The first several Harry Potter movies followed a very basic format for their plots. Harry hates the muggle world, gets to hogwarts, faces a mystery, solves the mystery, faces a bad guy, lives to hate the muggle world again. So I was quite surprised when this movie actually broke away from its predecessors. This installment really does add a great deal of humor, moving away from the very depressing tone of the last couple of movies, bringing new life to the fanchise. My only greviance against this episode of Harry and Friends is that it seemed to be (in the most part) a stepping stone from the last movie to the next. My opinion: this movie is different from the others but still very good on its own.