My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Missy]

> Montavilla47:
> The problem of Slughorn watching stupidly as Ron is dying is a holdover from
> the book. He was no more helpful then. 
> 
> Harry finding the bezoar is a logical problem in the film, since we haven't 
> heard about that trick since PS/SS, and we don't have Harry reading that 
> fun, snarky little tip in the Potions book. And, it takes him forever to
> find
> it, unlike in the book, when he was able to go straight to it.
> 
> Plus, we then get one of those scenes where other actors have to *tell*
> us what happened. It reminds me of that clumsy moment in PS/SS when
> we learn that Harry made the Quidditch team from Nearly Headless Nick.
> 
> 
> 
> md:
> 
> In the book we have the narrators guidance, and we KNOW that Harry knows to
> look for the beazor, in the film we do not have these things so the scene
> makes no sense. We know Harry is on the Quidditch team because McGonagall
> Marches him over to Wood and announces she's found him a seeker, hardly from
> Nearly Headless Nick.
> 
Technically- this is not true.  In HBP- a scene or two before the poisoning, Harry goes to see Sluggy at the end of a class and Sluggy is mentioning bezoars.  It doesn't help much- but at least it was mentioned before.