THE ENDING HURT MY HEART... *Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince* Reaction

[@barrynapier7584]

Cool note: In the books, the Weasley Twins were able to open their shop because Harry have them the winnings from the Tri-Wizard Tournament.

[@ghostoftheblueteletubby7790]

They retconned that.. it's current cannon that Fred & George actually made an only fans

[@IchhabezuvielYoutubegegucktO_o]

Yeah, first he offered it to Cedrics parents, but they didn't want it

[@soundaholixx]

@@ghostoftheblueteletubby7790 💀

[@Inaresco]

@@ghostoftheblueteletubby7790 for 20$ a month u can see george stick his wand up-...

[@ghostoftheblueteletubby7790]

@@Inaresco 50$ Donation - "Do it like a muggle!"

[@FatherMellow]

"Voldemort's name is Tom Riddle?" "Did Voldemort look normal?" *Forgets the entire finale of Chamber of Secrets*

[@tudonosso5868]

yeah, bro im stuned how can she not remember who she thinks it was the vilain of the second movie he literally wrote tom marvolo riddle and then became i am lord voldemort and she forget it how can that be

[@tudonosso5868]

i am in shock

[@rique4964]

I can't blame her. Chamber of Secrets is awfull both book and movie, so...

[@calvinkopp1735]

@@rique4964 Actually they’re both incredibly underrated.

[@rique4964]

@@calvinkopp1735 man they're both horrrible

[@kriszgamer0013]

When you listen to how Hermione is describing the love potion's smell earlier in the film, you can notice that she basically described the smell of the Weasley house.

[@PhilBagels]

Spearmint toothpaste - her parents are dentists.

[@kriszgamer0013]

@@PhilBagels Also, she had toothpaste on her face at the Weasley house. Interesting connection.

[@guintar6661]

Pretty sure it said somewhere that Ron uses spearmint toothpaste haha

[@cardboard_hat]

@@kriszgamer0013 "toothpaste"

[@flugsven]

And if I recall it correct Harry noticed the scent of his broomstick polish, treacle tart (his favourite dessert) and a flowery scent he was sure he had smelled at the Burrow. (the Weasley house) edit: He later found that was the scent Ginny used to wear.

[@megabubfish]

edit: this was not meant to be an attack on her or her review style. It was simply meant to make a light-hearted joke about how she seems to have forgotten some of the finer points of the story. I love how she's somehow forgotten the Chamber of Secrets entirely in this one lol

[@ElKnoppers]

Tom Riddle who?

[@AmitKumar-yl6bz]

Yeah. Pretty annoying. And she didn't catch the spark between Ron and Hermione in all these movies.

[@covertius4287]

Yeah the amount of jokes and comparisons seem to be paramount for her unfortunately. I don’t think she’s too keen on learning the continuity of the lore

[@aejenkins3048]

@@covertius4287 well maybe not but let's not judge her too hard

[@k--music]

@@covertius4287most people don’t go into movies with the intent of being “keen to learn the continuity of the lore”tbh

[@BenBanjo87]

Luna Lovegood has some of the best lines ever 😄 *Luna:* "It's like being with a friend." *Harry:* "Well, I am your friend, Luna." *Luna:* "That's nice." *Harry:* "How do I look?" *Luna:* "Exceptionally ordinary." *Luna:* "I sleepwalk, you see. That's why I wear shoes to bed."

[@VKunia]

"That's nice." LOL she was one of the best characters imo :) loved her so much

[@BenBanjo87]

@@VKunia Me too - she's another of my favourite characters in the whole series 😀💖

[@SilentBob731]

Even though most people love her, I still feel like she's underrated somehow. ❤

[@solongdentahlplaan7975]

@@SilentBob731 She's like Tom Bombadil.

[@SilentBob731]

@@solongdentahlplaan7975 She's "Bombadillion", if you will. 😉

[@richardfeynman4452]

That astronomy tower scene is an acting masterpiece, I get chills everytime I hear Snapes "avada kedavra".

[@MasterOfTheElements]

It's the best acted scene in the series, everyone was on their game. Michael, Tom, Alan, Daniel.

[@beastmode_bumblebee]

Yes Dumbledore saying "severous...... plz" Then the quiver in snapes voice as he says avada kadavra It's great

[@timhonigs6859]

The story behind "The Half-Blood Prince" was never explained in the movie, beyond Snape saying he is him. Snape was a half Muggle, who's mother's maiden name was Prince. So, he is a Half-Blood Prince. Which fully explains the name of the book, and why it's so important

[@30noir]

whose*

[@nubiana75]

Almost 20 years and I’m still mad at what they did with this movie from such a great book!

[@Aeroldoth3]

WHY is it important? So he's a half-blood Thompson, or half-blood Schwartz? Why does that matter?

[@krishmajumder1411]

@@Aeroldoth3 basically because of the book. Remember it was because of the book's instructions Harry won the Felix which helped him get the memory. Also Harry learns some new spells from the book. Harry starts to think of the Prince as someone as sort of like a friend, so if feels like a bigger betrayal. Also when Harry discovers who delivered the prophecy, it doubles the betrayal of the Prince, almost makes it seem like Harry and Dumbledore were double-crossed by the same man. And Some other people also take some Felix during the battle at the end. Basically the significance of the title of this movie is never really explained. The plot line is way more significant in the novel. Plus it's supposed to essentially be a cool nickname. "Half-Blood Smith" for example doesn't have that same coolness factor as "Half-Blood Prince".

[@darthfinality]

@@krishmajumder1411 it's also a similarity Snape shares with Voldemort.

