Thaidakar the Ghostblood

Welp

I love the movie version of Snape.

In other words, I just watched the Half-blood Prince for the first time with my family.

I loved it, but hated it at the same time. I loved most of it, except for the part leading up to the ending. Not the island sequence, that worked well I think, but could've used more details. No, I mean the part where they apparatus directly to the place before the island instead of going to the three broomsticks and then appareling to it. I also mean the part directly after where the fight had already started. Oh, and did I mention the absence of the fight altogether. *sigh*

And speaking of absences. Where the freaking heck is Fleur? What about Bill? And what about, you know, Ginny's human-like attributes? Instead of the fiery, funny, awesome Ginny, we get a randomly wistful looking Ginny who talks like Padme in AotC while tying Harry's shoes robotically in between snogging some random dude in a corner. *groan*

And, furthermore, what about the funeral? I know that itty bit we got at the end, but what about the tomb? Idk, I liked the tomb sequence. What about some of the more important flashbacks? What about the defense against the dark arts lessons? What about Ginny's and Harry's entire relationship?

Aight, that's enough of the negatives-

I loooooooooved how they portrayed Snape and Draco. And, really, just the villains in general. I liked how they did them, I liked how they had them have emotion, have a variance in how they were written, have a human spark inside of them that occasionally showed us a window into the inner workings of their soul, what made them tick. For instance, in the moment where Draco and Dumbledore are talking on the tower, Draco reveals by saying if he doesn't do it, Voldemort will kill him, that he seeks approval, that he fears those who have authority over him, and also that he will obey his parents above all else. His wavering also shows us that while he will lord over the fact that he's a death eater, he still is a child, he's still the person who doesn't want to kill anyone. For him, before then it had all been a game to use all of his crafty brain cells to figure out how to best maneuver the pawns to his will. Now it had taken on a whole other cast to him, it was now so real that he was terrified out of his wits of what the consequences of his actions would be.

Snaaaaaaaaaaaaape

SNAAAAPE

Alan Rickman is amazing.

I loved how Snape was interacting with everyone, how he interacted with Dumbledore in specific.

Ron, Harry and Hermione as a trio were shining as the best in this one, truly showing how they really meshed together as friends and how funny they could truly be if the writers put their heart into it. 

Harry and Ron talking about girl's skin- XD, it was hilarious.

I realize I've been talking for paragraphs and paragraphs now-

If you made it to this point, sorry for how long it was. I'm impressed.

If you skipped to the end, you didn't miss much beyond me rambling about how I like Draco Malfoy's character arc in the movies and the book.