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Last night I went to see Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, which was an okay adaptation of what's probably my least favorite book in the series, due in no small part to Harry's constant whining.

The main problem I have with the movie is that Harry doesn't learn the lesson about being a self-absorbed prick that he does in the book. "We're all in this together" doesn't resonate nearly as well as "If you hadn't been such a self-absorbed prick, you might have opened this present from your godfather that would have prevented his needless death. Learn from this tragic flaw, so that it doesn't get anyone else killed."

Similarly, because so much was cut, everyone's motivations seemed a little askew, and the early conversations seemed really weird.

Harry: I'm ANGRY!
Ron: I'm not ANGRY, but I'm going to deliver my lines as if I were ANGRY.
Hermione: Normally I'm happy to be with my two bestest buds, but right now I'm ANGRY.
Mrs Weasley: I'm so ANGRY that you're telling Harry things!
Moody: If you break formation on your broomsticks, I'm gonna be ANGRY! In fact, I'm ANGRY just telling you about it.
Dumbledore: I'm so ANGRY right now I'm not talking to anybody!

When it came down to it, the two least angry characters ended up being Snape and Umbridge, which was really weird.

I should note that in the books (thanks in no small part to Mary GrandPre's illustrations), Umbridge bore a striking resemblance to an ex-girlfriend of mine. So much so that pretty much everyone who knows both my ex and the book has remarked on it. Imelda Staunton, not being my ex-girlfriend, doesn't fit the mental image, but that was a problem to me, mostly.

With the continuously changing hair color, Tonks resembled no one quite as much as