[@gregbradshaw3410]

Ginny has been crushing on Harry since they first introduced her. If you look at how she was around him in the second movie, there was always that hint. For Harry, Ginny was always kind of off limits as that it is his best friend's sister. As guys we all know that our friends' sisters are off limits. If we break that rule, we better have the intention of getting married eventually.

[@SUP-h9d]

Harry fell in love with Ginny because of her personality, beauty, and the fact she understands him perfectly. I don't blame him for marrying her.

[@zachariahpictures]

There's even a part in the book where Harry is wondering why Ginny is with her current boyfriend, and Hermione outright says that Ginny wasn't waiting around anymore to see if Harry would notice her, and that Hermione herself had encouraged Ginny to move onto someone else.

[@Muck006]

@@SUP-h9d "Back in the days" (when the books were still coming out) a lot of girls on forums were going for the "Harry + Hermione" shipping, even though it was already clear that Rowling had made some good "pairings" for all of them. Girls dont seem to understand that "alpha male + alpha female" DOESNT WORK ... and this seems to continue past the teenage years, because most of the female reactors seem to go for the OBVIOUS BUT WRONG alpha + alpha option. This is annoying, because it shows a failure that explains real life problems with partnerships.

[@branthall1787]

@@Muck006 Imagine trying to act like you understand sociology whilst throwing around debunked terms like "alpha male" lmao

[@iceman_89420]

Best part of Ron being love drunk....when he fell off backwards on the couch, it was a total mistake on Rupert's part lol

[@EvilOdysseus]

The HBP book did finally explain why the DADA position is always changing. When Voldemort was a student he asked the headmaster at the time if he could take the position when he graduated. The headmaster said he would but only after a few years and not directly after he graduated. When Voldemort did return, the headmaster had died and Dumbledore had become headmaster. Dumbledore knew he had ulterior motives and refused to give him to job. In a fit of anger, he put a curse on the position so that no one would have the job for more than a year until he got it.

[@Channel-cz9bl]

The reason why Draco was chosen for the mission to kill Dumbledore was because it was a punishment from Voldemort to the Malfoy family because Lucius failed to get the prophecy for him and got himself locked up in Azkaban. Also the book is really different from the movie. The main point of the book was Voldemort's backstory and the flashbacks of him. The romance part wasn't even really a big thing in the book.

[@ferencercseyravasz7301]

Exactly. They left out a lot of very important information only to fill the movie with teenage love drama. I hated it the first time I saw it, in time I kinda ended up accepting it. For what it is. The problem is that with all that information missing, there's just no way to finish this in two more movies without leaving some questions unanswered. Or leaving some situations ambiguous, kinda "make what you want of it". I know that they can't put in long dialogues, because there is this stupid dogma or "the pace of the movie" and the idea that millennials and post-millennials can't pay attention to human speech for more than a minute. But to me for all the saliva and the tears I think the snogging and the love drama is a lot more boring than letting Dumbledore reveal crucial information.

[@jbreezy101]

51% voldy 49% romance; imo. I agree that the focus of this movie should have been voldy

[@scratthesquirrel5242]

lucius also fumbled it with the diary horcrux

[@BenjWarrant]

Draco's a little shit; but we should remember that throughout this part of the story he's frightened out of his wits. He's been told he has to kill the most powerful wizard he knows, he simply can't see how that doesn't end in him being killed, and he's terrified.

[@juib1738]

The relationship between Harry and Ginny is so much better in the books and doesn't feel weird or forced like in the movies. Ginny's character in the books has a lot more personality and she's really energetic and speaks a lot more than in the movies and she's just overall better written in the books. In the movies the writers just took the soul out of the character and made her really bland for some reason. Also the 6th books is actually about Voldemort's backstory and there are a lot more memory flashbacks in the book. I really hate it how they made one of the best books into a teenage romance film when it wasn't even that big of a thing in the book.

[@sirunclejim7217]

Exactly

[@mattperiolat]

Absolutely agree, Ginny and Harry are built SO well in the books, shame that so much from OOTP got cut as that was really Ginny’s coming out for me. My sole complaint is I think Ginny got done dirty after all the build in book 7, but we get ahead of ourselves.

[@paulcurran4786]

Yeah, may favourite of the books for the Tom Riddle back story alone. A disappointing movie adaptation for sure.

[@nikczemnydev]

Same applies to the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore, or Harry and Sirius. For me it's sami-watchable till maybe book 3 (but this is a stretch...). From book 4 onwards it's like Netflix's take on Witcher, plots thrown out, relationships between characters simplified, backstories compressed into 30 secs long flashbacks per movie. Just why Chris Columbus, WHYYYY.

[@almas4663]

Plus the actress from the movies is a downright terrible casting choice.

[@wilwaycoholland4337]

"He's become paranoid" Harry: *literally spying on him* 👀

[@lisaleyendekker8305]

the only reason the Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione pairings seem forced in the movies is because the writers didn't know the end of the series when they were making the films. the books develop the relationships a lot more, but the writers for the films made Hermione less flawed and more involved, shoving Ron's role to the side and positioning Harry and Hermione together more often, hence the predictions from people who watched the films that Harry and Hermione would end up together. the truth is, Ginny is an awesome character in the books and her crush on Harry is brought up several times, so this film had to play catch up to display Ginny more since it is in this book that Harry reciprocates these feelings.

[@LMoftheCoast]

Yep, this isn’t helped by the fact that the main writer of the scripts for all but one of the films like Harry and Hermione being together far more than the resulting couples, and so tried to leave out as much of the hints towards them as possible, at least until the books were finished and they were forced to acknowledge it.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

Hermione has been interested in Ron for a long time. If you'll recall in Prisoner of Azkaban, when the trip was standing on the hill thinking Buckbeak was about to be executed, Hermione was hugging Ron for comfort, not Harry.

