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Originally Posted by jorgelito
As for the elves, they are definitely important to the story, especially the house elf at the Order of the Phoenix' headquarters. His betrayal is pivotal to the story.
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I agree with you here... I thought the Kreacher character in the movie was great (much better than the previous Dobby stuff). I was looking forward to seeing more of his muttering and spitting on the non-purebloods, and his eventual betrayal... but instead he had just a token role, which most likely did not make sense to the non-readers of the audience.
That said, I did not really miss Rita Skeeter. I do wish they had developed more of the Snape/James Potter stuff, because that was the most interesting part about the Occlumency lessons. The Pensieve did not even make an appearance, and damn I love that device in the books. Wish I had one.
Oh yeah, and Will... that cliche at the end about the difference between Harry and Voldemort IS cheesy, but is it really any different than the endings of the previous movies? Not that it's entirely different in the book, but it's a bit more subtly stated, and better written than heard in a few soundbites, I think. But yeah, classic fable stuff, moral of the story, etc.
Sidenote: I JUST finally recognized, in the movie (even after all the books), the word "Wizengamot," which hearkens back to Old English, and eventually Old Norse... and it's still used in Icelandic today! The suffix "mot" means a gathering, crossroads, or meeting place ("meet" comes from that word), and in Icelandic we have a word for family gathering, which is "Ættarmót" (related-people's-gathering). Tolkien used it as well for the word "Entmoot" in Lord of the Rings. I love that nerdy etymological stuff.