I felt sorry for him when he was thrown into the fire. Mandrakes are supposed to really emit a screaming noise when the are dug up from the earth. The way he screamed as he burned.
No. I don't think that I could sit through a whole Harry Potter movie. But I've just checked out Harry's mandrake lore on Wiki. Interesting. I'd like to see his mandrake sequences sometime.
It was creepy but at the same time a innocent thing, that made you cry when it got burnt in the fire and the thing started to cry in pain while it dies.