[@patrickcromwell7554]

The book also goes into more detail about how and why Snape used THAT title. Severus' mother was a witch named Eileen Prince. She married a Muggle named Snape; therefore Half-blood and a Prince by name= the Half-Blood Prince.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

Also he was embracing his maternal side, not so much because she was wonderful (how good could she be, he became a deatheater) but because his father was that much worse.

[@nicolassalathe6905]

If i remember correctly the half-blood wasn’t directed to having a muggle father but rather being half of a prince

[@patrickcromwell7554]

@@nicolassalathe6905 Unfortunately you are not remembering correctly. Snape's Father was a Muggle and his Mother was a witch named Eileen Prince. Therefore half Muggle and Mother's Maiden name = Half'Blood Prince.

[@nicolassalathe6905]

@@patrickcromwell7554 I know his father was a muggle but i always thought it to be about him being half of his mothers family, and i'm still not convinced it's about his father being muggle because he hated his father and i'm not sure if he were to proud about being a half-blood. also i thought he gave himself this name out of the same reason tom changed his name to voldemort, to hide or give away their fathers muggles name so why would snape include him in his new name? Hope you understand what i'm trying to say😅

[@patrickcromwell7554]

@@nicolassalathe6905 Then read the book it TELLS YOU that THAT is where Snape gets the idea from . What do you think "Half-Blood" represents?? Especially when Bellatrix calls Harry Filthy HALF-BLOOD when he says Voldemort's name. Snape identified with his mother rather than his emotionally abusive father, so he's not HALF a Prince; not in HIS mind, even though he still uses Snape for a name. The context for the Potter universe is that to some pure=bloods being half is barely any better at all. Therefore Half-Blood is the term used by pretty much everyone and it refers to their magical lineage, not their family name. A name is quite frankly irrelevant. what you can accept is also irrelevant. The book specifically states the reason and it is the one I've shared.

[@dudedysseus]

Anyone else get SUPER FRUSTRATED at 12:58 when Vicky looked away and DIDN'T SEE that the book was the property of the Half-Blood Prince?

[@BryanFritchie]

She's always looking down or away at something. I assume her phone, but who knows.

[@RedCaio]

but not too much later Ginny reads it "this book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince" so its ok

[@dudedysseus]

@@RedCaio True, I was relieved when that happened.

[@Camothor10]

Why it didnt affect anything at all she still knew it was the half blood princes

[@dudedysseus]

@@Camothor10 Yeah, just THAT MOMENT was supposed to be sort of the *Leo DiCaprio pointing meme* moment.

[@leftundersun]

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LOOKED AWAY DURING THE LITERALLY MOST IMPORTANT SCENE 😭😂

[@chriskelly3481]

Same. 😫😆🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Thomas_Donofrio]

Wait which one?

[@leftundersun]

@@Thomas_Donofrio 12:58

[@QuayNemSorr]

I was just checking commentaries to see if anyone else was screaming at the screen

[@dudedysseus]

OH MY GOSH, I was just posting a comment about that!!!

[@the-wordplay-dojo]

Most of the child actors do reprise their roles throughout the series, and grow up on screen. Some were recast for various reasons, mostly around characters playing a much bigger role, and requiring an experienced actor. There is one sad one from this movie. There's a 6th year student called Marcus Belby (I think) at Slughorn's little get-together. The character is essentially an extra with a few lines. Unfortunately the actor playing him was caught up in an incident in London, where he tried to break up a fight, and got fatally stabbed. He never saw the release of this movie.

[@austingillum4807]

Even more heartbreakingly, he was trying to break up the fight for the sake of preventing the people who ultimately ended up stabbing him from killing his brother.

[@poornakrishnan9133]

You feel the pairings is forced because you are watching the movies without reading the books. In the books the pairing makes so much more sense. In the moves they really seem forced.

[@patrickcromwell7554]

In the books Ginny serves as a replacement starting in the fifth year. There's even an interaction between Hermione, Fred & George, where they muse about HOW Ginny got so good considering they never let her practice at home with them. Hermione answers casually that Ginny has been magically swiping their brooms whenever they weren't paying attention for a couple of years now. And all they can say to that is "Yeah, I suppose that would explain that." They were more impressed with the fact that she had been getting away with it than they were angry about her using their stuff without asking.

[@Pntngbrn]

I think the color tone in the movie was to reflect the goodness and light being drained from the world. It was probably meant to give it a depressed and closed in feeling. Times are becoming darker indeed.

[@half-lifescientist1991]

It was also because every goddamn movie was doing this in 2009. But tbh, regardless of what it symbolizes, it still looks like shit

[@liampatrick3110]

So basically, it's meant to reflect the tone of the novel it's BASED off of.

[@half-lifescientist1991]

@@liampatrick3110 Fun fact: Just because a movie is tonally dark, that doesn't mean they have to color grade the movie to look like shit.

[@turntsnaco824]

Ginny, as well as some other classmates, have nearly as much weight as Ron and Hermione in the books. It isn't as purely "the trio" like it is in the films, which was obviously done for simplicity, even switching lines between characters sometimes just to bolster the characters actually in the film. But Ginny especially has a much greater presence in the books, and is actually REALLY awesome compared to her movie portrayal. And her and Harry's romance doesn't feel forced in the books, they have genuine chemistry and it's built up far more gradually. Also, if your favorite thing about these movies is feeling like you're actually seeing the characters grow up and change based on the experiences they go through, you should SERIOUSLY consider reading the books, because imo that's the best thing about them. Every character feels completely real, and their evolutions over time make perfect sense. It's wild seeing where things end up by the end because it could have only ever been that way by already having all the pieces in place in the earlier books. Characters don't just suddenly change for the convenience of the plot....instead the plot progresses in a way that makes perfect sense given the setting and characters you're following. It all just feels so real, like you could believe it all actually happened.

