Line #53 YMMV/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince


1	!!YMMV tropes present in the book:
2	* AccidentalInnuendo:
3	** Harry tries to say to the Room of Requirement: "I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you."
4	** "'Snape!', [[SaidBookism ejaculated]] Slughorn" has reached MemeticMutation status and is arguably one of the most well-known instances of this in popular literature.
5	** Upon returning from Christmas, the Gryffindors find out that the new dormitory password is ''"abstinence."'' Abstinence from alcohol specifically, according to Hermione. Over the break, the Fat Lady and her friend Violet drank all the wine in ''a portrait of drunk monks,'' and the new password has nothing to do with anything the students may be doing or refusing to do together in private.
6	*** Hermione thinks it's a good idea to begin her explanation of the above with "[[NotHelpingYourCase Overindulged over Christmas, apparently]]."
7	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
8	** Merope dying after her son is born. Harry wonders why she didn't try to stay alive for the sake of her child. Perhaps she came to resent the baby growing in her womb? As a remnant of the man she had loved who rejected her, perhaps she had no plans to raise the child at all since she actively went into an orphanage to give birth. However, it may have been that she wanted to stay alive but was weakened by a combination of pregnancy and despair.
9	** Tom Riddle Sr. is described in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' as having a very unsociable personality and being hated by the villagers of Little Hangleton. Given he seems relatively friendly in this book, with his worst "[[PokeThePoodle crimes]]" being simply describing Morfin Gaunt as "deranged" for torturing animals and laughing at Ogden wearing spats and a coat over a striped swimsuit, all relatively normal behavior for [[DeliberateValuesDissonance his time period]] where there was less mental health awareness, what if Riddle became more bitter as a result of the horrible experience with Merope? What if the real reason he was so unpleasant to be around was due to the trauma of finding out magic existed after Merope raped him with a LovePotion and told him he had a ChildByRape with her, and not being able to explain what happened to him without being thought insane by the rest of the small community he lived his entire life in? Combined with Tom Riddle both losing his girlfriend and everyone blaming him for "running off" with Merope, it's easy to see him withdrawing from the community and acting hostile to everyone as a way to deal with all the horrible stuff that he was powerless to reveal to anybody.
10	** Why is Voldemort so keen on recruiting Slughorn as a Death Eater? Is he just putting out feelers for powerful wizards, perhaps specifically focusing on Slytherin alumni, or could it be old Tom Riddle still holds some genuine affection for his favourite teacher, [[spoiler:whose sage advice inadvertently sped him along this path? Perhaps he wants to get Slughorn under his thumb because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he alone knows]] that Voldemort aimed for Horcruxes?]]
11	* AssPull: See the franchise's [[AssPull/HarryPotter page]].
12	* BrokenBase: This is the book in which the {{Official Couple}}s (Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny) are finally revealed, which naturally threw gasoline on the fire of the fandom shipping wars. There had been an online war between supporters of Harry/Hermione and Ron/Hermione for years, and with the release of this book, one side got to be vindicated. This resulted in an extremely polarized reaction to the book's romantic developments, at least from the section of the fanbase that deeply cared about shipping.
13	* CaptainObviousReveal: Snape being the Half-Blood Prince surprised nobody. The first clue was Snape getting promoted to Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, which is a dead giveaway that a character is going to be important in a Harry Potter book. The second, more glaring hint was that the HBP was good at potions. The last one is that he knows how to cure Sectumsempra despite it seemingly being an unknown spell made up by a student decades ago.
14	* CharacterPerceptionEvolution
15	** MauveShirt Lavender Brown's reputation among the fandom as an overly frivolous ClingyJealousGirl who temporarily gets between Ron and Hermione has lessened in the years after the original run as more fans appreciate her occasional true Gryffindor moments and view her behavior around Ron more charitably given how he was engaging on an OperationJealousy ploy without telling her how weird her SickeninglySweethearts comments could feel.
