Common Sense Media Review Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Sex & Nudity

• Severity? 95 78 16 6

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• Ron and Lavender kiss passionately in front of most of the Gryffindors. This makes Hermione jealous.
• Ron dates Lavander in this moving picture, but finds her too clingy. She breaks up with him after hearing him mumble Hermione's name in his sleep, which actually leaves him relieved.
• Hermione tells Harry that some other girl has a crush on him, to which he appears to exist flattered until Hermione snaps him out of information technology.
• Hermione takes Cormac McLaggen to the Christmas party, but remarks virtually him not keeping his hands to himself.
• Ginny kisses Harry in the Room of Requirement. Information technology'south implied that they're dating afterward, as Hermione tells him that Ron is fine with it.
• Ron sees Dean kissing Ginny and refers to him equally a 'slick git'.
• Ron and Harry hash out what Ginny and Dean see in each other, with Harry describing Ginny as 'bonny'. Ron is taken aback by this line.
• Commutation of kisses happens oftentimes betwixt the teenagers, sporadically throughout the picture show.

Violence & Gore

• Severity? four 21 65 nine

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• Draco and Harry are seen fighting in the bathroom. Draco gets blood all over himself but later gets fixed past Snape.
• Cursory violence here and there.
• The young Tom Riddle mentions beingness able to make bad things happen to other people.
• Death Eaters are seen committing terrorist attacks, blowing upwardly buildings, smashing things, capturing people, executing others in the street, and destroying monuments. Bodies are occasionally shown strewn about and mass death is unsaid. A graphic symbol slits his wrist ritualistically. Another character is tossed around like a rag doll and so held upwards equally if crucified by an invisible force, her mouth wide open up. She's slammed to the ground and starts screaming. After a character is poisoned he wretches, gags, and starts foaming at the mouth. Patricide and the murder of family members. Kid soldiers. Murder of innocents and genocide. Battle that includes torture, mass destruction, unsaid murder, including bodies lying near and claret covered surfaces. Disturbing nightmares and frightening images. A character tortures Harry. A house is lit on fire in a celebratory mode. The murder of animals. The death and murder of children is unsaid and discussed. Injury detail including scars and slash wounds. A protagonist accidentally casts a spell in a vicious battle that ends up slashing a graphic symbol nearly to death. Blood is seen flowing across the floor and gushing from wounds in his chest. Zombie-like creatures, the victims of murder at the hands of the antagonist, attempt to drown Harry to death before they are burned by a spell. Dumbledore is betrayed and killed by Snape, cracking on the ground below the astronomy belfry. We hear of whole villages being leveled and the Weasley house is burned down. The Dark idea of an particular that grants immortality created by ritualistic murder. Themes of genocide, fascism, political and personal corruption, ideological fanaticism, spirituality, immortality, murder and torture, depression and trauma, bigotry, prejudice, and bigotry, state of war and state of war atrocities, terrorism, wrongful imprisonment, adolescent sexuality, the loss of innocence, abuse, inbreeding. Due to the PG rating though none of the violence is that intense and is very unrealistic and fantasy-based.

Profanity

• Severity? 32 57 8 2

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• Ron refers to Dean as a 'slick git' afterward seeing him kissing Ginny.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

• Severity? 33 58 10 iv

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• Ron eats sweets spiked with Love Potion. He is given an antidote to it.
• Ron drinks mead, which is found to be poisoned. Fortunately, he survives.
• Champagne is served at Slughorn's Christmas political party.
• Harry drinks Felix Felicis, a luck potion, in social club to persuade Slughorn to give him a memory.
• Hagrid and Slughorn are implied to be drunk in 1 scene, singing raucously and slurring their words.
• The trio drink Butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks. It's not specified in the motion picture whether this drink is alcoholic or not.
• Belby mentions that his begetter doesn't have much time for Potions as a subject, saying that he believes that 'The but potion worth having is a stiff one at the stop of the day.'
• Dumbledore drinks (and afterwards is strength fed) a potion which causes him to feel great hurting and possibly hallucinations.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

• Severity? 2 14 67 17

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• In the cavern, Harry is attacked by the Inferi and attempt to drown him, only to be saved past Dumbledore. This scene is very frightening and scary.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

• The scene where Harry and all of the professors and students at Hogwarts mourn over Dumbledore's dead torso is extremely emotional and heartbreaking, due to the death of a beloved character.

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