Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince -Review

This is one of the challenges for the All Pagan/Witch Challenge. (#4 on my challenge list)

I rented the film and watched it. I'll do this as best I can without giving spoilers.


First off, it had been over a year since I had seen the other films in this series and was starting to think I missed an episode.


Plot: Harry is introduced to a former Professor that holds some important information that can help his mentor defeat Voldemort. He is asked to spy on the professor until the secret is uncovered. In the meantime, the potions class has learned to make lovespells which begin to add innocent chaos to the class. The Death Eaters have started to train a new member in the dark arts and are getting ready for the return of Voldemort.

I thought that it was interesting that they focused on talismans and spell books more in this one, with a scene that showed how a simple spell can cause extreme results even with the most base intentions (a love spell gone wrong) lending itself as both a bit of comedy and a metaphor for first love.
The idea that things are not always as they seem, that they are not always black and white threaded itself throughout this film. It's subplot was choice and identity. What we do in our daily lives that we can still live with ourselves for.
One of the main characters is given a task that in the end he can not go through with, even though he's used greed to further himself to the end point, when he has to face his last pace he backs down because of his own disgust. Disgust in himself.