I felt that the movies had an influence on the characterisation from five onwards - particularly Molly Weasley who is so *different* in the films from the early books.

Alan Rickmann *is* Snape. Then again, Alan Rickman would have given a good Dumbledore or Lockhart or whatever, because Alan Rickmann is, well, Alan Rickmann.

And if Daniel Radcliffe goes all passive and bland and not doing very much, then I'm afraid that's truer to the books than one would hope, because Harry spends a lot of time in 5-7 angsting and not a great amount of time actually being proactive.