In Loving Memory Of Michael Gambon & Alan Rickman

I don't blame you for being confused by the title "The Half-Blood Prince" because the movie completely removes the explanation. As you speculated, Snape is a "Half-Blood", with a muggle father and a witch mother. His mother's maiden name was "Prince". Because his magical heritage was passed through his mother's line he took to calling himself "The Half-Blood Prince" in his personal writings. The book actually spends a lot of time in the past. You only get a couple quick flashbacks to a young Tom Riddle in the movie, but the book details a lot more about both Tom Riddle's youth and also gives some more details on Snape.

common folk = you know who death earters = dark lord Harry = Voldemort Dumbledore = Tom Peeves the Ghost = Voldy

Slughorn was the head of Slytherin House before Snape! Also there are much more young Tom memories in the book. Cho finished school this year, she was year older than Harry. Ginny was done very poorly in movies, she is amazing in books. Severus was half muggle, his mom was a witch and her maiden name was Prince, that's why he took that name. This fact was only in the books

There are a couple of important things that are discussed in the books but only alluded to in the movie. First, Voldemort did not expect Draco to succeed in getting rid of Dumbledore. He gave the boy the job as punishment for Lucius Malfoy’s failures, The diary Horcrux was destroyed in Lucius’s plot to open the Chamber of Secrets & then he failed to retrieve the prophecy from the Dept. of Mysteries. Voldemort was furious so he gave Draco a job he thought the boy couldn’t accomplish then told the Malfoys that he would kiII the boy if he failed. That’s why Narcissa Malfoy went to Snape. Snape knew about the plan because Voldemort, believing Draco would fail, told him with the understanding that Snape would do it after Draco tried. Second, everyone who watches the movies but doesn’t read the books is confused about the Horcruxes. Tom Riddle asked Slughorn about splitting his SOUL into 7 pieces. One piece has to remain in his body so he planned to create SIX Horcruxes. He had already made one -the ring he was wearing-so he needed to know if it was safe to split his soul again. Once Slughorn confirmed it was possible to split the soul more than once young Tom Riddle set out to make 5 more. It was the original part of his tattered soul that fled the Potter’s house after the failed attack on baby Harry. Voldemort’s body was destroyed so that piece of his soul fled to Albania & hid. Quirrel stumbled upon it while he was in Albania studying vampires & bought it back to Britain. It was that piece of his soul that Pettigrew used to resurrect Voldemort in Goblet of Fire.

Girlllll, one should never apologize for being sad

I know that the Half-Blood Prince is mostly remembered as "that movie where Dumbledore dies", but I gotta say this.....Slughorn is one of my favorite characters in the movie franchise...He is a very, very flawed character, but there's something so interesting about him...

The scene where Ron fell off the back of the couch was actually an outtake but it was so much funnier than the actual scene that they left it in

The werewolf you see at the Burrow is the same one to bit Lupin when he was a child, making Lupin a werewof. He liked to bite children most.

Im glad to see you guys giving Malfoy some grace. A lot of people forget these main characters are *children*. Year six, sixteen years old, thrown into the beginnings of a second wizarding war.

Interesting little detail about why Hermione is suddenly bad at potions, which also feeds into how you could've figured out it was Snape: Snape always puts his potion recipes on the blackboard, while Slughorn goes strictly by the book. Snapes method means his improvements are already incorporated in it.

Snape actually taught Harry about using a bezoar to treat poison on his first day in class. Also in the Half-Blood Prince's book, it says to just shove a bezoar down their throat for poisoned victims.

I love how Grint played the love potions scenes and how Radcliffe played the Felix Felixis scenes. They were perfect. 😂

Listening to yall incorrectly correct eachother is so hard to watch 😂 can’t wait to see how yall like the last two movies

“They’re like deadly Mormons.” I’m DEAD 😂

Snape's mother's name is Eileen Prince. His father is a muggle. He didn't want to use his father's last name so he wanted to go by Prince. And since his father is a muggle he is a half blood. Also Dumbledore's checking every place Voldemort's ever been. That cave is where Voldemort used to torture children.

