{"id":2359,"date":"2008-11-05T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/harry-potter-and-the-halfblood.html"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:16:59","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-halfblood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/harry-potter-and-the-halfblood.html","title":{"rendered":"New Harry Potter 6 Trailer: Score or Snore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you told me that the footage in this new trailer for &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&#8221; is culled from the previous installments in the series, I would have no trouble believing you. Most of the images and bits of dialogue are so generic that a fan could have created the trailer from existing footage, and therefore the trailer tells us little about the upcoming film.<center><object width=\"450\" height=\"214\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emb\/7090\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emb\/7090\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"450\" height=\"214\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>&#8220;Once again,&#8221; Dumbledore intones, &#8220;I must ask too much of you, Harry.&#8221; Even Hogwarts&#8217; headmaster sounds bored as he announces that &#8220;dark forces are attempting to penetrate these walls.&#8221; I guess it must be Tuesday.<!--more-->This is bound to exasperate Potter fans who are already riled up, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2008\/08\/15\/bfpotter115.xml \" target=\"_blank\">the August announcement <\/a> that the film&#8217;s opening was pushed from this November into next July. But two glimmers of hope are at trailer&#8217;s end: first, Hermione&#8217;s &#8220;reprimand of Harry,&#8221; and second, when the title card reads: &#8220;this year.&#8221; If they mean this Gregorian calendar year, that&#8217;s good news for the fans; if they mean this academic year ending in June (or worse, the Jewish year, ending in September), fans could still be waiting a while.If you can&#8217;t identify what you&#8217;re seeing in the trailer, <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2008\/10\/new-hp6-trailer.html?iid=top25-20081028-Harry+Potter+fights%2C+Ron+Weasley+snogs+in+%27Half-Blood+Prince%27+trailer\" target=\"_blank\">EW&#8217;s PopWatch <\/a>has a breakdown of the moments that prove it&#8217;s not previously recorded footage (although again, I&#8217;m not convinced).<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/daniel-radcliffe\/17334\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/daniel-radcliffe\/17334\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Daniel-Radcliffe at LocateTV.com\" title=\"Click to see LocateTV results for Daniel-Radcliffe. 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