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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 2005 novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series.
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"Dark Secrets Revealed"
— Official tagline
is a British-American fantasy film based on the sixth novel by J. K. Rowling. This film was released on 15 July 2009 telling about the adventures during the school year 1996–1997. David Yates returned to direct the sequel to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as did David Heyman and David Barron to produce, and Steve Kloves, though he did not write the fifth film, returned to write. Reprising their roles from earlier films are Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Julie Walters, Bonnie Wright, David Bradley, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Gemma Jones, Natalia Tena and Mark Williams, while Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory make their debut for the series.
Filming began on 24 September 2007. Unlike the previous film, the sixth film was released in regular theatres on 15 July and IMAX 3-D on 29 July because of the IMAX release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The film was chosen to be screened at the Royal Film Performance on 17 November 2008, but due to the date of release being pushed back, it was not shown. On 7 July 2009, at the world premiere of Half-Blood Prince in London, the cast and crew all wore white ribbons in memory and tribute of 18-year-old British actor and co-star Robert Knox. Knox, who played Marcus Belby in the film, was stabbed to death on 24 May 2008.
Summary
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds. Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defences and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts. Harry finds himself more and more drawn to Ginny Weasley, but so is Dean Thomas. And Lavender Brown has decided that Ron is the one for her, only she hadn't counted on Romilda Vane's chocolates. And then there's Hermione, simmering with jealousy but determined not to show her feelings. As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Synopsis
Before the school year 1996-1997, Harry Potter, age 16, went with Dumbledore to the home of Professor Horace Slughorn. He was hiding and agrees to return to teach Potions at Hogwarts. Dumbledore fixes the damage in the home. Later, he takes Harry to the Burrow, where Harry is again reunited with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley. Harry states that he believes Voldemort made Draco, like Draco's father, a Death Eater. Ron and Hermione are sceptical. On the train, Hogwarts Express, Harry eavesdrops on Draco using the Invisibility Cloak. He lies on the baggage shelf, hoping Draco did not notice. Once the train arrives and the students (including Ron and Hermione) exit, Draco uses Petrificus Totalus on the invisible Harry. He pulls off the cloak and stomps on Harry's nose, breaking it. Then Draco covers him saying, "Enjoy the ride back to London". After Draco is gone, Harry's close friend, Luna Lovegood, rescues him with the Finite spell. This ends Draco's curse. She was able to find him due to his head being full of Wrackspurts. They walk to the school. Later, Dumbledore announces that Snape is now Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts (due to Slughorn resuming his position as Potions master). He explained that students were searched, when they entered, because of safety now that Voldemort is powerful again. At school, Harry and Ron have to borrow the needed textbooks for Slughorn's Potions class because they don't have their own yet. Harry's copy is inscribed on by the "Half-Blood Prince". This owner has annotated the book with additional instructions, spells, and recommendations that allow Harry to excel in the class. Dumbledore shows Harry memories of a young Tom Riddle in the orphanage he was raised in and reveals that Slughorn retains a memory critical to Voldemort's defeat. Ron becomes Keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and forms a romantic relationship with Lavender Brown, leaving Hermione disconsolate. Harry consoles Hermione, revealing that he now has feelings for Ginny. Harry spends the Christmas holidays with the Weasleys. On Christmas Eve, Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback set fire to the Burrow. Back at school, Ron is nearly killed by poisoned mead, a drink originally intended for Dumbledore. While recovering, Ron murmurs Hermione's name, causing his break-up with Lavender. Harry confronts Draco and severely injures him with a Sectumsempra curse taken from the textbook of the Half-Blood Prince. Snape suddenly enters and quickly heals Draco's wounds. Fearing the book may be filled with more Dark Magic, Ginny and Harry hide it in the Room of Requirement and share their first kiss. Harry succeeds in retrieving the memory and learns that Voldemort wanted information for creating seven Horcruxes. Two of Voldemort's Horcruxes have already been destroyed: Tom Riddle's Diary and Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. After discovering the possible location of another Horcrux, Harry and Dumbledore travel to a seaside cave where Harry is forced to make Dumbledore drink a painful potion that hides one of the Horcruxes: a locket belonging to Salazar Slytherin. A weakened Dumbledore defends them from Inferi and they Apparate back to Hogwarts on the Astronomy Tower which they had left, where Bellatrix, Greyback, and more Death Eaters have entered with Draco's help through a Vanishing Cabinet. Dumbledore instructs Harry to hide as Draco arrives, revealing that