Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

If there is a fault in the "Harry Potter" film series, it is that none of the films can truly stand on their own. As books, the story is fascinating to the detail...intricate yet accessible to all. Each book packs such an emotional wallop that as a reader, you are just A-OK reading about Harry doing such menial tasks like homework for Potions or strolling the halls of Hogwarts. Cinematically however, it just doesn't translate. To fit in film form, fascinating characters need to be cut, scenes trimmed, locations excised entirely, etc. The story has been scraped to its bare essentials, but upon viewing of the central crux of the story,