I saw this today and I will say that I enjoyed it alot. I saw the last one while I was downrange, in a crowded theater of Soldiers, so it was hard to follow due to the extra noise and the poor quality of the theater and trying to understand British kids in the middle of puberty was too much.
However, Order of the Phoenix was good IMO. Yeah it was dark, but it seems that is the way the story is going which I think is good for the series since the kids are growing up and the Dark Lord is gaining more and more power with each new movie.
I've only read the first book, but I'm not one who would destory a movie if it wasn't true to the novel...look at Jurassic Park...loved the book AND the movie, but there are major differences in both...and that is just one example.
Overall, I think the Harry Potter series is one of the better ones out there...now if they could only keep the Resident Evil series alive with this new movie in September I will be happy (even though I have to watch that one is the desert as well!!)
Major K
"He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a Prince." George Graham Vest
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." - Maurice Maeterlinck