16	** Nowadays, thanks to greater awareness of the harm done by female-on-male sexual predation, Tom Riddle Sr. is seen as more of a victim as he was tricked into drinking a LovePotion and had zero interest in Merope otherwise. While the book portrays him negatively for abandoning his son, some modern readers feel he wasn't under any obligation to stay with Merope and her ChildByRape, especially as Tom Riddle Sr. didn't even know what magic was, which would have made his experience all the more horrifying and confusing for him.
17	* CommonKnowledge: Several readers, including those on [[Website/TVTropes This Very Wiki]], think that the book and Harry and Dumbledore somehow justify Merope Gaunt's rape of Tom Riddle Sr. via LovePotion. In actuality, the book not only ''doesn't'' condone her actions, Harry outright calls any use of love potions as black magic. Harry and Dumbledore ''do'' sympathize with Merope's childhood but they never try to justify what she did to Tom.
18	* CompleteMonster: [[PsychoForHire Fenrir Greyback]] is a savage werewolf who enthusiastically supports Voldemort's regime for the chance to indulge his violent nature. Unlike many other werewolves, Fenrir relishes in turning others—such as Remus Lupin—and ruining their lives. Fenrir especially has a disturbing fondness for attacking [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. In addition, Fenrir is [[ImAHumanitarian a cannibal]] in both human and wolf form, and expresses a desire to eat Harry in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' after savagely mauling Bill Weasley and leaving him for dead. Fenrir even states he participates in the attack to get his claws on as many children as he can. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', Fenrir serves Voldemort's regime by helping in rounding up the "unclean" wizards or those who will not submit and expresses a desire to eat Hermione after Bellatrix is finished torturing her.
19	* ContinuityLockout: In this book, Rowling dispenses with the -- rather tedious -- recap chapter that all the previous volumes started with.
20	* DesignatedHero: Some of Harry's actions qualify, such as using spells on random targets (including Filch's cat), even if he has no idea what they actually do ([[spoiler:as when he unleashes Sectumsempra on Draco]]). It's likely this could be the IntendedAudienceReaction - judging by Harry's HeelRealization after [[spoiler: using Sectumsempra]]. Ginny likewise draws comparisons between the book and Tom Riddle's diary.
21	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Horace Slughorn gained a fanbase just for the fact that the series ''finally'' introduced someone from the Slytherin house who's not an all-around {{Jerkass}}. Slughorn is everything a cunning Slytherin should be without the need of going the evil wizard route.
22	* HarsherInHindsight:
23	** Snape rather amusingly is shown mistreating Wormtail when he lives with him, presumably due to still being sore over his role in his bullying as a teen (though also likely due to Wormtail's personality in general), but after the last book, it takes a darker turn when it's [[spoiler:revealed that Snape was in love with Lily, and now knows that Wormtail was the one who betrayed her to Voldemort. It likely took all he had not to kill him]].
24	** When Professor Sprout vows [[spoiler: to keep Hogwarts open even if just one pupil returns next year, Slughorn worries that they won't have ''any'' pupils considering the Headmaster was murdered by a colleague.]] Come ''Deathly Hallows'' and, [[spoiler: with a few exceptions, ''every single Hogwarts student'' returns to Hogwarts for another year of school. However, this is only because Voldemort made attendance mandatory for non-Muggle-borns in an effort to keep the young Wizarding population under his thumb and enforce [[BoomerangBigot his]] regime's FantasticRacism.]]
25	** In light of TheReveal [[spoiler:regarding Snape's true allegiances and Dumbledore's health]] during the events of ''The Deathly Hallows'', suddenly [[spoiler:Dumbledore's last words being "Severus...please..." take on a whole new context that essentially flips ''everything'' we know on its head. He wasn't begging Snape to spare him. He was asking Snape to go through with the plan of killing him!]]
26	** The book has numerous cases of female characters being treated sympathetically for aggressive or abusive behavior towards males, such as Ginny’s physical attack on Zacharias in response to his commentary or Hermione setting her canaries on Ron. The only exception of this being Merope's use of the LovePotion to rape Tom Riddle Sr., which is portrayed as horrifically as it sounds. Given Rowling’s increasingly controversial statements on gender issues, which she has defended by portraying men in general as a threat to women's safety, these moments can come off much worse.