“I don’t like anybody except for myself.” I felt that. LOL

This book has one of my favourite lines from Dumbledore. "I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.”

“i would read the books TO you” that was so cute 😭

Your comments about the acting of Tom Felton reminds me of somthing I've said in other places. By the end of the 8th movie it will be quite clear that the "kids" (Dan, Rupert, Emma, Matthew, and Tom) had spent half their lives working with and learning from some of the greatest actors in Britain. The last two movies have fantastic performances by all of them.

1:07:42 Harry knew to that a Bezoar would save Ron because in the first movie in Harry’s first ever potions class when Snape is asking Harry questions he doesn’t know- one of the questions was about a Bezoar which he informs him can neutralise almost any poison.

I feel like people always talked about James and it was nice to meet a character who loved Lily and didn’t really care about James.

Regarding Lucius: In movie 4, Voldy was very disappointed that Lucius didn't ever go looking for him. So in movie 5, he tests Lucius by sending him to retrieve the prophecy. But Lucius fails, and gets sent to Azkaban on top of it. This movie Voldy is punishing Lucius by assigning his son an impossible task, where Draco will either have to become a murderer, or be killed. Things are not going well for the Malfoy family at this point.

1:55:14 in the books, Hermione finds an announcement about the marriage between Eileen Prince (a witch) and Tobias Snape (a muggle). She finds it at the end of the sixth book. So yes, Severus is half-blood because his father was a muggle. And Prince because of his mother's last name.

Harry's mother was like Hermoine, a muggle born. Harry's father was a full blooded wizard. . Also the pretty waitress at the beginning is a muggle and knows nothing about magic or who Harry Potter is. Harry called himself a tosser (jerk) and she agreed not knowing he was talking about himself.

I highly recommend reading the books or listening to them. They’re so good and add so much story. if i were able to take a count of how many times I’ve read them over my life it would be at least 20+ times. (Thank you to all the actors who’ve passed for the time they dedicated to bringing these books to life in a new media.)

Since you guys mentioned not realizing Bellatrix and Narcissa Malfoy are sisters, I wanted an add an extra detail - there’s actually a 3rd sister, Andromeda. She’s never mentioned in the movies, but Nymphadora Tonks, the witch with the purple hair who first appeared in Order of the Phoenix, is Andromeda’s daughter. Andromeda was disowned by her family because she chose to marry a muggleborn wizard named Ted Tonks, rather than make a “respectable pureblood match” like both of her sisters did.

The "requirement" was that the book would never be found again by anyone.

Those of us who read the books before the movies were made, it was a great shock

"There like deadly mormons" that's the best thing you've ever said

Molly (about Harry): he is just a boy Narcissa (about Draco): he's just a boy 😭😭😭😭😭😭 These two are the best mother characters, I'm telling you.

Best line ever "they're like deadly Mormons." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Personality I think Alan Rickman was one of the best character actors in 50 years on the big screen that you could call a Movie Star. ❤ I started rereading Harry Potter yesterday and was amazed that so many important characters were not involved and left out in scenes in the movies as in the books. But its been years since I read the books because they were birthday gifts for my youngest who was 12 when the first book was published in US.

49:45 Horace Slughorn is a Slytherin. I forgot the movie doesn't clarify that by now, so I was taken aback by that question. Horace Slughorn is the first decent Slytherin (besides Snape) that we have been treated to get to know better. I am so glad Rowling added him. As a Slytherin myself, I get annoyed when people give all Slytherin's a bad rep and simply point to Slughorn.

I'm so happy that I read the books before seeing the movies.

