Continuity issues

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 2003)

I like this movie a great deal, and I feel that the movies have kept the storyline faithful to that in the books, although a few details in the book missing here do help to fill the story in a great deal.
The problem I have with the movie is a filmmaking issue. This movie doesn't allow me any suspension of disbelief because it's jarringly obvious that it was filmed out of order--at the beginning, we have taller Harry and Ron with their voices changed. Through the movie, Radcliffe is at times shorter than Emma Watson, though when we first see them together he's a few inches taller; at times his voice sounds as though it's "changing" (it's in the lower timbre, but with a squeak to it); and in a scene near the end of the movie it's still unchanged. Had they filmed more or less in order, this wouldn't be a problem, but it's obvious that some changes in the characters aren't linear, which pulls me out of the fantasy.