She plays Rita Skeeter, a nitwit journalist who gets everything wrong. (That's the only false note.) Daniel Radcliffe has grown in the title role, not just chronologically, while Rupert Grint, as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione, are spunkier and funnier than ever.

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It was exactly the sort of false note that Paddy never missed, and that the creator of Bond should not have missed either.

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In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.

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Another false note comes in the basic premise that enterprises will not buy technology like consumers do.

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The computer's timing and technique are flawless, and it never plays a false note.

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When the coda moved into a rapid double-time, there wasn't a false or dropped note anywhere.

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