About Draco... yeah, I did find him unnecessarily wussy at several points (crying when hit by a girl??), but it wasn't his key scenes I was really talking about, more his incidental ones, with the smouldery looks and the not behaving like a little boy any more. Although I guess all that is partly because it's been two years since the last one.

I'm with you on most of the rest, and perhaps I only found the Buckbeak bit too quick because I faintly remember the greater detail in the book.