[@txheadshots]

Probably more to do with contracts for the actors more than simplicity... actor contracts are often very cognizant of how much they are going to be on screen, how many lines, etc.. and they get paid a commensurate amount based on those things. If they gave all the side characters more lines and more presence, they would have to pay them more - and by this point, especially, Radcliff/Watson/Grint were in demand and needed to be paid more.

[@Lightning_Lance]

@@txheadshots I think the bigger issue is how long these movies were. Personally I would have loved another half an hour or more on each of them, but you have to keep in mind what the general public is going to think when they see that a movie is 4-5 hours long in an 8-movie series. This happens to all great books and tv shows when they get turned into movies. It's not the action or the plot that makes us care about the characters, it's the slow scenes that do. But you can't skip the action or main plotlines when you make it into a movie, so often some of the best scenes get cut out of necessity. And the better the source material, the more great scenes need to be cut :/

[@jbreezy101]

Ginny Luna and Neville are called the Silver Trio

[@unclebounce1495]

It wasn't done for simplicity. It was done for girl-power SJW female-token BS. Inflate woe-meyn dialogue lines is required by the actor's union and a lot of organizations in Hollyweird. That's why that happens in pretty much every movie. Female side characters have to have the same amount of lines and on-camera minutes as a male main character. SJW idiocy that's been around for decades and unnoticed by the blind.

[@Zekegedd]

Yeah trying to get people to read the books who have only seen the movies is like pulling teeth. I've been trying for like 20 years to get the people in my family to read the books. If people would read the books they would (probably) understand even more why it's such a beloved series and why people care so much about it.

[@Karlb240]

It shocks me that people don’t pick up on the Ron and Hermione relationship from the very first movie, I always thought it was so obvious they would end up together from the start. And with Harry and Ginny there relationship in the books is much more natural and has a lot more foundation P.s you really really need to read the books. The book for this movie especially is incredible and this film is easily my least favourite and is just so different too the source material P.s P.s😂 Phoenix’s are immortal but with Fawkes in the books it kind of makes it seem like he was a part of the dumbledore family and when he died he attends Dumbledores funeral and is then never seen again and it’s kind of implied he disappeared maybe since his owner and all of his family except one was dead

[@Pearleace]

i called it when Hermione entered their train compartment in book 1. the first conversation.

[@brokoli-fz3]

Absolutely. I knew as soon as I watched the train scene in the first movie and I was literally six years old.

[@livb6945]

And there are clear hints all the way. But then again she didn't understand anything in Goblet of fire so.....😂

[@FrameFreakStudio]

Did you already forgot the second movie? xD Volvemort's real name was Tom Marvolo Riddle, which was an anagram to "I am Lord Voldemort" Also, note on the colors being toned down, if you compare the Warner Bros logo at the beginning of each movie, you'll see them going from bright colors to darker ones as you reach the end. This was to make note that the story is becoming darker as things progress.

[@WhiteWoof]

29:09 What happened is Harry cast the curse "Sectumsempra", which essentially means "Cut Always". It causes lacerations both inside and out on the victim. It can be reversed with the Vulnera Sanentu incantation spoken 3 times. The first staunches the bleeding, the second causes the wounds to knit, and the third lifts the curse fully.

[@haydo-9916]

The reason why Voldemort felt no love is because his mother drugged his Muggle father with a love potion and when Tom Riddle was born, the side effect of the love potion made him not feel any emotion other than hate

[@NsTheName]

I don't think it made him only feel hate, but that it made him incapable of love. Plus, he has a God complex and thinks that his magic makes him special.

[@Pearleace]

no, actually J.K. has debunked this theory. it simply made him incapable of understanding love, but the biggest reason he turned the way he was is because of growing up unloved. personally, i just think he was a psychopath, nothing more strange than that.

[@RedKytten]

My favourate moment in the series is when Harry is under the effect of the luck potion. I love the different behaviour that he has in that moment.

[@ghyslainabel]

The sixth book was basically a prelude for the seventh. Draco is not evil, but he is heavily influenced by his family and the unwanted guest.

[@whatwhatinthewhat4400]

I always find it odd when reactors forget key details from earlier movies

[@JamailvanWestering]

Probably because it never got caught on

[@fakecubed]

LOL it's Harry Potter, who cares. Everything is retconned anyway.

[@robertoprestigiacomo253]

Because most reactions aren't genuine and reactors have to exaggerate their reactions

[@greywolf7577]

The honest answer is that she watches so many movies that she forgets the plots of past movies. There are far too many plot points from all the different movies to keep up with.

[@Shurororu]

You said like you remember every single detail for the first time you watched, come on

[@CinHotlanta]

The loss of color is meant to progress from film to film to show how Voldemort's growth in strength is draining the world as a whole, like a visual expression of the building dread.

[@Lightning_Lance]

"Close your eyes. That way you can't be tempted." Proceeds to tempt him.

[@trayolphia5756]

27:08 “oh to be young, and to feel loves keen sting” “Why would you want that” Not a matter of wanting it, but to even be able to/in a position where it may happen It mixes the old saying of “better to have loved and lost…” with the whistful memory of the older generations remembering themselves in a similar position when younger

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

It was hard to avoid spoilers back in the day. This one was frequently called Harry Potter and the Snape Kills Dumbledore in the days after the book came out, I think someone even rented a billboard to put Snape Kills Dumbledore on it. People suck sometimes

[@chriskelly3481]

There was a tee shirt that just said, "Dumbledore dies on page 284." (or whatever page it is) A-holes think they be funny.

