This week Daniel Radcliffe admitted he doesn't think he's a good actor and in particular, his performance in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was something he couldn't handle watching.
He said: "And that's why it's hard to watch a film like 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', because I'm just not very good in it. I hate it.
"My acting is very one-note and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn't come across.
He added: "My best film is the fifth one ('Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix') because I can see a progression."
For those who don't know, the Half Blood Prince is the sixth film in the Harry Potter franchise and for many considered the best.
We don't want to disagree with Daniel, but we're particular favourites of the last Hogwarts based movie.
The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2 are essentially the finale to the series setting them, rightly, apart from the rest of the films.
HBP is more about slow character development of many of the central characters, especially Harry, who by the end has to be ready to finally stand up to Voldermort.
Harry becomes a man
The sixth film sees Potter breaking away from the safety of Hermione and Ron and become a fuller and more independent character. Up until this point and even in Order of the Phoenix, Potter appeared very much like the a young boy in danger, who needed protecting. At the end of the fifth, when he charged off to save Sirius, in what was revealed as to have been a trap by Voldermort the young wizard seemed out of his depth, but in HBP Harry is more mature and capable.
The scenes where he explores Tom Riddle's past alongside Dumbeldore and begins to understand his nemesis are particularly good. In retrospect, we know that the headmaster is passing on his knowledge of Riddle, before he dies and the baton of the fight firmly becomes Harry's.
This is very much seen in the final part of the film, where Dumbledore trusts Harry to accompany him to the cave to retrieve a Horocrux. Here the roles reverse and Potter becomes his mentor's rescuer.
By the time Dumbledore falls to his death, Harry seems ready to carry on the fight alone.
The dark and the light
With quite a heavy storyline, we've always appreciate the light relief that JK Rowling weaved into her stories. Harry's time on liquid luck was particularly funny and Radcliffe was great in these scenes, whatever he might think! The pincers alone, are magic.
Teen angst
HBP sees teen angst really get turned up a notch and Daniel is pretty convincing in the role of someone, who finally notices what's right in front of him, ie Ginny. The best element of this storyline though, is the touching compassion between Harry and Hermione as the object of their affections, date elsewhere. Without even saying anything to each other, they realise the other is going through similar feelings.
Both Emma and Daniel were criticised for their acting in early Potter movies, but these scenes are very good and subtle.
When Harry jokes about being 'the chosen one' to get girls, is another great scene between the two actors.
A believable Harry
Daniel might not agree, but the actor seems more settled in the role than previous films. The interaction with the waitress at the start reminds audiences Harry's still essentially a teenager full of hormones, and who doesn't enjoy a bit of self-deprecating humour? The relief of meeting someone who doesn't know him, is probably something Radcliffe can more than identify with.
Draco Malfoy
Draco and Harry have never been friends, but it's HBP where they really set each other apart as enemies. Potter, rightly, realises that Malfoy has been given a task to carry out by Voldermort. After being a foil for Potter and his friends in the previous movies, Tom Felton really comes into his own in this film as his character struggles with the realities of stepping up as an adult wizard, in much the same way Harry is.
Their journeys collide in the duel scene where Harry uses a curse from the potions book, owned by the Half Blood Prince, against Malfoy and for once Potter is in the wrong. This is a great scene and a crucial one too for their character's developments. Harry realises the danger of relying on the unknown ie. The Half-Blood Prince and earns some compassion for Malfoy. If this scene hadn't happened, perhaps Harry would never have saved Draco during the battle of Hogwarts?
Tom Riddle
It's not just Daniel that's good in this movie. Of all the films, it gives the most time to fleshing out it's characters, in particular Tom Riddle. We learn about his childhood and in some ways, as an orphan, how similar his own background is to Harry's.
At Hogwarts, Riddle is already on the slow path to becoming Lord Voldermort, but he's not a monster. Giving him a human side makes his character appear even more evil and a more three dimensional character, like Harry was given by the sorting hat, Riddle's descent into the dark arts was a choice.
Snape
Harry's obsession with the Half-Blood Prince continues throughout the film, but it's not revealed until the end that the namesake is in fact, Snape. Proving what a talented wizard he is and also his tendencies for the dark arts.
We already know, thanks to the unbreakable vow he takes with Narcissa Malfoy at the beginning of the film, that he is still working for the Voldermort and the murder of Dumbeldore at the end appears to confirm Harry's years of suspicions about the potions master.
His full story isn't revealed until the Deathly Hallows Part 2, but helps to set a foreboding feeling that Harry is left with few allies.
A great prelude to the final two films and some great acting moments from Radcliffe and the whole cast.
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