My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Tonks]

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> What I didn't like: 
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> Narcissa Malfoy's hair.

Tonks:

What was up with that? I forgot if we saw her in #5, but she is blond like Draco and her husband. What was that half color hair.. Uck... and I don't think that she is as old as she looked there. She looked like a 60 year old woman who was turning grey... like me. But even my hair isn't like that!

I didn't like the beginning. DD picks Harry up outside on the street, when death eaters are all about and Harry should be staying at home. I guess WB was too cheap to pay the actors who play Harry's family. I missed the part where Harry says "it is safe to be out here tonight?", and DD says, "yes, because you are with me" which matches up nicely with the other part that they didn't do after the cave when Harry tells DD not to worry, and DD says "I am not worried, I am with you".  

And again they have Bella on the tower, when she was never there in the books. I don't understand why they didn't have Harry under the cloak as in the books and then have him under the cloak and unable to move instead of in that weird place under the tower. And I agree that the funeral with the fire and phoenix flying away would have more impact.

Over all, it was good, but not the emotional impact I would have expected. Maybe they wanted to water it down for the younger children.

Tonks_op
who saw it twice now, but fell alseep though part of the second run. It has been a long week, with little sleep. Willl see it again next week with someone else, hopefully well rested this time.