Poll: About the Ending of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 *SPOILERS obviously*

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First off little background, I have read the entire book series to death, and know them in and out and i know what i'm talking about

Now thats unnecessarily justified let me now warn all that this contains spoilers pertaining to plot. Don't read this if you haven't seen or read the books or movies.

Ok to the point, I went and saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 when it came out, and i was genuinely excited, as it was the last movie of a series that i had been close to since childhood.
The Movie actually did everything completely right, but i felt because they broke it into two part it took the pacing of the story away, but that's not the problem everything was done well for a movie adaptation even the epilogue was great. The one thing that gave me the shits is the ending after voldemort is killed (not much of a spoiler but still). Harry is asked what he will do with the wand. Now if you read the book, here harry decides the wands more troubles then it's worth, and repairs his own wand because he prefers it, and puts the elder wand in dumbledore's grave. i thought it gave a great closure. However in the film Harry just looks at the wand shrugs and snaps it and throws it off a bridge.

WHAT THE FUCK??? they couldn't just film 10 more minutes where Harry does what he did in the book?

Now to answer any criticism of this, There is none, how can after almost doing a top job of adapting the films, can they fuck up one of the best parts of the ending?

gah im raging too much. anyone in agreeance? anyone want to put any points in the studio's favour?

EDIT: just realised i posted this in wrong forum could mod please move it to off topic discussion?

 

[Bags159]

I read the book and don't remember that at all. Not that it didn't happen, though. I voted I don't really care.

 

[Astoria]

I actually didn't mind that. Leaving the wand intact means that someone could still steal it and win it from Harry but snapped it's useless. I also like the fight between Harry and Voldemort much more in the movie than in the book, it was actually a fight.

 

[starwarsgeek]

Personally, drawing out Nagini's death pissed me off more. Killing the final horcrux was Neville's finest moment, and one of my favorite scenes in the entire series, but I guess they needed to extend it some, so he just charges Voldemort with a sword (didn't think that one through, did he?) and gets knocked out.
Hey, if they just needed a few extra minutes, you know what else would have worked? Dumbledore's backstory!

While changing the Elder Wand's fate is annoying, it didn't bug me as much as those changes.

 

[Ultramatic]

I really can't think of any reason why they would do it, other than to save time.

More to the point, I forgot what happened in the end of the book when I went to see the film, so it really didn't bother me until someone else pointed it out.

 

[Onoto]

I think it worked cinematically. Since one of the major themes of the series is self-sacrifice, surrendering the Elder Wand is very important, so it obviously needed to be included somehow, but taking an extra 5-10 minutes between that moment and the epilogue would have been poor pacing, I think. Too much denouement. Snapping the wand says everything that needs to be said briefly and in a visually engaging manner.

It also makes a heck of a lot more sense than the novel, too, honestly. Just think about it. The Elder Wand aligned itself with Harry because he wrested a different wand out of Draco's hands, maybe hundreds of miles away. Leaving the Elder Wand in a rather public place when all anyone needs to do to win its loyalty is disarm him seems pretty irresponsible on Harry's part, now doesn't it?

Anyway, I also enjoyed the movie.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

It's to prevent anyone else from obtaining the greatest wand in existence. It make's perfect sense to me.

 

[rutcommapat]

It's not like saving time was an issue. The second part of the last movie was less than two hours, in a series filled with films which approach three, it did piss me off to see so much cut out.

Spoiler

And did anyone else notice the fact that Lupin's kid wasn't menitioned until AFTER he died, and then he brings it up out of nowhere, as though everyone has known it the entire time? Of course, those who read the books will know, but those who have watched the movies have hardly gotten past the fact that Lupin and Tonks are married by that point.

 

[Fusioncode9]

I would loved to see more of the prince's tale, and they really should have explained Dumbledore's back story. It was completely left out in the movie. Overall good movie but it's not exactly Return of the King.

 

[Tanis]

I think it made sense given that Ravenclaw's daughter said Harry reminded her of Tom.

I think they were going for this idea that Harry Potter and Tom Riddle were similar in personality and background enough that HP would rather destroy the wand than risk turning into another Voldemort.

Though, the epilogue thing was kind of...weird...to me.

