Harry Potter: Darker, Richer and All Grown Up

Death Eaters blight the skies, sent on their sorties by the fiendish Lord Voldemort, and in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a grim fate encircles one teenage boy like a noose around his soul

By Richard Corliss Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley, David Thewlis as Remus Lupin and Oliver Phelps as George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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In the final films, the boy will grow into the holy warrior. Those climactic works couldn't have a stronger prelude than Half-Blood Prince--an evocation, not leering but knowing, of adolescence under siege.

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