First Review: The sixth installment of the Harry Potter series begins right where The Order of the Phoenix left off. The wizarding world is rocked by the news that "He Who Must Not Be Named" has truly returned, and the audience finally knows that Harry is "the Chosen One"--the only wizard who can defeat Lord Voldemort in the end. Dark forces loom around every corner, and now regularly attempt to penetrate the protected walls of Hogwarts School. This is no longer the fun and fascinating world of magic from the first few books—it's dark, dangerous, and scary.
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) suspects Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) to be a new Death Eater recruit on a special mission for the Dark Lord. In the meantime, Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) seems to have finally removed the shroud of secrecy from Harry about the dark path that lies ahead, and instead provides private lessons to get him prepared. It's in these intriguing scenes that the dark past of Tom Riddle (a.k.a. Voldemort) is finally revealed. The actors cast as the different young versions of Riddle (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin and Frank Dillane) do an eerily fantastic job of portraying the villain as a child. While the previous movies' many new characters could be slightly overwhelming, only one new key character is introduced this time: Professor Horace Slughorn (with a spot-on performance by Jim Broadbent). Within his mind he holds a key secret in the battle to defeat the Dark Lord, and Harry is tasked by Dumbledore to uncover a memory about Voldemort's darkest weapon--the Horcrux. Despite the long list of distractions, Harry, Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) still try to focus on being teenagers, and audiences will enjoy the budding awkward romances. All of the actors have developed nicely, giving their most convincing performances to date.
More dramatic and significant things go down in this movie than any of its predecessors, and the stakes are higher than ever. The creators have been tasked with a practically impossible challenge, as fans of the beloved J.K. Rowling book series desperately want the movies to capture the magic of the books as closely as possible. Alas, the point at which one accepts that these two mediums are very different is the point at which one can truly enjoy these brilliant adaptations. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is no exception: it may be the best film yet. For those who have not read the book, nail-biting entertainment is guaranteed. For those who have, the movie does it justice. The key dramatic scenes, including the cave and the shocking twist in the final chapter, are executed very well. It does a perfect job of setting up the two-part grand finale that is to follow
Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Release Year: 2009
Country:USA
Runtime: 156 minutes
Rating: 7.6/10
Languages: English
Director:
David Yates
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Writing by :
Steve Kloves
J.K. Rowling
Produced by:
David Barron
David Heyman
Tim Lewis
Lionel Wigram
Music By:
Nicholas Hooper
Cast:
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley
Emma Watson - Hermione Granger
Jim Broadbent - Professor Horace Slughorn
Elarica Gallacher
Robbie Coltrane
Michael Gambon
Maggie Smith
Alan Rickman - Professor Severus Snape
Bonnie Wright - Ginny Weasley
James Phelps - Fred Weasley
Oliver Phelps - George Weasley
Julie Walters - Molly Weasley
Mark Williams - Arthur Weasley
David Thewlis - Remus Lupin
Natalia Tena - Nymphadora Tonks
Helena Bonham Carter - Bellatrix Lestrange
Dave Legeno - Fenrir Greyback
Timothy Spall - Wormtail
Helen McCrory - Narcissa Malfoy
Tom Felton - Draco Malfoy
Jessie Cave - Lavender Brown
Evanna Lynch - Luna Lovegood
Matthew Lewis - Neville Longbottom
Alfie Enoch - Dean Thomas
Devon Murray - Seamus Finnigan
William Melling - Nigel
Shefali Chowdhury - Parvati Patil
Afshan Azad - Padma Patil
Georgina Leonidas - Katie Bell
Isabella Laughland - Leanne
Freddie Stroma - Cormac McLaggen
Anna Shaffer - Romilda Vane
Louis Cordice - Blaise Zabini
Scarlett Byrne - Pansy Parkinson
Jamie Waylett - Vincent Crabbe
Josh Herdman - Gregory Goyle
Robert Knox - Marcus Belby
Amber Evans - Twin Girl #1
Ruby Evans - Twin Girl #2
Warwick Davis - Professor Filius Flitwick
David Bradley - Argus Filch
Gemma Jones - Madam Pomfrey
Johnpaul Castrianni - Yaxley
Ralph Ineson - Amycus Carrow
Suzanne Toase - Alecto Carrow
Frank Dillane - Tom Riddle - Age 16
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin - Tom Riddle - Age 11
Amelda Brown - Mrs. Cole
Geraldine Somerville - Lily Potter
Mark Lockyer - Waiter
Jack Pryor - Skinny Kid
Paul Ritter - Eldred Worple
Joerg Stadler - Male Inferi
Rod Hunt - Thorfinn Rowle
Caroline Wildi - Female Inferi
Elliot Francis - SlugClub Member
Teresa Mahoney - Sophie
Stephen Modell - Feather Wizard
Ben Shephard - Diagon Alley Father
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Plot: Having returned to power, Death Eaters attack both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, while Lord Voldemort has given Draco Malfoy an assignment. Bellatrix Lestrange goads Severus Snape into making an Unbreakable Vow with Draco's mother, Narcissa, to protect Draco and carry out the assignment if he fails. Scarred by his experience at the Ministry of Magic with Voldemort, Harry is reluctant to return to school. Dumbledore brings Harry to entice former Potions Professor Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts. Later, while leaving Fred and George's new shop in Diagon Alley, Harry, Ron and Hermione notice Draco associating with Bellatrix Lestrange, Fenrir Greyback and Narcissa Malfoy in Borgin and Burkes, leaving Harry suspicious. He attempts to eavesdrop on Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express, but Draco Petrifies Harry. He is rescued by Luna Lovegood and her Spectrespecs.
