12 Huge Problems With Harry Potter Movies (Nobody Admits)
11. Voldemort’s Death – The Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Dark Lord’s death is strange, to say the least. The terrific exchange between Harry and Voldemort written by J.K. Rowling is replaced with an entertaining if rather cheesy action sequence which ends with the two characters locked in battle.
This is all perfectly fine, but Voldemort’s demise makes no sense whatsoever. After Harry claims his opponent’s wand, the Dark Lord starts to deteriorate. His body crumbles into an ash-like substance which then floats away into the sky. The only possible explanation is that Voldemort was so dehumanised that he wasn’t able to die normally.
Regardless of why the filmmakers thought this was an acceptable way to finish the Dark Lord, it would have been much more striking if his body had remained intact and Harry was forced to look at the lifeless form of his arch-nemesis.