Okay, detail time. HBP ramblings alert.

If you continue to read this post, you will encounter several Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince spoilers. In fact, that is just about all you will stumble upon for the rest of this entry. If you have not yet seen the movie and do not wish to have its secrets revealed to you, I advise you to stop reading now.

Still with me? Want to know what I thought about the movie?

One more chance to turn back. This is it.

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Okay, I love Harry Potter. I do; I admit it; I know I'm a nerd. I've read the books more than once, own the movies and have seen them over and over. But as much as I enjoy them, I also very much enjoy laughing at them. So, in no particular order, these are many of the thoughts I had while watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince today for the first time. They're not deep and they're probably not worth reading, but if you're interested, enjoy.

-What the heck is Harry thinking reading the Daily Prophet in some random Muggle cafe?? Hello--breaching the secrecy laws much there, kid? And flirting with the waitress? Where did that come from? That is so random! And Dumbledore's just like, "Oh sorry dude, but we've got places to go."

-Also, Dumbledore, awkward to the extreme: walk into Slughorn's house, clean up, "Gotta pee." Dumbledore should not use words like "loo."

-The Burrow was awesome.

-I totally did not mind Luna getting Tonks' role of rescuing Harry from the train. As evidenced by my earlier post, I quite like Luna Lovegood. Also having her notice that Harry put the lucky potion into Ron's drink (or thought he did) was nice. Just gave her a bit more time, and gave us a chance to see the lion hat that is so beautifully Luna.

-Also very much liked Ginny. Except in the scene where she hides the book. That was dumb. Harry totally got away with almost killing Malfoy? I don't think so. And it didn't allude to Ravenclaw's diadem like it was supposed to. But then again... Harry never finds out he may need to look for something of Ravenclaw's. OMG IF THEY LEAVE XENOPHILIUS LOVEGOOD OUT OF DEATHLY HALLOWS SOMEONE IS GOING DOWN.

-The astronomy tower was also really, really neat looking. But lol at the end when Harry's like, "Wow it's really pretty; I never noticed!" Yeah Harry, that's because you've never been to this tower before.

-Tom Felton was brilliant. I do not like Malfoy. I do not feel sorry for him. But he was played perfectly, I thought. And I still like his clothes. And his mom was pretty brilliant. I was very glad they kept that scene (though Narcissa wasn't nearly hysterical enough). I was expecting Snape's house to get cut from the movie, but I was rather thrilled to watch him slam the door shut on Wormtail. :)

-Oppositely, I greatly disliked Dumbledore. Now, I'm not enamored by Dumbledore anyway, but I just really can't seem to like the way Michael Gambon plays him. I was not pleased with his performance at his death, although I thought everyone else did very well. I did like him in the cave, but that was about the only time. He really gets on my nerves in this book as well, though. And it really, really annoys me that Gambon rarely ever wears the Dumbledore glasses. Every time I think of Dumbledore, I think of those half moon spectacles, and somehow it doesn't seem to be Dumbledore without them.

-Freddie Stroma was sadly not given enough of a role to really play Cormac McLaggon to the extent of the obnoxiousness McLaggon possesses, but I thought he did brilliantly.

-Jessie Cave did a good job with Lavender Brown, but she wasn't what I imagined. She was excruciatingly annoying. And I'm sad that she just seemed to be some random character, since she hasn't been included in the movies so far.

-I was really confused because there were those twins, but they weren't the Patil twins, but the Patil twins were credited though I never noticed them in the movie, so I thought those other girls were supposed to be the Patil twins, and I couldn't figure out why the heck they couldn't keep the same actresses. But the internet movie database is rather helpful in at least clearing up some confusion, if not all.

-These movies really do an awful job of explaining things. I do understand, I suppose, why so much of Dumbledore's lessons with Harry were cut out because honestly, it was a lot of talking and it would not have made for an exciting movie, but still. In the book, Harry has a darn good idea of what he's looking for, whereas the movie leaves him with NOTHING to go on as to what the horcruxes might be. So I wonder how they've dealt with that for The Deathly Hallows. Also Tonks, why are you looking like that when you can look like whatever you want and "Sweetheart"? Really? Okay, sure. When was that supposed to have happened, eh? (Though I love Tonks and Lupin; it was just awkward in this movie.) BY THE WAY HARRY YOU INHEIRITED GRIMMAULD PLACE AND KREACHER AND HE'S GONNA BE REALLY HELPFUL NEXT MOVIE. The only reason I can come up with for them including Kreacher in The Order of the Phoenix movie is because of his role in The Deathly Hallows, because in OotP they didn't even let him carry out his purpose (lie to Harry about Sirius leaving the house, causing Harry to rush to the Ministry). But I suppoe the CG money ran out for this movie.

-Weasley's Wizard Wheezes! Beautiful! :D

-The love potioned Ron! Hilarious! :D

-Harry "on" the Felix Felicis! Amazing! :D I read an article the other day about how this was more like the real Dan Radcliffe, hyper. Hahaha.

-The Inferi! Terrifying! They were great. Crawling out of the water onto the island they totally looked like an army of Gollums. Hahaha.

-So, y'know, I remember there being a battle of sorts at Hogwarts whilst Malfoy/Snape if offing Dumbledore. A battle in which a certain Bill Weasley gets rather injured by Fenrir Greyback (who disappointed me...looked nothing like I expected), but all is well because the lovely Felur Delacour, his bride-t0-be, does not mind and therefore earns Mrs. Weasley's respect and affection. Ring any bells? Again, wonder what they've done to account for that next movie, seeing as how the trio escapes from the wedding when Death Eaters attack it and begin their big adventure.

-Instead, Bellatrix (who is played wonderfully) is just going to walk along the table (why are they even in there?) and set Hagrid's house on fire. Okay. Sure.

-I suppose it isn't really that important why/how Snape is the Half-Blood Prince. At least they told us. I'll be happy for that slight explanation.

-Sort of like after seeing OotP I was pleased that they lessened Harry's angsty yelling crap, I was okay with the lack of obsession with Draco Malfoy and figuring out who the "Prince" was.

-LOL SHE HAS NICE SKIN!

-Another PS: aren't they supposed to be learning how to apparate? (This is a rhetorical question. Yes, they are supposed to be learning, I'm almost done re-reading the book.) They'll have to magically (no pun intended) know how by the next movie. There's rather a lot of apparition in Deathly Hallows.

I don't at all expect everything in the book to be included in the movie, nor do I think it should be. I loved the movie, I really did.

OKAY THAT'S OUT OF MY SYSTEM! :D I really liked the movie and I want to go see it again, probably next weekend when I get home from camp. (Oh yeah, I'm going to camp all week with my church. Should be fun; I haven't been to a church camp since 8th grade.)