At Hogwarts, Harry and Ron borrow school textbooks for Slughorn's Potions class. The previous owner of Harry's copy, the "Half-Blood Prince", has annotated the book with additional instructions that allow Harry to excel in class and win a vial of the luck potion Felix Felicis. After making it as Keeper on the Quidditch team, Ron becomes a hero and he forms a relationship with Lavender Brown, which leaves Hermione heartbroken. At the same time, Ginny Weasley is in a relationship with Dean Thomas, which in turn, leaves Harry distraught. He hides his feelings from all but Hermione, however, knowing Ron is protective of Ginny and would never allow a relationship between them. Harry spends Christmas with the Weasleys, during which he discusses the situation at Hogwarts with Order of the Phoenix members Arthur Weasley, Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks. He becomes closer to Ginny, who has broken up with Dean. Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback attack the Burrow and attempt to kidnap Harry. The Order is able to keep everyone safe, but the Death Eaters set fire to the Burrow.
Draco continues eluding Harry while perfecting the use of a Vanishing Cabinet inside the Room of Requirement. Harry suspects Draco is behind two attempts on Dumbledore's life, one of which nearly kills Ron. In his semi-comatose state, Ron mumbles Hermione's name, causing his relationship with Lavender to deteriorate. Confronting Draco, Harry hits him with a curse from the Half-Blood Prince's book which severely wounds him. Snape heals Draco as Harry retreats. Fearing the book may be filled with more Dark Magic, Ginny convinces Harry to leave the book in the Room of Requirement so that he won't use it again. While Harry's eyes are closed, Ginny hides the book and kisses him, starting a relationship between them.
During private meetings held throughout the year, Dumbledore shows Harry memories of a young Tom Riddle and reveals Slughorn retains a memory critical to Voldemort's defeat. Harry retrieves the memory using Felix Felicis. It reveals that Voldemort had been seeking information for creating as many as seven Horcruxes, devices that safeguard a portion of the creator's soul, granting him immortality unless the Horcruxes are destroyed. Two of Voldemort's Horcruxes have already been destroyed: Tom Riddle's diary, and his grandfather's ring. After locating another Horcrux, Dumbledore requests Harry's help to retrieve it. Inside a cave, Harry is forced to make Dumbledore drink a mind-altering potion that hides the Horcrux, a locket. Though gravely weakened, Dumbledore defends them from a horde of Inferi and Apparates himself and Harry back to the Astronomy Tower at Hogwarts.
Dumbledore first tells Harry to fetch Snape for help, but then tells him to hide when footsteps approach. Draco appears and reveals that Voldemort has chosen him to kill Dumbledore, but is unable to follow through. Snape arrives, motions to Harry to stay hidden, and joins the Death Eaters that arrive through the Vanishing Cabinet and surround Draco as he hesitates. Snape casts the Avada Kedavra curse, killing Dumbledore and then escaping from the castle with the other Death Eaters. In their wake they cast the Dark Mark, wreck the Great Hall and set fire to Hagrid's Hut. Harry tries to stop them, but Snape deflects Harry's spells and Bellatrix stuns him. Before departing, Snape reveals to Harry that he is the Half-Blood Prince. Harry returns to the school to find the staff and students mourning Dumbledore.
