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1. No mention at all of Ron and Hermione being made prefects.
2. NO QUIDDITCH.
The latter made me angrier because it is hugely important to the story. Weasley is our king, damnit. WEASLEY. IS. OUR. KING.

Was the blood quill scene included?

Ok, but was really short (especially considering that the book is the longest by far!). Wish they'd included petunia's "remember my last" howler, and done sirius' death better, but otherwise, pretty good job

The acting has really improved beyond recognition. The trio have become more and more settled into their roles with age and maturity, and aduts such as alan rickman and maggie smith were brilliant once again. I loved the imperonation of umbridge, and much preferred this portrayal of sirius to the one in the 3rd movie (gary oldman did a great job, and they really built harry's and padfoot's relationship. Luna was perfect. Only criticisms (and even then, it's rather personal/opinion-based ones) are Mrs Figg's portrayal, and the new-look dementors
-Favorite scenes that I wish had made the cut (or fingers crossed, the extended-edition DVD!) include: Petunia's "remember my last howler", harry trashing dumbledore's office after hearing about the prophecy, Sirius' two-way mirror gift to harry and it being smashed but never used, and a longer and more detailed flashback to the marauders' era via the penseive rather than snape's direct memory.
-I loved the many obvious r/h hints and the slightly more subtle h/g hints
-I wish bellatrix hadn't cast avada kedevra (and used another curse with a red beam as in the book) before sirius fell into the veil, as this may have given the impression that the curse (rather than the veil) was the cause of his tragic death. As noted above though, they did a good job in building sirius' relationship with harry (to make up for his very brief role in the 4th movie).
-During the thestral flying scene, it would have been really cool to show a glimpse of flying from a non luna/harry perspective ie the appearance of flying in thin air!
-I understand the reasoning behind making Cho (rather than Marietta) the traitor, though I'm glad it was revealed later that umbridge used veritiserum on her
-Although I knew that Quidditch would play no part in the movie, it would have been cool to hold the "Weasley is our King" match offstage.
-As in previous movies, I loved the comic relief provided by fred and george (extendable ears, apparition, "the big bang"!, etc), and was really glad that hermione's claim that ron has an "emotional range of a teaspoon" made the cut!
OVERALL, A WONDEFUL MOVIE AND EASILY THE BEST HARRY POTTER MOVIE SO FAR, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY TO DIE-HARD HARRY POTTER FANS, A WONDERFUL PRELUDE TO DEATHLY HALLOWS

Don't get me wrong, I loved movie 4, but if you haven't read the books it made NO sense and it seemed to me like they crammed as much crap as they could into 2 hours and 30 minutes with no coherency or cinematic "moments". I know we'd all like to see our favorite parts of the books, but you can't just hand the actors and everyone else involved in the movie a copy of OotP and say, "Go on, then. Make the movie exactly like this."

Film and literature are two vastly different mediums. As a dedicated fan of both I'm very glad that they didn't slog as many plot points and little sidestories into this movie for the sake of "authenticity". The story was edited superbly in order to make it digestable in movie format and in order to give the audience the time to absorb the emotions that the film incites.

I think that Yates (the director) has a much firmer grasp on the true nature of Rowling's character than any of the other directors. I am especially glad that we got a chance to see Ron as more than just comic relief: his loyalty to his friends is his best characteristic, and the other directors have just been writing him off as an irritating coward and throwing a couple of laugh-track moments for him in the films.

The scene in the common room where he sticks up to Seamus for Harry and asks if 'anyone else in the room has got a problem with Harry' was very touching. The fact that he didn't react angrily or immaturely when Harry was being a jerk to him also gave his film character more depth. Even though Hermione teases him about having the emotional range of a teaspoon, Ron is grown up enough to know that Harry is going through very difficult times and he makes allowances for Harry's temper.

Luna, in short, was excellent. That was this young actress's first film and I'm very glad they picked her. I was also very glad that they included that scene between Harry and Luna when she is putting up bulletins for her stolen things. The thestral scene was also very well done. The film did a lovely job of showing the connection that the loss of a parent and the witnessing of death has forged between Luna and Harry.

As a huge Neville fan, I was extremely pleased to see how he was portrayed, and I was very glad that they showed the confidence he gained from being praised by his peers. I'm also happy about the moment between Harry and Neville.

Overall, I feel they did the characters justice and I am very pleased with the film. I highly recommend it.