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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3646113" data-attributes="member: 20741">It was visually compelling, yes, but it was also the worst thing they did in terms of betraying the book and  - indeed - betraying what they had spent 12 minutes of screen time on earlier.The sacrifice of the competency of Dumbldore's Army on the altar of tension and tempo betrayed a major theme in the book - and even in the series.The kids were depicted as being mastered by the Death Eaters as if the Death Eaters were only toying with them. The kids' spells were visually wussy and the kids were just taken by the Death Eaters with little more than a shrug.The showy oooh scarey razmatazz happens only when the OOTP show up.And thereby it depicts Dumbledore's Army - who were in the book  pretty much holding their own - look like a bunch of babies. That's not the book.  It's not Half-Blood Prince either - and my guess is that it will not be the scenes shown in Book 7 too.That's a director and scriptwriter changing the material in the novel  to distort one of the underlying themes in the book, the series,  (and in the movie you were watching earlier) just for the tempo of the eye candy.Bad call.</blockquote>