Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Midnight Premiere

I’d never been to a midnight premiere of a movie before. One of my best friends and I decided that the best movie to pop my midnight premiere cherry was a Harry Potter movie, and so we booked our movie tickets of the midnight premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And my God, it was fantastic! Both the midnight premiere experience and the movie itself were absolutely brilliant.

I wish I had a better photo than that of a crowded concession stand to capture the experience of my Harry Potter midnight premiere, but none of them turned out well as they were taken inside the dark theater¹. There were people dressed up in costumes of varying degrees of creativity and similarity to the movies – there were plenty of cloaks, pointy wizard hats, and wands with tips that lit up, as well as a plethora of Gryffindor scarves! One boy was dressed up as Hagrid and was sitting on top of another boy’s shoulders with a big furry coat draped over the two of them. There was also one kid who was inexplicably dressed as Peter Pan. His costume choice didn’t make any sense that night, and it doesn’t make anymore sense a day later!

My favorite part of the night was when two boys in the row behind me (who were in full costume) decided to challenge each other to a wizard duel. They walked to the front of the auditorium, right in front of the screen, and dueled each other in the style Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy did in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It was so entertaining, and they sure knew their spells: when one of them shouted “Expelliarmus!” the victim tossed their wand aside, and when the victor shouted “Sectumsempra!” the loser laid down and pretended to bleed out and die. Morbid, yes, but it was still entertaining :P

1. I only had my iPhone camera with me, not an actual camera, so I had no flash. [↩]

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