Flickgrrl

I suspect it's both reasons as well.

Ironically the movie that was based on the longest Harry Potter book, Order Of The Phoenix, became the shortest HP movie and IMHO that movie really felt too short and overly edited.

I know they always have to omit and change things from the books to make things more appealing to a movie audience that includes people who might not have read the books but IMHO they threw a little too much of the book in this case.

Based on that, you'd think I'd be ecstatic that Deathly Hallows will have 2 movies so they can keep as much as possible but really a lot of that book was exposition! My fave parts of it were the first few chapters and the last few chapters.

Pretty much everything in the middle had the trio on the run and was a little overblown. As long as they keep the action and tension moving at a good pace that's fine but if it drags on like the middle part of the book, Harry, Ron & Hermione run here, stay overnight, run again, stay for a few nights, run again, face some minor bad guys, stay overnight, etc. several scenes in both Deathly Hallows movies may flop more than they'll fly.

If I were advising J.K. Rowling on that book, I'd have told her to can a few of the runs and overnights and put in a little more action and that would be the same advice I'd give to Deathly Hallows screenwriter Steve Kloves.

Yeah, there are enough key scenes (& enough little HP fans) that it might not have been feasible to make this a single 3-4 hour length movie but I know it's going to be major torture for me to have to wait the 6-7 months between the 2 Deathly Hallows movies because half my fave parts were the last chapters in the book and now I know instead of 2 and half years I'll have to wait over 3 years for them.

But I strongly suspect those movies will prove more than worth that wait!

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