HBP

[Carol]

md:
> I think they played to the audience as if we are simple folk, I think they played the film for a PG rating as well judging from the cop-outs with the secumsumpsra (however it's spelled) and the inferi looking like Gollum rather than Night of the Living Dead.

Carol responds:

Sectumsempra, created from the Latin words "sectum" = "cut" and "sempra" = "always."

As for the PG rating, that seems very odd to me given the PG-13 rating of the previous two films. This one should have been darker given that the characters are older and it's the run-up to the final confrontation in DH, not to mention the horror of certain scenes in the book: Sectumsempra, the cave, the "murder" of Dumbledore. Evidently, they wanted to make the film fun--and funny--by playing up the romance, love potions, and Quidditch angle at the expense of the Half-Blood Prince and the darker elements. Not a decision I would have made, as I'm sure everyone knows by now.

Carol, who hopes to get a laugh or two out of the film since she doesn't expect any tears or terror