Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)/YMMV
These things about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
- Continuity Lock Out:
- Because the potion book subplot of Half-Blood Prince was so shortened, The Reveal that Snape is the Half-Blood Prince makes very little sense. It's clear that this is why the book let Harry be so good at Potions, but even that is minor.
- It also left out what may be the single most important minor detail in the story. Specifically, the old tiara Harry puts on the stone bust of an ugly wizard in the Room of Requirement. This turns out to be the Diadem of Ravenclaw, and Voldemort's next-to-last proper Horcrux. In Deathly Hallows - Part 2, the writers handwaved it by having Harry "hear" the Horcruxes talk in Parseltongue.
- The movie also fails to point out that the Diadem of Ravenclaw is a Horcrux in the first place since it left out the bits where Harry and Dumbledore make a list of possible Horcruxes and glean the clues from Voldemort's past, which enable them to predict his actions.
- Because the potion book subplot was so shortened, The Reveal that Snape is the Half-Blood Prince makes very little sense. It's clear that this is why the book let Harry be so good at Potions, but even that is minor.
- Freud Was Right: Cormac MacLaggen's deluxe-model broom, as compared to Ron's smaller thinner hand-me-down one.
- Harsher in Hindsight: This film got a lot less funny due to Lavender Brown getting the Death by Adaptation treatment in the last film.
- Non Sequitur Scene: The Death Eaters destroying the Burrow. The kids just go back to school and the Burrow's just fine in the next movie.
- Tainted by the Preview: On August 14, 2008, Warner Bros. announced to push Half-Blood Prince's intended November 21, 2008 release date to July 15, 2009 due to the Writers' Guild of America strike of 2007-2008, despite releasing a teaser trailer for the film a month earlier. This caused so many angry outbursts from hundreds of Harry Potter fans, who called for boycotts of the studio and their products, and sent numbers of nasty hate-mail to the studio. After that, Warner Bros. responded to these outraged fans by sending an apology letter, which promptly ended with "We love the fans". But the fans think this letter is an insult and continue to boycott the studio.