There'due south always going to be a debate over which is meliorate; the book or the flick. For Harry Potter, it'south no unlike. Some people enjoy the series and the film franchise equally. But so there are some people who remember the books are superior. Fifty-fifty some people recollect Harry Potter fan theories are more interesting than what we saw in the films. While the films might have brought the books alive and shown some really cool Easter eggs, they left out many great details that dedicated fans of the serial wanted to encounter. But out of all the films, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the biggest disappointment for some fans. Hither's why.

Fans Were Expecting More

For Victor Chan of Mugglenet.com, waiting for One-half-Blood Prince to premiere was daunting. According to him, the sixth volume is the best out of the unabridged Harry Potter serial, and he couldn't wait to see it. Especially how they were going to show one of the biggest aspects of the books. Voldemort's back story.

What is well-nigh intriguing almost Half-Blood Prince, Chan points out, is that information technology finally gives us "the most detailed business relationship of Voldemort's backstory and by doing so reduces a previously supernatural, powerful villain to an ordinary, insecure human."

However, the trailer concerned Chan. Information technology was deceptive and filled him with doubt even before going to the theaters to come across information technology. "Dumbledore states, 'What you're looking at are memories, in this instance pertaining to ane private,' and we enter the Pensieve to sentry as he visits a young Tom Riddle at a Muggle orphanage. The trailer'south tagline was 'To know the futurity, return to the past.'" Chan explained. But ​​​​​​upon seeing the film, Chan was "severely disappointed."

They Added Things That Didn't Need To Be Added

Chan points out that while they left out some fascinating and integral parts about Voldemort's back story, they added things that didn't need to exist added. Similar that completely pointless first scene where Harry flirts with the waitress in the tube cafe.

"While I appreciated the moving-picture show'due south attempt to differentiate Harry'south life in the Muggle world from his life in the wizarding earth, I don't see the logic backside calculation a random Muggle girl when the Dursleys were cut from the pic," Chan writes. He suggests the filmmakers could have achieved a dissimilarity between Harry's experiences in the Muggle and Wizarding worlds past "having Harry at the Dursleys (not to mention that the picture show omitted Dumbledore'south explanation that Harry's protection nether the Dursleys' roof would expire when he came of historic period, nor the absence of whatsoever mention of Grimmauld Place and Kreacher, both bequeathed to Harry by Sirius)."

"Also, despite becoming accustomed to Harry's reckless disregard for rules, am I seriously supposed to believe that he'd be so foolish as to read the Daily Prophet in full view of Muggles without even attempting to be discreet nigh it?" Good point, actually.

Some other scene that didn't demand to be added, especially since information technology wasn't in the books, is the burning of the Burrow. It's "unnecessarily included when in that location were moments from the books that could accept served a similar purpose. Showing the Burrow under attack was a visual representation of the loss of the wizarding world as a sanctuary to Harry," Chan writes. "Apart from Hogwarts, the Burrow was the only other place where Harry felt like he belonged. Information technology was the closest thing he had to a loving habitation, and to depict it called-for down symbolized the reality of war – that naught is sacred."

According to Chan, that message could take come up across through some other scene left out of the films. Dumbledore's funeral. Which is another huge part of Half-Blood Prince that nosotros didn't get to see on screen.

"Showing Dumbledore'due south funeral would take been a lot more constructive than showing the Burrow called-for downward. This was one of the nigh pivotal moments in the unabridged series. Information technology was the moment Harry realized that he had to face Voldemort alone. Dumbledore's funeral represented the final loss of Harry'south innocence and the moment he became an adult. Information technology also showed that, if Dumbledore could accept met his demise at Hogwarts, then no one was safe and nowhere was sacred." Some other slap-up point.

The Biggest Thing 'Half-Claret Prince' Did Wrong

While much of One-half-Blood Prince was left out, including much of Voldemort's back story and Dumbledore'southward funeral, Chan believes the "greatest travesty committed" in the moving-picture show was "that about of the memories that Dumbledore showed Harry were left out." Not just the memories about Voldemort's backstory merely the other memories that "help us sympathize Voldemort's motivations and the decisions he makes."

"By removing these scenes from the film, Half-Blood Prince as an exposition piece is poor. The Deathly Hallows films brand a lot less sense without noesis of Voldemort's Horcruxes, a plot point that One-half-Blood Prince doesn't fairly encompass. If we consider the films equally divide entities from the books, the casual moviegoer who hadn't read the books would exist left confused by the trio's hunting of Horcruxes in the Deathly Hallows films," Chan concludes.

Nosotros tin't help just agree. Moreover, upon closer look, Half-Blood Prince is really only a film almost the character's beloved lives and how things are changing and leading up to a fight set behind a murky filter. The film doesn't affect some of the most important scenes from the book and has the worst ending, making us recall that Half-Blood Prince could easily land on a list of worst book-to-film adaptations always.

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