Only read if you have seen the new Harry Potter film - contains spoilers?

yeah, it was missing key points to the story....that's what it was missing. all i can say is that you have to have read the book first to know what's going on, and to know things that happen later on in the movie, why they happened, and all that. i would have been lost had i not read the book. it was the worse movie in the series thus far.