Incredible Movie! But limited by past mistakes (Spoiler Alert!!)

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2011)

This was perhaps the best of all the Harry Potter Movies. Although I think they rushed through the Gringgots story line and the main battle with Voldermort should have followed the book closer, there were many scenes not in the book which I felt made up for this. For example Longbottom and Finigan blowing up the bridge, or the simple five words added to Snapes death, "You have your mothers eyes."
The main problem with The deathly Hallows was not the movie itself but rather all the critical parts Yates neglected in the previous books, which ultimately limited the emotional scope of both Parts 1 and two. For example...
If you read the book you cried when Dobby died, if you did not then you were probably a bit curious as to why Harry was so torn up over the death of a House Elf which he hadn't seen in over five years and caused him more pain than aided and Ron and Hermione only met in the kitchen of number 12 for ten minutes. But those of us who read the books know that Dobby was so much more to all of them.
How did you feel when Remus and Tonks lay dead on the floor of the great hall? Odds are if you didn't close your eyes and sigh than you never knew how their relationship developed, how Remus battled himself and whats this Harry says about a baby after using the Resurrection Stone?
Would you have been as indifferent at Moody's death if you knew how he threatened the Dursley's on Harry's behalf?
How much better would it have been if Percy had been there to reconcile with his family only hours before crouching over his younger brothers body? How many who have not read the book recall the pompous older brother shown only a handful of times in past movies?
I know the books will always be better than the movies, for time and budget reasons, but when I look at books 4-6 and how little their movies cover, they seem like Yates merely skimmed through the books and worked from a memory of it.
I also know this seems more like an attack on the past movies than a review on Part 7, and I guess to some degree it is. But all that being said this was THE BEST Harry Potter Movie yet and I am very sorry to see the Era end.
Unlike so many I did not grow up with Harry Potter, I was already an Adult by the time I was dragged by my Ex to go and see Part three in the theaters. As soon as I got home tho I opened Book one and read all three and have been hooked ever since.
I will miss reading new books on Harry Potter, I will also miss getting angry at how much was left out of the movies and thrilled at some of the creative additions. Thank you J.K Rowling for such an incredible story, thank you Yates for bringing it to life (even if I hated you at times) and thank you Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint for sharing your childhood with us, to make Harry potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley possible.