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@PewDieMilestones I don't know if that's a reference or not 😂 because I remember in half blood prince they were learning non verbal spells and that was a good scene in the book 😁
I love the fact that Snape always writes down the instructions for the potions on the blackboard instead of letting the students use an instruction book.
I wonder if he gives the corrected recipes or deliberately holds them back. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a great teacher who didn't know how to motivate his students, causing them to perceive his courses as impossible.
Snape was a terrible teacher. Not because he didn’t know his subject- he was an expert- but because he bullied people in his class rather than motivating them, unless you were a slytherin. Though to be fair, we don’t see how Snape treats the non-Gryffindor students, so it’s possible he’s fairer to them, but it’s doubtful. Slughorn is better than Snape because he doesn’t create an air of fear around his classroom and acts much friendlier towards his students, but his habit of picking favourites is also problematic, because he neglects the other students in favour of them.
@@streakermaximus That was the great irony to Harry and Snape's relationship- Harry was very much Lily's son as Snape had hoped he'd be, but he couldn't see past the aspects of James that Harry inherited. Had Snape realized that the eyes- the window to the soul- were the most important thing, perhaps he would've treated Harry like the surrogate son he had hoped for.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 If Snape would have treated Harry like son he hoped to have, would been interesting potion lessons (like imagine Snape trying make sure Harry doesn't fail single thing XD )
“I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in Death.” “Then again some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!”
Ron and Harry fighting over the nicer textbook, Ron winning, and Harry smacking the book in his hand out of spite while Ron still grins in sheepish victory is the most realistic and relatable highschool boy best friends thing to do ever.
@@ludwiggalaxy4277 both were incredibly talented in potions but their approach was very different . Lily did everything by the book and was absolutely perfect in it and took teachers advises very carefully whereas snape was that one quiet and intelligent kid who knew everything and did what he thought would be the best (he changed instructions to improve his potions) . Both approaches are respectable in education but i think snape was objectively better at potions . See the difference here comes between precision and accuracy . Lily was extremely precise in her potion making but way less accurate whereas Snape was much more accurate but way less precise
James and serius become anomegi on their 5th year, a feat no one thought actually possible. Also they created the map, that Snape could not break even after being a professor.
@@adtde2000 Tom Riddle, Snape and Draco were all very talented when it comes to magic, especially Tom. Hermione is just academically smart. She takes all classes, studies all the time, but on the long run she would get surpassed by Draco and Harry easily.
I think thats the thing, if they both weren't so overwhelmed of their dislike for each other, Severus really taught harry a lot of new magic and spells (that he later uses in Deathly hallows) and Harry ended up liking Potions too
It’s really cool because hermione never had a problem in potions with professor snape as the teacher, but slughorn only goes by the textbook and she starts to struggle. It shows that besides the fact that snape torments his students, he is actually a really good teacher and is very smart. Edit: when I said snape was a good teacher, I only meant in the sense of teaching potions. His personality automatically makes him a very bad and flawed teacher in most other aspects of teaching.
Also, one other thing to note is that these books seem to be old. The same book used back when Snape was a student... Snape never used these books... so Harry is using updated knowledge against past knowledge...
@@TheDeathmail exactly. It's almost like Slughorn knows that anyone strictly following the textbook isn't going to create a quality potion and only someone who is willing to experiment will have a chance.
That statement is actually correct, if we account for the Half-Blood Prince and Severus Snape to be two different personalities sharing the same person. This isn't Split Personality Disorder that I'm on about here, just how the same character behaves in two different situations. Severus Snape is the teacher, the Professor, the spy. He's the sardonic (albeit most entertaining) bully of an instructor who causes undue trouble for certain students like Neville Longbottom. 'Severus' is the personality of Snape as he deals with the outside world. The 'Half-Blood Prince' is how he talks to himself. The notes in the margins were intended only for Snape's own use, not for others'. The textbook was his experiment journal. He taught children the same concepts in his classes, but refused to enlighten in a genuine manner, preferring to keep his charges in the dark about crucial topics and proceeding to sarcastically condemn them for that very reason. Severus is not the same person as the Half-Blood Prince, at least not in personality.