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

@@chriskelly3481 After a google search I now know there were large bumper stickers too. Seems kind of crazy these days that the hype around a book release could get to that level. I still remember going to some of the midnight release party events at bookstores and there were plenty of people there.

[@PhilBagels]

@@chriskelly3481 Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

[@FenixNade]

@@chriskelly3481 i remember seeing a video of someone wearing that shirt to a bookstore where a bunch of people were waiting to get the book. and then being violently chased away

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

There's a video of someone buying the book at the midnight premiere, reading the ending and yelling out a spoiler.

[@matchaqueen6541]

I'll never forget crying my eyes out in the theater when I first went to see it. The book and the movie broke me💔

[@HockeyFan102]

You’re too beautiful

[@matchaqueen6541]

@@HockeyFan102 thank you

[@HockeyFan102]

@@matchaqueen6541 your welcome!

[@TheR15C]

In college I heard a hungover friend ask for water in an almost identical manner to Dumbledore post potion. Ever since we quote Dumble and say: “water Harry, water” when we’re hungover 😂

[@aeonversestudios01]

You can tell Dumbledores death in the movie was written for the readers. In the book it was toned as the ultimate betrayal. But here, the look of apprehension on his face as the seconds ticked away before the deed had to be done was the same for the readers; we knew it was coming.

[@PhilMeisterOriginal]

I'm confused..... You did watch the second film right? How do you not know that Tom Riddle and Lord Voldemort are the same person lol xD

[@deathbunny3048]

Uh yeah they are XD Voldemorts' real name is Tom, dumbledore even calls him by his real name before their duel.

[@jonathanfoster4202]

And the fourth movie with the grave stone that says Riddle on it

[@PhilMeisterOriginal]

@@deathbunny3048 Ah too many nots in one sentence. Will edit comment, thank you

[@VKunia]

Yesss I just have the memory of a goldfish so I was *recalling* his name and association at that moment lmfao we have met a LOT of characters in this series OK LOL

[@jaydenjewell8220]

So fun fact: once Voldemort graduated he wanted to become the Defense of the dark arts teacher and he didn’t get the spot so he put a curse on the school where there can’t be the same DADA teacher for more than a year. So that’s why there’s a different teacher every year

[@EntertainmentFan11]

Geez. Now I see where Snape got THAT desire from.

[@jbreezy101]

No. It was when dumbledore turned him down that he cursed it

[@EntertainmentFan11]

@@jbreezy101 Still explains Snape wanting the DATDA teaching position for years.

[@Thelaretus]

The films never truly explain *why* Snape is the Half-Blood Prince. Snape was a Half-blood, son of a Muggle man with the surname Snape, who abandoned his mother, Eileen Prince, after discovering she was a witch; due to that, like Voldemort, he resented his Muggle father and all Mugglekind in general, and to dissociate himself from the Snape family, in his heart he gave himself a moniker: the Half-blood Prince, after his mother's maiden name. However, after being sorted into Slytherin, he was contaminated by Pure-blood supremacism, as his mother's Prince family was one of the 'Sacred Twenty Eight' pure-blood families of Death Eater ideology, he kept that moniker for himself and avoided bringing up his blood status, especially as he became a Death Eater himself.

[@Me-wk3ix]

I see your point about Harry and Hermione. I feel like the movies really try to make you root for them. The books are much clearer, however. Harry really sees Hermione as a bossy and nerdy but loveable older sister. The books are from his point of view and there really is never a point where he sees her as more than that. He doesn't think about girls much at all, in fact until Cho and then Ginny.

[@OmegaFalcon]

You forgetting Voldemort is Tom Riddle was a hard slap lmao

[@patmurray9730]

I listened to the audio copy of this book. I was listening to it at one of my boys soccer games. When Dumbledore died I was sitting on the sideline crying. 😭

[@zeroxavion]

Love how she completely forgot about Movie 2 Tom riddle/Voldemort, and had a whole Revelation that is name was Tom 😂

[@brand0n801]

I always thought it was interesting that the book belonged to Snape, because he rewrote the steps in making potions correctly & probably even better than the average person would. Even though he never got the teaching spot for Defense Against the Dark Arts before, he had a natural act for teaching potions. Food for thought.

[@canadian__ninja]

*potion for thought Come on it was _right_ there

[@smsebas]

Spoiler: He got into potions in an effort to chase after Lilly who was naturally outstanding at potions, Snape was an immensely talented wizard, but his actual disposition was towards offensive/defensive magic, he didn't actually like teaching potions since it for one, reminded him of Lilly, and two, it wasn't his natural interest.

[@brand0n801]

@@smsebas That’s pretty cool. I really like learning a deeper insight into the series. Good to know!

[@Pearleace]

@@smsebas *Lily. thanks for the info, learning new things! this wasn't disclosed in the books, but makes perfect sense.

[@ackerose]

@@smsebasLol what? Your claim has no basis in the books. Not everything he does is about her for goodness sake. While Lily was said to be great at potions, Snape was rewriting the damn textbooks, he’s on his own league.

