FULL LENGTH HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF - BLOOD PRINCE (2009) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
Added 2023-02-13 18:40:45 +0000 UTC
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there really were hints in the movies. Every other reactor I've watched has seen it since the end of the first movie. Idk about the books as I haven't read them
Joanna -_-
2024-09-20 18:44:22 +0000 UTCThere really weren't and absolutely not in the books.
AdrianF
2024-09-20 18:04:46 +0000 UTCThere were subtle hints to Ron and Hermione being a pairing right from the first movie, I was surprised you didn't notice
Joanna -_-
2024-09-19 13:15:49 +0000 UTCWhen I read this book and got to the ending, I cried my eyes out and literally threw the book across the room. I totally understand your anger and frustration. Dumbledore is the wise father figure of this series, and to lose him still makes me mad today.
J C
2023-03-14 08:55:18 +0000 UTCTo see Alan Rickman in a role different to him playing the villian, watch Sense and sensibility.
Adele
2023-02-23 06:12:11 +0000 UTCI think you should read the books after you finish with the reactions. If your pushed for time, I recommend the audio books. That is how I read them later. Road trips, driving to and from work, and while cleaning up.
Trina Smith-Patterson
2023-02-19 22:00:12 +0000 UTCI agree, part one and part two should be back to back.
Trina Smith-Patterson
2023-02-19 21:47:23 +0000 UTCMovies 7 & 8 is book 7 split into 2 movies, best if watched back to back. Can’t wait to see your reactions and love that you guys are enjoying this series. You guys are amazing!
Jennifer Sanchez
2023-02-18 22:12:51 +0000 UTCcock blocked by Dumbledore. :D
Matthew Maxon
2023-02-18 11:56:10 +0000 UTCI AM OBSESSED with all of your HP reactions... I cannot WAIT for the last 2 films! You're going to love! Thank you guys for watching for us, and Amber... Girl... You made me cry AGAIN watching with you. I love how genuine you both are with your first watches. Takes me right back... Looking forward to Deathly Hallows! 🥰
MikeyB!
2023-02-18 01:54:42 +0000 UTCMake sure to bring the Kleenex for the next two films. It gets dark. The next two films are pretty much a full-on wizardry war film for the last two films and no one is safe.
Cody Price
2023-02-16 11:53:05 +0000 UTCI love this Patreon channel it is worth the price but when do you post or what is the music patreon channel for ?
Lisa Rhodes
2023-02-16 01:09:53 +0000 UTCI love all the comments that comes with this channel...thanks everybody!
Junal Garnett
2023-02-15 12:51:31 +0000 UTCNew member here and can’t find the Discord link in the “Connected Apps” section. What do I do?
Shannon R.
2023-02-15 03:32:50 +0000 UTCHow about malfoy and sirius?
Karl Kraus
2023-02-14 22:58:20 +0000 UTCIt's very strange to think of Tonks and Malfoy as cousins. Tonks is just so far away from anything "Black" that is messes with my head. Fun: I'm listening to the Stephen Fry version of the OotP audio book and his Tonks is delightful. She's not posh at all like other characters in their accents. She's such a fun character, and I'm sad we didn't see more of her in the movies.
Kristin D
2023-02-14 22:04:08 +0000 UTCIt also REALLY helps with this series because they are watching the theatrical cuts on Amazon, but what I already have available is the extended versions with deleted scenes on Peacock. If they showed the movie throughout (even blurred) I could just pause theirs and know exactly when to unpause, instead of either having to know when the deleted scenes end (they range anywhere from a few seconds to over a minute at a time, so can be very tricky, and tedious), or having to guess based on their next comment what part they are reacting to, and line it back up. And I know I can't be the only one. The end of this movie is particularly problematic, I've had a problem with it with every reactor I've watched, they cut parts of scenes left and right, and imo cut out almost 2 minutes after the cave scene they should have left in.... (look up "Half Blood Prince In Noctem" or "Snape and choir deleted scene", if you haven't seen it.) So it's just a guessing game for the last 15 minutes.
Turnt SNACO
2023-02-14 12:53:29 +0000 UTCI know this was a rough one. I think there are several things that you tend to overlook because of the emotion. The ending although hard......and their leader gone.....they choose to raise their wands in solidarity....knowing that the dark side has power and it could possibly mean their lives.....they raise their wands and remove the dark mark over Hogwarts together. It is just a beautiful scene. And Voldamort was angry at Draco's father for failing him in the prophecy mission so Voldamort tried to humiliate his family.....so he sent Draco ( a student) to kill Dumbledore knowing full well that he wouldn't be able to.....Draco is a jerk, a bully but I don't think he is a murderer. So Draco tried in sneaky ways but he was so scared.....
