Still, director David Yates knows how to play all the cards. Putatively winsome all this may be, but what it actually does is throw the series' biggest weakness into sharp relief: film-making can (and does) control pretty much everything – except how the cute juvenile leads grow up. Hands are kept above the waist at all times. Will Harry lock lips with Ginny? Is Ron smart enough to see that Hermione. There's lots of blushing, stammering and smooching. Slughorn's brain contains key memories of Voldemort's schooldays and Harry must extract them. ![]() Hogwarts' main asset against him is Professor Horace Slughorn (played by Jim Broadbent in that cod-Dickensian style that is practically compulsory for the Potter cast). The eponymous schoolboy – still in owlish spectacles as he hits 17 or so – is up against skeletal blond Draco Malfoy, on some kind of vile mission from evil genius Voldemort. Nevertheless, there's little here to suggest there has been any let-up in the Potter machine.
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