Harry reveals to Ron and Hermione that the locket Horcrux was a fake. The locket contains a message from an "R.A.B." stating he has taken the real Horcrux and hopes to destroy it and the others. Rather than return for their final year at Hogwarts, Harry and his friends vow to seek out R.A.B. and the remaining Horcruxes as Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes, flies into the horizon.
Goofs:
- Continuity: During the scene in which Harry consumes the Felix Felicis, he empties the entire vial into his mouth. However, in the following shot when he is holding the vial between his hands and is speaking to Hermione and Ron, the vial is completely full with the stopper still on.
- Revealing mistakes: Several times throughout the movie, Harry's glasses clearly have no lens in them. They are just the frames. This is clearly evident when Harry and Ron Weasley are lying in bed and Harry is looking at the map showing the foot prints. The rest of the scenes show the glasses having lenses in them.
- Revealing mistakes: During the quidditch match, when Ron is celebrating a save, the wind blows his robes and you can clearly see the bicycle-like seat attached to his broom.
- Continuity: In the scene in the 3 Broomsticks pub, Slughorn spills some of his drink on the table and on Hermione. But a minute later when we see the table filmed from the side Slughorn was on, the table is dry.
- Continuity: In the last scenes of Dumbledore in the tower his beard was untied then a few seconds later was tied for the remainder of the scene.
- Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film, when Harry is lying on the ground outside Hagrid's cabin, Snape kicks Harry's wand away from his hand. When he does so, a square of neon tape is clearly seen, almost right in the middle of the shot, where Harry's wand was placed, so that actor Alan Rickman would know where to kick.
- Revealing mistakes: When Professor McGonagall is examining the cursed necklace, she is standing in front of a window. During several of the shots you can see right through her.
- Continuity: When Draco unveils the vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement, there is a large amount of dust on the tapestries. When he goes back later in the movie the same amount of dust has gathered on the tapestries. The same amount of dust would not have accumulated in such a short amount of time.
- Continuity: During the first gathering at Hogwarts in the hall, the main entrance is closed while Dumbledore is speaking. When the camera changes, it is positioned outside in the corridor meaning the door opened somehow within seconds.
- Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, the waitress says that she gets off work at 11 o'clock, but soon after in professor Slughorn's home, all the clocks say 10:35.
- Continuity: The title says "Half-Blood", but the writing in the prop book says "Half Blood".
- Continuity: In the 3 Broomsticks, before Professor Slughorn spills his drink, from different angles it goes from having a foamy head to no head.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The movie shows the destruction of the Millennium Bridge in London. The events in this part of the movie occurred mid-1996. The bridge's construction began late 1999. But while the books take place in the 1990s, no such time line has ever been given in the movies.
- Continuity: When Harry and Slughorn go visit Hagrid, Hagrid sits with a wine bottle and an earthenware goblet and Slughorn has only a goblet on his side of the table. At the end of the visit, Slughorn's goblet magically appears right next to Hagrid's goblet on his side of the table.
- Continuity: It has been established in other films that the Weasley home is surrounded by trees. In this movie it is located in the middle of a huge empty field.
- Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning when Harry and Dumbledore first disapparate, there is a full shot of them walking up to the entrance of the house. In this full shot, you can see Dumbledore's shoes sticking out of his robe as he walks, only he is actually wearing those blue bags on his shoes, the ones they wear in between takes so as not to damage the set floors.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Katie Bell is seen in Harry and Ron's potion class, despite being in the year above them. This was changed for the movie to simplify the story.
- Continuity: During the Felix Felicis scene, when Slughorn gives it to Harry, he is holding it with his hand below the bottle. In the next clip, his hand is above it.
- Revealing mistakes: During the scene in Professor Slughorn's lesson, the students are told to make a Draught of Living Death, the recipe for which "can be found on page 10". During the lesson, it is quite clear that Hermione has her book open somewhere in the middle (circa page 200).
