5. Harry gets tortured
Hogwarts' unctuous new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dolores Umbridge — a mole from the Ministry of Magic — has a creepy scene in which she makes a defiant Harry write out lines of contrition that appear scratched in blood on his hand. ''She's a terrible woman,'' says Imelda Staunton, who plays Umbridge in a succession of outfits that turn more violently pink the more power-crazed she becomes. ''She shouldn't be allowed.'' Director Yates recently watched the bloody-hand scene with a test audience in Chicago. ''The theater went very, very still,'' he says. ''Dolores does it with a smile and a cup of tea. That's what makes her really horrifying.''
6 Something even worse happens to somebody else
If you've read the book, you know what we're talking about. If you haven't, good luck avoiding any and all chitchat involving spoilers before you see the film.
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