Blackmoor Vituperative

I haven’t seen the new Harry Potter movie, but based on the previous five (six?) movies, I will tell you what I expect from this one:

• Harry is a putz and does nothing useful
• Ron is annoying and does nothing useful
• Hermione is cute and smart and her talents are utterly wasted
• Drago snarls and whines but does nothing more evil than your average six-year-old bully
• The teachers ignore everything Harry says even though he’s right
• The authorities are clueless and ineffectual
• The villain kills one or two people, then does nothing interesting for the rest of the movie
• At the end of the movie, the villain isn’t defeated so much as he wanders away
• However much fun the last movie had, this movie has less

That’s what I expect. When it comes out on DVD, I will find out if I was right.