July 17, 2009

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

Saking senengnya nonton ... aku sama temenku sampe bingung mau nonton film apa lagi yah ... akhirnya kemarin kita nonton film HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ini ...

The film opens with a flashback to just after the events of The Order of the Phoenix when and Harry and Dumbledore are being questioned for the Daily Prophet. The camera pans around, focusing on Dumbledore's hand and the rings that are on it. Switch to present London, Death Eaters raid Ollivander's Wand Shop in Diagon Alley abducting the wand maker himself, as well as attacking the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames.

Meanwhile, in a station cafe in
Surbiton, the waitress flirts with Harry but Dumbledore arrives and tells him that it is urgent that he goes with him. They apparate into a Muggle village outside London to visit Horace Slughorn. Dumbledore has come to convince Horace to come out of retirement and teach at Hogwarts. At first, Horace vehemently says no, but after seeing Harry and reminiscing how Lily Potter was his all-time favorite student, Professor Slughorn reluctantly agrees.

Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy visit Snape at his house. Narcissa fears for her son's life: The Dark Lord has chosen Draco Malfoy to perform a task for him. If he fails, he will die. "Bella" doubts Snape's loyalty and challenges him to make the Unbreakable Vow. To Bellatrix's surprise, he swears to look after Draco and, if Draco fails the task, Snape will do it for him.

Dumbledore apparates Harry to the Burrow, where he stays there for the rest of the summer with the Weasleys and Hermione. Ginny is the first to greet Harry upon his arrival with a tenuous embrace. Later that night, Harry, Ron and Hermione, gathered around a smoldering ball of the day's Daily Prophet discuss the Prophet's articles about both Dumbledore and Harry. Just before school starts they visit Fred and George's new joke shop. While there, Cormac McLaggen starts flirting with Hermione, but Hermione ignores him. Lavender Brown, a fellow Hogwarts student flirts blatantly with Ron, but he scarcely acknowledges her. The trio leave the joke shop, and see Draco and his mother walking into Borgin and Burkes. Many Death Eaters have arrived and the trio witness them performing a ritual.

On the Hogwarts Express, Harry, convinced that Malfoy is now a Death Eater, uses his Invisibility Cloak and Peruvian Darkness Powder the twins gave him to sneak into the Slytherins boxcar. Malfoy becomes aware of Harry's presence when he sees a suitcase move by itself. Draco stays behind while the students detrain to petrify Harry. He leaves Harry frozen and with a broken nose under his Cloak. Luna Lovegood finds him with her Spectrespecs, and together walk to the school.

Professor McGonagall informs Harry, now that Severus Snape is teaching Defence Against the Dart Arts, he and Ron can take N.E.W.T. Potions with Professor Slughorn. The boys use spare textbooks for the class, and Harry sees his very old copy is filled with footnotes and revisions that allow Harry to excel in Potions, beating Hermione, and even winning a phial of coveted "Felix Felicis". On the front page, it ominously states, "This book is property to the Half-Blood Prince." Hermione believes the book may be dangerous and cause trouble. Harry rebuffs her saying she's jealous. Meanwhile, Malfoy is seen on several occasions sneaking into the Room of Requirement tampering with a large, mysterious cabinet. Also, in a private meeting with his office, Dumbledore shows Harry his memory of when he first met Tom Riddle in an orphanage. Dumbledore goes on to say that Slughorn would like to "collect" Harry. Horace Slughorn likes to surround himself with talented students who will become powerful. Harry agrees to get to know Slughorn.

Harry first accomplishes this during a trip to Hogsmeade. Slughorn sees the trio in The Three Broomsticks and invites Harry and Hermione to dinner with other students he has invited. The trio then witnesses Katie Bell, another Gryffindor, get cursed by a package she was carrying up to the school. McGonagall and Snape reveal that Katie was cursed into taking a dangerous necklace into the school and was very lucky that she did not die. Harry is convinced that Malfoy cursed Katie.

Ron and Hermione continue to get closer, but that changes when Ron tries out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the keeper because Oliver Wood has left. Gryffindor wins the game against Slytherin after Ron saves every Goal, and in the party afterwards, Lavender Brown kisses him passionately. Hermione sees this, and runs out of the room. Harry follows her, finding her crying in the hallway with summoned birds flying over her. Harry comforts her when she tells him that she knows that he likes Ginny, and tells him that she has feelings for Ron. She then asks him how it feels to see Ginny with Dean, and Harry says "It feels how you're feeling now." Hermione continues to cry on Harry's shoulder, and to Harry's horror, Ron and Lavender walk in looking for a private place to snog. Hermione gets angry and sets the birds on Ron, and Ron runs out of the room, leaving Harry comforting the heartbroken Hermione.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny go back to the Burrow for Christmas break. One night, just before Harry and Ginny are about to kiss, Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback arrive in an attempt to set the burrow on fire, then flee into the field surrounding the Burrow. Harry and Ginny follow them, but the Death Eaters leave as Lupin and Tonks arrive. While leaving, Bellatrix sets the Burrow on fire as the Weasleys watch helplessly.

