I was expecting him to keel over in the movie. I thought maybe his health was a problem, but it looks like he's still doing stage work, so most likely they just didn't believe the Dursley subplot was necessary.
Posted on 07/20/2009 7:29:41 AM PDT by ccmovrwc
Battling the dark forces takes a back seat to romance and Quidditch
By Alonso Duralde Film critic msnbc.com contributor updated 4:25 p.m. ET, Tues., July 14, 2009
Call it the calm before the storm, but “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” goes out of its way to balance its own dark doings — to say nothing of the dire events to come in the two upcoming movies based on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” — with more character and atmosphere than we’ve seen in the last few movies.
If you’ve been missing Quidditch matches, love triangles, hanging out in the Gryffindor common room and general Hogwarts-iness, you’ll have a great time with this latest sequel.
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I thought it was more to show how dangerous these times are. Even the Weasleys, powerful wizards affiliated with The Order, can be and were violated in their home.
Although, I really don't understand either how they were able to get to The Burrow itself and around the enchantments. I try not to think about that much.
And at the end, he stands dumbly by while someone he has never trusted takes a horrible action.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just the way they portrayed the character. The first action was within character, the second was not.
That's the next book. There is still time!
Although she never announced it in the books, there are a lot of clues that Dumbledore is homosexual, without ever stating it.
I always thought Umbridge was more like 0bama's Secretary of State.
She was hardly a welfare queen.
Rowling may be considered a lefty, and may even consider herself one, but her writing is all to the contrary.
I find total conservatism and values respect in her books.
Rickman ... my favorite character.
Thanks for the info. Did you type this with one hand?
I enjoyed the movie very much.
It’s a problem. If one has read the books, as I have, you notice so much that’s been changed or left out ... maybe your favorite scenes.
But if you haven’t, I just wonder if some things would make sense. Maybe they do.
Condensing a 600 plus page book into a 2 1/2 hour movie is an incredible task. On the whole, they did well.
On review, I guess that was the other character...
I like Orson Scott Card but his jealousy of Rowland is kind of petty. Her books have outsold his Endgame, which he, of course, thinks is better. I disagree.
Rowland had every right and reason not to emphasize that Dumbledore had homosexual leanings, but aside from the brief and ill-fated romance that destroyed his family and essentially formed his character, I believe he was celibate.
If she chose to keep him in the closet,it was a wise choice.
thanks for the ping !!!
I believe Grimwald and Kreature are in the next book.
In the book, after Dumbledore was killed and Harry was standing by his body, Hagrid couldn't get Harry to leave, and Ginny just walked up and took his hand and led him away. It was a little touch that showed the thought she put into her characters.
OTOH, Rowling has some of the most absurd plot holes imaginable. The one that's always gotten me is that they selected Pettigrew as the secret keeper. I thought the secret keeper had to be someone who didn't live at the house, but Bill was the secret keeper for his and Fleur's house. So why didn't James Potter just be the secret keeper for his house?
In Prisoner of Azkaban, it never occurred to Dumbledore or Snape to check the tunnel Dumbledore had set up for Sirius' best friend to see if that was how he was getting into the castle?
In Goblet of Fire, they spent nine months trying to get Harry to win the TriWizard Tournament so he could touch the TriWizard Cup and get transported to Voldemort when they could have made anything a portkey and transported him anytime during the term? And how come the TriWizard Cup was the only portkey that took you back when you touched it again? None of the other portkeys did that. Oh, and what was with the TriWizard events, anyway? The crowd is supposed to be excited about looking at the surface of the lake for an hour, or watching the outside of a hedge? How come, except for the dragons, all the events had an audience, but the audience couldn't see what the competitors were doing?
I’m afraid you lost me. Were you making a reference to masturbation, and why?
I would be hideously disappointed if they don’t wrap up the Dursley story line.
I’m still holding out hope for Director’s Cuts at some future point. I would hope they would be too greedy not to produce them. Heehehee
I was expecting him to keel over in the movie. I thought maybe his health was a problem, but it looks like he's still doing stage work, so most likely they just didn't believe the Dursley subplot was necessary.
Hey, my daughter and I went to watch the movie. It was alright, the acting was superb all the way around. The boy who plays Draco really did a good job. Ron getting the love potion was a funny scene. :) I just hate that they didn’t do the fighting scene between the DA and the deatheaters. That would have been cool. Also, I hated the added scene with the house being burned down. I know they can’t do everything in the books, but they should stick to them a little more. I may be getting crabby too. :)
No, I was not. I had assumed that your screen name was derived from the lead character of “The Fugitive”. The real murderer in that show/movie was “the one-armed man”. As I said, I had initially (incorrectly) posted that RK had one arm. Hope that clears it up...
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