HP and the Deathly Hallows Premiere Night

So, it was epic, no?  Painfully epic, heart-breakingly epic, wonderfully epic.  The general epic-ness of the entire film, paired with the huge anticipation for the movie's release and the mad-house feel of the event itself-- SO many people attended, and so many of them had donned Hogwarts uniforms and wizarding hats-- has me rather at a loss for words.  A certain cliche tells us a picture is worth much more than a couple paragraphs of my babbling, so...

These pictures are very pixel-y, so they're worth maybe 6 or 7 hundred words each.  That's me with the goofy hat, and that's my sister Pinky (she of the infamous guest reviews).  This is just before the premiere-- we didn't actually get to take any at the theaters because, well, it was dark.

These are my nails in Hogwarts colors after Pinky finished with them... you can't tell in this horrible picture, but the letters spell out HOGWARTS.  Pinky tried to do Hallows symbols on my thumbs, but they came out more like very smudged triangles. ;)  Ah, well, she gets ten points to her house for effort.

As for the movie itself, I was impressed by how closely the first half stuck to the original material-- some of it was almost word-for-word dialogue from the seventh book.  Towards the final fight scenes and the duel between Harry and Voldemort, the movie veered away from the book a good bit (what was with HP and Voldy flinging themselves out the castle window to the pointy spires below??)  But overall, this was definitely the most action-paced Harry Potter movie ever, and the most... wait for it... epic!  It's incredibly sad to think that there will never be another Harry Potter midnight premiere, or another late-night Books-A-Million party in anticipation of the next book.  (Though you'd think I would have come to terms with that by now.)  But really, I just can't wait to watch all the movies and reread all the books again!