The much awaited “Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince” has hit the theatres now , after a long wait of two years . Directed by “David Yates” , the sixth movie has received mixed responses so far .

Why should you go for HBP ?

Michael Gambon ( Dumbledore ) and Helena Carter ( Bellatrix ) really acted well . Alan Rickman was just awesome as Severus Snape .

All the scenes depicting the dark forces were awesome . The starting of the movie itself , with Death Eaters on the path of destruction was a perfect beginning . The dark part is really well directed and you will enjoy that thoroughly .

Quidditch is back with this movie . Although it focussed more on Ron-Hermione relationship than the extraordinary broomstick skills that we have witnessed so far .

The movie deals well with the emotional part . Harry’s reaction on seeing the dead body of Dumbledore can get your tears involved .

Yates took care of the comic part really well . Throughout the movie someone ( usually Ron ) will be there to tickle your funny bone .

Emma Watson , as usual , is looking gorgeous in the movie .

The Warner Brothers logo coming from between the clouds with HP theme playing in the background is magnificent . lol

Why should you not watch the movie ???

Not meeting the expectations : Now come on , I know its not fair to compare books to movies , the former is always better . But still , the movie is pretty ordinary ( No offence to Prisoner of Azkaban and Order of Phoenix )

The Burrow Scene : Where did it come from ??? Lupin and Tonks unable to cross the fire and there goes Potter behind Bella followed by Ginny ( fire did not seem to perturb them ) . The power of love I assume .

Horcrux vs Love Potion : You won’t believe this . But Ron and Lavendar’s snogging scenes have somehow dugg up more space than the horcruxes . No description of what the Voldemort’s horcruxes were . No description of how Dumbledore happens to find the cave ( he had an intuition I believe ) . And minimal description of “Half Blood Prince” . The director was more interested in Love Potion rather than the Horcruxes .

Loose Script : It was just like filling the things in . Inspite of building up to something , Yates tried to implement as many things from the book as possible . He really messed up the end , giving it a totally new look .

Where was Voldemort : I really missed Voldemort . I guess I saw him for a millisecond or so . Further , Tom Riddle from Chamber of Secrets was far better than this one .

P.S. Personally , I didn’t liked the movie very much . I had pretty high expectations with the movie , after all the positive reviews and being rated 8.3 by IMDB . Go , watch it and decide for yourself . Who knows ??? You might just happen to like this one .

Well its been raining tags in the new year and this time around I was tagged by Moi to complete this love tag …..

 

1) If your lover betrayed you what would your reaction be? 

If ??????? ……. lol …… well what can my reaction be ??? …. It will take me few days to realize what has actually happened ….. and then the long journey begins ….. the long journey to come out of the shock , to stop consoling yourself that its just a bad dream and will end soon and to stop blaming the whole world for your misfortune ……and then just remind myself that

I don’t need you anymore, I don’t want to be ignored
I don’t need one more day of you wasting me away

2) If you could have one dream come true which one would it be?

Well if I could have one of my dream come true , I would pray for the Harry Potter world to come true and be a part of the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry as a desrving pureblood member of Slytherin House…….. weird !!!

3) Is there any person, at whose face you wanted to throw your slippers/sandals/shoes at ?

When I was preparing for my entrance exams , I dearly wanted to do that with Arjun Singh , for formulating that reservation poilcy….

4) What would you do with a billion dollars?

First of all , I would buy a Ferrari Enjo and go for a looooong drive …… everything else could wait …..

5) Will you fall in love with your best friend?

Can’t bet on it …. Can I ??? ….. 

6) Which is more blessed: loving someone or being loved by someone?

Hmmmm ……. I think the person will be truly a blessed one if he gets both sides of the coin going for him …..

7) How long would you wait for someone you love?

Can’t say ….. probably forever …….

8 ) If the person you like finds someone better than you, what would you do?

If I love someone , I would surely convince her that for her , there is no one better than me …… problem solved !!!

9) If you could root for one social cause which one would it be?

