Ginny Weasley Joins the Slug Club - Tons of Half-Blood Prince Photos Arrive

Photo from Entertainment Weekly, originally scanned by Pipoca Combo

Late last week I, like many a Harry Potter fan, was dismayed to learn that the sixth movie in the film franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, had been moved from November 2008 to July 2009. The news as so sudden and so unexpected that even Entertainment Weekly was caught unaware, delivering their Fall Movie Issue with its Harry Potter-themed cover intact.

But, amidst all of this suck, there is still awesomeness. Take, for instance, the photograph of Ginny Weasley joining the Slug Club that I’ve embedded above. Or, if that doesn’t do it for you, check out the three articles Mugglenet’s posted in the last couple of days (1, 2, and 3) and feast your eyes on all the photo goodness there.

Yes, Half-Blood Prince being delayed is truly sucky news. But that just means that we get to enjoy eight more months of the hype machine!

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer Debuts Tonight, July 29, 2008

The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince debuts tonight at 9 p.m. and Mugglenet has screen captures from it (courtesy of USA Today). I’ve included both above because what I find most striking about them is the difference in the way Dumbledore looks in each photo. I was amazed at the way that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan were made to look younger in the third X-Men film, and it almost seems to me that they’ve done the same thing with Michael Gambon here. But maybe it’s just the way that they’ve made him look so old in the second picture that makes his relative youth in the first seem so striking.

Look at that second picture and tell me that you don’t know what’s coming, even if you haven’t read the book. It gives me chills. I am very thankful that the Geek Gods have decided to give me something tonight to tide me over until iPhone Day tomorrow.

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Half-Blood Prince Movie Stills

As I mentioned, way back in the third Geek Force FiveCast ever, Harry Potter was very nearly a member of my Geek Force Five. So, it should come as no surprise that I am good and thoroughly geeked out about the new batch of Half-Blood Prince promotional stills that popped up recently on The Leaky Cauldron. My favorite, which I’ve included above, shows us director David Yates planning a scene between Harry (Dan Radcliffe) and Ginny (Bonnie Wright). I don’t think I’ve mentioned this online before, but I once planned to write an essay on the relationship between these two characters and how it was telegraphed by Rowling from the very first book.

Yeah, I am an über-Potter geek.

These photos accompanied a “first look” USA Today article that appeared last week. 

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