"After all these years, I just kind of go with it"

I was one of the multitudes who waited in lines and in theaters for hours to be one of the first to see the newest installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I have had almost 12 hours to digest and am ready to spill...

WARNING: Spoilers ahead.

This movie is less about the mechanical, the spells, and the potions, and more about the motion and the atmosphere. They are setting this up. They need to. Things needed to be explained. And most importantly, it's funny. The humor comes very naturally in the movie and the audience was laughing through most of it starting from the staircase scene in the Burrow until literally the last 20 minutes.

There is so much more Ron. He is great and hysterical and I never thought I'd say this but the biggest laughs come from Harry. Yeah that's right, Harry. I was greatly surprised by Daniel Radcliffe's ability to pull it off. Together the chemistry was there. Speaking of chemistry...

Ginny and Harry. Hermione and Ron. Both relationships were spot on!

One of my dislikes, the development of the relationship between Ginny and Harry. In the book this builds for a long time. And they finally kiss in front of the entire Gryffindor common room after Ginny wins the Quidditch championship while Harry is in detention, after which they date for a while. This is

my favorite part of the book. My problem? This isn't in the movie! No championship, no detention. I won't lie though, the kiss is HOT! As for Ron and Hermoine, it went perfectly. Lavendar Brown is wonderful, completely creepy and her braids crack me up.

My other problems with the movie? The pace and the ending. It didn't flow the way I would have liked it to. Again this goes back to having to cut out a lot of the book to fit in the bare bones. The ending however bothered me. The book is supposed to end after the funeral. After Harry tells Ginny they can't be together. Not in the movie though...

Now for the positives! Break out roles: Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Bellatix Lestrange, and of course Professor Severus Snape.

Ginny Weasley, enough said. Love of Harry Potters life. Only she is beautiful and eloquent. She holds herself so well in the movie. Love her. And love Bonnie Wright, she is

my new obsession.

Draco Malfoy, it's about freaking time! He is brilliant. Brilliant! From start to finish he is struggling to survive, to deal with his task. He is perfect. My only problem with him is how they dress him. I dig the suits but they make him look like he has a cinched waist. Ew! And he's still sexxy.

Bellatrix Lestrange. I need more. She is so bad it's good. Helena Bonham Carter is a-mazing. She is the best kind of evil. She is the kind of evil that curls your toes. But at the end of the day, you want more. Not to mention, I think she looks good somehow. And please don't ask me how.

Lastly, Snape. Oh Snape. You know while you're watching. You know what happens. The 7th book. Why he does everything he does. God bless Alan Rickman. He makes you feel it. He is bold and strong and evil, and touching. I am legitimately obsessed, no need to tell me. You want to hate him, but you can't. Not anymore. He is the hero of the movie, and everyone knew it. You could feel the compassion in the end. When Harry is hurling curses at Snape. My favorite moment of the movie.

"He trusted you!"

It almost got me...No one cried around me, but there were gasps and jumps and covered faces and it is a good movie. It's not everything I wanted it to be, but I will see it at least 2 more times. You should too. My question to you. Boy who plays young Voldemort...brilliant or annoying?

Can't. Wait.

Less then a week until the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is out in theaters. I bought my ticket to the midnight premiere. I will be there, on the edge of my seat along with hundreds of other Harry Potter nerds. If you have never been to a midnight premiere, you need to. There is nothing like it. All the crazies come out for the premieres. They dress up and quote the movie and get into deep conversations debating random details any regular fan wouldn't remember. It's priceless.

This is of course the three stars of the show at a photo call at the premiere in the rain. These three are amazing. I love that they stuck it out and gave interviews and signed autographs even though it was pouring. Of course my favorite is Emma. She is just so, eh, she's perfect. I love her and her style. This dress, beautiful. And it's covered in rain, I am so jealous. Most of you heard about her wardrobe malfunction, the flap in her dress exposing not much really. She was wearing underwear, scandal avoided for the most part

Emma was on Letterman last night and she was perfection. She had him going the whole interview, which is hard to do with Dave. Hw doesn't seem to care, this bothers me but it doesn't bother her. I love that she will be attending college in the States, with a roommate and probably a meal plan. It makes me so happy to think that I can relate to Emma Watson, now if only I had her clothes...

--Photo's Courtesy of Wenn

I Don't Want to Hate Him

Bill Nighy told a reporter from The Independent "I don't think I'm allowed to say it but I'm going to be in the next Harry Potter film." Bill will play the part of Rufus Scrimgeour. First, I love that he said he wasn't allowed to say it but he did. This is Bill Nighy, he doesn't apologize for who he is. Oh course I love love love him in Love Actually. I know he will do well in this part because somehow he pulled off being Davy Jones in Pirates of the Carribean and he did it well, even if his entire body was computer generated. The one this about this peice of news, although I am very happy for Bill, is that we are supposed to hate Rufus Scrimgeour. Scrimgeour is the Minister of Magic in the seventh book and he is awful. If you haven't read the seventh book then you have not heard of him, but seriously I don't want to hate Bill. I am worried this might be it for oour relationship...oh the end of an era

not bad

I will admit to being a huge Harry Potter nerd. I will not admit to being head over heels for Daniel Radcliffe. Ron is more my style, but either way he looks good in these pictures from Parade magazine. He looks less squirrelly. Yes, squirrelly. Whenever he is interviewed he's a little shaky. Strike that a lot shaky. Maybe he has a short attention span. One can only hope that he has grown out of that by now. I like these pictures of him. I will admit to that. The interview is standard. Don't they have anything better to do then ask about Equus. How long ago was that play anyway. We all know he was naked, it's not that big of a deal. This play is famous, he is not the first person to play this part. Anyway, he did have a bad moment with his answer to his links to older women. He prefers older women, because younger women need to be entertained (aka babied). I can't say I blame him for this but it saddens me that all the women he's met who are his own age, which happens to be my age, need to be entertained. Maybe it's because I'm a pretty low maintenance girl when it comes to relationships but these girls need to stop giving us a bad name. I was disappointed they didn't ask many questions about the new Potter movie, considering that's why he's on this press tour. I will be there at midnight, will you?