Harry and his friends seem more fleshed-out, less cartoonish in this best of the Harry Potter series. They act like real, albeit smart and talented adolescents, dealing with budding love relationships, questions of social status, and morality while at the same time engaging in whiz-bang episodes of wizardry and daring. The most interesting of the three main characters in this episode is Ron (Rupert Grint), who is endearingly vulnerable as he begins to grasp his maturing feelings of attraction to Hermione. Harry, on the otherhand, although mighty and powerful, is still pretty one-sided in his grandiosity. Maybe someday he'll round-out, but that's probably not the way of wizards.