Marie247Art
2023-02-14 11:48:30 +0000 UTCOMG!!! I forgot about that! lol
BRT
2023-02-14 11:07:02 +0000 UTCIf you wanna see professor snape married to professor trelawney (the crystal ball teacher) watch love actually
3BeerThunder
2023-02-14 02:02:44 +0000 UTCSo excited for your reactions to the final two movies! Please watch and react to the 20th anniversary special, it truly gives so much amazing insight and is an amazing (& incredibly emotional) way of wrapping up the film journey! 💛
Sam-I-Am
2023-02-14 01:10:22 +0000 UTCDumbledore's death is definitely one of the saddest in cinematic history (for me). It hits me hard every time I've watched this one. Definitely excited for y'all to get through the finale! Bring your tissues. Fun fact from the book: Harry won quite a sizable prize of money after the TriWizard Tournament but didn't want it (and didn't really need it). So he decided to give it to Fred and George (the twins) so they could start their business.
Michael Johnson
2023-02-14 00:51:07 +0000 UTCOh boy, can't wait for your reactions to the last two movies. This movie is great, but a little silly at times, e.g. the whole Weasley house being destroyed scene, which was not in the book. I guess they added that in to add a little action to what is probably the least action packed book of the series. The book mostly focuses on Tom Riddle's story, which is WAY more extensive in the book. You get a lot more memories concerning him, probably closer to ten than the two they show in this movie. You really come to understand who he was and why he is the way that he is: for example, he was conceived under the effects of a love potion, given by his witch mother to his muggle father, and it is rumored in the HP universe that those conceived under the effect of a love potion cannot feel real love. Tom hated that his father was a muggle, which is why he abandoned the his father's name. The romance is also done better in the books. Ron and Hermione's interest in one another is subtly built throughout each book. True, they couldn't stand each other at first, and argue a whole lot, but they're still best friends, and sometimes opposites attract. Harry and Ginny is also built up over time, and Ginny is a far better character in the book. She is much fiestier, funnier, etc, whereas in the movies she is portrayed as sort of bland (no fault of Bonnie Wright, her actress, just a failure of adapting her character and writing her for a screenplay.) The Deathly Hallows will give you all the answers you want and then some. It is a truly stunning conclusion to one of the best stories ever told.
Neville L
2023-02-14 00:09:53 +0000 UTCEven tho you give us a decent amount of time to align the movie at the beginning, a timer and/or a blurred out copy of the movie is much needed in case people have to pause it on our end, highly recommend
dieselbeast
2023-02-13 23:56:24 +0000 UTCAmber, in regards to Ravenclaw (my house, best house 😉), Cho, Olivander, Prof. Trelawney, and Prof. Flitwick are all Ravenclaw as well as Luna. Also Gilderoy Lockhart and Prof Quirrell but every house has some shame. 😆
Ian Forbes
2023-02-13 22:55:37 +0000 UTCYou'll hate Bellatrix even more when you read the books. She's the aunt of Draco Malfoy, the sister of his mother, Narcissa Malfoy. What's left out of the movies at this point is there's another sister named Andromeda. SHE's the mother of Tonks, one of the members for the Order of the Phoenix (the woman who can change her physical features, like her hair remember that?). Tonks is a half-blood, her father being Ted Tonks, a Muggle-born wizard. When Andromeda married him, her family (the Blacks) disowned her from the jump, especially her sisters, mostly Bellatrix. She represented the belief of pure-blood mania personified. She was a lunatic witch that tried to kill and torture anybody who crossed the line. Fortunately, since Voldemort was "gone", there was no need I guess to kill in the name of him so when the marriage happened, the couple was spared. She apparently didn't even acknowledge she had a niece. No wonder Draco was always strutting about the castle like the lord of it. His aunt, along with his parents, raised him to be entitled to anything that comes his way. Even when he was struggling to complete the mission, she wasn't caring for his self-esteem. All she cared about was pleasing the Dark Lord, no matter what. It makes sense that we get to see the other side of the prophecy's matchup. Through five of the seven books, we compiled every fact and event that happened prior to Harry being born and then the mystery why Harry was targeted, along with his parents being collateral damage. Now, it's Voldemort's turn to be the focus of the past, in the 1930s to the 40s when he was an upper level student (at least in the movies in the book we get to go into the 1950s). It amazes me how Harry and Riddle are complete opposites yet so similar in history. Speaking of looking into Riddle's past, you got a good eye Amber. The face of the cliff that held the Horcrux cave is the same from Dumbledore's memory. It was on a postcard