Yeah, they did abandon the Rita Skeeter plotline for the most part, opting instead to relegate her to just a minor nuisance. So for that purpose, she was funny enough. Another thing I didn't even think about them cutting until they got to the maze was the Blast-Ended Skrewt subplot. And I think that's a sign that the movie was condensed well when even people who know the book don't notice everything that's missing. I had just finished my preparatory reading of the book a few hours before I saw the movie, and I didn't even notice this until close to the end.

One mistake I did notice, though, was that the movie refers to Peter Pettigrew exclusively as Wormtail, even though that name was never attributed to him in the Prisoner of Azkaban movie.

And I have a question. Anybody notice this movie-only character? It was a little red-haired kid who looked kind of like a younger Ron and acted like Ron's version of a Colin Creevey, and his name was Nigel. I'm wondering why they added this character in. Is he a relative of a cast/crew member? I think I noticed in the end credits that his last name was Melling. Isn't that the last name of the kid who plays Dudley Dursley (who, coincidentally, didn't show up in this movie)?

And finally, yes, it was this book where Harry gives his thousand-galleon prize money to Fred and George. I'm sure they'll wrap it up somehow if they decide to cover it all. But the more important endstory plotpoint they skipped was the formation of the Order of the Phoenix and Sirius being vouched into the group by Dumbledore. Can't wait to see how they deal with that, but something tells me they'll just have them at the House of Black without any explanation as to why everyone's suddenly palling around Sirius.