10 things I hated about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

SPOILER ALERT:

1-Could Hermione cry anymore if she tried? I think as the main female character she could have been less over the top. If she wasn’t crying she was arguing.
2-What about Luna Lovegood? J.K. Rowlings created one funny, quirky character and never used her potential.
3-The 200 plus pages in the middle where nothing happens? I thought that was what Editors are for. I guess they’ll print anything when your sales are out of control.
4-What’s so great about Dumbledore? He never worked as a mentor for me. He was too aloof. Nor did he stand out in greatness from the other adults like Mr. Weasley (who I loved).
5-Fleur was flighty? It’s the feminist coming out in me again but I do recall at one point she excelled enough in magic to be chosen to compete for the Goblet of Fire. Why does she come across as an angry domestic Paris Hilton?
6-Anyone else notice that the invisibility cloak got bigger? Remember back in the Philosopher’s Stone how the cloak just grazed over the floor. So if it barely fit one 11 year old. How does it completely cover two 17 year olds...sometimes three?
7-Where’s the big bad magic? How did three high school students with six years of negligible learning about the Dark Arts avoid detection from the greatest evil wizard of all time. He-who-shall-not-be-named loses some fear factor points.
8-If you set-up something, pay it off. Sorry, a big pet peeve of mine. Rowlings set-up all sorts of things and didn’t use them: a blind dragon heading straight for Hagrid, Aunt Petunia and family, the angry centaurs in the forest, Quidditch, the feet showing under the invisibility cloak, the search for Snargles, Etc etc etc.
9-Dobbie shows up just to die. This reminds me of a similar scene in Pirates of the Caribbean Part 3 where the commodore shows up to free the protagonist only to die before the scene is over. It’s a cheat. Characters have to provide more than just an easy escape. Better to have sent an angry Kreacher with conflicting loyalties.

And my top 10...We didn’t go anywhere unexpected? Okay, this might have been difficult with bazillion readers pressuring Rowlings for the final instalment but the ending is what will prevent Harry Potter’s elevation into the greatest books of all time. The ending was predictable and expository. No awe. No special twists. And Voldermort was ultimately a blank threat, a character of no dimension; his outwitting by Harry was no surprise for anyone.