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For sure. When I was a kid reading them, I imagined Draco Malfoy as a Nidorino walking around on two legs and wearing clothing, and they didn't portray him like in my imagination either. Jerks. So yeah, since then the movies changed my thinking for the most part.
The seventh and eighth movies, taken as one film, are probably my favorite, mostly because I think it makes the biggest improvement over its source material (although I only read the book once, years ago, I will admit). The problems it has mostly come in the form of plotting, which are what plagued the book. But the movie gets right what that book couldn't—the feeling of true despair and loss, the appropriately epic final showdown. As the story of the books became less about the charm of Hogwarts/the wizarding world and more about this big, sweeping good vs. evil thing, it really started to stretch more and more beyond Rowling's skills as a writer. The movie fixes that, in my opinion. Things that weigh on the book, like repetitive aimlessness of searching for Horcuxes and the dues ex machina nature that wands and wand owners take in that book, are either handled much better or rendered almost totally moot in the movie. In the book, the horcrux search was such a slog, and I kept being reminded of the absurdity of the task at hand (find the rest of the Horcruxes with basically no hints as to what or where they are). In the movie, that portion is long and certainly not very fun, but it's got the trio acting at their best, and it's paced and shot in a way that feels genuinely desperate and somewhat hopeless, while also being propelled at the right moments to keep the audience's mind off how truly absurd it is for a writer to present her protagonists with a final challenge like this and give neither them nor the audience any crumbs to go on. In the movie, it feels depressing, as it should. In the book, it just seemed stupid most of the time. And obviously Rowling never would have been able to write the Hogwarts battle in a way that would have been able to rival what a movie could do with it. Also, Alan Rickman's at his best in Hallows Part 2, which is saying something considering what he had done in the series up to that point.
Yeah, it was good for sure. I have specific problems (Lavender Brown dying to resolve the conflict between her and Hermione, Hagrid randomly showing up in the Forbidden Forest without being shown for the rest of the movie, the massive army of entirely Death Eaters) but I agree and agreed earlier that movies require some consession for the medium.
It's just pretty uninspired and cheesy. Ron and Hermione end up together. Harry and Ginny end up together. Harry's kid is named after Dumbledore and Snape. It's just a dumb, boring, typical happily ever after scenario, which makes it really unnecessary. She should have just let the fans imagine their own happy ending for everyone if that's all she was going to do with it, rather than forcing this specific way into canon.
But she's 14!! :V
