The latest 'Potter' suffers from poor source material

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2010)

Although I would consider Rowling to be my favorite author, there is a tragic flaw in the last book of the Potter series, 'Deathly Hallows', which is even more apparent when adapted to film. I call it "the treasure hunt jogging syndrome", which can be fatal to any story and it is diagnosed mostly in adaptations, especially from fantasy books, even more so if the source material is a video game.
What is this syndrome? It occurs when the story of the film has characters who jog through the material from one place to another searching for certain items along the way. But the diagnosis does not end here, since in fact many action adventure movies, which are very good, follow the same formula, but distract the viewer with plot twists, relatable or extraordinary characters, funny dialog etc. so that the viewer's attention is not so explicitly focused on underlying structure.
But Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 1 has very little of any of those distracting elements and the focus of any average viewer will be focused on its structure, and it is not the film-makers' fault. In fact, only Rowling can be blamed for this. The entire reason to read the book is to finally uncover all the mysteries that the author has systematically introduced from ever since the first novel. Since those answers are certainly captivating, the reader remains unaware that the entire book is essentially a long jog where the characters go from one place to another searching for things that need to be destroyed.
But after a few years since one has read the novel and sees the story on screen, it reveals the ugly truth: nothing much else is worth seeing here except the big reveal about a certain horcrux. All that precedes it is an exhausting jog from one place to another where all the scenes could be rearranged in any way one pleases without any effects on the story.
The one-liners and occasional character moments spike things up, but do not have the gravitational force to pull the viewer from surprised boredom, which a fan of Potter certainly does not expect to experience from a Harry Potter adventure.