Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A week late, as usual, here I am with my thoughts on the latest in the Harry Potter film franchise. A little conflicted here, to tell the truth. It was a great movie, good effects, overall a good time. But there was a lot of important scenes left out of this one. If you've read the books, you'll be able to keep up with me. If not, the first paragraph is probably all of this blog you are going to understand.

Dumbledore only showed Harry two memories. There were a dozen in the book. Now, I was one saying if they include all of the memories the movie is going to be very slow but they needed to include a few of the others. The ring, for example. There was a ring and they kept focusing on it but never explained what it was or why it was important.

They touched on the horcruxes but never elaborated on the seven people Voldemort killed to create them. Lily and James we've known all along but I think knowing the other five (well, four of them anyway) is kind of important to the story.

The first three books followed the books very closely and they were amazing. The Goblet of Fire took some detours but didn't leave out anything important. The Order of the Phoenix actually added some information that wasn't clearly outlined in the book. But The Half-Blood Prince...it stuck to the story, as far as getting from point A to point Z and all of the vowels were present but there were a few consonants missing here and there. Important ones like R, S, T, L, and N.