[@IDyce88]

From now on these are the teen characters who play a more major role: Harry (obviously) Ron (who likes hermione) Hermione (who likes ron) Ginny (ron's younger sister that harry has a crush on and vice versa) Neville (more important than he looks trust me) Luna (the slightly odd girl who is very perceptive and smart) Draco (just trust me...this guy has a role to play)

[@ThetaSigma-vu1sk]

Yeah, Snape has always had a soft spot for Draco. This is because Snape and Lucius had been close friends since school. Lucius is one of a small handful of people that Snape considered a real friend

[@michealryan9664]

Tom marvolo riddle aka lord voldemort was born of a love potion, therefore rendering him incapable of love or empathy. He was an unavoidable psychopath that feared death above all else. Coupled with his prodigious skill and thirst for knowledge, except for Albus Dumbledore, he was unmatched in power

[@Makkaru112]

Draco’s Mother Narcissa never liked Voldemort and NEVER wore the dark mark nor was she the same as her family, she just was smarter; always protecting Draco, was very powerful in her own right. Making sure the death eaters don’t hurt him any way shape or form. She knew the ways of the court since a young age so she knows the “lay of the land” let’s just say! Keep a an eye out. ;)❤❤❤❤ Narcissa is at the same level when it comes to oclumancy. And she never took the dark mark and just learned how to survive in certain environments since she was young and was quite like her relative Sirius but knew how to walk the fine line. It’s the same skills she used when accompanying Draco to any death eater meeting of any sort so they wouldn’t harm him or take his innocence away. She’s truly mighty and Harry was saved by a mothers love three times so far

[@JitteryJackanape]

I hate the whole Harry talking to a random waitress at the start. Cause in the book Dumbledore shows up at the Dursley's house and he calls them out on all their bullshit. Instead of getting that, we got a scene of Harry being stupid af with a wizard newspaper in public with muggles. That's trash. I wanted to see Dumbledore bonking the Dursley's over the head with a teapot.

[@TheRickinger]

found your channel a few hours ago and have binged watched through your entire harry potter series. i need more now... I NEED MORE

[@michaelconnor1542]

Someone wasn't paying attention in class. We learn Voldamort's real name is Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets. In Order of the Phoenix, when Dumbledore confronts Voldamort, he calls him Tom.

[@patrickcromwell7554]

Fun fact: the Weasley's garage is where Arthur tinkers with all manner of mundane muggle stuff. Like Ron said in Camber of Secrets: Arthur is fascinated/obsessed with Muggles.

[@relic1701]

In the books, when Snape was teaching, he always wrote instructions on the blackboard, which Hermione followed and Harry couldn't be bothered due to his hatred of Snape, when Hermione followed the book instructions, they came out worse than Harry's, because he was following the added instructions put in by the Half Blood Prince (Snape), oh and that 'fake Whitehouse' is St.Pauls cathedral, built in the late 17th century ;p

[@jackpowell9276]

Yeah and "whitehouse looking" she actually means capitol hill lol. Both of which wish they were as cool as St Pauls :D The prior building at St Pauls goes as far back as 604AD

[@acehole727]

My favorite quote from this reaction is "They're going to put it in the teleporting outhouse" lol

[@Bas_Brand]

"They can't drink yet, aren't they like 16?" *laughs in european*

[@robertoschirmer5530]

Fun Fact: In the books it is described, why Snape called himself the Halfblood Prince. And it's as genius as simple. He is a genius in mixing potions. You could say, the prince of potions, but that's not the main reason. Snape is a halfblood and his mother's name was Prince. So he literally is a Halfblood Prince. I always loved that simple, yet genius explanation. Awesome little detail.

[@TheR15C]

A Horcrux is like the ultimate catch 22. You split your soul/humanity and you can technically live on. As ole Voldy progressed in his quest for immortality he lost more and more of himself. Thus the inhuman characteristics.

[@RobEmmer412]

It's never occurred to me before until watching this, how little sense this movie makes if you don't read the books first. There is SO much back story required to understand so much of what is going on that was never put into any of the movies and they just make you accept it because that's how it is in the books lol.

[@WhatAvery]

Butter beer is slightly alcoholic, but remember this isn't set in the US; not everywhere has such strict rules about alcohol, especially in Europe.

[@PlumbPitiful]

I thought butterbeer was like some sort of cream soda. They have it at the Harry Potter world amusement park. I've never been there but from what I hear butterbeer is mostly a pound of sugar mixed in water.

[@WhatAvery]

@@PlumbPitiful well in the books one character gets drunk off them.

[@angelicalicari8355]

I don't remember whether the movie covered this; Dumbledore's last words "Severus, please" wasn't a plead to Snape to spare his life, it was a plead to Snape to kill him so that Draco (a child) wouldn't have to, after everything we've learned in this movie about murder splitting your soul in half.

[@Algorythmfpv]

Literally everyone I've seen react to this series calls out the "lick the blood!" 3:57 and then gets completely weirded and grossed out, because they weren't serious. LMAO

[@txheadshots]

On rewatch, you’ll notice Ginny has a crush on Harry from the beginning and Hermoine likes Ron as well And the boys, being boys, are completely daft about it

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

The animosity towards Lavender Brown is funny since, you know, she reminds me a lot of you. 😅 And no, it's not forced that Harry doesn't see Hermione that way. I can confirm. As a child, I was always around two girls around my age because our parents knew each other, and I never saw them as potential girlfriends or anything, despite both of them growing into very beautiful women. It's similar to the sibling effect, I think.

[@WhatAvery]

For sure, I think it's a pretty normal thing to be able to see certain people that way. But she's also got clear confirmation bias on wanting Harry and Hermione to get together, because she ships them, which is probably the real reason she says the stuff she does.

[@DaDunge]

In the movies it kind of is since the writer is a massive Harmoine shipper and have been teasing them from the start.

[@michaelconnor1542]

A shit ton more happens in the book. Including the fruit of Harry's teaching. Ginny is even more prominent in this book and the previous. I highly recommend you read the books. They are great.

[@zachariahpictures]

I like how she was looking away just as the book showed the scrawled in "This Book is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince", and so she assumed Harry was better at the potions because the older book was honestly better, not realizing that Harry was using the HBP's notes that contradicted the book's texts.

[@KameradVonTurnip]

Luna... freaken loved that character. Harry Potter film's best Girl. Great addition to the films for the few films she was in.