in Tom's room in the orphanage. The book tells us that was a place the children visited on an outing one day. He took a couple of kids there and "played" with them i.e. tortured them. It made a lot of sense he would hide a Horcrux in that cave because it meant something special to him. It was the start of his campaign of supremacy, of total dominion over Muggles. Growing up with no love in his corner, being lonely all the time brewed this hatred of Muggles, making him not understand his victims' pain, like Lily protecting Harry with her "Old Magic" love charm. Dumbledore has been hiding some things pretty much the entire length of this series. This is why he's THE fan-favorite character. He's frustratingly mysterious. You'll see a new level of that in the last two movies. The number of times readers minds were blown when learning more about Dumbledore was large. But... you need to wait to learn more ;) A sad note: Belby, one of the guests at Slughorn's dinner party (the one scarfing down his sundae), his actor (Rob Knox) was killed more than a year before this movie was released. He was protecting his little brother outside a pub. A man was threatening the brother with two knives and was stabbed lethally in the process. He was 18 years old, a month younger than Daniel Radcliffe (Harry's actor). This franchise has lost a lot of actors too soon, either during or years after the end of it. Real tragic. The shaggy looking guy that was seen with Bellatrix and others, his name is Fenrir Greyback. You can barely see his wanted poster in Knockturn Alley on the way to spying on Malfoy. He was the one who bit Remus Lupin. He also injured Bill Weasley during the Battle of the Astronomy Tower in the book AND he kidnapped Ollivander from his wand shop at the beginning, when the Death Eaters torched the place.
Karl Kraus
2023-02-13 22:38:48 +0000 UTCHey yall, yes I agree with Steve. If you are able to blur out the video we can still follow along if we have to pause or want to move forward etc. I know another reactor that I follow does this. Love your content either way!
Daniel Fowler
2023-02-13 21:16:54 +0000 UTCAmber, I know your shock about how sudden and permanent the death is of Dumbledore. Before JK Rowling started writing the series, her mom died of MS, and it was very traumatic for her (when is it not traumatic?). This story came out of her grief. She has always maintained, and you've seen through the movies, how permanent death is, meaning there is no way to bring back to life someone who really died. Without spoiling anything, given that the big war happens in the final book, you might want to have some kleenex available. Rowling warned her readers when the books were being published that it is an actual war, and people die. So...yeah....this isn't the end of that. However, at the end you will have answers and closure, and while people's lives will be effected by what transpires, they still have friends and family to rely on to get through all the hardship. ♥ Regarding the story itself, I think this movie really epitomizes Harry's selflessness. He's had some serious crap thrown his way, nothing a child should ever have to deal with, and he does it with as much grace as possible. Harry has no ego to keep him caught up in fantasy. I also really appreciated what he did for Ron. Ron always had it in him to be that good (however he wanted to measure it), but just needed a bit of a kick to believe in himself. Harry gave that to him. I also really enjoy Harry on the Felix Felicis. I really adored Daniel Radcliffe's portrayal of Harry in that sequence, especially with how gentle yet firm he was with Slughorn. I love that part of the movie. And Harry is very funny, in what he says, how he acts, and I love where he's doing the aragog pincers. I find it ironic that Slughorn, having buried that memory and wanting to take it to his grave, could not withstand the charms of Felix Felicis. Fawkes does leave, for good. He does not come back to Hogwarts, at least in the written stories. But Harry carries a piece of him, as it is Fawke's feather that is in his core. Like others have requested, please do the final movies back to back, or maybe, just this once, do a double header? I'm super excited to see your final reaction, and I'm so thrilled that there are two new folks joining us Potterheads!
Kristin D
2023-02-13 21:11:55 +0000 UTCI agree something would be nice, in future videos, to make it easier to align our copy and theirs. If we need to pause it on our end, it can get off course with where they are at.
Kevin
2023-02-13 20:17:05 +0000 UTCWould be nice to be able to see the movie overlay for these reactions to make it easier to follow along. I you center the shot it could easily fit between you both, and I may be wrong but a simple full screen blue on that video frame periodically should be enough to defeat the Copyright Algorithm. Another option would be to add a 50% 60% opacity to the screen so it is transparent. Other reaction channels are doing that. Not sure the lvl of transparency needed though.
steve devoll
2023-02-13 19:18:39 +0000 UTC
