Read More: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been completed. This means there is only one book left in the series and I'm getting the blues just thinking about it. I wonder if there are any blues songs out there about Harry Potter. I wouldn't doubt it, as I feel one welling up in my heart right now.

Again, J.K. Rowling did not disappoint, with great chapter titles like "An Excess of Phlegm" and dialogue such as "I take my hat off to you - or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders." I always wondered why gentlemen no longer tipped their hats...

All in all, this book wasn't such a surprise. This is the movie I had seen in the theater with Elliot that made me realize that Harry Potter could be quite enjoyable. How can you resist a movie that gets your nephew standing up in the theater yelling 'Fight me, Snape! Come and fight me!' at the screen? So I knew the whopper that was coming at the end, but it didn't ruin the book at all. So much is left out (side stories about the other Weasley boys, Order of the Phoenix love affairs) and even drastically changed (Please. Mrs. Weasley would never want to keep Ron from going to Hogwarts thus showing her lack of confidence in Dumbledore) in the movie that reading the book was almost a whole new story. Of course, with the same sad outcome.

This is the movie that convinced me that Harry was a no good cowardly weasel. At the end when the big thing happens and the very special someone dies (I'm being as cryptic as I can for those who haven't read/watched it) Harry is cowering beneath the floorboards and lets that very special someone get murdered right in front of his eyes. Who does that?? A yellow bellied Potter, that's who. "For shame..." I muttered, shaking my head as I existed the theater.

But the book tells a different story. Harry does not hide! The certain special someone paralyzes him so he can't move to help! The Harry of the books would have gladly given his life to save this man or woman! For so long I have been holding this against the scar faced Potter and now it is to myself that I mutter "For shame..." for being fooled by Hollywood. Or better yet I should direct this at the screen writer and director. I'm just so unsure what their angle is! Why do they continually take this uncommonly brave, yet nerdy boy (he reminds me a lot of myself, in fact) from the book and turn him into a whiney little turd who lets special someones die!!?? I am positive that these jerks have the 'Republicans for Voldemort' sticker on the back of their gas guzzling, earth destroying cars.

-Megan Leigh