I'm assuming they're going to have that be explained in part two.  It would fit in with the way information is presented in general--while in the book Hermione pretty much explains almost everything before they even go anywhere, in the movie she's figuring things out as they go and doesn't always have all the answers.  (Quite a reversal from the way the films usually write her.)  It's also possible Peter Pettigrew's demise may have been moved somewhere into part two as well, although I'm not sure exactly where that would fit in.

The only thing that was jarring to me was that the shard of Sirius' mirror, which had been cut from the OotP movie, is re-introduced without any explanation at all.  The role it played in their escape from the Malfoy's house makes this a fairly large oversight; but again I guess they'll say something about it in the second part.

Yeah, I'm assuming the mirror shard will be explained later.  My mom didn't believe me when I reminded her that it wasn't mentioned at all in the film series prior to this movie.

Well, in the book it does come up again later--Harry doesn't find out about what it's actually doing until they go to Hogsmeade.  So I suppose that mentioning what it actually is can be put into that same conversation.

It doesn't really matter too much that it will seem like they're pulling it out their @$$, because the way it actually ends up in the book felt like that too.  lol

doubleofive said:

It took you guys mentioning it for me to even remember that I had no idea what was going on because they hadn't mentioned it in the movies. How are they going to explain it now that they're done using it? It's not like they hadn't read the 7th book when they made 6....

Well, the mirror shard was introduced in Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book, and not mentioned in Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book.

When they were making the Order of the Phoenix movie, the seventh book was being written, so the producers of the film hadn't read the seventh book at that time.  They thought the mirror was extraneous, so they cut it.

Here's what gets me - they were going to cut Kreacher from OotP, as well, but Rowling told them not to as he would be important in the seventh book.  Why didn't she say the same thing about the mirror?!

I do hope 7.2 ends with a satisfactory wand to wand show down between Harry and Voldemort.  But I have never read the books, so I don't know.    Please don't reveal to much too me(at least put spoiler warnings around it).