he has been chosen by Voldemort to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore lets Draco disarm him of the Elder Wand, thus causing the Headmaster to lose mastership of the wand to Draco, and Draco tries to kill the Headmaster. However, he is unable to bring himself to do it, and Snape soon arrives underneath, telling Harry to be quiet, goes upstairs and casts the Avada Kedavra curse instead, killing Dumbledore and blasting him off the Astronomy Tower as Bellatrix conjures the Dark Mark into the sky. Harry attempts to curse Snape but is overpowered. Before escaping, Snape reveals to Harry that he is the Half-Blood Prince. Harry returns to the school along with Hagrid to find the staff and students mourning Dumbledore as they stare at his corpse. Harry walks up to the body and strokes Dumbledore's hair, takes the locket they had recovered, and puts his hand on Dumbledore's heart as Ginny sits beside Harry and comforts him as he cries. Hermione starts crying and soon McGonagall and soon Luna, Ron, Madam Pomfrey, and everyone else (except Harry and Ginny) raise their wands into the sky and make the Dark Mark in the sky disappear. Harry later reveals to Ron and Hermione that the locket Horcrux was a fake. The locket contains a message from "R.A.B.", stating that he has stolen the real Horcrux with the intent of destroying it. Rather than return for their final year at Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione vow to seek out and destroy the remaining Horcruxes in order to destroy and defeat Lord Voldemort.
Development
Before David Yates was officially chosen to direct the film, many others had been offered the job, and previous directors had expressed an interest in returning. Alfonso Cuarón, the director of the third film, stated he "would love to have the opportunity" to return.Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell declined a spot to direct the fifth film, and was not approached for this one either.Terry Gilliam was Rowling's personal choice to direct Philosopher's Stone. However, when asked whether he would consider directing a later film, Gilliam said, "Warner Bros. had their chance the first time around, and they blew it." has retained composer Nicholas Hooper, costume designer Jany Temime, visual effects supervisor Tim Burke, creature and make-up effects designer Nick Dudman, and special effects supervisor John Richardson from the fifth film. Since February 2007, Stuart Craig, the production designer of the first five films as well, has been designing sets, including the cave, and the astronomy tower, where the climax of the film takes place. Academy Award nominated Bruno Delbonnel is the film's cinematographer. Yates and Heyman have noted that some of the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may influence the script of the film, and that there will not be as many memories in the film as in the book. Yates noted: "We're making a decision right now to compress those a wee bit, but we've still got some really cool ones.". Steve Kloves, who wrote the first four films, returned for the sixth adaptation. Rowling has read Kloves' script and crossed out a passage in which Dumbledore recalls a past female love, penning in the margin "Dumbledore is gay."
Filming
Filming began on 24 September 2007, with one week of rehearsals, and principal photography ended May 2008. Some sources stated that filming may move from the UK, where all of the previous five films have been shot. This is North Scotland reported filming will take place in New Zealand, due to the "more agreeable economy and climate" and lack of Scottish funding. The Sunday Business Post in Ireland has noted that the film's producers and WB executives have been scouting there, specifically Leinster and Munster because they "believe they have now exhausted possible locations in Britain." They are "particularly keen on Ireland, as the landscape is similar to Britain and will appear similar to the settings of the previous films." The crew also scouted around Cape Wrath in Scotland, for use in the cave scene. Filming is scheduled to return to Glen Coe and Glenfinnan, both locations that have appeared in the previous films, to preserve the continuity of the landscape. On the weekend of 6 October 2007, the crew shot scenes involving the Hogwarts Express in the misty and dewy environment of Fort William, Scotland. A series of night scenes have been filmed in the village of Lacock and the cloisters at Lacock Abbey for three nights starting 25 October 2007. Filming took place from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily, and residents of the street were asked to black out their windows with dark blinds. On set reports indicated that the main scene filmed was Harry and Dumbledore's visit to Slughorn's house. Further filming took place in Surbiton railway station in October 2007,Gloucester Cathedral, where the first and second films were shot, in February 2008, and at the Millennium Bridge in London in March 2008. Though Radcliffe, Gambon and Broadbent started shooting in late September 2007, some other cast members started much later: Watson did not begin until December 2007, Rickman until January 2008, and Bonham Carter until February 2008. Principal photography wrapped up on May 17 2008. And a confirmation that editing was complete was released on 29 July 2008, though we do not know when they finished exactly. On 2 January 2009, websites reported that the film had been rated "PG" by the MPAA, for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality. This is the first and only time since the third film that a Harry Potter film has been rated PG, although in Britain it is a 12A.
