ok…my son is turning 10 in just a few hours so we went on a date tonight to see the new harry potter movie… now…friends, i know i am not the only one who has been looking forward to the movie version of fred and george’s exceptionally wonderful exit from hogwart’s since reading the order of the phoenix. really, i think i went to see this movie just for that scene. and oh, they just could have done soooo much more. it was good. but it wasn’t great…like in the book… you read it and you just think, oh YES! what a performance! finally, that woman got what was coming to her. it is such a perfect sweet revenge moment. i just didn’t feel it in that same way in the movie. maybe it’s because i was expecting it. maybe it’s because i am just feeling a little twingy about heading into the double digits. i’m not sure.

helena bonham carter was amazing as bellatrix. we agreed that she freaked us out more than voldemort this time around. yikes.

and i think we definitely hated dolores umbridge like we were supposed to. oooh, she is icky.

still though, hermione is my favorite. she is by far the best transfer-from-book-to-movie character in the series with alan rickman as snape being a close second.