"They're like deadly mormons" XD

I love the way you two understand my boy Draco. He's don't deserve this 😔 The road it'll be more darker... Prepare yourself guys. Rip Dumbledore 🪄

You have mentioned a few times about Voldermorts appearance. The book explains that it is because of splitting his soul that his appearance started to become more blurred and less human. Which suited Voldermort because he didnt want to look like his muggle father. Definitely read the books - they go into back stories for Dumbledore, Voldermort, SNape and other characters that they just do not have time to go into in the films. Yes, Snape is a half blood - his father was a muggle. And why the book was there - it was Snapes cupboard - he used to be the potion master. There are also a number of things that go on in the books to support the story that might come up in book 1 and you don't even realise it is something of importance until say book 5. Nothing in the books is just there. Everything is important, you just don't necessarily know why for a long time And no, when you read the books, the relationship with Ginny is most definitely not out of left field.

One thing I do like about these books/movies is that they don't shy away from the horrors of war. It's terribly sad and tragic, but beloved people are lost.

To answer your question about whether Slughorn is Slytherin, the answer is yes. Slughorn was in the past Head of Slytherin house years before Snape became Head of Slytherin and Hogwarts potion master. 🏰🐍

Read the books. They give more information than the movies ever do.

All the names of of Ratface as you like to call him; Peter Pettigrew (his real name), Wormtail (his nickname and his Marauders name), Scabbers (his pet rat name from the Weasley family). 🪄🐀

Professor Dumbledore's death was one of the most traumatic for Harry to witness. Right alongside his parents' murder at the hands of Voldemort when he was 15 months old, Cedric Diggory at the ratty (pun fully intended) hands of Wormtail during the last task of the Triwizard Tournament in that graveyard, and Sirius dying at the hands of his psychotic cousin Bellatrix Lestrange before he disappeared into the Veil in the Ministry Of Magic. Also, this is one of the few times Ron is shown to be intelligent in the movies. The scene on the Hogwarts Express where he's explaining the Unbreakable Vow to Harry, specifically. The wizard's chess scenes from Philosopher's Stone is another. I think another good example is the good questions he was asking in Chamber Of Secrets when Harry found that crumpled up book page in Hermione's hand.

I really do wish we could have seen Richard Harris play Dumbledore in these later films. Michael Gambon is good, but I was so curious to see how Harris would have played it, especially in this film. I think he would have been amazing. I think the original Dumbledore showed great contrast. He was so gentle and seemed mildly amused by things for the most part, but every once in a while you'd see some power come out of him -- like when there was the troll in the dungeon and everyone's freaking out, and Dumbledore's voice BOOMS with authority in that moment, silencing everyone, and then he calmly tells them to go back to their dorms, etc. It's moments like that when I wonder how amazing he would have been playing Dumbledore in the 5th and 6th films.

You're intro to this was almost too adorable, i think it broke my cute couple goals scale 🥹🥰

Aww your girlfriend is such a beautiful person. She is so wholesome and soft hearted! Thank you for a lovely reaction!🌸 I still wish I knew why this movie was so brown in colour 😂.

As an alternative to reading the books you can listen to them on CD. They’re read by Stephen Fry who does a fantastic job with them.

in the book Draco said that Voldemort would kill him and his family if he failed, I don't know why they changed it

Yeeeeesssss! I’ve been waiting for this! Hope you guys react to the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Special after finishing the movies ❤

Both of ya’ll have such genuinely beautiful smiles ❤

Voldemort doesn't know Love It's the one magic he doesn't understand and therefore he has no loved ones or people he actually cares about. But you could say that he appreciates his snake Nagini as a very loyal companion

The older Tom Riddle is played by Ralph Fiennes’ nephew, hence the resemblance.

“They’re like deadly Mormons.” 💀 Easily the funniest line that slipped under the radar.

One thing that was left out of the last movie since they didn't show any quidditch at all was that Ginny joined the team and became the backup seeker. She had to play in one of the games because Umbridge had Harry in detention, and she managed to win the game for them. They also had to have extra backups and replace players because of Umbridge. Hence why Harry says just because they were on the team the year before doesn't guarantee them a spot this year. Harry knowing about the Bezoar to save Ron actually goes back to his very first potion class. One of the questions Snape asked him was about a Bezoar and he then told him that a Bezoar was a stone taken from the stomach of a goat that can save you from most poisons. So, it's actually thanks to Snape that Ron survived that incident.