27	* HesJustHiding: Out of sheer shock at the character's death, many fans speculated endlessly over whether or not [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] had actually survived and had only faked his death. There was an entire website titled [[spoiler:"dumbledoreisnotdead.com"]]. Rowling herself stepped in during the years before the final book to publicly state that [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] really was dead, directly mentioning the website while doing so with some regret. [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] still served as a PosthumousCharacter in the final book, which just as many fans expected would happen anyway.
28	* HilariousInHindsight:
29	** In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone the first book]], Ron sees in the Mirror of Erised himself as Head Boy and holding the Quidditch Cup. He manages both (almost, as he became a Prefect) in this book. Also a little [[HarsherInHindsight harsh]] considering that [[spoiler:Ron never attends his last year at Hogwarts, meaning that there's a chance that he could have qualified for Head Boy but still couldn't take the position]].
30	** In the book, [[CloudCuckoolander Luna]] nonchalantly claims that Rufus Scrimgeour the new Minister for Magic is a vampire. In the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows seventh movie]], Scrimgeour is portrayed by Creator/BillNighy, who [[Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans portrayed a vampire once]].
31	** Bellatrix tells her sister Narcissa that if Bella ever had sons, she would gladly give them up in service to the Dark Lord. [[spoiler:Bellatrix and Voldemort's daughter Delphi ends up with roughly the same fate.]]
32	** At the end of the book, [[spoiler: Bill Weasley is described as bearing "a distinct resemblance to Mad-Eye Moody" after being attacked by Fenir Greyback. In the ''Deathly Hallows'' movie, Creator/DomhnallGleeson, son of Moody's actor Creator/BrendanGleeson, played Bill Weasley.]]
33	** Slughorn prides himself on his ability to pick students who will go on to future success and achievements. One of his favourite Slug Club members wound up becoming Head of the Goblin Liaison Office. ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' reveals that, in a single year back, he far outdid himself, choosing [[spoiler:the future Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (Harry) and the future ''Minister for Magic'' (Hermione)]].
34	* HoYay: Harry spends a good portion of the book obsessed with Draco and everything he is doing, which makes him come off like a StalkerWithACrush to many fans. This book is one of the main reasons that Harry/Draco became the most popular ship in the fandom and Harry's obsession is a major reason why.
35	* IKnewIt: Before the release of the book, oddsmakers had [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] as the character most likely to be killed and they were right.
36	* ItWasHisSled: Snape kills Dumbledore. This spoiler is so well known, Marvel even used it in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.[[https://78.media.tumblr.com/47400f7268dff92c7cc937cec95d05dc/tumblr_o2c23gHDjN1taohzgo1_1280.png]]
37	* JerkassWoobie:
38	** Draco has been a bully and an asshole for years, but by the end of this part of the story he's just a kid who wants out. [[spoiler: He's forced to kill the man he looks up to (whether he wants to admit it or not) and then he's forced to run away from his second home as it's being destroyed.]]
39	** Merope Gaunt. What she did was something wrong, horrible: rape. But none of this erases the fact that she was put through the TraumaCongaLine at the hands of her abusive father and brother for all her life. She is described as a physically ugly woman because of the years of incest that occurred in her family, remained isolated from the rest of the world for most of her life, living only with a cruel brother and a cruel father who probably beat her. Tom Riddle was her only chance to be happy, but unfortunately she chose the worst possible way for that to happen. When he leaves her, Merope gives up her life, selling her last family memories and dying in childbirth. Dumbledore and Harry are the only ones in the world who pity her fate, since even Voldemort despises her for dying.
40	** Tom Riddle Sr. was arrogant and snobby but that's hardly enough to deserve being raped by a woman he didn't even know and for whom he definitely felt no physical or romantic attraction, being blamed by his entire town for the entire debacle due to the [[{{Masquerade}} masquerade on Magic's existence]] and then finally murdered by his son years later. It gets even worse when you remember that in the memory Harry saw, Tom had a beautiful girlfriend that he seemed to really love, and the prologue of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', years after Merope's actions, makes it very clear that he was single and an outcast at the time of his death...
