History YMMV / HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows

* AwardSnub: ''Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' was not only the highest grossing movie of the year, but the highest grossing instalment of what was then the highest grossing franchise, and one of the highest grossing films of all time, in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. One would expect it to have at least garnered a few token nominations at the Academy Awards, especially since the Academy had made the decision several years earlier to expand the Best Picture field to ten films. But no, just three nominations in the technical department which it lost in all of them (the worst being losing Best Makeup to ''Film/TheIronLady''!) It is also suspicious that before the nomination process began, the Academy again amended its rules that ''up to'' 10 films could be nominated for Best Picture, if they gathered a certain percentage of votes. Coincidentally, only nine films were nominated, which prompted much outrage from both fans and film critics.[[note]]If you were wondering, these were Warner Bros. submissions to the Academy: Best Picture, Best Director - Creator/DavidYates, Best Adapted Screenplay - Steven Kloves, Best Actor - Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/RupertGrint, Best Actress - Creator/EmmaWatson, Best Supporting Actor - Creator/RalphFiennes and Creator/AlanRickman, Best Supporting Actress - Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter and Creator/MaggieSmith.[[/note]] The most talked about snub would be the always perfect Creator/AlanRickman not getting a supporting actor nominations despite his performance being raved as his greatest turn in the role of Snape.

** Voldemort murdering Charity Burgabe and ordering Nagini to dispose of the woman's corpse with a single sentence: "Nagini... dinner". Becomes FridgeHorror when you think about the digestive consequences, which may have been going through Draco's mind based on his expression.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Grey Lady apparently knew Voldemort turned the diadem into a horcrux, but never told anybody.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The movie almost completely omits the final battle in the Great Hall; all we see are some blurry bangs and flashes when Neville wakes up and Molly's very brief duel with Bellatrix. This may be a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, since the first half of the battle was full of SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome. They just may not have had much more money to throw into [=CGI=].

** Remember Molly's boggart from ''Order of the Phoenix''? [[spoiler:It comes true with Fred's death at the end of the book.]] Even worse, you might remember that [[spoiler: the boggart took the form of ''both'' Fred and George]]...meaning that [[spoiler: even in her worst nightmares, Molly couldn't picture Fred and George being separated by death]]. Many fans wish Creator/JKRowling couldn't have imagined such a scenario either.
** Early on, Harry says that parents shouldn't leave their children unless they have to, after refusing to allow Remus to come with them on their search, because Tonks is pregnant with their child. [[spoiler: Remus and Tonks are killed in the Battle of Hogwarts, leaving their son an orphan, meaning that Remus did have to leave his son.]]

** In light of TheReveal regarding Snape's true allegiances and Dumbledore's health during the events of ''Half Blood Prince'', suddenly Dumbledore's last words being "Severus...please..." take on a whole new context that essentially flips ''everything'' we know on its head.

* IdiotBall: James running out to hold Voldemort off when he comes to Godric's Hollow to kill Harry, without a wand. Lily also appears not to have one, or doesn't make any attempt to flee the house with Harry.

** A few fans were annoyed that Harry and Snape never have a direct confrontation until [[spoiler: Snape is already dying from Nagini's attack]]. The film adds a scene where Harry calls Snape out in front of the whole school which, while HarsherInHindsight after TheReveal, is certainly more cathartic.

* HarsherInHindsight: Seamus joking that Ginny has "plenty of [brothers]" becomes this when [[spoiler:Fred dies]] later that night in battle.

* CrowiningMomentOfAwesome: Easily the best of the series is when Neville [[spoiler:cutting off Nagini's head with the Sword of Gryffindor]].

** Similarly is the Daily Prophet under Voldemort rule {{Gaslighting}} the public into thinking Muggle Borns are a threat - which becomes bitterly ironic after the author's own controversial and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Avcp-e4bOs quickly debunked]] transphobic essay. Bonus points for the written press largely supporting JK Rowling's views, and independent platforms such as [=YouTube=] and blogs attempting to set the record straight (just like Potterwatch).

* AwardSnub: ''Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' was not only the highest grossing movie of the year, but the highest grossing instalment of what was then the highest grossing franchise, and one of the highest grossing films of all time, in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. One would expect it to have at least garnered a few token nominations at the Academy Awards, especially since the Academy had made the decision several years earlier to expand the Best Picture field to ten films. But no, just three nominations in the technical department which it lost in all of them (the worst being losing Best Makeup to ''Film/TheIronLady''!) It is also suspicious that before the nomination process began, the Academy again ammended its rules that ''up to'' 10 films could be nominated for Best Picture, if they gathered a certain percentage of votes. Coincidentally, only nine films were nominated, which prompted much outrage from both fans and film critics.[[note]]If you were wondering, these were Warner Bros. submissions to the Academy: Best Picture, Best Director - Creator/DavidYates, Best Adapted Screenplay - Steven Kloves, Best Actor - Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/RupertGrint, Best Actress - Creator/EmmaWatson, Best Supporting Actor - Creator/RalphFiennes and Creator/AlanRickman, Best Supporting Actress - Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter and Creator/MaggieSmith.[[/note]] The most talked about snub would be the always perfect Creator/AlanRickman not getting a supporting actor nominations despite his performance being raved as his greatest turn in the role of Snape.