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: According to the last movie, you need to know the purpose of the Room of Requirement to be able to access it. Harry and Ginny were looking for a place to hide the book, so the Room allowed them access.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the scene when Dumbledore first introduces Harry to Professor Slughorn, Slughorn's robe changes color more than once. However, this is due to the florescent lighting outside of Slughorn's home.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Dumbledore has Riddle's diary in his possession. The last time it was shown was in the the second movie, and Lucious Malfoy was the last person to have the diary. Lucious then gave the book to Dobby with Harry's sock hidden inside to set him free, Dobby was still holding it when he stopped Lucious from cursing Harry. The book was left on the floor, meaning either Harry or Dumbledore could return the book to the headmaster's office.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the end of the movie when everyone is holding their wands skyward in tribute, Hagrid can be seen holding a wand. In the first movie, he had hidden his first (broken) wand in a pink umbrella, but after his name was cleared in the second movie, he was able to get a replacement wand.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Harry first has the Half Blood Prince's potions book, his signature is in the front of the book. When Ginny takes it from him, she reads his signature from the back. However, the book may have been signed at the back and the front as later in the film we see the words written in two different styles suggesting multiple instances.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Harry and Dumbledore are standing in the tower three men are seen to walk across the room on the right.
- Continuity: In the first scene of Dumbledore and Harry's lessons, at the beginning of the scene, you can clearly see that Dumbledore is wearing his glasses, but when Harry enters the room a minute later, Dumbledore is not wearing them.
- Continuity: The potions book which Harry gets from Slughorn's cupboard has the words "This book is property of the Half-Blood Prince" clearly handwritten on the first page. In a later shot the handwriting changes to a more print-like font.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The 'wheat/corn' outside the Burrow at Christmas is actually a reed bed, which can definitely grow to the height shown in the film in winter in Britain.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the Quidditch match, Hermione is wearing a green wool cap. This implies that she is a supporter of the Slytherin Quidditch team. She should have been wearing a maroon cap.
- Continuity: The newspapers in the movie imply that there was a death toll from the bridge collapse at the start of the film, even though when watching the scene, everybody seemed to escape from the bridge safely and not a single person is in the water.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Dumbledore and Harry apparate from Hogwarts to the rock cave, and apparate back. According to the books, no one can apparate into or out of Hogwarts. However, Dumbledore explains (both in the book and the movie) that "being me has its advantages" - such as apparating in and out of Hogwarts.
- Revealing mistakes: In the scene with Hagrid and Prof Slughorn, you can see them both moving their hands when talking. Slughorn's hand often disappears/seems to go right through Hagrid's arm. A graphics error as they would not have been filmed together due to sizing issues.
- Continuity: Aragog's body is significantly smaller than it was in the Chamber of secrets movie.
- Continuity: The Felix Felices potion (which is supposed to be gold) changes from yellowish to clear throughout the movie.
- Continuity: In the scene where everyone in Gryffindor is celebrating the won Quidditich match, Dean can be seen standing behind Hermione, wearing a light pink cardigan. Towards the end of the movie, when everyone has lifted their wands, Hermione is wearing it.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene where everyone has lifted their wands in remembrance of Dumbledore, it would appear that Hagrid also has a wand raised; he doesn't. What is actually seen is the hand and wand of the person standing behind him.
- Continuity: During the destruction of the Millennium Bridge: to begin with the bridge is full of people, including a lot of school children, walking across. As the bridge begins to wobble, people start to trip up and fall down. When we see the bridge from above, as it is destroyed seconds later, there aren't any people on it.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In 1 or 2 scenes in the dining hall, Lavender Brown is shown sitting at a different table across from Ron Weasley. They were both in Gryffindor, so they should be at the same table. However, it is not uncommon for students to be seated at other Houses' tables. In a particular scene where Lavender is seated at a different table, she is mad at Ron. This is probably why she chose not to sit at the Gryffindor table.
- Continuity: When the Tom Riddle's Diary is shown in the end of The Chamber of Secrets the hole made from the fang is very small. When you see the Diary in this movie, the hole is huge like someone had made it larger on purpose which is highly unlikely.
- Continuity: In the scene where Hagrid is mourning over Aragog's dead body, Harry stands next to him. If you look closer, you'll notice that in faraway shots, Harry's head is clearly above Hagrid's elbow. However, in the closer shots, his head is below Hagrid's elbows.
- Continuity: Near the beginning of the movie, when Harry, Hermione, and Ron are sitting on the floor talking in Ron's room at the Burrow, the position of Hermione's legs changes frequently from cut to cut.
- Revealing mistakes: During the scene where the bridge is collapsing, people are seen in an overhead shot running towards safety in terror, but past the entrance way/exit, there are no people running at all, only people casually walking through sight-seeing.
- Continuity: After Harry scoops up a sip of potion from the basin, there is still a scoopful left in the basin. However, after Dumbledore drinks it , the basin appears to be empty and Harry grabs the locket from the empty basin.