 

[darkman80723]

Personally, drawing out Nagini's death pissed me off more. Killing the final horcrux was Neville's finest moment, and one of my favorite scenes in the entire series, but I guess they needed to extend it some, so he just charges Voldemort with a sword (didn't think that one through, did he?) and gets knocked out.
Hey, if they just needed a few extra minutes, you know what else would have worked? Dumbledore's backstory!

While changing the Elder Wand's fate is annoying, it didn't bug me as much as those changes.

Yeah I was looking forward to that scene with the battle between Albus and Gellert and Aberforth. Really bummed me out that it wasnt shown or mentioned.

 

[Jfswift]

I can understand you being upset and that is a legitimate point *however* leaving something as dangerous as that wand lying around can just lead to trouble. The world is better off without it and I totally support the alternative ending. I'm a little surprised Harry wasn't running the school at the end though. I never actually read the books although now I might.

 

[Ooga600]

The worst part is that they decided to cut out more important scenes in favor of useless ones despite the fact that it's the shortest harry potter movie (only about two hours), and they surely could've added at least another half hour.

 

[xdom125x]

Hi. I'm here to put some points in the studio's favor.

I haven't read the last book yet but the movie's way of Harry disposing of the Elder Wand seems to make more sense.

I felt him breaking it was a good, simple way for the fimmakers to stop people from going "oh, now somebody else is going to gain possession of it... eventually... somehow". Also, it was a nice way for Harry to say "this is just too damn powerful for anyone and it's existence will only cause trouble".

 

[Thunderhorse31]

I also like the fight between Harry and Voldemort much more in the movie than in the book, it was actually a fight.

I know they pretty much had to do it for the movie's sake, but I actually wished they didn't change it.

The book did a great job of setting up Voldemort as a character, one who had gone so far down the path of evil (he couldn't feel parts of his own soul dying), who in his arrogance never cared about "old magic" (he didn't grasp that Harry's blood kept him alive) and shortsightedly assumed that the Elder Wand would make him invincible (never mind the other Hallows, or the story of the three brothers), and so on. The movie crapped all over these character developments. In the movie he's just your average cartoonish super-villain.

Harry on the other hand learned and grew and understood these deeper issues, and in the end there was no doubt as to the outcome of the battle between he and Voldemort. He was calm, cool, and collected, the frickin' "Master of Death." The "fight" in the book seemed more badass, like "I'm going to kill you now." -crack- Game over.

Again, I understand that for movie-going audiences the ending needed to be drawn out, dragged out, dramatized, etc., but the way it kinda craps on the deeper characterization in the books annoyed me.

 

[Astoria]

I also like the fight between Harry and Voldemort much more in the movie than in the book, it was actually a fight.

I know they pretty much had to do it for the movie's sake, but I actually wished they didn't change it.

The book did a great job of setting up Voldemort as a character, one who had gone so far down the path of evil (he couldn't feel parts of his own soul dying), who in his arrogance never cared about "old magic" (he didn't grasp that Harry's blood kept him alive) and shortsightedly assumed that the Elder Wand would make him invincible (never mind the other Hallows, or the story of the three brothers), and so on. The movie crapped all over these character developments. In the movie he's just your average cartoonish super-villain.

Harry on the other hand learned and grew and understood these deeper issues, and in the end there was no doubt as to the outcome of the battle between he and Voldemort. He was calm, cool, and collected, the frickin' "Master of Death." The "fight" in the book seemed more badass, like "I'm going to kill you now." -crack- Game over.

Again, I understand that for movie-going audiences the ending needed to be drawn out, dragged out, dramatized, etc., but the way it kinda craps on the deeper characterization in the books annoyed me.

The thing is the movies lost a lot of their deeper meaning from probably the 4th movie so including it in the last movie would have just seemed out of place. I did like the talk that they had but how he just died in a instant seemed sudden to me. The wand is unbeatable but that doesn't have to mean its so powerful that there isn't a fight at all.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Harry's wand didn't break in the movie though. I can see why he broke the wand though. Voldemort entered Dumbledore's grave to steal the wand so why wouldn't another Death Eater or other future dark wizard? The only thing I would have changed is, I would have had Harry throw each half of the wand from different sides of the bridge instead of both from one side. I think it worked for the movie though since it sends the same message: the wand is too powerful and shouldn't be used by anybody. Once a wand snaps it's damn near impossible to repair it.