Back at Hogwarts, Ron and Hermione are not talking. One evening, Harry finds Ron in the dormitory, obsessively in love with Romilda Vane. Ron apparently ate some chocolate on Harry's bed, which Romilda meant to give to Harry, which contained a very strong love potion. Harry escorts Ron to Professor Slughorn to cure him. After Ron is cured, Slughorn offers both boys a drink, unaware that it was actually poison. Ron drinks it, then falls unconscious. Later, at the Hospital Wing, Ron is nursed back to health, and it is revealed that the poisonous drink was actually intended to be given to Dumbledore (another attempt by Malfoy). A distraught Lavender eventually finds out that he is in the hospital wing and bursts in crying, and she and Hermione are fighting as Ron whispers 'Hermione' in his sleep. Lavender runs out crying, and it is obvious that their relationship has ended. Hermione is thrilled, but is crestfallen that Ron doesn't remember anything of it. In the Great Hall, Harry talks to Katie, who apparently recovered from being cursed. He notices Malfoy leaving apprehensively, signaling that Malfoy was the person trying to kill Dumbledore. Harry follows Malfoy into the bathroom where he finds him crying. They have a duel, and Harry casts the Sectumsempra curse on him which he found in the Potions Book belonging to the "Half Blood Prince", causing huge gashes in his body. Snape finds Draco lying in a pool of blood and heals him, and later Harry decides that the potion book is nothing but a cheat-sheet. He and Ginny go into the Room of Requirement to hide it. While closing his eyes so that Ginny can hide it, Ginny kisses Harry stating that "This can hide in here forever if you like".

Harry also continues to try to get Professor Slughorn to reveal his memory, and after taking Felix Felicis (a luck potion he won earlier in a Potions competition), Harry goes down to Hagrid's hut and finds him burying Aragog, the giant spider (from the Chamber of Secrets movie). After, he talks to Professor Slughorn and successfully gets him to give Harry the memory.

The memory shows Professor Slughorn telling a young Tom Riddle about a dark piece of magic called a Horcrux. A Horcrux is a piece of someone's soul that has been split away from the body and put into an object for safe keeping, so that if a person dies, they do not truly die as a piece of their soul is still alive. Dumbledore tells Harry that he believes that Voldemort split his soul into seven pieces and created 6 Horcruxes (the 7th piece being in his body) and that two are already destroyed (one being Marvolo Gaunt's ring, destroyed by Dumbledore; the other Tom Riddle's diary). And Dumbledore thinks he knows where another is.

Dumbledore and Harry apparate in a cave to find the third Horcrux. There is a giant lake with an island in the middle. After warning Harry not to disturb the surface of the water they find a boat that takes them to the island. In order to get the Horcrux they have to drink a potion that is in a bowl. Dumbledore drinks the potion, which causes him unbearable pain as it's intended to weaken the seeker of the Horcrux. After Dumbledore drinks all the potion, Harry retrieves the Horcux: a locket. However, Dumbledore needs water to counter the effects of the potion. Harry attempts to fill the now empty bowl that once held the poisonous potion with water with the Aguamenti spell, but finds out that his magic is useless in such a dark place. After filling the cup in the lake Harry is pulled in by the Inferi (human corpses that are bewitched to do a Dark wizard's bidding).

Dumbledore saves him by creating many rings of fire, killing the Inferi. The two apparate back to Hogwarts, where Dumbledore tells Harry to go and find Professor Snape. Death Eaters arrive in Hogwarts after Draco managed to fix the Vanishing Cabinet inside the Room of Requirement. Draco and the Death Eaters arrive where Harry and Dumbledore apparated and Draco tells Dumbledore that Voldemort has chosen him to kill Dumbledore, and that if he doesn't, he will die.

After talking to Draco, Dumbledore manages to begin to convince Draco that he doesn't need to kill him and that he can keep him safe, Draco begins to lower his wand. However, Snape appears and fulfills his vow to Bellatrix and Narcissa to kill Dumbledore. The Death Eaters as well as Snape attempt to escape Hogwarts; as they leave, Bellatrix sets Hagrid's hut on fire. Harry appears and tries to duel Snape, but Snape is too powerful and easily overpowers Harry. Before Snape leaves, he reveals to Harry the he is the Half-Blood Prince. Harry returns to Hogwarts to pay his respects to Dumbledore, as the staff and students of Hogwarts do the same.

The next morning Harry and Hermione discuss that the locket is a fake. They discover a note inside that says: "To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this, but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more" signed by "R.A.B".

Harry then decides that he will not be returning to Hogwarts next year as he will be searching for the remaining Horcruxes, and Ron and Hermione decide that they will go with Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ends with Harry, Ron, and Hermione enjoying their last day at Hogwarts as Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, flies away symbolizing that Dumbledore is really dead, and that soon Harry, Ron, and Hermione must leave the safe haven that they have known for the last six years.




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