Here’s a good review of the latest harry potter movie!

I realize now that there was no way the filmmakers could have left out that aspect of the book. The young actors playing Harry and Draco and Ginny and Hermione and Ron and the rest look like what they are—young adults. It would not have done to have them prancing around playing Quidditch and drinking pumpkin juice and frolicking at Hagrid’s with magical creatures. Hormones had to make an appearance at Hogwarts at this point in the tale.

But the way that romance entered the picture in this sixth installment was a little…odd, to say the least.

The first thing I noticed was how female-driven and -initiated the romance was. Girls used every trick in the Muggle and Wizarding worlds to get their men: flirting, batting eyelashes, slipping love potions into candy treats. A cute Muggle of Color at the start of the movie even gave Harry the old coy I-get-off-at-11 line. The young women in this movie were downright…predatory in their quest for romance.

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