YES, Luna was fantastic! I was pleasantly surprised, because they made her abnormal enough to be a little unsettling. I wouldn't mind being stuck in a train compartment with her either (we'd probably get along). And Evanna Lynch was so much better than Emma Watson as Hermione... x__x; I've always been a Snape fan and an Alan Rickman fan, so I really wish he had gotten more screen time. He's one of the most interesting characters in the books because of his moral ambiguity (I like Slughorn, too). Most of the characters are either very very good or very very bad, which is okay for 11-year-olds in the first book but painfully dull in later books, with the exception of characters that are just funny (like the Weasley twins). I think the 4th books was the strongest, and the 5th successfully rode on that momentum, and the 6th was forced at best... so I'm not optimistic for the 7th... oh well, I still might run around in a Snape costume. ^^;