Hermione would have been happy for Harry. But Harry was never an academic genius like she was. He had all the answers written down. She had to work it out herself. Harry was cheating his way through Potions.
@@klaudiagrob well, It is not considered as cheating. He made it himself. The instruction in the book Harry uses are a bit different which just helped in breweing the potion more effectively. It is the same as of Harry using a Firebolt while others use a not equally competent broom as his.
Emmione glares at everything all the time, though. Her two modes in the whole of the 8 films is a spectrum between looking annoyed and being angry at somethijg offscreen.
When "Wizard People Dear Reader" was released, that's all I could think of every time he calls her "The Wretched Harmony" lol. Super mean but super funny. At least someone got close to her proper description after the books.
I find it funny at how bitter Hermione was when Harry created the perfect Draught of Living Death, and she brewed Polyjuice Potion in her second year 😂😂😂
@@AwesomGuy971 Nah it was pointed out Riddle was extremely charming and manipulative and just managed to use those to get the info from Slughorn, hence why Slughorn was so ashamed.
Ron being honest at how bad he was with the potions, but the teacher just brushing it off and encouraging him anyways, was a very surreal and wholesome moment, the thing is there are often teachers you will become honest too, without trying anything, and it is pretty good.
One of my favorite parts of this movie. It shows, some might say ironically, that they were very good friends. As I explained to my wife one time, guys show affection by insulting each other. 😆
The reason hermione got the potion wrong was because snape never told them to follow the books but gave them instructions himself hence hermione always got it right Because snape was not teaching and slughorn told them to follow the books , hermione got it wrong while harry who was following half blood prince's (snape) instructions, he got it right
The scene was so dark I could barely see what they were fighting about. On a separate note, don't judge a book by its cover (or in this case, its state of condition). You may find a treasure inside.
@G E T R E K T 905 I know it's a joke (or maybe not) but draco is actually good in potion though and he's supposedly to be second from hermione so I think he had always pay attention even if it looks like he doesn't 😂
I think this has to be one of my favorite scenes of the academic sides of hogwarts. A teacher setting a friendly competition in front of his students for a tidy reward, which directly or indirectly gets them to learn. In real life, a teacher would probably use extra credit as the incentive and that would be enough, but of course in Harry Potter the stakes are raised with the magical concept of “liquid luck” which is just fantastic.
If you make it competitive thats naturally going to give a lot (esp lads) of them a tail up. We’re competitive creatures, also we find it motivating and entertaining. The problem most schools have is not understanding our personal natures and instincts,, not understanding what type of personalities they have amongst their classrooms. Hence why you get a lot of bored and disinterested students (esp lads) who are staring off into space,, academics is very boring for most youngsters. Watching the scene where Harry is teaching them in the room of requirement,, how much more excited and motivated they look because its all very competitive and the stakes are getting higher,, its a lot more motivating when theres something at stake.
I had a teacher who used lollies as an incentive he used to have us play a game called "around the world" where we would either do maths or spelling challenges with one student going from student to student being asked questions if they got the question right they move to the next student if they get it wrong but the other student gets it right they continue on while the first student sits down in the others seat. Anyway, the game goes on until someone gets to the teacher who gave them the bag of lollies. If at any time both students get it wrong, then they get another question and the teacher gets one lolly. He would also eat a lolly if we wouldn't shut up. I won the maths one once and the spelling one a few times. Maths wasn't my strongest subject. Also for more incentives it was a $1 worth of lollies which back then was a big bag and for clarification there were lollies for 5 and 10 cents so in a $1 bag you would get 2 of each 5 cent lollies and 1 of each 10 cent lollies that's quite a lot of lollies. I would on occasion get a 50 cent bag that was 1 10 cent lolly and 1 of each 5 cent lolly. So you could imagine a bunch of 8 and 9 year olds might really want to win the bag of lollies.
this scene, along with lupin’s biggest lesson in prisoner of azkaban, are the absolute most wholesome teacher student portions we get to see where the teacher interacts with other students and not just harry!
