Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Full Movie Reaction)
Added 2025-04-21 18:02:35 +0000 UTC
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me again, binging everything you have. surprisingly i made it all the way to the 6th movie before saying something. BUT the scene with draco and harry on the train just shows us how lucky we were that he didn’t really want to be on voldemorts side. he is fully capable of being evil and diabolical if he wants to. 😳 also, harry and dumbledore did indeed have to swim into the cavern. there was magic preventing them from apparating straight in. harry noted that dumbledore had a “surprisingly nimble breaststroke”, so imagine that however you will 🤣
Dani Phantom
2025-07-04 21:43:57 +0000 UTCidk if anyone has said this but i feel like you guys should know in the books harry gave his winnings from the triwizard tournament to fred and george to open their store🥲 his only request was for them to buy ron new dress robes lmao
Jamie Olson
2025-06-20 22:07:53 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you pointed out Frank Dillane's acting in this film! (young voldemort who asks about the horcruxes). Even though he has a really small role, i've always thought his acting was so good in those scenes with slughorn. He also played Nick in 'fear the walking dead' if u've seen that? I had to share this little fact cuz i couldn't believe it when i found out. I never would've recognised him if someone else hadn't told me.
Ismae
2025-05-22 16:31:15 +0000 UTCI'm SO glad Will found the "what's the matter with Wenby?" part so funny. It cracks me up every single time 🤣 Slughorn is great
Kassandra Conley
2025-05-05 14:54:38 +0000 UTCYeah the love potion stuff did not age well... Well, I would hope it was pretty unacceptable at the time too, but I do think our understanding of consent has come a ways in the last however many years since the book was written. Love potions come up a few times in the books and are mostly treated as comedic. We also only hear about women using them on men. Take from that what you will.
K
2025-05-05 00:08:12 +0000 UTCGuys I’m late, but I just wanted to point out that Narcissa Malfoy was played by Helen McCrory. She also played Polly Gray in Peaky FOCKEN Blinders. I love her. She’s such a bad ass as Polly.
Gladee
2025-04-29 19:25:53 +0000 UTCI'm having them now.... with ice cream... 😏 You can get them frozen at walmart. Even not being the best they're still delish.
BRT
2025-04-29 06:09:15 +0000 UTCIn the books, Ginny was a badass. I hate the way they portrayed her in the movies-very one demential with not a lot to offer. This girl ran through fire to fight along side Harry AND held her own fighting against Bellatrix. Also, the Burrow burning didn’t happen in the books. I guess Hollywood decided there could only be one strong female protagonist.
Stacey Stewart
2025-04-26 17:56:52 +0000 UTCI feel so sorry for Slughorn during the Ron poisoning. He is confused on how it happened and looked like a tired sad old man.
Melissa Creel
2025-04-25 23:22:37 +0000 UTCY’all holding the wand and singing the phoenix song was just too much 😩💔
Arwen24
2025-04-25 05:11:17 +0000 UTCYes, it’s really a shame that part was left out of the movies.
Jan T
2025-04-24 03:52:37 +0000 UTC"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love." -- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore And I can feel your LOVE for this series! As usual, you boys don't disappoint. I could actually feel your pain and relived a little of it myself having not seen this one in a couple of years. Tears were shed! You are truly great at what you do. It does make me wish I could go back and see all of these movies again (for the first time), but as a fan of HP...they age very well! It will be cool when your children get their wands for the first time. (P.S. If you have an Apple phone, you can say "hey Siri LUMOS!" to turn on your flashlight and "Hey Siri NOX!" to turn it off). Fun parlor trick! Love you guys!
Dana Bauerlein
2025-04-24 02:40:39 +0000 UTCLooking forward to your reaction to the last two movies. I'll be chomping at the bit till you do.
Choux D Bruxelles
2025-04-23 12:56:31 +0000 UTCIn case no one’s mentioned it, the money Fred and George used to open their joke shop actually came from Harry. It’s not shown in the movies, but at the end of Goblet of Fire, Harry won a big cash prize for the Triwizard Tournament. He didn’t want anything to do with it. Around the same time, Fred and George had been trying to save up to start their shop but lost all their savings to Ludo Bagman (the Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports—he’s not in the films). They’d placed a bet with him on the Quidditch World Cup, won it, but Bagman couldn’t pay them back—he’d taken their money upfront and never returned it. The twins spend most of the book scheming ways to get it back. So Harry quietly gave them his prize money, pretty much insisted on it, and made them swear never to tell Mrs. Weasley that he was the one who funded the joke shop.
