she's got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes

Ooh, I'd never really thought about having one of the 'bad guys' for a favourite character, that's really interesting
Yeah, I'm not sure why, but I always tend to sympathise with the "bad" characters or the more ambiguous ones. Not only in Harry Potter but in general, in literature, in movies, in history. Like, Snape, Claude Frollo in Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, or the Marquis de Sade to name a historical figure.

...but I find him completely fascinating and a bit heartbreaking because he never really grows up
That's exactly why I don't like Sirius I think :D He's so childish in many occasions and at the same time I feel he's a little bit narrow minded. And I'll never forgive him for what he did to Snape lol

I'm also very very excited for Alan Rickman's importance in the coming movies. As I said before, I loved Snape in the books but with Alan playing him it's just ... guh! wonderful beyond words. And you can imagine how excited I was when I read HBP :D:D It was a very strange experience for me, because although I was crying a lot for Dumbledore's death I was also extremely happy because Snape was so central to the plot. It was as if inside the story I was sad for DD, but as a reader I was overly-excited with and for Snape heh.

Regarding GoF, I do like it less than the Columbus' ones, even if those are also really bad. But for some reason, although the acting is awful and the direction is far from marvelous, I think they are better than GoF because they actually tell a story and you see characters, not action. I got the feeling that GoF was an action scene after the other, with a poor feeling of cohesion throughout the movie and I simply didn't like it, I couldn't enjoy it. Besides, the Columbus movies had the positive thing that it was the first time we were seeing the books on the big screen.

I'm so excited about OotP!! I'm in the middle of my finals so I shouldn't be here commenting these things with you, and I shouldn't go to watch the movie when it opens this week but I simply can't resist :D:D It looks so elegant and well-focused, like a good approach of the story (unlike GoF heh) And all the new characters look so great. As you said, Helena Bohan Carter is looking awesome, the whole Death Eaters are looking great. Having Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort is also a little gem :)) And the sequences I've seen from Dumbledore's Army are excellent too.

Oh well, everything is looking great :)