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Slughorn possesses something Dumbledore needs to thwart the plans of Voldemort, making the Broadbent character the focal point of the story and giving the actor a chance to almost steal the movie.

An attack by Lord VoldemortвЂ™s evil forces on the Muggle world makes for a spectacular opening, and then flows seamlessly into DumbledoreвЂ™s (Michael Gambon) recruitment of Harry to persuade former Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) to return to the school. KlovesвЂ™ pared-down telling of RowlingвЂ™s tale works beautifully. The filmmakers also have captured the raging teen hormones portrayed in the book, as Hermione/Ron and Harry/Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) become couples. Still, Kloves and Yates are extraordinarily faithful to the emotional underpinnings of вЂњHalf-Blood PrinceвЂќ and the evolution of its core characters - Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) - from вЂtweens into mature fighters of evil. And some scenes have been altered from the book or added. So have some subplots (the romance of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour) and characters (the new minister of magic, Rufus Scrimgeour wonвЂ™t pop up until вЂњDeathly HallowsвЂќ). Notable scenes - from the meeting of the Minister of Magic with the MugglesвЂ™ prime minister at the beginning to the funeral of Professor Dumbledore at the end - have been eliminated. While the special effects are even more dazzling than in the earlier films (the Quidditch scenes, in particular, have come a long way since the first one), the emphasis here is on the characters and relationships, making вЂњHalf-Blood PrinceвЂќ deeply human.ДЇans of the books should be advised that writer Steve Kloves, who scripted four of the previous five films, and director David Yates, even more comfortable here than on вЂњOrder of the Phoenix,вЂќ have taken liberties with RowlingвЂ™s text. Instead, вЂњHalf-Blood PrinceвЂќ ranks as the best of the Potter movies after Alfonso CuaronвЂ™s dark take on вЂњThe Prisoner of AzkabanвЂќ and the most compelling in terms of exploring honest emotions.

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Rowling followers feared that the film version of вЂњHalf-Blood PrinceвЂќ would seem stale, especially since most Muggles now know precisely how the epic series ends. It has been four years since вЂњHarry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceвЂќ was published, two years since the last Harry Potter film (вЂњOrder of the PhoenixвЂќ) opened and two years since the final book in the series, вЂњHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,вЂќ hit stores.

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Movie 6 - вЂHalf-Blood PrinceвЂ™ is the best of the Harry Potter films since вЂPrisoner of AzkabanвЂ™ вЂ“ The Mercury News

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