Zeynep Ertüz
2025-04-23 01:29:35 +0000 UTCI’d been dying to see your reaction to this one and oh my god, it was worth the wait! And now I’m counting the days to see you reacting to deathly hallows 1 and 2, I’m sure you will be mind-blown! 🙌🏻 Please try not to read spoilers that might slip from some people’s fingertips!
Dannie Rouge
2025-04-22 15:14:43 +0000 UTCOne explanation. I'm not explaining the other lol
Helen
2025-04-22 07:12:42 +0000 UTCThe books do a muuuch better job of developing HarryxGinny relationship.. Ginny almost feels like a different person in the movies, not her fiery self from the books.
Shridevi Lothey
2025-04-22 07:08:35 +0000 UTCGreat reaction. Hope it's not too long til the next two, I can't wait!
John
2025-04-22 05:53:44 +0000 UTCin case someone hasn’t said it, McClaggin is also the hot british DJ from Pitch Perfect!
mentallyunw3ll
2025-04-22 05:21:10 +0000 UTC😂
Reel Review HQ
2025-04-22 04:42:20 +0000 UTCDo the last two tonight you cowards
thebirdcatcher1
2025-04-22 03:50:18 +0000 UTCI completely agree. Pleeeeeeeease release them sooner!
Red Demonica
2025-04-22 03:44:01 +0000 UTCYou guys just have the best Harry Potter reactions! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the final 2 films. But there’s a very brief conversation that you passed over in this one that is very significant. I don’t think I can point it out without hinting at a major spoiler, so 🤐 Frustrating! 😅
Jan T
2025-04-22 03:35:59 +0000 UTCI highly recommend the books. The movies are lovely, but they did have to leave a fair bit out. Many secondary characters like Ginny aren’t properly developed in the movies.
Jan T
2025-04-22 03:20:43 +0000 UTCgod i love u guys
hails
2025-04-22 03:16:39 +0000 UTCAfter reading lots of the comments I think it’s time I read these books. 📚
VirtuallyVeronicka
2025-04-22 02:15:36 +0000 UTCA “tosser” in British slang is used like stupid or idiot, it’s derogatory.
VirtuallyVeronicka
2025-04-22 02:14:36 +0000 UTCThis was my favorite book. I always loved the Dumbledore/Harry scenes and we got so much of it in this one. However, the movie is a bit of a mix bag for me. I find the romance storylines to be poorly written and executed, but I like the rest. I thought we should have had more of the Voldemort memories as well. When I read the chapter of Snape meeting with Bellatrix and Narcissa I remember thinking that JK Rowling wasn't going to trick me into thinking Snape is bad again. When he shows up on the tower at the end I was actually happy because I thought there was some hope. I was so scared for Dumbledore. Then he kills him. One of the biggest twists and I should have seen it coming because of the unbreakable vow. So I guess she did trick me. Looking forward to seeing your reactions to the final films!
yrag
2025-04-22 01:58:33 +0000 UTCI’m really gonna need you to pick up the pace with the release of the next 2 Harry Potter movie reviews! Please don’t make us wait too long!
Ashley
2025-04-22 01:10:13 +0000 UTCYou guys in the books you get to see Harry’s battling his feelings for Ginny more in the books once you guys read the books it starts to make sense as to why Ginny and Harry ended up together in the movies . The director and the writers did a poor job at telling their romance
autumn
2025-04-22 00:17:59 +0000 UTCalso, i think most people would agree with y'all: ginny and harry's romance in the HBP movie was poorly developed. however, in the book ginny has more of a personality and you get to see harry's feelings for her more since you're in his head! but overall i think it's agreed that JKR doesn't write romance that well lol
Amanda Lofter
2025-04-21 23:48:30 +0000 UTCYeah, pretty much my only major issue with the films as an adaptation is how they botched the Ginny/Harry romance and her character in general. I hope the new series corrects this mistake. And you guys said some interesting things I dearly want to comment on but won't just in case you haven't had a chance to record your reaction to the final two films yet, because I don't want to spoil anything. Loved the reaction, and looking forward to the final two! <3 P.S. I understand the attraction to Bellatrix, despite the fact she's AWFUL. Film Bellatrix makes me glad I'm into dudes, because I think otherwise I'd be very into crazy women, and that doesn't end well for anyone involved :D
Jessie Nebulous
2025-04-21 23:44:52 +0000 UTCi agree with will, that was ice cream!
