Return of the Blog.

I've been off the blog for a while, but I have now returned!

*Cue sounds of booing*

This is actually my 50th blog post, which is either very sad or something to be proud of. I'm going with the latter, just to amuse myself.

Although, I must admit that 30 of those posts were written as part of BAEDAARPOM, so I have awesome author Maureen Johnson to thank for that, not myself. But still. Here's to the next 50 crappy posts!

So why have I been away for so long?

Well, apart from general laziness, I have also been on holiday, which I will talk about in a later post.

But first, there is something very important we need to discuss. And by 'we', I of course mean myself and my multiple personalities, as I am sure that I have probably already discussed this matter with my faithful follower Rachel (*waves*) via Facebook.

This matter is Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince, The Movie.

I can quite easily sum this up in one word: disappointing.

I was ever so slightly disappointed with The Order of the Phoenix, because they missed out SO MANY elements of the plot, but the fantastic special effects did make up for that.

But this time, so much was missed out and altered that it just felt wrong.

Now, I know that they can't make it an exact replica of the book, and I'm not expecting them to. Missing out a few elements of the plot, even if they are good elements, is something to be expected of a movie adaptation. But HBP just went too far. So they took away some of the plot elements, probably for timing purposes, but then ADDED IN an ENTIRE SCENE that was just completely and utterly POINTLESS.

I am of course referring to the blowing-up-The-Burrow scene. I'm not going to go too much into it, as, as you can probably tell, it annoys me. But I will just say one word on it: WTF!?

Also, the whole Ginny/Harry GROSSNESS was just quite freaky.

The final scene was also RUBBISH. There was no big battle- in fact, the death eaters just walked away! And I didn't even cry when Dumbledore died. I cry at 'Cheaper by the Dozen', so that just proves that something was wrong.

People seem to be pretty divided about it. And whilst I may not particularly like it as a Harry Potter film, I have to admit that it is a good film, as films go. I just hope that the next two films really do live up to expectations...