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WARNING THIS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is the place to talk about what you like/dislike about the new movie and the corrisponding book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

i'll start:

personally i disliked how compleatly different they are although there were some nice additions to the movie like when slughorn talks about Lilly and the fish bowl when he's drunk

but i did not like how Harry was not parralized. in the book when he was paralized he couldn't do anything in the movie he didn't do anything. and snape knew he was there.......


so now you people post your oppinion. i may add more as the discusion progresses

yes i was really upset that they cut kreacher and dobby crying they're just so cute heart

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Alright, am I the only one that thought Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was a total flub?

I understand that they have to take certain parts out so that they can get the gist of the story in a three hour period but they take all of the good stuff out and add bogus parts like Harry running in a field after Bellatrix, and Ginny running after Harry, and everyone else following so that the Weasley's house can burn to the ground.

WHAT THE HELL?!!??!

And what's up with Borgin? In the book he's afraid of Draco's dark mark...he's not in league ,per say, with Voldemort, he's just a sniveling little creeper who deals with dark wizards.

Wasn't Dumbledore supposed to pick Harry up at the Dursley"s and explain the first few chapters of the seventh book to Harry's aunt and uncle. What was with the cafe?!?! AND they're playing Quidditch in the snow for goodness sake! They're wizards! Not polar bears! But I guess snow makes it more...interesting? I mean I understand if it was a few flakes in November, but this is a full on January storm here.

Now I don't know what you think but I believe that the director and everyone else working on the past four movies are just getting a wee bit too artistic for the story. I don't know what the whole hay field Burrow burning scene was supposed to symbolize and I don't care. All I saw were some idiots trying to create some drama.

Speaking of drama, was it just me or was Snape's "I'm the Half-Blood-Prince." a little anti-climatic. They should have focused a little bit more on potions class and the Half-Blood-Prince, as was done in the book, so that people got a little bit more curious as to who this joker was INSTEAD of going head on into Harry and Ginny's love life.

I mean sure...I get it, love is awesome, but that is not what the story is about. I don't mind the funny little anecdotes put into the movie...it doesn't have to be word for word...I get it...it's not the book...it's the movie, understood. But honestly it was a mess.

Only the first three maybe four movies were any good. That is to say, only about 52% of these movies was wrong or messed up or bended. I think that these people should be informed that the movies aren't popular because it's a good movie (which, of course it is if you haven't read the books.) but because you have millions of Potter fans who will go see it and hate that they messed it up, but go and see it anyway because people like to see the magic in action put the magic factor in with the fact that they use real people that we read about in magazines on a day to day basis together and everyone's favorite magical world suddenly becomes a little bit more real.

Alright, I think that the movie in its own right not compared to the book was pretty good. I enjoyed it as a movie on its own.

However, it pales in comparisson to the book. burning_eyes Really, it was dissapointing.

The bloody title of the book was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, not Harry Potter and Company: Their Love Lives. This is one of my favorite HP books, and I'm upset about the fact that they ignored so much of potions class and things relating to the Half Blood Prince. It came to a point where, at the end of the movie, this happens.









The attack on the burrow just...made me sad. I guess they did it to set the mood or something, make more drama and show everyone "Hey! We're treating this 'Voldemort is back' thing very seriously!". It just seemed stupid to me though, how everyone ran out of the house and fell for the obvious trap.

There were so many more memories that I wanted to see in the pensive, and the houselves, and what happened with the new minister of magic? And Bill and Fleur?

Oh yah, and I expected the finding of the horcrux bit to be much more....interesting and edge of your seat bit. And the inferi were pathetic looking gollum prototype knock-offs, no uniqueness to them at all.

Parts I really enjoyed were with young Tom Riddle (nice and eerie) and the Slughorn and Lilly's fish-bowl part. Malfoy did pretty well, and Daniel's acting has gotten better.

I actually think it was a good thing that they didn't add in the funeral, because I'm not sure how well it would have gone with the rest of the movie.