Amanda Lofter
2025-04-21 23:34:48 +0000 UTCThey were eating cream puffs
Ashley
2025-04-21 23:19:48 +0000 UTCI've been waiting for this reaction! You guys didn't disappoint.
Annette Muina
2025-04-21 23:16:30 +0000 UTCWhen I first saw this before reading all the books, watching Harry go from Cho Chang to asking out the waitress to Ginny was serious whiplash. The movies portrayed the Harry x Ginny dynamic terribly. It's way more built up and obvious in the books from what I remember. (Not to mention Daniel and Bonnie had zero chemistry imo).
Murder_of__crows
2025-04-21 23:08:54 +0000 UTCthis is also definitely the funniest movie lmao. a bit sad but daniel had a bit of a drinking problem during the latter films, and i think he said he was actually kind of drunk for most of the liquid luck scenes, but he's so funny throughout this entire movie lol.
lauren ☆
2025-04-21 22:52:49 +0000 UTCIt made my day when you sang the phoenix song at the end 🥹😂
kaj
2025-04-21 22:49:19 +0000 UTCWhen I first read that scene, I put the book down and cried for about an hour. I've cried while reading before, and had to stop for a few minutes due to blurry vision, but this is the only book I recall where I had to stop reading to sob uncontrollably for an hour while I considered not finishing the series at all. Not because it wasn't good, but because it was too painful.
Jessie Nebulous
2025-04-21 22:11:20 +0000 UTCSorry, Will dear, but those were cream puffs, not ice cream :D Profiteroles, I believe is the specific term for this kind. Never had them, but apparently they're delicious.
Jessie Nebulous
2025-04-21 22:00:01 +0000 UTCIt's barely touched on in the movies so it's not a spoiler, but yes we know who Voldemort's parents are. His dad was a muggle & his mother, a witch, used a love potion on him. That's why he can't feel love, he was conceived under a love spell. Fun fact: Little Tom Riddle was played by grown Voldemort, Ralph Fienne's real nephew. Another fun fact: Harry saving Ron with a bezoar is a callback to the 1st film where Snape cruelly quizzed Harry on how to use a bezoar to save from poison. Not so fun fact: The werewolf death eater is also a pedophile in the book. His scenes will definitely hit different now that you know. 😬
Patsy Mayonnaise
2025-04-21 21:59:39 +0000 UTCcame here to say this aswell
Kristine Gjersvik
2025-04-21 21:58:16 +0000 UTCsame haha
Kristine Gjersvik
2025-04-21 21:55:49 +0000 UTCComing back from the stream to finish, and I keep thinking I’m on twitch and can still interact with yall 🥲😂
Char
2025-04-21 21:49:22 +0000 UTCLove your reactions so much 🥹 I remember finishing this book years ago…, it was a Monday. And I was DEPRESSED for an entire week. Cannot wait for the next two! ✨✨💕💕
Jess The Fox
2025-04-21 21:44:30 +0000 UTCthe books do a much better job at slowly developing the harry x ginny relationship; their dynamic is such a good slow burn and based on so much friendship and mutual respect. ginny is just 10x better in the books too; they really water down her personality in the movies. she's so badass in the books. her running after harry in the fire is the most truly book ginny moment. this is why i ship movie harry and movie hermione but book harry and book ginny lol.
lauren ☆
2025-04-21 21:34:09 +0000 UTCSo I just wanted to add a little backstory that isn't explained in the movie. Snape reveals himself to be the Half-Blood Prince, but in the book we find out that his mother, whose name was Eileen Prince, was a witch. His father, however, was a Muggle. Sooo...half-blood. Someone else gave Voldemort's backstory in a different comment, but I would just say that while I love this movie, I do wish they'd been able to incorporate more of the memory flashback scenes pertaining to Voldemort's past. There you find out the significance of the ring and locket that Voldemort chooses to uses as Horcruxes. As far as Harry and Ginny go, they've definitely hinted at it for the past couple movies, at least on Ginny's side. If you rewatch Order of the Phoenix, there are a few moments where Ginny clocks Harry and Cho making googly eyes at one another and her reaction isn't exactly warm and fuzzy. That said, I don't feel any chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright. I'm sure it wouldn't have been easy for the casting director to know if they would have chemistry or not when the actors were originally cast as children, but it's definitely a little cringe. In the books it was better, but they still weren't a favorite for me.