The trio
•Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter •Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley •Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Hogwarts staff
•Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore •Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall •Alan Rickman as Severus Snape •Jim Broadbent as Horace Slughorn •Luke Chapman as Young Horace Slughorn (uncredited) •Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid •Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick •Unidentified actress as Female Hogwarts teacher (uncredited) •Neil Findlater as Wizard teacher (uncredited) •Gemma Jones as Poppy Pomfrey •David Bradley as Argus Filch
Order of the Phoenix
•David Thewlis as Remus Lupin •Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks •Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley •Julie Walters as Molly Weasley •James Phelps as Fred Weasley •Oliver Phelps as George Weasley •Geraldine Somerville as Lily Potter •Susie Shinner as Young Lily Potter (cut from the film) (uncredited)
The special edition two-disc DVD for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix contained two sneak peeks of the film, while the US edition included an additional clip. Warner Bros and MSN ran an online Order of the Phoenix quiz, with the prize being a walk-on part in the film. As with the previous films, EA Games produced a video game based on the ...
1. The Other Minister
•In the book, the Diagon Alley attack is merely mentioned, and the Death Eaters were said to have kidnapped both Ollivander and Florean Fortescue. The attack is actually shown in the film, but only Ollivander is seen captured. PotterCast later revealed that Florean was murdered. •In the book, the Brockdale Bridge was said to have been destroyed by the Death Eaters, with around fifty Muggles being killed. In the film, it is the Millennium Bridge that the Death Eaters are shown to have destroyed, though all of the Muggles escape before it collapses. •Much of the first chapter has been omitted. This includes Cornelius Fudge discussing the murders, hurricanes, and bridge collapses that have been going on to the Muggle Prime Minister, as well as the former's resignation as Minister of Magic, and Rufus Scrimgeour introducing himself to the latter. However, there is still a minor reference in the Daily Prophet at the beginning of the film that mentions there is a new Minister for Magic. The film instead begins with Bellatrix's final line ("I killed Sirius Black!") from the previous film echoing as Harry is seen standing in front of a mob of reporters, with their cameras flashing, when Dumbledore begins to lead Harry away. The scene then cuts to the bridge attack. •As the scene with Fudge and the Muggle Prime Minister is not featured in the film, after the kidnapping is shown, the film cuts to Harry reading a copy of the Daily Prophet in a Muggle café located along Surbiton Station, then leaves it on the table when he sees Professor Dumbledore outside. Also, the Muggle waitress at the café flirts with Harry and asks about the newspaper he reads in the film. This scene is entirely unique to the film, and Harry does not appear until later in the book.
2. Spinner's End
•The scene where Bellatrix kills a fox is omitted from the film. •The Spinner's End film location is inconsistent with the book. The mill referred to in the text is not a watermill or windmill, but a nineteenth-century textiles factory in a northern industrial town in the UK, most likely in Lancashire or West Yorkshire. The text references the mill chimneys (now disused) and rows of nearby houses. Terraced houses as shown in the film are typical of late nineteenth century mill-workers houses in industrial Britain. •When Narcissa and Bellatrix go to meet Snape, Bellatrix does not show the intense loathing for Snape that she does in the book and does not press him to answer questions about his allegiances. Narcissa does not seem as grief stricken as one might expect—she does, however, have tears in her eyes—and is not the one who suggests the Unbreakable Vow. Her hair is a mix of blonde and dark brunette stripes, rather than being completely flaxen blonde. Snape immediately agrees to the vow in the book, while in the film, he seems rather hesitant to do so, suggesting that he was merely acting on orders, as would be revealed in the final book and film. •In the book, Bellatrix and Narcissa are met at the door by Snape, who then brings them to the parlour. Peter Pettigrew is then called in to bring them drinks. He does so, and then hurries upstairs to listen by a door, which Snape says is a new habit he has taken up. In the film, it is Peter who greets Narcissa and Bellatrix, and shows them to the parlour, where Snape is waiting. Snape then uses his wand to slam the door shut, barring Pettigrew from the room. Snape already has drinks out in the film. •The scene is also in a different place from the book. In the book, this scene takes place directly after Fudge talks with the Prime Minister. Whereas in the film, the scene takes places in a rainy day after Harry has met Horace Slughorn and has travelled back to the Burrow and has reunited with Ron, Hermione, and the other Weasleys.
