Today’s movie is a fantasy action film with a scene that happens on
July 19. I hope you will watch this film tonight and enjoy it.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
The evil magician Voldemort’s
followers, the death-eaters, are causing problems in both the magical and
muggle worlds. Dumbledore takes Harry Potter on a trip to recruit Professor
Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts as potions master on July 19, 1996 [2:51 to
5:26]. Slughorn reluctantly agrees. Narcissa Malfoy gets Professor Snape to
make the unbreakable vow to protect her son Draco and complete his task if he
cannot. On a trip to Diagon alley, Harry and his friends visit Weasley’s Wizards Wheezes, the closed
Ollivander’s wand shop and spy on Draco taking an interest at some item at
Borgin and Burkes, a dark magic shop. On the Hogwarts express Harry spies on
Draco but is discovered and immobilized, but rescued by Luna Lovegood. Ron and
Harry take potions, with Harry using a heavily annotated textbook, the property
it says of ‘the half-blood prince, that enables him to win a small vial of
‘liquid luck’ from Slughorn. Dumbledore enables Harry to ‘see’ the day he met
Tom Riddle aka Voldemort. Ron becomes the Gryffindor quidditch goal keeper,
with the secret help of Hermione Granger. Katie Bell is injured by a cursed
necklace. After Harry makes Ron thinks Harry gave him a dose of ‘liquid luck”,
Ron’s saves win the match. He starts a relationship with Lavender Brown, which
causes heartache for Hermione. Harry overhears Snape and Malfoy talking about
Draco’s mission. Harry learns Draco was interested in a vanishing cabinet.
Death-eaters attack and burn the Weasley’s home. Dumbledore shows Harry an
altered memory of Slughorn’s where Tom Riddle asked him a question about dark
magic. Ron gets a love potion meant for Harry and this indirectly causes the
end of his relationship with Lavender. Draco and Harry fight, with Harry using
a very deadly spell he found in the potions textbook. Because of this he
decides to get rid of it in the Room of Requirement with Ginny Weasley and they
kiss. Harry drinks his vial of ‘liquid luck’. He meets Slughorn at Hagrid’s
after Agragog’s funeral and persuades Slughorn to give him the real memory. Tom
Riddle asked him about horcruxes. These are items that, after a wizard killed
someone he could hide a piece of his soul in it, so that even if his body was
destroyed he would keep on existing. Dumbledore says that’s what Voldemort did.
Dumbledore has been looking for horcruxes and found one that when destroyed,
hurt his hand. He has found another one and asks Harry to go with him to find
it. The go to the lake of inferni and get a locket, but the effort severely
weakens Dumbledore. Upon their return to Hogwarts they learn Draco has used two
linked vanishing cabinets, one inside and one outside to get a group of
death-eaters past all the school’s protective enchantments. Draco disarms Dumbledore, but cannot bring
himself to kill him. Snape appears and kills Dumbledore. Draco and Snape flee
Hogwarts. Dumbledore is buried and Ginny comforts Harry and the start a
relationship. The locket is empty, except for a note signed R.A.B. Harry vows
to find the other horcruxes and kill Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K.
Rowling (Scholastic Inc., New York, 2005) Dumbledore comes to get Harry on a
Friday (page 43) after he has been at Privet drive two weeks (page 44). The
Friday that meets this definition in 1996 is July 19.
Producer - David Heyman and David Barron
Director - David Yates
Screenplay - Steve Kloves
Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Cinematography
Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards.
Released – July 15, 2009
Runtime – 1 hour 33 minutes
Starring –
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange
Jim Broadbent as Horace Slughorn
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall
Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew
David Thewlis as Remus Lupin
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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