Things the movies neglect that they will regret

Nope, they deleted that scene. And I loved that, too.

In the 4th movie I was ready to kill for building up all that excitement for the World Cup- and the NOT showing it. It was one of the big reasons I even went to SEE the movie.

great. and that scene is the one i was most looking forward to. i think i already knew when they cut out peeves & the 5th book came out that they would have to cut out that scene. now that the 5th movie is out, it makes it all the more disappointing.

I think it is always better to reread the books, than to see the movies.
Especially, because it was clear from the beginning, that there would be 7 books, with a story that goes from 1 to 7.
So it would have been better to wait until, well now.
But I think the people who made the decisions never wanted to make good movies. They wanted to make a real good business.

The movies are surely money makers. What's interesting is that JK always praises the movies. I guess the most common complaint is that so much gets left out. Possibly a titantic length movie is what we want!

Well, I think it is good business for her too.
I think she can write great books and love money at the same time.

LOL no doubt she loves the money! who wouldn't? but she has always come across to me as someone who would go to battle for her books, and not OK something just to make more money (IMHO)

Well as we know now even Dumbledore is no saint, so why should JK be one.

I thought the quality of JK's writing started to drop after she surpassed "well-off" and entered "just plain filthy rich". The fact that she didn't need to write the books anymore, seemed to me to be reflected in her work, because although everything worked out decently, I really found HBP lacking in comparison to the other books. DH ranked above that, but still below the majority of the first 5 books on my own personal list.
I've had a lot of issues with JK simply not honoring her own work as much as some of her fans, with the movies especially, where she, of all people, should have noticed- and stopped- all the shortcomings.

So many movies make rot of the book - I don't think it's typical for writers to get much say once they sign off - I just wish one of her biggest fans would do the screenplay - so what if the movie's 7 hours long?