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I should also mention how brilliant the film was in depicting Dumbledore's Army. Not their activities, which themselves were more detailed than in the book (even in mostly montage), but a) in the way Filch and the Inquisitor Squad were trying to find the Room of Requirment (in the book, Umbridge and the staff are clueless about the D.A. till Cho's friend rats them out); and
b) in the way the D.A. are detention punished by Umbridge. It lets the film bring in the handwriting torture again (Umbridge's cruelest touch, and forgotten in the book since Harry's early term detentions). I think it was much better for the film to have this reminder rather than depict Harry's 10 early detentions from the book.
The book, if you can believe it, does not have Umbridge punish the D.A. at all. Dumbledore tells her and Fudge that, even though spies revealed the organizational meeting at the Hogs Head, the D.A. only met one time, many months later, on the night they were busted. And Umbridge buys that, and takes no action against the D.A.
I don't know how Rowling managed to make that believeable on the printed page, but clearly the filmmakers knew it would seem ridiculous in the movie.
In the way the film dealt with Dolores Umbridge and Dumbledore's Army, they improved on the book tremendously. Since that is the main thrust of the story, I think the filmmakers (with some admitted exceptions) did a bang-up job in translating the novel to the silver screen.
Oh, and when does Ronald Weasley stop wearing all those stupid clothes to bed? Is that film six, or seven?
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