“Severus… please,” whispers Dumbledore.
Snape raises his wand. “Avada Kedavra.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -2009- 2...
In its second half, the film accomplishes something rare: it transforms from a mystery into a tragedy, from a school story into a war film. David Yates, cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (whose Oscar-nominated work gives the film a sepia-toned, memory-like haze), and the cast—especially Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, and Alan Rickman—create a cinematic elegy. Half-Blood Prince is the hinge on which the entire series swings. It is the beautiful, heartbreaking night before the final dawn. “Severus… please,” whispers Dumbledore