[@WhosCujo]

I just found your channel yesterday and i love the way these videos are. I’ve never seen someone do reactions to a movie before it’s very interesting. I’ve seen these movies a million times but watching it as you see it for the first time is really refreshing. Glad to see people still really enjoy these movies the way i did yearssss ago. Keep it up!!

[@genghispecan]

Its spelled out more clearly in the books - Tom was doomed from the moment he was conceived - the product of a love potion, he was damned to never knowing love or friendship.

[@danielaf3092]

huh? In what book do we get that info?

[@greywolf7577]

@@danielaf3092 It's one of those things that J K Rowling mentioned in an interview. So it's sort of kinda canon.

[@danielaf3092]

@@greywolf7577 that I know. I asked where it’s “spelled out more clearly in the books”.

[@greywolf7577]

@@danielaf3092 It isn't spelled out in the books. I guess it's up to you to decide whether you consider J K Rowling interviews to be canon or not. If you don't consider them to be, then it is up to you to decide whether to use context clues from the books to come up with the same conclusions or not.

[@danielaf3092]

@@greywolf7577 It isn't spelled out in the books, yet the OP said so. Whether I consider it canon or not is beside the point.

[@Makkaru112]

Tom Riddle was born from a muggle father under a love potion of Amortentia but when he sobered up after months and months or years he abandoned his mother in a cruel way so this is where he gets his hatter for muggles. I’ll also tell you that this birth made him super attractive to everyone in a very supernatural way which is nobody at school could refuse him and he could weasel his way through everything to get what he wants. Everyone fell for him. Especially the teachers but also the great historian Bathilda Bagshot. His aunty or great aunt. He wasn’t easy to resist. He quite literally openly despised muggles for what his muggle father did to her beyond breaking her heart like that potion sure but Rowling went into either in the books or the rest of the story was put on the original pottermore website etc When you see the x men movies the best character ever named Magneto(Eric) you'll see what I mean when I say he's like Salazar and honestly was loved by many. Hundreds.

[@reflectionist]

I love how one of the themes of this movie is that it's really, really not difficult to get high in the Wizarding World.

[@AmericanIdolz2011]

"Voldemort's name is Tom Riddle???" felt like a punch to the gut with a metal glove 😭

[@GasBandit]

Ooooh boy. Vicky got clapped in the comments this week. Forgetting critical details from past movies (that she only watched 2 months ago), attention wandering from the screen when important revelations are made, seeming more interested in cracking wise than watching the movie - I get the feeling she's not really into the material and it might be the case that she might not have chosen to watch the series but for her audience basically demanding it.

[@dazzamcg2369]

I mean I love her reactions but where was she looking when Tom reveals himself as Voldemort down in the Chamber. I don’t think she fully watched it cause it’s impossible to forget a face reveal

[@tusharwattamwar]

Tom Riddle aka Voldemort is probably the last member of the great Gaunt Family who are the direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin...Salazar Slytherin could talk in Parseltongue (i.e. talk to snakes) and hence all his descendants i.e. the Gaunt Family can talk to snakes and hence Voldemort can also!

[@KingGhidorah5464]

“What is Ron doing?” The best he can 😅

[@CheekyHaggis]

"They can't drink alcohol, they're 16!" Welcome to Europe.

[@STGAoe]

The films make Hermione much more special than what she is. You probably didnt buy that Harry had no feelings for Hermione because the script writer for the films would steal other characters moments to make her stand out waaaaay more. Even stealing moments from Ron and giving them to her. Goblet of Fire is the book where you can see Hermione and Ron have feelings for eachother but even the films kinda just…exclude it and have Hermione featured around Harry more than she actually was. In the Goblet of Fire book Harry even says when Ron was ignoring him that hanging around Hermione wasn’t nearly as fun or filled with nearly as many laughs. He views her as a best friend but not to THAT level since he prefers to be around Ron anyways. The films make it seem like Hermione is more closer to Harry when in reality its Ron who should be. In the books, its clear that Harry really just thinks of Hermione as “the best friend thats more like a sister”. They aren’t exactly super close but they are best friends. It’s mostly Ron and Hermione who have more moments together in the books so this ends up developing into them falling for eachother. But yeah blame the films since the screenwriter had this over obsession for giving moments from Ron and others to Hermione. Cuz now when you get to the later films where they HAVE to do the real pairings its like “well huh? Where was this set up?”

[@sammylane21]

Anyone else think that VKunia's Snowman figurine's shadow looks like a insect standing up?

[@prophet_of_troy]

So, in the books they explain that Voldemort's mother fed his father a love potion and that's how she got pregnant. She stopped giving him potions, and he left her, but because he was born under a love potion, Voldy cannot feel love.

[@Pearleace]

it's the misconception. actually, Rowling explained he was moreso incapable of understanding love naturally due to that. but the reason he turned out the way he did was because he grew up unloved, while a loving environment could've turned him out differently. something which i personally doubt, due to him being written perfectly as a psychopath from what i can tell.

[@VkuniaFanClub]

With each new video your cuteness is blowing up the roof ❤️ I'm so happy that i found your channel, watching your videos is like a melody, a cure to my poopy life 😌

[@patrickcromwell7554]

"Parry Hotter"!!! LOL. The reason that's so funny is because n the book, Professor Trelany ends up trying to get her Wine bottles out of the Room of Requirement, but it keeps spitting her back out. She stumbles into Harry who takes the opportunity to tell Dumbledore that he believes Malfoy is the one IN the room at that moment. Professor Trelany, who is slightly inebriated, says "YES, listen to Parry Hotter." lol.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Also we have Slughorn getting drunk with Hagrid and calling him 'Parry Otter'.

