Yes, the lack of frizzy hair and large front teeth on Hermione bugged me, too--I think I might have mentioned it in your previous post on The Neverending Story. :-) Of course, she wasn't even allowed to keep the teeth in the *books* (because ugly female ducklings must grow into swans to be acceptable protagonists, don't you know), so I wasn't surprised.

Ah, the MsScribe saga. *looks back fondly* That was one of the most entertaining and horrifyingly compelling examples of fannish investigative journalism I've ever seen.

There are things I have liked about the movies: getting to see Diagon Alley and Hogwarts and The Knight Bus come to life, for example. And I adored Kenneth Branagh's turn as Gilderoy Lockhart and Emma Thompson as Trelawney.