Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[kurorahk]

So going to put a cut here for those either who have not (somehow) seen or read HP Book 6.


1. So I thought that having Harry going out looking for some female ass was funny due to I take Harry/Draco as cannon.
2. Harry/Draco is so there in this movie, Harry stalks Draco, Draco stalks back, &c.
3. Even though I read HP book 6 and the whole series the movies are always fun to watch, this one was not an exception even when it had odd deviations like the Burrow being exploded by Death Eater's and what not
4. Betty(?) Black is nuts I mean the actor pulls if off so well that it is like "Well shit, nothing is going to stop her unless she is dead"
5. Dumbledore is a fool, taking a in experienced boy with him to a area with high levels of lethality to anyone with magic then telling him to compromise his one way out and only real defense to drink and you know not pour out the bloody liquid in the basin, I mean why would he not have tried to drain it other than drinking it first? Also Harry transfigure some of the rock around you into a cup not try the cup that does not do anything other than hold liquid of insanity!

Over all it reinforced my idea that everyone on the good guys side besides you know the minor characters are all fools.

Now off to dinner for my brothers birthday.

Comments

[dysprositos]

Hahahaha. I kept trying to get information from my dad on how they handled various things, but he had such a hard time remembering what happened through most of it (he fell asleep) and then so little canon knowledge, it was not very useful. I asked him (a) if Harry stalked Draco (no, he said), (b) if Harry ever did anything by himself (he pondered that for quite some time before deciding that he didn't. Except for hiding and watching Dumbledore die, which I guess WASN'T under the Petrificus spell in the movie?), (c) if there was a lot of snogging (he said there was a lot of talking about snogging, and Hermione and some other guy and Ron and some other girl and it was all very stupid), (d) if there were attack canaries (yes), (e) how the main quest-for-Horcrux-info went ("Harry took the love (!) serum and went to visit the giant guy..."), and (f) how they handled Snape (Dad's convinced he's evil, but apparently the final scene was pretty ambiguous on it [judging by his play-by-play description] even though it wasn't the same as the book).

4. Betty(?) Black is nuts I mean the actor pulls if off so well that it is like "Well shit, nothing is going to stop her unless she is dead"

Bellatrix Lestrange (nee Black, so one of the Black sisters). Yeah, Helen Bonham is an amazing actor, judging by this and Sweeney Todd. Very good at "batshit insane".

No kidding on #5. That whole scene made no more sense in the book; its only apparent purposes were to (a) introduce ZOMBIES into it (fair enough), (b) make Dumbledore already be dying so as to introduce more moral ambiguity in the Snape-kills-him scene, and (c) to make a ton of parallels between Harry and good!spy!Snape if it turned out that Dumbledore was asking Snape to kill him (book seven spoilers! He was!). But the internal logic of the scene? Nonexistent.

[kurorahk]

ah Bellatrix okay, I could not remember her name and was in a rush to write that all before I went off to dinner so yeah. But yeah in this they keep the Harry and good!spy!Snape which was nice, and also the Death Eater attack which I bet a lot of people watching the movie where like "um did they not just kill the most powerful Sorcerer that Hogwarts has, why not finish off the rest of the school" but really it is a good idea that they left when they did due to 1) school full of magic users that will outnumber you if you stay and will win no matter what due to numbers, 2) their objective was completed Dumbledore is gone and thus the enemy should be demoralized, 3) stay any longer and have the threat of being locked into Hogwarts with no way out.

Also do they ever take care of the Disappearing Wardrobe in the Room of Requirements, because if not well repeat infiltrations of Hogwarts is possible, terror is always a good thing when trying to keep the general populace from doing much (IE sending their kids to a place that can be repeatedly targeted by attacks).

[dysprositos]

Well, in the books the Death Eaters do end up taking over the school, although I think it's later on (...randomly) about concurrently with taking over the Ministry of Magic (which was about as easy as one would expect, so why didn't they do it earlier, again?). I think mostly the DEs didn't take over the school at that time so that Harry and Co. would have an excuse to leave on the Horcrux-Finding Camping Trip without feeling like they were abandoning their classmates (who inexplicably were not all kept home from school next year, even by wizarding parents). IDK what the in-narrative reason was; Rowling is not very good at those, particularly for the villains.