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** Oh God, it's ''so'' much worse in the film. Originally, he just said {{spoiler|"Harry...Potter..."}}, but they gave him a few more lines while Harry was holding him. And how he weakly whispered that {{spoiler|the Shell Cottage was a wonderful place to be with friends, which is basically his way of saying "I'm with the ones I love, so I'm OK with dying"}}... *SNIFF*
*** And don't miss that Harry kinda gives him a little cuddle. He's holding him in arms and he kind of bends his head down as if to hold him closer. Just kill me now.
** The opening itself. {{spoiler|Hermione wiping her parents' minds, watching her disappear from every photograph from every stage in her life is extremely sad.}} Special mention should also be given to the death of {{spoiler|Hedwig, since the film version depicts it as being closer to a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. The owl had a chance to fly away and be free (possibly tricking some viewers whom had read the book into thinking she'd be [[Spared Byby the Adaptation]]), but chose to remain by Harry's side and help him, only to be hit by the curse... suddenly go limp... and drop from the sky...}}
** Perhaps it was the timing (right next to Hermione's scene), but seeing Harry go back into his closet for one final time as he prepares to leave it and his childhood home behind forever, was a bit hard to watch in the film. {{spoiler|Especially if you have read the books and know that, for all the bad memories associated with it, it was the one place where he was completely safe from Voldemort's grasp to that point.}} The fact that, the last time the films visited that closet, Harry was an innocent, ten-year-old boy with no clue of his origins and is now a young man who has seen acquaintances, close friends, and mentors die in front of him several times and is now poised for a showdown with the cause of most, if not all, of his suffering, only starting with his parents dying, being shipped off to the Dursleys', and forced to sleep in the closet in the first place... GAH.
** When Hermione is {{spoiler|being tortured by Bellatrix. Doubles as [[Nightmare Fuel]] due to how the whole scene is set up to look like a rape.}}