Just got back from seeing<em>Half-Blood Prince</em>a little while ago.  My "immediate" review: if you're not familiar with the books (just the movies), then it's a pretty good to very good movie.  If you're familiar with the books, well . . . a lot of the things they changed or removed (comprising roughly 90% of the book) make little to no sense.  There's very little right out of the book in the movie.  And Harry has a "Peter Jackson's Faramir #1" - Two Towers - moment where he's totally and completely out of character.  But, like Faramir, he acquires counseling and becomes himself fairly quickly.<br/><br/>Perhaps more importantly, the director "mundaned" everything.  Visually, inside, the Express and Hogwarts itself don't look like themselves.  They look like a normal everyday train and a normal mundane castle.  For example, none of the portraits (or photos for that matter) move throughout the entire movie, the ghosts aren't present even in the background, Hedwig is the only visible owl and even she doesn't really do anything, and the staircases don't move even in the background.  The movie lost something visually when these were removed.<br/><br/>Anyway, a couple group related PMs to deal with and some IC.  I'll plan on having the headmaster down to give a speech by, say, Monday night EDT, with free for all starting Tuesday or so.