I'm sure you were warned that the movies get increasingly dark as the danger grows. You start to realize that no one is safe. This truly becomes a battle between good and evil with a high cost to all involved. I respect the fact that you accepted Dumbledore was actually dead; most people watching this series for the first time believe Dumbledore isn't dead, though the story repeats that the killing curse is not reversible.

I recommend you go back to your Prisoner of Azkaban reaction and read comments about The Marauders. I'd say the only two companions Voldemort cared about are Bellatrix (a little) and his snake Nagini (a lot)

The final line of this movie still perplexes me. You're telling me that Harry Potter, the orphan boy who grew up In the cupboard under the stairs of an abusive home, who discovered a world of magic at the age of 11 and called Hogwarts his home after one school year, has NEVER realized "how beautiful this place was"!?

Death Eaters referred to Voldemort as The Dark Lord. Back when he was in power before Harry's parents get killed, anyone who said "Voldemort" would be found by death eaters, due to a spell or curse put on the name thay traced the person who says it, more or less. Since Death Eaters don't say his name, it was assuming that only his enemies were bold enough to use his name outright. And Voldemort started to look more snakelike as he made more and more horcruxes. I assume his features looking snake-like was due to his lineage having a connection to snakes, but I can't recall a more specific reason given.

This is a definite turning point in the series!!!

“Let the steps be connected in harmony.” This is the translation for the Latin phrase Harmonia Nectere Passus that Draco used when he was trying to get the vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement to work.

Fun fact: Alan Rickman (the actor that played Snape) had a spastic palate which affected his ability to move his jaw...which is why he spoke that way! His delivery of the dialogue really suits Snape's character, he did an amazing job! ❤

To me, the books will always beat the movies, especially because the movies miss a lot of important parts: to me it is Part 3 and the first Quidditch Cup Win against Slytherin.

The bezoar is first mentioned when Snape questions Harry in his first potions class.

5:54 wormtail, you may remember later in the video but thought I’d comment anyway haha you guys both look especially beautiful in this video 😊♥️

I like the "I've decieved one of the greatest wizards of all time" line because it doesn't matter what side Snape is really on, the phrase is still true Voldemort might be an a*shole, but still a great wizard

23:23 Death Eaters are like "deadly Mormons." I LOVE IT! 😆😆😆😆😆😆

In the book Tonks found him on the train and fixed his nose. “Episkey!”

In the memory where Tom asked Slughorn about Horcruxes, Tom had already made a horcrux. The ring he was wearing. That was the first horcrux. (I believe) The question he wanted answered was more along the lines of "Can one make more than one horcrux?"

Nick - I don't know if you figured this out, but Professor Slughorn is played by the same actor who plays Professor Diggory (the old man) in Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

"I'm so worried for Dumbledore... if they kill Dumbledore i'll stop watching" oooft.

0:25 my husband loves to buy books but never reads them. 4yrs ago I started reading them and putting them in a bin for donations. I had 3 bins full, and he finally realized he had a problem lol. I kept a few, but I knew I wouldn't re read most, so I gave them to my nieces and nephews and some to random public book boxes around our neighborhood. Now we have a library card! 😅 saving money

Dumbledore is 115 years old. Lmaoo dumbledore is really OP. THE most powerful wizard. A genius since childhood. And the movies don’t show the rest of the memories but here’s his kills to make the horcruxes: Myrtle- the diary His muggle father- the ring A muggle homeless man- the locket The fourth horcrux- A witch who had the object passed down in her family. The fifth horcrux- a random muggle who lived in Albania. The sixth horcrux- Bertha Jorkins, a witch killed right before Harry’s 4th year.

