Looking back into memories (it’s complicated), Harry sees young Tom Riddle when he first comes to Hogwarts.
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The Potter series has some of the best flashbacks in movie history, and Half-Blood Prince is no exception. We learn all of this through a series of haunting flashbacks. Way to make things even more complicated, Mr. So now Harry doesn’t have to just kill Voldemort, he has to find all of the Horcruxes before the dark lord will really die. Voldemort did just that, splitting his soul into seven different objects hidden all over. Therefore someone can live on after their body is dead. A person can split his or her soul into the Horcruxes, which can be any type of object imaginable. Still, the film did a good job of explaining them.
Harry and the HorcruxesĮven a Potter newbie like myself has heard of Horcruxes. Perhaps there is hope for him yet.Īs for Harry, he finally uncovers a way to defeat Voldemort. While Snape has done some truly horrible things, I’m not convinced he’s completely converted. Later, when he could inflict serious pain on Harry, he instead just strikes him down and leaves him be. He looks guilt-ridden when he slays his boss. That being said, something still feels off about Snape killing Dumbledore. It’s pretty heavy stuff but what else would you expect from this series? And now Harry must take on Voldemort alone. Dumbledore is gone, struck down by one of his closest allies. In a dramatic and heartbreaking scene, Snape zaps Albus off of a tower and ends his life.
You see, the final twist of Half-Blood Prince is that Snape kills Dumbledore. Well, about that: turns out Dumbledore shouldn’t trust Snape in the slightest. Is he simply evil? Or is there more to Snape? As Ron’s father, Arthur, later says: if Dumbledore trusts Snape against Voldemort then shouldn’t Harry and the rest of us? Snape makes some sort of pact called an Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa and seems almost pained when he does so. At the same time, it feels like there is much being left unsaid. It’s a bit of a shock to see Snape turn to the dark side. We find this out when he secretly meets with Bellatrix Lestrange and Draco Malfoy’s mother, Narcissa. It’s revealed that he’s been working on behalf of the dark lord Voldemort. Snape, the curmudgeonly sour teacher everyone loves to hate, is actually bad. That’s right, not all of Hogwarts professors are on the level. Meanwhile, other students - and teachers - are up to something more sinister. Yet Harry wants to stay in school and continue learning. Once again, security seems much more lax than it should be aside from a special forcefield around the school and a few extra guards. Voldemort is on the loose, and everyone (especially Harry) is in danger. Understandably people aren’t so sure Hogwarts is the safest place in the world. Remember when I longed for this series to be pitch black in tone? Well, I’ve gotten my wish. Lives will be lost, blood will be shed, things will never be the same. The journey is inching closer to the end, and it’s not going to be pretty. But that’s the world Harry Potter is living in now. You can tell a movie is going to be dark when even the opening credits feel suffocatingly heavy. You feel things have sunk even lower at the very start of the film. Things were looking pretty bleak at the end of Order of the Phoenix, but it’s gotten even worse now. Yes, things have gotten even darker for the young wizards if you can believe that. Well, if this movie proves one thing it’s that there are about a million safer places than Hogwarts and a million safer companions than Dumbledore. There’s a point towards the beginning of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when young Harry asks what could be safer than being at Hogwarts with Dumbledore. Previously: Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixĪs Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as “the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past. Here, Brandon looks at the 2009 film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But what sort of pop culture fan would he be if he didn’t immerse himself in the films that so many love? Join him as he gets his owl, heads to Hogwarts and sees what all the fuss is about. Brandon has never read a single Harry Potter book or seen any of the films.
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