- Continuity: Although the girl Harry met in the pub at the beginning of the film mentioned that one of her customers had sworn they had seen a picture in Harry's copy of the Daily Prophet move, all of the pictures and portraits shown in the film were shown to be stationary. Every film up to this point always showed the contents of pictures and portraits moving in some way.
- Plot holes: In the scene where Dumbledore first shows Harry the memory vials, they are labeled "Thomas Marvolo Riddle". However, Riddle's first name is just Tom, because "Thomas" would not fit the anagram "I am Lord Voldemort" that is created in Chamber of Secrets.
Trivia:
- Director Guillermo del Toro turned down the chance to direct this film so he could work on Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).
- Anand Tucker and Michael Hoffman were both rumored as possible directors for this film.
- Helen McCrory had been cast to play Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), but had to back out because she was pregnant. She will play Bellatrix's sister, Narcissa Malfoy in this film.
- Jessie Cave beat over 7000 girls to win the role of Lavender Brown, Ron's "love-interest" from the book.
- Hero Fiennes-Tiffin has been cast as Tom Riddle, Age 11, while his uncle, Ralph Fiennes plays Lord Voldemort (formerly Tom Riddle). His parents are Martha Fiennes (Ralph's sister) and George Tiffin.
- Quidditch at Hogwarts makes a grand (and much publicized) return, after being completely absent since the fourth installment. A full game of Quidditch has in fact not been featured since the 2nd film.
- Robert Knox, who plays Marcus Belby, was tragically stabbed to death on May 24, 2008, just days after filming wrapped.
- Director David Yates says that he hired Hero Fiennes-Tiffin to play the young Voldemort/Tom Riddle because of his resemblance to his uncle Ralph Fiennes (who plays Voldemort/Tom Riddle as an adult) but not specifically because he was the actor's nephew. He liked the dark haunted quality about the young actor.
- Christian Coulson, who played Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets, expressed an interest in returning as Riddle for this film, but David Yates felt that Coulson was too old for the role (he is close to 30).
- Naomi Watts was previously reported as having accepted the role of Narcissa Malfoy, only for it to be denied her by her agency.
- Thomas James Longley auditioned for the role of 'Tom Riddle', but lost out to Frank Dillane.
- Dame Maggie Smith completed filming this film whilst undergoing radio-therapy as treatment for breast cancer.
- Alarn Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner Bros. stated that due to "repercussions of the writers' strike" they were offered "new windows of opportunity that we (Warner Bros.) wanted to take advantage of." The film’s release date was then moved from November 21, 2008 to July of 2009.
- The original script included all of Dumbledore's memories about Voldemort as outlined in the source novel, but the director insisted on trimming them down as, according to Steve Kloves, "..he wanted to showcase Voldemort's rise without getting overly involved with his past as Riddle."
- The first Harry Potter film to be rated PG by the MPAA since Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
- There is a scene in this movie in which Death Eaters, led by Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and Fenrir Greyback (Dave Legeno), attack The Burrow where Harry, The Weasley's, Lupin, and Tonks are staying. This particular scene was not in the book, but was made just for the movie to serve as a representative of all the news reports, which are scattered around in the source novel, about various attacks by Death Eaters on the wizard community. It was considered to provide better pacing for a movie to have Harry actually experience one such attack first hand, rather than hearing/reading about those that kept happening to some other students, or their relatives.
- Shipped to some theaters under the moniker "Candlelit".
- Bruno Delbonnel was chosen to be the film's cinematographer by David Yates: "The choice of angles, the extreme close-ups, the pacing of the scenes... It's very layered, incredibly rich."
- According to production designer Stuart Craig, Tom Riddle's Orphanage is based on buildings from the Liverpool Docklands, and it is influenced by Victorian-Georgian architecture. In fact Orphanage's exterior uses original Victorian glaze bricks, to give the set a very hard structure.
- According to VFX supervisor Tim Alexander, completing the Inferius attack took several months: "It was much bolder and scarier than we imagined that they'd ever go in a Potter movie. David Yates was really cautious of not making this into a zombie movie, so we were constantly trying to figure out how not to make these dead people coming up look like zombies. A lot of it came down to their movement - they don't move fast, but they don't move really slow or groan and moan. We ended up going with a very realistic style." He also noted that Inferius are skinnier than zombies, as well as being waterlogged and grey.
