Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by Pheebs

Saw Miss Granger being interviewed on Jonathon Ross the other night... and surprisingly, she came across as a lovely girl! Incredibly nervous but bright, intelligent and polite. I *thought* she could be slightly obnoxious (possibly due to her role in HP) but she seemed like a charming lil lady A little future star me thinks

She's very smart, she'd been offered places in Yale and Harvard in the US, but took a position at New York.

[Pheebs]

Yeh right! She was saying in America they allow you to study a wider curriculum base at Uni! You don't need to focus on just one subject as such! I know you can do similar here but it seems much more flexible!

Had I known that when I was applying for Uni's I would have tried to somehow find my way over there!!

[leowyatt]

it also costs an astonishing amount more too

[vix]

Saw it last night - loved it!

[Pheebs]

Aweeesooooooooome!

I really wanted to go but instead I had a magic night to go to (funnily enough!)

When I do go though I'm gonna dress up as Hagrid!





No one wants to go with me though Boo!

[Kitten]

supposed to go last night but couldn't because Leo hurt his hand again. Come with us Pheebles x

[NokkonWud]

I went to go see this last night. It's a decent movie in its own right, much like the book not a whole lot happens in it, but for some reason they felt they had to change many things from the book, leaving stuff out I would have said was fairly integral to the Harry Potter universe, for example:

Spoiler Alert! - Highlight below to read!

• You don't see Kingsley Shacklebolt at all.
• Rufus Scrimgeour isn't even mentioned despite playing a major role in Harry's psyche in the book.
• The relationship with Tonks and Lupin has no rough sections, this is ignored completely, even down to it being Luna to find Harry on the train as opposed to Tonks.
• You only see Fenrir Greyback three times and two of those scenes are completely made up for the movie (and one of which is completely pointless).
• Nothing is made from the constant disappearances of Malfoy into the Room of Requirement, Harry merely mentioned him twice (this is probably the main part of the story in the book).
• The spying of Borgin and Burkes is completely different to the book, they already know Malfoy is interested in a vanishing cabinet, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the story.

End Spoiler Alert!

There are many other issues I had with the story and how they simply ignored a lot of what was important from the book all of which could have been rectified by simply adding 10 minutes to the film and replacing some of the rubbish there.

There is also quite a potential screw-up leading into the next one.

[kaiowas]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

I went to go see this last night. It's a decent movie in its own right, much like the book not a whole lot happens in it, but for some reason they felt they had to change many things from the book, leaving stuff out I would have said was fairly integral to the Harry Potter universe, for example:

There are many other issues I had with the story and how they simply ignored a lot of what was important from the book all of which could have been rectified by simply adding 10 minutes to the film and replacing some of the rubbish there.

There is also quite a potential screw-up leading into the next one.

I'm probably in an unusual position compared to most. I've not read the books and have no interest in doing so however vix takes me along to see all of the films and generally I've got no idea of the plot before I get there. Seeing it from that point of view I don't notice that there is stuff missing so it can't be that bad although this one does seem to be somewhat lacking in story whereas the amount of time given over to lovestruck teenagers is completely over the top.

[NokkonWud]

They aren't spoilers . All that's unveiled within the start of the movie .

[kaiowas]

Think you misinterpreted my post. I've already seen it

I just edited out your spoilers in the quote as I wasn't sure how the quote and spoiler tags would interact so removed them to ensure noone else saw them.