Of course I couldn’t say no. It’s simply rude to just ask people to meet you and pass you something and after that, you say good bye, pat your arse and go your own merry way when you are free and not up to something more important.

I have not read any of the Hairy Potty books, and I most likely won’t so I went to the movie treating it as just any other movies which my friends would invite me to. I am sad to say I was quite disappointed with it.

Don’t get me wrong! It’s not the story I didn’t like. It’s not the special effect I didn’t like. It’s also not the acting either! I simply protest because the movie has gone on to reinforce my pre-conceived dislike of the Hairy Potty series. The way the movie is presented gives me the impression that the story is very shallow and weak in nature. (Makes me wonder how on earth J.K.Rowling make it into a book so thick in the first place!)

In the movie, there was only one plot, and everything revolves around Hairy Potty. There was not very much about Voldemort – Potty’s Nemesis – and the other characters in the movie, though I suspect the story must have more depth in the book itself. (Just Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was a much better read than the movie.)

Now, I am not saying that the story shouldn’t be all about Hairy Potty. But let me take Lord of the Rings as an example. Even when the story is about the One Ring, there are sub-plots: the designs of Boromir on the One Ring; the master-servant relationship between Frodo and Gollum; the inner struggles of Frodo; Merry and Pippin meeting the Ents; Saruman and his designs on Rohan and his attempt to outwit Sauron etc.

Yet, there was nothing noteworthy in the movie that I would consider sub-plots. I suspect some of those things which might have been subplots were not allowed to fully develop. So, as I have not read any of J.K.Rowling’s books, I will not be hasty to condemn her as a bad book writer. I simply has to point out that the way the movie goes, makes it so boring that had I not slept well the night before, I would have fallen asleep in it. (Like I did in the movie Finding Neverland, or something to that effect.)

To sum it up, catch the movie at home on a DVD. It’s not so spectacular that you need to watch it on the big screen. And if you loved the story as it is told on the book, then in my opinion, you might want to just avoid it and let whatever you have read drive your imagination.