41	** Morfin Gaunt. While he is established to be a fairly nasty wizard, who was cruel to his sister and had a prejudice against Muggles, it becomes hard not to feel sorry for him after he loses his father to Azkaban and Voldemort frames him for three of the murders he committed after stealing Morfin's heirloom, with Morfin spending his last days [[MadnessMantra endlessly repeating]] how his father would kill him for losing his heirloom. Dumbledore himself lampshades it, and Harry also agrees that what happened to him was an injustice.
42	* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/HarryPotter Has its own page]].
43	* MisaimedFandom: Some fans tend to sympathize with Merope too much claiming her using a LovePotion on Tom Riddle was justified; even going so far as to claim Tom Riddle was the bad one, pointing to a few scenes where he's described as a snob, and him leaving a pregnant Merope and never even bothering to find out what happened to his child, never mind the fact that he was mind-controlled and magically raped, and didn't consent to the relationship in the first place. [[DoubleStandard This would not exist if it were Tom who did this to Merope, mind you]]. They are helped by the fact that both Harry and Dumbledore raise no concerns about Merope's use of the potion, more keen on her abandoning Riddle Jr. to the orphanage and refusing to live for her child's sake. This was actually more widespread when the book came out, but after sexual consent became a hot button issue and society began to recognize the [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale double standard of how men being raped by women were treated]], Riddle has garnered more sympathy.
44	* NeverLiveItDown:
45	** Poor, poor Ginny. There's no evidence that she goes further than kissing with anyone, and with a grand total of ''two'' boys before [[spoiler: Harry]], and yet [[http://ginny-haters.livejournal.com/ the bashers]] are all too happy to label her the "Hogwarts whore". Especially amusing as Ginny has to put up with the same accusations from her brothers in the very same book. [[ShutUpHannibal She swiftly shuts them up.]]
46	** Draco's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Harry on the train.
47	* StrangledByTheRedString:
48	** Whether or not the books did this with the Harry/Ginny pairing is a [[BrokenBase major point of debate]] for fans of the series, but it's at least important to remember that they're still hormonal teenagers, even if they are magical heroes, and that it isn't too unbelievable an occurrence in RealLife. The film tried to give them a more obvious attraction.
49	** Lupin and Tonks. Harry sees Tonks upset several times and thinks it's [[spoiler:over Sirius dying]], and that maybe she was even [[KissingCousins in love with him]]. Then the climax reveals that Tonks is deeply in love with and wants to marry Lupin. They proceed to do so despite having no interaction on camera before this (although eagle eyed readers will notice that they tend to work together a lot in Order of the Phoenix). As the books are primarily written from Harry's perspective, it's somewhat understandable that plenty of major events can happen [[OffscreenRomance off-camera]] simply because Harry can't be present for every single storyline. At the same time, the reader can still feel left out as the key parts of the RomanceArc never actually happen in front of ''them'' either.
50	* TakeThatScrappy: Dumbledore coldly confronting the Dursleys for all the abuse they put Harry through over the years, and telling them that the best thing they ever did for their nephew was to guarantee that he didn't become the horrifically SpoiledBrat their son was.
51	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Lavender is meant to come across as a ClingyJealousGirl, but you can't help but feel a little sorry for her. Ron only gets with her to make Hermione jealous, and she only behaves so nauseatingly romantic towards him because he never tells her he ''doesn't'' like being treated that way.
52	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
53	** Ginny physically assaulting Zacharias by ramming him with her broom [[DisproportionateRetribution because she didn’t like his commentary]], leaving him “feebly stirring” comes off as a startling attack but is not called out at all by the narrative, with Harry seeming to approve of it.
54	** Hermione during her feud with Ron. While what Ron did may have been a low blow, Hermione reacts to it with complete immaturity by assaulting Ron with bloodthirsty canaries. Her inability to take the high road was only HandWaved. Made worse when one considers how it's clear Hermione had to have been practicing that spell for a while based on the paragraph before she releases the canaries:
55	-->''The corridor outside seemed to be deserted. “Hermione?” He found her in the first unlocked classroom he tried. She was sitting on the teacher’s desk, alone except for a small ring of twittering yellow birds circling her head, which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry could not help admiring her spellwork at a time like this.''
