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First Look: 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'

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Nov 27, 2008 9:00 am US/Pacific

First Look: 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts begins with the arrival of new teacher Horace Slughorn, who is a bit more useful to Harry than he realizes, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.

Next, Harry obtains a Potions book which used to be belong to the very mysterious Half-Blood Prince. Harry finds that the Half-Blood Prince's ancient scribbles are written along the margins of almost every page, giving Harry advice on how to improve greatly on his Potions work, and also teaching him a few helpful (and dangerous) spells along the way.

Amidst this, Harry is starting private lessons with Professor Dumbledore, during which Harry learns the dark secrets of Voldemort's past, hoping that they could use these secrets to find a way to defeat him.

Harry's year gets even more stressful with the suspicious actions of Draco Malfoy, who has been sneaking around the school doing, so Harry assumes, Voldemort's bidding. Harry quickly becomes determined, and slightly obsessed, to find out exactly what Malfoy has been up to and putting an end to it.

Yet, during this time, Harry and his friends go through daily life, busy with school work, Quidditch, and romance. Ron has found a new girlfriend, Lavender Brown, a perky Gryffindor student, and Hermione is not happy about it. Ron and Hermione's friendship takes a toll throughout the school year and Harry, as usual, is stuck in the middle.

Harry, meanwhile, is facing a romantic dilemma of his own: he realizes he is falling for his best friend's sister, Ginny Weasley, who is unfortunately dating Harry's classmate, Dean Thomas.

Throughout all the school drama, however, the obvious darkness of Voldemort's impending rise to power is always apparent. The incredible action-packed climax is sure to leave the audience stunned and, inevitably, prove that you shouldn't trust everybody who you think is good, and also prove that not everyone can manage to survive.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" opens July 17th, 2009.

Trailer video provided by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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