Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince | -2009- Fixed

: Harry and Dumbledore seek to retrieve a memory from Professor Horace Slughorn that reveals the secret of Voldemort’s immortality: Horcruxes .

Coming off the heels of Order of the Phoenix , which was visually stark and politically charged, Half-Blood Prince surprisingly pivots toward the dynamics of teenage life. For the first two acts, the film feels less like a fantasy epic and more like a high school dramedy with magic. The wizarding world is crumbling—bridges are collapsing, Death Eaters are rampaging through London—but inside the castle walls, the students are preoccupied with hormones. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -2009-