KC Fish is a muggle; Harry is a stud at Quidditch. In his first year he started at Seeker for Griffindo, he has been captain on the team and led them to 3 Quidditch Cups.
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You're kind of missing the whole point. The books and films were never about Harry being Yoda-powerful. The point initially was that he thought he was just average and it turned out he was "the chosen one". What preteen doesn't daydream about being that (i.e. more powerful or "special" than others)? Then he had to deal with the fact that everyone expected him to be powerful, and he really didn't have any special powers aside from his connection to Voldemort. He had to rely on his friends, and his smarts (since, at heart, every book has basically been an Agatha Christie-like detective story). And it all took place as he was dealing with the sometimes more painful transition from adolescent to adult (which, as in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", is sometimes harder than the special-ability stuff). Ultimately Rowling's message has been that it's better to be a good person ("choosing Gryffindor over Slytherin") and have good friends, and be smart, than it is to simply be "all-powerful" like Voldemort. This isn't new ground. From Disney's "Aladdin" to the "Star Wars" universe, that moral has been pushed before. If you honestly wanted the whole seven books and films to be pretty much a version of "Anakin Skywalker stays good and kicks everyone's ass", that would've been pretty boring.
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In honor of the massive battle going on between fans of SW/ST/B5 in another thread:



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Also, that scene in the preview where Harry is with Voldemort on the tall tower and goes, "Time to finish how we started. Together." and then belays both himself and Voldemort off the edge.

Umm... where? In the book

There is no line like that or scene where Harry and Voldemort fall out of the fucking tower
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It looks like they extended the battling between Harry and Voldemort, since it was fairly perfunctory in the novel.
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Clearly. I just remember when they started making the first few movies. JK Rowling had her hands in all the cooking pots. Especially the first two. Hell, in the Sorcerer's Stone you could bring your copy of the book into the movie theater and skim through it. All the action and even some of the dialogue lined up exactly (Dumbledore's "Alas, earwax!")

Compare that to Rowling's willingness to leave out several important book items in order to make the later movies more palatable. And then after that she allowed Harry and Hermione to fucking dance in Part One. Since when is this the same woman who wanted the books to be faithfully observed as sacred texts?
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I'm guessing the fall from the tower is a dream sequence, which would obviously be an addition.

There is zero chance that the film will screw up the show-down in the woods and King's Crossing, since Rowling has contributed to all of the films.
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Eh, nice allusion to Sorcerer's Stone: magic is the most powerful magic here (Dumbledore, when everyone sings the school anthem).
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I don't see how they're going to do Snape's scene, with them leaving out so much from when Harry saw his memories.
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A little insite into the Death Scene.Dont look if you dont want to know. Doesnt give to much away it just gives the location

http://www.hpana.com/news.21247.html
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Meh, I have no problem with it. I always found the Death Scene you're referencing to be a pretty wimpy and quick useless way to go out. It was very "Boba Fett in the Sarlacc Pit".

I enjoyed reading all the books. I've liked the movies (although the past few have blown chunks; the first four were the best). But I'm not fanatic to the point that I consider her books to be Bibles. Filmmakers need to make things more visual than literal, for obvious reasons (you're watching, not reading). As long as they don't mess with plot points that affect character actions and thinking, I'm fine. (For example, we suddenly find out that Ron is a crossdresser, LOL.)
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I don't have a ton of faith in that at this point. Let's not forget they left out the very important sequence in HBP that explained how Tom Riddle/Voldemort came into existence in order for them to put a completely nonsensical action sequence into the middle of the movie that wasn't in the book.
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