** Snape who made terrible choices as a teenager growing in a poor home and abusive childhood and making his life so miserable that he spent the res of his life in self-loathing, never allowing the world to "see the best part" of himself [[spoiler: forever pining after a fifteen year girl who never returned his love, married the person Snape detested, and had a child who is the living example of everything he ever missed must have been humiliating for him to deal with, to the extent that even near the end of his life, when he tears a photograph of the Potter family to keep Lily, he's unable to move on. The fact that Dumbledore strung him along to do a truly thankless task and that he died believing that Lily's sacrifice for Harry would have been in vain is pitiable]].
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: As the books progressed and got darker, Rowling was sometimes asked, "what's Harry going to do after Hogwarts?" She would toss in a "How do you know Harry is going to survive?" People commonly invoked this trope in response. [[spoiler: Harry ''does'' die... just not permanently.]]

* InformedWrongness: Hermione once again plays Sirius death at Kreacher's hands a cautionary tale and more or less states that Sirius suffered a KarmicDeath for his poor treatment of house-elves and even equates how Sirius treated house-elves with how Voldemort treated him. The stated false-equivalency strikes many readers as off-base since [[spoiler:Voldemort exploited Kreacher as a stooge and left him to die, while Sirius was merely cold and indifferent to him and would certainly not have killed him or treated him in such fashion, and the idea that being cold and indifferent to someone makes one the same as the main villain in the eyes of Kreacher makes it come across as completely unjustified]].

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The games could have easily stuck to the books by averting serval of the film’s changes like Crabbe being replaced with Blaise. But of course, it doesn’t.

** Many fans feel that the cut scene of Dudley apologising to Harry should have been left in the film.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2Iu8LUX1Y One deleted scene]] from has Draco Malfoy rebel against the Death Eaters and give his wand to Harry during the battle against Voldemort, which was cut out due to the team finding it to be out of character. Many fans however, especially fans of Draco, wish the scene was kept in, since it gave him a moment of redemption that he lacked in the book and final film.

* FanPreferredCutContent: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2Iu8LUX1Y One deleted scene]] from has Draco Malfoy rebel against the Death Eaters and give his wand to Harry during the battle against Voldemort, which was cut out due to the team finding it to be out of character. Many fans however, especially fans of Draco, wish the scene was kept in, since it gave him a moment of redemption that he lacked in the book and final film.

* FansPreferCutContent: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p2Iu8LUX1Y One deleted scene]] from has Draco Malfoy rebel against the Death Eaters and give his wand to Harry during the battle against Voldemort, which was cut out due to the team finding it to be out of character. Many fans however, especially fans of Draco, wish the scene was kept in, since it gave him a moment of redemption that he lacked in the book and final film.

** It doesn't apply only to shippers. A [[BrokenBase substantial percentage of the fandom]] disliked the Epilogue for coming off as [[TastesLikeDiabetes overly cheerful]], as it depicts most of the characters settling down into traditional child-rearing and family roles. Rowling has pointed out that [[TruthInTelevision this is completely normal for post-war populations]] (it's where the Baby Boomers came from), as well as for Harry and his personal longing for a nuclear family, but some readers were still disappointed at how mundane it was. And then others found the whole thing felt like an EsotericHappyEnding, as [[StatusQuoIsGod nothing substantial really appears to have changed]] in the magical society with regards to the government or muggleborn relations.

** In light of TheReveal regarding Snape's true allegiances and Dumbledore's health during the events of ''Half Blood Prince'', suddenly Dumbledore's FamousLastWords being "Severus...please..." take on a whole new context that essentially flips ''everything'' we know on its head.