[@elizabethstrong6057]

I apologize if someone already explained this. You asked what made Voldemort/Riddle like this. They explained in the books. His mother was a witch who used a love potion to ensnare, marry, and conceive a baby (Voldemort) with Voldemort's Muggle father. When his mother stopped using the love potion, the father realized what happened, and left his family. So the (theory?) is that since he was conceived under a love potion, Voldemort cannot feel or experience love. His mother later dying (I think she just kind of gave up on life after her husband left?) and his ending up in an orphanage, probably didn't help either.

[@dandotvid]

12:56 Did she *really* just look away at the exact moment of the big introduction of the Half Blood Prince?

[@nicholasbyrne6485]

24:10 if it hasn't been mentioned before. The reason for the resemblance of young Tom and revived Voldemort is because Young Tom is played by Ralph Fiennes' nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

[@jonathandavies89]

Ok so I’m never going to be able to watch the Dumbledore being forced to drink the poison scene ever again without thinking “Here comes the plaaaaane”

[@name25556]

Great that you have been influenced by a tasteless "let's be funny" commentary.

[@SMAAAASHTV]

You completely forgot about Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets, when he writes his full name which is an anagram that say "I am Lord Voldemort".

[@jamesjones8482]

Really enjoy your reactions! I read each book, before watching the movie that was released. It helped me follow the story line, but pointed-out how the movies were not always true to the original books, as written. They were still enjoyable, but a little disappointing. You are a pleasure to watch. ❤

[@nigelhyde279]

It’s St Paul’s Cathedral, just a couple of hundred years older than your Capital Building. Also the train station wasn’t the Underground it was an ordinary rail station.

[@KingRichard1013]

Be prepared to cry even more when you get to The Deathly Hallows part I & II

[@Athasin]

Fun fact: The first thing Snape asked Harry (back in the Sorcerer's Stone) was what did a bezeor stone do. When Harry didn't know Snape humiliated him causing Harry to never forget the answer, which also means he knew exactly what he needed to save Ron from dying of poison.

[@Killachow23]

Ginny has been into Harry since Chamber of Secrets. If you remember in the beginning of that movie she couldn't even speak to Harry because she was crushing on him so hard. In years 3-5 she grows up a bit and starts to hang out with other guys after getting advice from Hermione, but she always liked Harry. In the books their relationship makes WAY more sense. The movies are great, but they have to cut out a lot of stuff from the later books to fit the 2-3 hours in a movie. The books are probably one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. I think they are the best selling books/book series of all time save for like the Bible.

[@PhilBagels]

In the books, Ginny was into Harry from book 1.

[@debomcd7]

@@PhilBagels I think this is why I don’t like Harry / Ginny. I just can’t see the feelings Ginny has in book one and two as being anything more than a celebrity crush or her just being a bit starstruck by him. Even in later books, I thought the relationship came a bit out of nowhere. I think I would have preferred an ending where Harry didn’t marry anyone and it’s up to the reader to fill in the blanks.

[@PhilBagels]

@@debomcd7 It may not have been sufficiently seen in Ginny's actions (although I think it was), but it was definitely strongly hinted at in the books. Along with Ron-Hermione - they got under each other's skin like an old married couple from book 1.

[@MTStingray]

14:03 Did you forget we met Tom Marvolo Riddle in The Chamber of Secrets, and "I Am Lord Voldemort" was an anagram he used?

[@Dugrath]

Lol. It's funny seeing your reaction without having read the books. Imagine reading this and waiting a year to get the next book to find out all that happens later.

[@alexandermills9965]

This movie is very much love based but that's only because the coupling, Ron Hermione, Harry Ginny thing goes over the Order of the Phoenix and the Half Blood Prince so you got a lot longer to understanding for the panning of the love story.

[@PredictTheFuture]

Wait what, Voldemort is Tom Riddle from the second movie? o: It is almost like that was the plot twist in the second movie.

[@VKunia]

Yes that was me remembering/recognizing his name, we've gone through a lot of characters during this series lol

[@AceofRogues]

​@@VKunia Are the weird and made up English names confusing? :)

[@shivelyfilms]

I remember seeing this scene in theaters as a kid and let me tell you after Dumbledore died everyone was depressed leaving the theater, was a pivotal moment in pop culture at the time.

[@agenttheater5]

14:02 We meet Voldemorts parents briefly in the book - that is we meet Merope Gaunt and get a brief summary of her life by also meeting her brother Morfin and her father Marvolo even though she doesn't say anything (too scared and too broken to say anything) and get why she'd be so desperate to escape her life, and we meet his father Tom Riddle for an even briefer time but long enough to know that Merope must have used some kind of magic on him to get him to run away with her because otherwise he wouldn't have given her the time of day (he was a very handsome man, but was even ruder and a bigger snob than his parents). Merope's death-bed wish that her son would look like his father and that his name was to be Tom after his father, Marvolo after her father and that his surname would be Riddle seems to have been the only thing she'd ever wanted in life that she actually got.

[@greywolf7577]

Given that she drugged her husband with a love potion for years, she did get what she wanted in the marriage even if she had to enslave and rape the man she loved to do it.

[@THEvagabond29]

I read these books already and my daughter and i watched this when it was first released. She couldnt understand why i cried in the end... Faux's lament to Dumbledore was amazing... and its the last time the phoenix is seen or heard in the Wizarding World.

[@STGAoe]

Ginny is well featured throughout the books. The films had a habit of excluding character moments from others. Shes super featured in this film since they had no other choice since this is when she’s the MOST featured. But yeah the films handled this pretty bad. Almost as bad as another character who I’ll refrain from saying just yet.

[@zoedoocey4496]

Best line in this film: “But I am the chosen one” *gets hit*