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57	!!YMMV tropes present in the film:
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59	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
60	** When Harry jumps through the wall of fire to pursue Bellatrix, Lupin is the first of the adults to run forward. Is he concerned for Harry's safety, or is he going after the woman who killed his best friend? Probably both.
61	** When Draco [[spoiler:kills the bird in his failed experiment with the Vanishing Cabinet, does he cry because he killed it? Or because he fears [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness what will happen to him]] if the Cabinet continues to fail? Or both?]]
62	** Dumbledore tries to dissuade [[spoiler:Draco]] from killing him by mentioning he "knew a boy that made all the wrong choices" and pleads for [[spoiler:Draco]] to not do the same. Who is this boy Dumbledore is referring to? [[BigBad Tom Riddle?]] [[EvilFormerFriend Grindlewald?]] [[Film/FantasticBeasts Credence?]] [[spoiler:Snape?]] [[IHatePastMe Himself?]] All of the above?
63	* BrokenBase:
64	** Minor one but Hermione's crying after Ron kisses Lavender. Some found it {{Narm}}, while others had a SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct reaction towards Emma Watson.
65	** Lavender being played by a white actress was another one, mostly since she'd been entirely in the background with no lines in the previous films. Some felt it was pointless to change her back to white, while others felt it was more in line with the book -- when Ron and Lavender are making out, Harry mentions that it's hard to tell whose hands were whose, implying Lavender to be white, but as this detail isn't exactly ''plot-important'' it sort of just loops back to the question of whether this was a pointful change.
66	** The Burrow burning scene. Some invoke TheyChangedItNowItSucks, while others argue that it's necessary for the narrative.
67	* CommonKnowledge: Many fans believe the film's focus on teen romance was an effort to copy the success of the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' series. The problem with that theory is that, due to the delayed release date, the ''Half-Blood Prince'' movie was actually written and filmed before the first ''Twilight'' film had even come out. And while the ''Twilight'' books did exist before that, ''Twilight'' didn't really become a significant cultural force until after the release of the first movie, which was something of a SleeperHit.
68	* DesignatedHero: Hermione, due to the film cutting out much of Cormac and Ron's nastiness. She messes up a student's chance on the Quidditch team [[DisproportionateRetribution over a few insults]] and physically attacks Ron out of jealousy.
69	* DesignatedVillain: Cormac. He may be a jerk, but he suffers through a lot of DisproportionateRetribution, like having his Quidditch try-out rigged or having a month of detention for accidentally vomiting on Snape. Though, in the book, he's even worse, Hermione is called out on rigging his tryouts by Harry, and the match against Hufflepuff proves that the team is much better off with Ron as Keeper.
70	* HarsherInHindsight:
71	** The film hijinks involving Ron and Lavender lose luster in retrospect [[spoiler:as Lavender gets a surprising, startling, and horrifying DeathByAdaptation in the last film, which WordOfGod later stated to be canon.]]
72	** Dumbledore's "Oh, to be young and to feel love's keen sting" line in the infirmary upon Lavender hearing a bedridden, unconscious Ron call out to Hermione. In the backstory provided by Rowling, [[spoiler: Dumbledore was in love with Grindelwald, who left the country after a fight Grindelwald had with Dumbledore's brother led to the death of their sister. It was also Dumbledore who had to put an end to Grindelwald's reign of terror. It doesn't help that Snape is present at the same time, given his love for Lily.]]
73	** Harry's behaviour under the effects of Felix Felicis were often compared by fans and commentators to intoxication from alcohol or other drugs, which became a lot less funny when Creator/DanielRadcliffe admitted to having an drinking problem that resulted in him being drunk for the entire production of one of the ''Harry Potter'' films.
74	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
75	** This film is the point where Michael Gambon is acknowledged to finally set aside his angry take on Dumbledore for a TruerToTheText portrayal. It helps that by this point Dumbledore in the books has gotten grumpier [[spoiler: because he's running out of time and Harry isn't always as devoted to the task at hand as Dumbledore demands.]]
