR wrote some great action sequences so they shouldn't have had to change much (though I'm sure they found something to make stupid changes to).

Paige (after changing half because Calie stole her ideas):

Some of the things I think are going to be kept in and very close to cannon are the Gringotts, Rom of Requirement, Prince’s Tale, and Epilogue scenes. I think that the movie will begin in Shell Cottage where the last movie broke off. Some of the things I have doubts about or have the possibility to be changed a lot are the Final Battle, King’s Cross, Harry's Voldemort flashes, Aberforth’s story, and the Diadem story. I have a feeling that they will show Helena Ravenclaw and Harry asking her about the diadem, but it won’t show her story with the Bloody Baron. I also don’t think that they will show Voldemort checking the hiding places. There’s not a lot of stuff left after Part One, so I think that basically the majority of the movie will be of the battle. I think that we’re going to see way more fighting than actually cannon; for example, we might get to see Remus, Tonks, Colin, etc actually die instead of them only being seen in the Great Hall.

I’m really excited to see Snape’s background in the Prince’s Tale. I swear that if they mess this up, I will write tons of hate-mail to Warner Brothers. I hope that with the scenes, they do Snape's character justice, because Alan Rickman makes Snape’s character seem so bad in the movies, but by far the most accurate, and they need to relay his goodness and intentions to the non-readers. I also have the feeling that they are going to mess up King’s Cross (mostly by Gambon being in it) because a lot of the Dumbledore-Harry relationship was left out. There’s also the possibility that the movie staff felt the necessity to add in deaths and scenes in this movie like they did scenes in previous movies that weren’t needed, because they obviously don’t read the books… I mostly just hope that they end the series on a good send-off.

Mischief Managed.

Calie Holden and Paige Cyrus