I love the Harry Potter world, but I wouldn't choose this as my favorite. It did keep us involved for the 2.5 hours (or so), but some of the involvement was giggling at moments that were probably meant to be serious. That wasn't just me, but much of the audience! Purists will feel that too many liberties were taken in the inevitable need to summarize the action. I had been worried that the movie could get boring since Book 7 did have rather long sections with nothing much happening, which was completely intentional on Rowlings part. In the movie, we didn't feel the same frustration with inactivity, and I think that was actually a good thing even though that aspect wasn't quite so true to the book.