Child labour ……

10) What takes you down the fastest?

People who tries to interfere in every discussion and maintain a constant effort to prove to everyone that they know everything and are superior to everyone…..

11) Would you like to have the job you love or love the job you have ?

No second thoughts ….. I would like to have the job I love ….. loving the job I have is nothing more than a compromise ….

12) Darna mana hai… But what is the thing that you fear most?

The fear of being hacked …..

13) What kind of person(s) do you think the person who tagged you is/are(or the person’s blog from where you have tagged yourself)

I don’t know much about the person but her blog is very nice , well organised and can surely get you glued …..

14) Would you rather be single and rich or married and poor?

I would go for being rich …. coz if I am rich , I won’t be single

15) What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

I check for the inbox messages …… can’t afford friends getting  pissed off for an untimely reply …..

16) If you fall in love with two people simultaneously who would you pick?

That won’t happen ….. Its not possible (atleast for me) to fall in love with two people simultaneously …..

17)Would you give all in a relationship?

Absolutely …. without a trace of doubt….

18)What’s eating you now?

Well nothing , am not tensed at all ….. semesters went all fine and life has also come back on the right track now …. I am enjoying every bit of it …..

19)Do you prefer being single or in a relationship?

I prefer to be single …..
 

Passing on the tag to   Priya , Mahak , Reema , Anubha , Sahaja and Kaddu

It was one of those hot june afternoons a few years back……Summer holidays were going on …. Projects were pending …who cares……. I was lazily surfing through different channels ….. bored of the summer holidays …… Suddenly a 60 feet monster with something like a deformed baseball bat in his hand zoomed in front of my eyes ….. He was on his way to destruction when one of those weird looking kids poked his stick into that monster’s nose …. and the other one muttered something like “Wingardium Laviosa” …. and the monster was a goner ……then there appeared few more of those crazy guys …. and one old lady amidst them muttered few words like “detention” and “points”……I was completely baffled…….It failed to extract interest out of me at the outset…….but I continued with the movie…….. Bit by bit I started feeling the inclination towards the movie and as I approached the last scene my point of view flipped 180 ……….. that was my first encounter with J K Rowling’s world of Witchcraft and Wizardy ……… Next day , in my school library I got my hands around the first book of Harry Potter’s series …. Philosopher’s Stone …. The magic in the book , platform number 9¾ , magical creatures , death eaters , friendship between ron , harry and hermione , quidditch and the Dark Lord appeared so real ….. Rowling knew how to play with the pen ….. The complete book was just magical ….. far amazing than the movie ….. Magic inside the book didn’t allow me to drift my eyes even for a moment……and by the time I read last word of last page I was already a part of the millions of people across the globe who were hypnotised by amazing world of Harry Potter ……

Five months after publication the initial book won its first award, a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, and later, the Children’s Book Award. The Mail on Sunday rated it as “the most imaginative debut since Roald Dahl“; a view echoed by the Sunday Times (“comparisons to Dahl are, this time, justified”), while The Guardian called it “a richly textured novel given lift-off by an inventive wit” and The Scotsman said it had “all the makings of a classic”.

In 2001 a film based on the book was released and after becoming the highest grossing film ever in the UK it went on to earn $976.5 million at the worldwide box office making it the second highest grossing film in history at the time. As of 2008, it is the fourth highest-grossing film of all-time, behind Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Further films based on the subsequent books have made Harry Potter the highest grossing film series of all time, ahead of the James Bond and Star Wars franchises. The success of the series and its tie-in merchandise, have led the Harry Potter brand to be valued at $15 billion, and J.K. Rowling becoming the UK’s richest woman, thought to be worth more than one billon US dollars.

Though the fantasy of Hogwarts has now ended with Lord Voldemort and the Deathly Hallows …… still those seven magical books …… with all the elements of pathos , tragedy , comedy . romance , sacrifices , friendship , and finally the win of the right over the wrong …….appear so real and amazing that a muggle like me can’t help but to read them again and again …….