* AwardSnub: ''Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' was not only the highest grossing movie of the year, but the highest grossing instalment of what was then the highest grossing franchise, and one of the highest grossing films of all time, in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. One would expect it to have at least garnered a few token nominations at the Academy Awards, especially since the Academy had made the decision several years earlier to expand the Best Picture field to ten films. But no, just three nominations in the technical department which it lost in all of them (the worst being losing Best Makeup to ''Film/TheIronLady''!) It is also suspicious that before the nomination process began, the Academy again ammended its rules that ''up to'' 10 films could be nominated for Best Picture, if they gathered a certain percentage of votes. Coincidentally, only nine films were nominated, which prompted much outrage from both fans and film critics.[[note]]If you were wondering, these were Warner Bros. submissions to the Academy: Best Picture, Best Director - Creator/DavidYates, Best Adapted Screenplay - Steven Kloves, Best Actor - Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/RupertGrint, Best Actress - Creator/EmmaWatson, Best Supporting Actor - Creator/RalphFiennes and Creator/AlanRickman, Best Supporting Actress - Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter and Creator/MaggieSmith.[[/note]]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] [[http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/07/harry-potter-angry-review/ even pointed out]] he finished ''Part 2'' in 2:52, which is just 20 minutes longer than the film's running time.

* DelusionConclusion: Not the entire finale, but just [[spoiler:Harry's meeting with Dumbledore in Limbo.]] Some have speculated [[spoiler:that the series doesn't really show anything of the wizard afterlife and that the whole sequence is just a (temporally) DyingDream coming directly from Harry's subconscious. If one analyzes it, it can be observed this Dumbledore never gives out any information that Harry doesn't know already or can't infer from logic, and in turn he acts in a way that seems very close to how Harry would want Dumbledore to at that moment (he congratulates Harry for his decisions, is shown remorseful about his own evil plans with Grindelwald and his misdeeds towards his family, and ultimately reassures Harry that everything is going to be okay in his fateful showdown with Voldemort).]]

* EpilepticTrees: Several fans thought Ginny being the seventh child of the Weasley family and seven being said to be the most powerfully magical number was going to lead to something in the plot. This even prompted JK Rowling to wonder if she had accidentally hinted at it without meaning to.

* AwardSnub: ''Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' was not only the highest grossing movie of the year, but the highest grossing installment of what was then the highest grossing franchise, and one of the highest grossing films of all time, in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. One would expect it to have at least garnered a few token nominations at the Academy Awards, especially since the Academy had made the decision several years earlier to expand the Best Picture field to ten films. But no, just three nominations in the technical department which it lost in all of them (the worst being losing Best Makeup to ''Film/TheIronLady''!) It is also suspicious that before the nomination process began, the Academy again ammended its rules that ''up to'' 10 films could be nominated for Best Picture, if they gathered a certain percentage of votes. Coincidentally, only nine films were nominated, which prompted much outrage from both fans and film critics.[[note]]If you were wondering, these were Warner Bros. submissions to the Academy: Best Picture, Best Director - Creator/DavidYates, Best Adapted Screenplay - Steven Kloves, Best Actor - Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/RupertGrint, Best Actress - Creator/EmmaWatson, Best Supporting Actor - Creator/RalphFiennes and Creator/AlanRickman, Best Supporting Actress - Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter and Creator/MaggieSmith.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!!!!"]], which just jarred with her kind and maternal (if somewhat snappy) personality.
** "How dare you stand where he stood!?" from Part 2 of the films, for when [[ReplacementScrappy a character is replaced by someone far less liked.]]
** On a scale of one to Lord Voldemort, how awkward are your hugs?
** Voldemort's scream from the trailers: NYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!!!!!
** "Voldemort got [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar snapped]]" in reference to Voldemort's death in the movies, where he disintegrates as he dies, which looks similar to how many of the people snapped by Thanos died in ''Infinity War''.

** The epilogue can be seen as this to some fans. Many claimed that the actors make up make them look more like teenagers wearing adult faces then the actors looking like actual adults.

** "Nagini... dinner." Becomes FridgeHorror when you think about the digestive consequences, which may have been going through Draco's mind based on his expression.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The "NYEAH!!" scream of Voldemort that became famous thanks to the ''Part 2'' trailer was actually heard once in ''Part 1'', right after Harry's wand overpowers him in the aerial battle.
** Quite a few people have pointed out that Death in the Tale of the Three Brothers scene resembles [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith General Grievous]].
** As mentioned in MemeticMutation below, Voldemort's [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation death being changed to being disintegrated]] with NoBodyLeftBehind, it looks like he's being [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar snapped out of existence]] by ComicBook/{{Thanos}}.

** Averted with Voldemort, whose climactic showdown with Harry takes the two on an epic battle all across the castle; this is a notable contrast to the book, in which Voldemort is defeated with much less fanfare. Played straight with Bellatrix, though, who is taken out rather easily for a dreaded HeroKiller.
** The same goes for Peter Pettigrew; one would think that the man responsible for ''selling out Harry's parents and reviving Voldemort'' would be treated to the '''much''' more brutal death he was dealt in the books. Instead he is struck down by Dobby, goes out with an inappropriately comedic "[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Ow]]" and is not mentioned again from that point onward.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Voldemort. Hugs. Draco.]]