3. Will and Won't
•The way Harry meets up with Dumbledore is changed. In the book, Dumbledore comes for Harry at Privet Drive as he had pre-arranged in a letter, having a cup of tea and conversing with the Dursleys (who are absent from the film) before heading off with Harry. In the film, Harry is in a station café when he spots a flickering light in a distant part of the station. As a train whizzes past, Dumbledore appears on the platform across the tracks. Harry then heads over to the other platform to meet him. •In the film, Harry is never mentioned to have inherited Grimmauld Place or Kreacher after Sirius Black's death, as he did in the book. •House-elf Kreacher and the Hippogriff Buckbeak are omitted from the film, and there is no mention of Hagrid getting Buckbeak back. •There is no sign of any pamphlet showing the safety measures issued by the Ministry.
1.Who's Harry Potter?
2.Horace Slughorn
3.What Could Be Safer?
4.Snape's Visitors
5.Draco's Detour
6.That's For My Father
•Kreacher
•Corban Yaxley
•Vernon Dursley
•Petunia Dursley
•Dudley Dursley
•Marvolo Gaunt
•The faint whistle that is heard whenever a spell/enchantment/charm was being used in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was heard for the first time after Prisoner of Azkaban when Dumbledore put the Muggles' house in which Slughorn was hiding back in order.
•This is the only film in the series (except Deathly Hallows Part 2) that shows us events from the previous book (the first scene at the Ministry of Magic).
•Helen McCrory who plays the role of Narcissa Malfoy in this film, was originally chosen to play Bellatrix Lestrange in the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But she had to back out of the role due to her sudden pregnancy, so she ended up getting this role instead, while Helena Bonham Carter was cast as Bellatrix in her place.
•Emma Watson was originally not going to return to her role as Hermione in this film to finish her schooling career.
•In an early script page, during the scene at Surbiton Station after Dumbledore apparates in, while he and Harry is staring at a sign advertisment, Dumbledore says to Harry "I once knew a Muggle girl from Liverpool with hair like spun silk. No light could resist it…"
•This is the first film in the Harry Potter film series to receive a PG rating in the United States since the Prisoner of Azkaban. However, it received the equivalent of a PG-13 rating in all other countries (example: United Kingdom-12/12A, Australia-M).
Oct 4, 2023 · The movie “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is an absolute gem for fans of J.K. Rowling’s beloved wizarding world. Released in 2009, this film adaptation of the sixth book in the Harry Potter series takes viewers on a thrilling journey filled with magic, mystery, and heartbreak. From the mesmerizing visual effects to the stellar ...
Contribute to this page. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Directed by David Yates. With Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Dave Legeno, Elarica Johnson. As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
- David Yates
- 2 min
Followed by. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth novel in the Harry Potter series, and takes place during Harry Potter 's sixth year at the wizard school Hogwarts. The novel reveals events from the early life of Lord ...
- J. K Rowling
- 2005
Aug 19, 2020 · No Dursleys. Every Harry Potter book has Harry stuck at the Dursleys before he enters the magical world. The Half-Blood Prince is no exception, as Harry is at the Dursleys until Albus Dumbledore arrives and takes Harry with him. The Dursleys don't appear in the movie at all, though. Harry is instead seen at a railway station café reading the ...
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On Christmas Eve, Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and Fenrir Greyback (David Legeno) set fire to the Burrow. Dumbledore shows Harry memories of a young Tom Riddle (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), when Dumbledore met him as a boy in an insane asylum. Tom could speak to snakes and make animals obey his commands.
