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So, I had lunch today with Kin, then we joined Anju and her friends at Universal Citywalk to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX. After the movie, we ate dinner at Buca di Beppo's.

People I Loved in OotP:
Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
Alec Hopkins as Young Severus Snape
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange
Gary Oldman as Sirius Black

People I Hated in OotP:
Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks
Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley
Katie Leung as Cho Chang

People I Loved to Hate in OotP:
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley

After watching OotP, I think the most "natural" het-pairing is Luna/Harry. Luna was prettier than I had imagined, but Lynch kept a sense of dreamy spaciness that represented Luna quite well without making her into a caricature.

While I liked this film, I still think that as a movie, not through the perspective of an adaptation of a book, the third film Prisoner of Azkaban was the best of the five. In its entirety, PoA had good timing, good physical blocking, and interesting segues into different moments. It also had very nice special effects, especially with the Marauders' Map and the Whomping Willow.