Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

You didn't miss anything much at the beginning of Harry Potter 6. Instead of the two charming scenes where the Muggle Prime Minister meets the new Minister of Magic and Dumbledore visits the Dursleys in the book, the film has a special-effects heavy attack of streaming black-smoke (Death Eaters) attacking the Millennium Bridge in London, snapping it in two, then raiding Olivander's Wand Shop in Diagon Alley and taking Olivander captive (hooded, because they undoubtedly didn't want to pony up for John Hurt's salary for that single shot).

Unless you read the next book, the movie gives little clue about the kidnapping. It just shows them take a hooded captive, and it happens really fast. At that point, the Death Eaters transform from flying smoke to their corporeal form and you can see Belatrix LeStrange is involved and the werewolf (Fennir Greyback?) which the movie never explains is even a werewolf. Sigh.