I Watched *HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE* For The FIRST TIME And It Left Me GOBSMACKED! 

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Also, Harry didn't excel in that potions class just because he had an advanced copy of the book. The book said "property of the half blood prince" which we now know is snape. He had written all sorts of notes in there that went against the actual text of the book, which is why harry was able to produce the potion so easily while no one else could (crushing instead of cutting ingredients, etc). Makes sense since Snape was the potions master previously before Slughorn took over. In the textbook, Harry also saw writing that said "sectumsempra - for enemies". It didn't say exactly what it did, so Harry used it on Draco without knowing what it would do. It's basically a spell that cuts you all over with an invisible sword. Snape comes in and uses a counter spell to heal Draco (vulnera sanentur), which obviously he knows because it's the counter to HIS spell.

They didn't ignore what Harry did to Draco. The scene immediately after was them saying you need to hide this book as it's not healthy for you. He'd read the spell that he had used on Draco in that book and it just said "for enemies" but he didn't know what it did. When he used it and nearly killed Draco he was shaken up and realises he was taking the advice of the book too far. It's less clear in the movies but in the book he's much more fixated on finding out who the half blood prince is. I think he even at one point believes it might have been his dad so knowing they invented a spell that could kill someone shakes him up too 😊

My theory on why muggleborns such as Heather/Hermione tend to excel at Hogwarts is because they grew up without magic, and because it's so special they want to know all about it. Meanwhile, the half-bloods and purebloods have grown up with magic, and therefore consider it "exceptionally ordinary"

Just to clarify: Harry almost killed draco, yes, but he didn't know what that spell actually did before he used it, he read it as a side note in his potions book, it just said "to be used on enemies"... Yeah, it's wrong to use unknown spells

Don’t let people try to make you feel bad about calling characters the wrong name when most people thought Hermione was pronounced Hermie-own. 😂

Here's a fun fact for you--the actress who protrays Professor Trelawney, Emma Thompson (the divination professor with big curly hair and glasses) was married to the fraud professor in the 2nd movie (Kenneth Branaugh) until he left her for Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange). This occurred before the movies, but just an interesting tidbit lol.

fun fact: they don’t really say this in the movie but harry gives his winnings from the goblet of fire in the fourth book/movie to fred and george weasley so they can open their joke shop!

Billy, when professor Slughorn says Harry's mom (Lilly) is "Muggle born" he means her parents were both muggles. She wouldn't be allowed to attend Hogwarts if she herself was a muggle. (Muggle aka non-magic folk/people) And same goes for Hermoine, both her parents are muggles, Hermoine is not a muggle.

I am cackling at your reactions to these. It’s okay that you’re missing some stuff, there’s a lot packed into these films. Might not catch some of it until a 3rd watch through. I hope you’re enjoying these and I hope everyone remembers that people are allowed to have different tastes in films/books and that’s okay! Be nice to Billy, y’all 💖

I am a huge Potterhead, my office at work displays that lol. I still love watching your commentaries. What’s funny is as much as I love HP (huge book fan here) the films didn’t exactly do the series justice. I still enjoy them for what they are but a tv series (done correctly) would have been much better. ❤️ Nothing but love, Billy. You’re commentaries just wouldn’t be the same if you got all the names right lol.

The actress who plays Bellatrix is one of my favorite actresses ever! She was also the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland and the aunt in Dark Shadows

Sad note:

Okay the love triangle is as follows.

the way you said you hate the way luna talks but that’s actually the way evanna (the actress) talks in real life is so funny LMAOOOO. great reaction though. 😭

Billy calling Bellatrix a sexy gecko demon is honestly the highlight of my week

Neat little thing that might go over your head:

fun fact- all of the students were cast and signed on since the first movie. The producers didn't know which students would become important in later stories, so they just signed ALL of them for multi-movie contracts

I’m so happy you’re continuing with HP!! People need to learn to just laugh and have fun with the reactions ❤️

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