There's a very important scene in this movie, that we don't really know how important it is until 1-2 movies later, and you guys asked the *right* question while you were watching it. The movies omit so much stuff from the books, but this particular one is so well done, so subtle at first, but when you know everything, your brain goes like "oh, OH!".

Based off this reaction, I’m so excited for you guys to finish this.

His dad was a muggle and his mom was a witch with the last name Prince.

2:21:54 The change in actor playing Dumbledore was due to the actor who originally played him having lymphatic cancer and ending up passing away.

The bezoar was in Slughorn's office because during one of the classes in the book, he'd read across a list of antidotes in the Half Blood Prince's book 'just shove a bezoar down their throat'. He wasn't able to make an antidote so he ran to the stock cupboard and grabbed a bezoar. Slughorn found it hilarious and praised him for it and put it in his bag. That's why Harry knows there's a bezoar there and uses it to save Ron.

I'm glad you guys like Lavender! She is such a real teenage girl. So many people hate her because they feel bad for Hermione, but it's Ron that's being dumb

Im reference to Dumbledores hand, In the scene where he and Harry were discussing the Horcruxs’ Dumbledore told Harry the horcrux is hard to find but every harder to destroy (then he held up his hand with the black from the curse on it) that means he tried to destroy the ring but it cursed him.

38:26 The book provides instructions to brew an "acceptable" version of Draught of Living Death. Otherwise, anyone could brew it. Only the advanced wizards know the actual version of the potion by practice and experience. It's a death potion. One drop is enough to kill a lot of people.

In the book, Harry did tell Dumbledore of his suspicions of Malfoy, and the conversation he overheard between Snape and Malfoy. Dumbledore thanked Harry for telling him, but didn't feel it was anything to be concerned about.

Can you imagine an entire movie theater full of sobbing people when this came out? Not a dry eye.

You’re gonna love the books! The first two books are middle grade level but then the rest kind of get more complex, the series “grows with the readers”

In the book the theres a lot of info 1 - harry gave the money he won from the tournament to the twins so they could open their shop! 2- Belatrix and Narcissa are sisters and Sirius is Bellatrix cousin, The Black family is a big Slytherin family with Sirius being one of the only onrs to go to griffindor instead. Also means Sirius is Draco's uncle

I think butterbeers are like Harry Potter soft drinks.

Love the way you watch movies together on here. You both seem so chill, funny and intelligent. Much love ❤️

Harry often mentions Voldemort's name and sometimes even flippantly because he is ignorant and doesn't know the potential consequences. The older wizards and witches who lived through the previous war understand the significance of saying his name out loud, and even though the war is long over, they still fear mentioning it. During the war, Voldemort's name was under a spell. When his opponents mentioned him by his name, they summoned the Death Eaters and were killed.

Snape’s mother was Ilene Prince, who married a muggle named Tobias Snape. Hence Severus is the half-blood Prince.

in the books, Harry tells Dumbledore about Snape multiple times and each time Dumbledore tells Harry that Snape is on their side. even to their last adventure, Harry tells Dumbledore not to trust him

The millennium bridge is the bridge at the beginning..it actually did collapse once when it was first built, so quite a reference there

Always when I’m about to sleep, you guys! But I guess I can wait over two hours when I’ve been waiting for this reaction! 😂😂😍

I heard that Radcliffe was actually going through a bit of a drinking priblem during the shooting for this. Appaently he was kinda drunk during the liquid luck scene... which honestly helped sell it way better.

I can’t wait for you guys to see the last two movies ❤

I love how the movie gives Draco more depth.

"There's weed in there" 😂💀

Snape is a half blood and his mother's maiden name was Prince. Good insight you guys give. This series turned me into a subscriber. 👍

I’m sorry but i lost my MIND at “they’re like deadly mormons” 😂😂😂

💜 Nice color-coordination, guys!

Love your reactions guys and cannot wait for you to see the last two films,get ready for an amazing ride…keep up the good work ❤️

1:07:48 It was taught to Harry by Snape in his fist potions lesson with Snape in Philosophers Stone.