Desiree Mclaughlin
2025-04-21 21:23:08 +0000 UTCthis is what i like to call, the horny hp movie
lauren ☆
2025-04-21 21:17:39 +0000 UTCI’m so invested in you guys’ reaction. I was laughing hysterically at the sudden “The Tears of the Phoenix, are worth its weight in gold” reprise and the “lack of cinnamon” commentary. 😂 Y’all are hilarious. So excited for the next two reactions!
Katie B.
2025-04-21 21:17:14 +0000 UTCi literally cannot wait until the next two this is torture
EatMyMittenz
2025-04-21 21:12:40 +0000 UTCThe movies did Harry and Ginny incredibly dirty imo. They were great in the books and much more of a buildup that makes sense!
Riley Waddleton
2025-04-21 21:07:21 +0000 UTCOh boy
The Outlaw Cad Bane
2025-04-21 20:47:31 +0000 UTCImagine you're 10 and the new Harry Potter book just came out and you spent the whole night reading non stop barely being able to keep your eyes open anymore and then Snape kills Dumbledore. Most inconsolable I've been in my life lol Also you guys are so right about the Harry/Ginny relationship. The book goes much more into it and it doesn't feel so out of nowhere. The movies kinda really butcher that (and Ginny's whole character tbh), but I guess you just can't fit everything into the time you have to work with.
rese
2025-04-21 20:38:35 +0000 UTCThe liquid luck scene has always been my favorite too. One of my favorites. It’s just funny because it’s Daniel playing Harry who is acting like Daniel lol I sincerely hope after you finish the series you’ll watch the reunion special.
Crystal Taylor
2025-04-21 20:31:04 +0000 UTCsorry for another (and potentially long) comment, but even though you were wrong about voldemort being the half blood prince, you were right about him being a half blood. book spoilers below if you guys are planning on reading them, as this info is not touched on in the movies. voldemort is the child of tom riddle sr, a muggle, and merope gaunt, a witch. merope gave tom, who did not love her, a love potion and conceived a child with him under it. that child was voldemort. being born from a love potion, he is unable to feel or experience love. a few years after he was born, merope decided to stop giving tom sr the love potion, thinking that he would stay after it wore off. it did not, and he left them both, and i believe merope died shortly after which is why voldemort ended up in the orphanage where dumbledore found him. he grew up hating muggles bc of his father abandoning him and his views became so extreme that he wants to kill all muggles and muggleborn witches/wizards
luca
2025-04-21 19:48:14 +0000 UTCthis is probably my favorite harry potter movie besides prisoner of azkaban! only 10 minutes in and this is already a fun one. i really feel for draco in this one, he’s truly just a kid who doesn’t want to die/have his family be hurt or killed. my dad absolutely loves the moment between ron and harry with the potion books lmao
luca
2025-04-21 19:02:47 +0000 UTCI knew my Monday was feeling a little empty. It's bc i missed this drop!!
Lailah Johnson
2025-04-21 18:58:26 +0000 UTCNo it's fine. I'm subscribed to a bunch of patreons that all show the video on screen with no issues at all.
Lailah Johnson
2025-04-21 18:57:52 +0000 UTCgreat having the film on screen; that way i don't have to renew my max subscription or pause the whole time on my dvd version lmao, but just letting you know a few patreon pages have been shut down for doing this! You might already be aware and are taking the precautions needed, but i'm just worried it'll cause issues :(
Kristine Gjersvik
2025-04-21 18:17:34 +0000 UTCYES
Castiel
2025-04-21 18:10:58 +0000 UTCIt’s so funny you said play at the beginning i almost thought you weren’t going to have the movie in picture 😂
EatMyMittenz
2025-04-21 18:10:20 +0000 UTCSO HYPE
EatMyMittenz
2025-04-21 18:09:39 +0000 UTCOH BLESS
Riley Waddleton
2025-04-21 18:06:04 +0000 UTCWoohoo!! My favorite book and movie out of anything Harry Potter! Definitely going to enjoy this one.
ZoeLav
2025-04-21 18:05:01 +0000 UTCYay!!!
Char
2025-04-21 18:03:20 +0000 UTC
