A few people have commented on my review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, saying that Hermione’s conjured canaries did in fact attack Ron, and then slam into the wall behind him to become poofs of feathers. Yes, I know. What I missed was them really ATTACKING him, and not just flying at him.

“Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.”

See? That’s what I meant by attacking. There was no pecking and clawing of the flesh in the movie, was there? If there was, I missed it. Twice.

So there you go, hopefully we’re all on the same page now.

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You didn’t think I was going to not review this, did you? Well. I watched it a while ago, but I had to watch it again to really be able to give an opinion on it, and HERE IT IS.

A lot of people have said that the movie has the feel of an inbetween movie, and I agree. However: I still enjoyed it immensely! They’d stayed pretty true to the book, more so than I had expected, so that was a surprise.

The good

• Apparation
• Slughorn
• Quidditch!
• Cormack McLaggen. How hot was he!? (I looked it up, and he’s only 5 years younger than me, so it’s allowed and all is well.)
• Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
• High-on-love Ron - best part of the movie
• Lavender Brown
• Rupert Grint’s acting. Best of the three, hands down.
• The bit with the vanishing cabinets was actually pretty good.
• Hermione’s hair in potions class.

The bad

• The intro? I missed Dumbledore vs the Dursleys.
• Bellatrix was a bit over the top crazy at times. Enough with the “I killed Sirius Black” bit now. Please. You’re evil and batshit crazy. WE KNOW.
• The lack of explanation for the horcrux-ring.
• Hermione’s birds not attacking Ron.

The ugly

• Dumbledore/Snape. Too obvious - in the book you really couldn’t tell for sure whether Dumbledore was begging for Snape to kill him or to help him.
• Sectumsempra. It didn’t look half as dramatic as I had imagined it.
• Harry/Ginny. It was just…eh.
• Narcissa Malfoy. I thought she was supposed to be pretty? She rather wasn’t, in my opinion. Sorry, person who played her. You’re probably a lovely lady, but I can’t really accept you as Narcissa.

It’s still a 4 out of 5 stars movie. Because, you know, it’s HARRY POTTER (= auto awesome). So, you know, go see it. You might want to read the book first though, because knowing what isn’t shown in the movie rather helps (although Tor hasn’t read the book, and he had no trouble following the plot).

“In my life I have seen things that are truly horrific. Now I know you will see worse.” -Albus Dumbledore