Teenage hormones will tempt Harry Potter and his Hogwarts pals to hook up with one another on July 17, 2009 while the sinister forces of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named increasingly threaten both the magical and muggle worlds.
This is what Warner Bros. Pictures' official movie synopsis of "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" and the novel of the same name indicate will happen when the sixth installment of the series is released in theaters. The boy wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) will reveal his attraction to someone close, witness betrayal and endure another casualty in preparing to fight against Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his army of Death Eaters.
What is new at Hogwarts during the sixth year is the arrival of a new professor to the school, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), a "well-connected and unsuspecting" man Dumbeldore believes knows the key to defeating Voldemort, the movie's official synopsis shows.
One of Warner Bros. Pictures' stills of the movie shows that he will specialize in teaching students about potions. Maybe this means Alan Rickman's Severus Snape will teach something else. It is the dark arts that he fancies anyways.
A sneak peek of the movie on YouTube indicates that the key to defeating Voldemort could be "Horcruxes."
Rowling's "Half-Blood Prince" novel shows Horcruxes are seven splintered items containing The Dark Lord's soul, one of which was his diary when he attended the school under the anagram, Tom Marvolo Riddle. Harry destroyed the novel in 2002's "Chamber of Secrets."
The Internet Movie Database's synopsis for the movie shows that Harry will take "private lessons with Professor Dumbledore, during which Harry learns the dark secrets of Voldemort's past, hoping that they could use these secrets to find a way to defeat him," so maybe the Horcruxes will be introduced during a flashback sequence.
Including the Horcruxes MacGuffin in the movie would explain why Voldemort kept conveniently coming back from the dead to try to kill Harry in three of the last five movies.
Another plot device from the novel that will definitely be in the movie is a potions textbook Slughorn gives Harry. In the novel on which the movie is based, the textbook's back cover reveals it used to belong to the half-blood prince, hence the title.
As mentioned earlier, Snape could move on to teach students something new. One possibility is that he may finally be appointed to teach them how to deflect dark magic. Though Snape has been passed over for the teaching post many times because he used to be a Death Eater, Dumbeldore had no choice but to allow the longtime potions professor to teach Harry how to block invasions of his mind by Voldermort in the last movie.
The official "Half-Blood Prince" synopsis alludes to Harry's suspicion that "dangers may even lie within the castle," so the headmaster's desperation to teach his students to combat dark forces may be Snape's ticket to an overdue promotion. After all, the boy wizard's seemingly bat-shit crazy theories tend to be true.
"One student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one," the official movie synopsis shows.
Fans who have read "Half-Blood Prince" know this part of the synopsis refers to Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), who Harry obsessively suspects is up to something sinister in the novel. But the circumstances of Draco's curious activities are not what they seem.
Could The Death Eaters be attacking students? Or could Draco be a Death Eater like his father?
Guaranteed to attack Harry and his pals are their more than friendly feelings for one another, the official movie synopsis shows.
Harry reveals he likes Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright), but he has to compete for her attention with another boy. Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) also has a crush, but she will not come to terms with the object of her desire, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), or the competition, Lavender Brown (Jesse Cave). These love triangles the official movie synopsis highlights should provide a few humorous, lighthearted moments before the movie series becomes progressively darker.
Of great interest is how Ron will respond to Harry's crush on his sister and whether Radcliffe and Wright can concoct a convincing attraction to one another that has never been alluded to in previous movies.
Radcliffe, who had his first on-screen kiss in "Goblet of Fire," confirmed in the aforementioned sneak peek of the movie that Ron will kiss Lavender in the new movie.
More entertaining should be what director David Yates said in the sneak peek is Ron's "slapsticky" tryout to be keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Maybe he will somehow bumble his way toward success.
Movie footage from the sneak peek reveals a headline from The Daily Prophet newspaper, "Death Eater Attack Targets Muggles," which means Voldermort is either seeking to conquer both the magical and non-magical worlds or push his enemies to act drastically to stop his hostile advances.
Because the Hogwarts teens got their hands dirty and the bad guys strengthened their resolve in the last movie, "The Half-Blood Prince" could turn out to have less exposition and action, especially since two more movies in the series remain in which to resolve the main conflict.
If the novel and other sources are an indication of what is to come, this next installment will allow Harry and his pals to go through some normal, yet humorous teenage angst with the threat of Voldemort and his minions represented as attacks on students, another tragic loss and flashbacks from The Dark Lord's past.
Could the movie include a flashback to Voldemort's youth as an orphan?
The movie will likely be like a darker "Chamber of Secrets" with a slightly older cast of characters.
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