- Tim Alexander described Dumbledore's ring of fire as "someone sprayed propane and then lit it." Then, to enhance the effect, the visual effects team spent a lot of research on molten volcanoes (which have a lot of heat but no actual flames), and other references, including flares that burn underwater. Since the whole fire scene was very time consuming, with computer graphics artist Christopher Horvath spending eight months on it.
- Over 7000 girls auditioned for the role of Lavender Brown, and read from a scene with Madam Pomfrey, Hermione and Ron. Ironically, Emma Watson recommended Jessie Cave for the role, although Cave hadn't attended any auditions.
- Jamie Campbell Bower hoped to be cast as a young Riddle. He was instead cast as the teenage Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- Terry Gilliam, who was J.K. Rowling's personal choice to direct the first film, was approached to direct this film. However, Gilliam said, "Warner Bros. had their chance the first time around, and they blew it."
- Bill Nighy was interested in playing Rufus Scrimgeour, but there was no place for the character in the film.
- The night scenes were filmed in the quaint village village of Lacock and the cloisters at Lacock Abbey for three nights, 25-28 October 2007. Filming took place from 5 PM-5 AM, and residents of the street were asked to black out their windows with dark blinds.
- When Draco Malfoy goes to the room of Requirement for the final time, you can clearly see the harp that put Fluffy to sleep and the King from the game of chess that were in the first movie.
- The second film to NOT open with a "Harry-centric" event. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opened with a scene from a chapter of the fourth book, "The Riddle House". Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens with an event which is mentioned in the first chapter of the sixth book, "The Other Minister", where the Death Eaters collapse the Millennium Bridge in London. (Although the first images in this film are of Harry and Dumbledore at the Ministry of Magic after the battle with Voldemort in the fifth film, the first legitimate and complete scene is the Death Eater attack.)
- The length of the 35mm film is 4194 meters.
- The tapestry seen near the Room of Requirement is the last of seven in "The Hunt of the Unicorn" (or the "Unicorn Tapestries") series, called "The Unicorn in Captivity." The real tapestry can be found at the Cloisters in New York City.
- The tapestry that we first see as Draco is walking the upper levels of Hogwarts is based upon "The Unicorn in Captivity," one of a set of 7 known collectively as "The Hunt for the Unicorn".
- Mr Weasley's shed of Muggle artifacts contains, among other things, two Remington Noiseless Portable Typewriters and an HP Laserjet 4.
- Eleanor Columbus had originally reprised her character of Susan Bones but her scene was cut.
- Timothy Spall plays Wormtail for the third time (fourth, if one includes a photograph in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)), and is credited on the poster for this film, but he does not have a single line of dialogue.
- This is the first Harry Potter film that does not feature any aspect of Defense Against the Dark Arts classes on screen, either direct (second through fifth films) or indirect (first film). The only mention of the subject occurs when Dumbledore announces Snape's appointment to the open teaching position.
- When Harry is in Dumbledore's office at the end of the film, a bowl of lemon drops can be seen on his desk. This is a throwback to the first film, when Dumbledore announces they are his favorite Muggle candy.
- At the beginning of the film, the Death Eaters destroy the Millennium Bridge in London. The bridge is not specifically named in the book. The book is set in 1995 - 1996, according to the Canon time line. The Millennium Bridge was not constructed until 1998, and opened on 10 June 2000.
- While visiting Slughorn to get him to teach again, Dumbledore asks him if he can have a knitting magazine. On the cover is J.K. Rowling, the author of the beloved series.
- The omission in this movie of the battle at Hogwarts between members of the Order of the Phoenix and Death Eaters was due to the fact that they writers did not want to seek repetition when they film the Battle of Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010).
- Much like the first book, some difference exist between the British and American editions of the text. One such difference is in the scene where Dumbledore takes Harry to meet Slughorn. In the American edition of the book, Dumbledore excuses himself to use the bathroom. In the film, he uses the more British term, "loo." This is in contrast to the first film, in which such references were shot twice to accommodate American and British audiences.
- This actually the second time Tom Felton and Jim Broadbent have worked together on film. The first time being on the 1997 film The Borrowers (1997) as members of the four-inch tall family; son Peagreen Clock and his father Pod Clock respectively.
- In the flashback scene in which Dumbledore visits the young Tom Riddle in the orphanage, a photograph on the wall of Tom's room depicts the same place that Dumbledore and Harry travel to in search of the third Horcrux (the locket). There are also seven rocks on the windowsill, which is the same number of Horcruxes that Tom/Voldemort created.
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