76	** Tom Felton was viewed as rather weak beforehand - mainly due to Malfoy's status as a JerkJock who says a few mean things per film. Now with a full arc and chance to show his talents, he was met with lots of praise.
77	** Bonnie Wright too, though this was more to do with her being OutOfFocus in the other films. She won many people over with Ginny's expanded screen time.
78	* HilariousInHindsight:
79	** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was pregnant during filming of the movie. [[spoiler: Come ''Cursed Child'', it's revealed that her character, Bellatrix, is the mother of Voldemort's child, and in fact would have been pregnant ''around this exact point of the timeline''. In retrospect, they didn't even need to bother with a HideYourPregnancy, as it turns out!]]
80	** Lavender writing "R+L" on a foggy train window is hilarious to fans of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire another fantasy series where this love equation appears]]. One would think that Lavender spoiling this is the real reason Hermione glares when she sees it...
81	* RetroactiveRecognition:
82	** The person who plays a teenage Tom Riddle is none other than Frank Dillane, who became well-known for playing Nick Clark in ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'', six years later.
83	** The eleven-year-old Tom Riddle is played by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, who would later be known for his starring role in the ''Fanfic/{{After}}'' series.
84	%%* RomanticPlotTumor:
85	%%** This was the film's main problem. The screenplay excised or downplayed many of Harry and Dumbledore's adventures into Voldemort's past (the A plot) in favour of Harry's teenage woes (the B plot). (Partial context: Doesn't mention romance)
86	%%** Those who opposed the franchise's official pairings of Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny (as opposed to the FanPreferredCouple of Harry and Hermione) began to see the two romances as this from this film onwards. (Partial Context: Doesn't mention it taking attention away from other plots)
87	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The half-blood prince's true identity isn't really speculated upon in the film, nor does Harry seem overly attached to their potions book. It comes off as much more of a PlotDevice, allowing Harry to brew his way into Slughorn's good graces (a bit moot in the first place, since it was obvious Slughorn would try to "collect" him either way), and to add a new spell to his repertoire; Harry is then happy to get rid of the book entirely. The result is the WhamLine losing a lot of its oomph, pretty much amounting to, "Shock, horror - it was ''me'', ''I''... annotated that book you used in potions class."
88	* UnintentionallySympathetic:
89	** Cormac [=McLaggen=], because he comes across as somewhat arrogant, but not too bad (well, until Hermione says he has more tentacles than a tentacula), but Hermione treats him like a pig long before she knows that. Not helped by the ''Deathly Hallows'' movies, in which [[spoiler: he joins the DA and survives the Battle of Hogwarts.]]
90	** Young Tom Riddle. The film made a big error by changing "I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me" to "I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me". While we're obviously supposed to take both as sinister, it's hard to blame someone for wanting to punish people who have been "mean to him". It also has him look like he's almost in tears when Dumbledore first comes in, which Tom Riddle is supposed to be incapable of. Curiously, the scene also latterly inverts this, as in the book, when Dumbledore sets fire to Riddle's wardrobe, the latter looks enraged, which Harry notes is perfectly reasonable, but in the film, he looks excited.
91	* WTHCostumingDepartment: Narcissa's choice of hairstyle in the movie was met with scratched heads. She's blonde in the books but the film chooses to give her half black hair and half blonde. Cue a few comments about her having 'skunk hair'. It may have been done to show that she was born to the Black family (all of whom have black hair), but married into the Malfoy family (all of whom have blonde hair).
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93	!!YMMV tropes present in the video game:
94	* PortingDisaster: While the PSP version of ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' was the entire console game squeezed into a UMD (impressive, given the technical restraints), ''this'' game's PSP version is nothing more than a port of the DS game; practically no effort was made in taking advantage of the system's hardware.
95	* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The game was considered mediocre and only a slight improvement over ''Order of the Phoenix'' (if only for removing the {{fetch quest}}s), which was found particularly underwhelming as once Warner postponed the movie EA had an extra year to punch things up.

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