5 did justify its length a lot more then 4. But I think by the end there were a few too many subplots. The Hagrids brother thing wasn't really nessesary or very interesting IMHO. Meanwhile ferrenz the centaur kind of came and went, and the Ron+Hermoine situation was entirely thrown by the way side. I was so excited that they were both going to be prefects, it was such an interesting set up with no real follow through.

I did like that she managed to bring back essientially every character from the series in some sort of cameo form.

the big revelation to Harry at the end was kind of a let down as well, it wasn't really anything new, the twist about Neville was cool, but then they absolved it to quickly, they should of left that in question until book 6.

I'm glad Harry got rid of Chow chang, I couldn't stand her. I'm still pulling for him and Ginny.

Have you heard that Rowan Atkinson (mr. Bean) will be playing Voldermort in HP4?