Half blood prince is probably the most aesthetically shot episode in the whole series. Look at the colors, the angles, Harry’s eyebrows, the sound tracks, the dialogues, the atmosphere, etc... everything is so well polished
Maybe he did get some talent from his mother but Snape's teaching made him lose all interest in actually trying to do better in potions from years 1-5. In the sixth year, when he saw the Half Blood Prince's book was giving better instructions his interest was perhaps rekindled.
@@harizirfan5117 possible. Then again the Potter side supposedly had good potion makers too. That's a major reason behind their wealth. So anything is possible, I guess.
@@limiv5272 Yeah, but it's kinda normal for a teacher to like a student better than the other, they are human after all. Atleast he isn't bringing down any other student. At some point, every teacher would have some kind of flaw
@@limiv5272 When I was studying philosophy, I had a professor like Slughorn in the regard that he had his own "debate circle". A few students, no beginners of course, would be invited to his home and discuss some philosophical matters. Always as a group, so no funny business But even though he clearly had these favorites, he was still fair to everyone else and a great teacher. You can have both
This scene shows something very important, Hermione has always relied on books as J.K said before. That's why anything that couldn't be explained in books would be impossible for her to acknowledge. Sometimes you need to "break the rules" or be a little "adventurous" to discover new things. That's why she was so angst towards Harry, the simple fact that he could overcome her without doing what she has done through all her life was unfathomable.
I disagree, Harry followed the book. But the halfblood prince’s book. That’s why he got the potion right. I mean he didn’t choose to not to follow ingredients or instructions.
@@elaphus4811 Harry isn't good at potions. That's not the point. The point is that Hermione has a fairly rigid approach to everything she does. She's insanely smart, Im pretty sure has a photographic memory and can easily recall a ton of things shes learned. But she doesnt as easily develop insight into the whys and hows because she tends to not bend the rules. Shes been shown to be able to do so, but it's tough for her. Shes like structure and rigidity. And is a lot less likely to experiment.
i read once why hermione is not a ravenclaw even tho she's so smart and this scene show exactly why. she's a book smart and to be ravenclaw it requires you to think out side the box and not always follow instructions step by step. nevertheless, hermione is still the brightest witch of her age.
She specifically asked to be placed in Gryffindor, much like Harry asked not to be put in Slytherin. Because she had the traits of a Gryffindor as well as a Ravenclaw, the hat granted her request. This is explained in Order of the Phoenix to the DA members just as they were being founded. I believe the topic came up when they were being told about the parchment they all signed that would hex anyone who tells any staff or other unwelcome students about the organization, which Hermione herself had made.
It's more about your values. What do you value the most? For Hermione, friendship and bravery was more important, she says that to harry in the first book during the final scene's setup. That is why she was gryffindor, she did value knowledge but she valued other things even more.
I’m mostly laughing at how this movie implied she had some semblance of “daddy-issues.” She admits the scents of fresh cut grass and toothpaste are attractive to her, and later on tells people her parents are dentists! I know women are capable of mowing lawns, but since it’s more common for fathers and sons of families to do this, she basically admitted to being attracted to qualities of her father!
@@HuginnHufflepuffThat's not daddy issues. Most women are attracted to the qualities of their father, since their father represents, at least to a young, growing mind, the "ideal man." That's why absent, or abusive, fathers are so damaging to children (men and women by the way).
I think the toothpaste is referencing the time when the trio were in the Weasley's house, Ron was saying Hermoine had a bit of toothpaste on the corner of her mouth after brushing, at the beginning of the movie. Hinting Hermione's affection towards Ron.
If there is ever a “What if...?” Harry Potter series, one of the plot lines should be: What if Ron Weasley would have taken the Half-Blood Prince book?
Based on the history of Ron always having lousy used books, he'd still trade it with Harry to get a better-looking book. Harry would've trade it as well since he knew Ron always got lousy used books. Wanted to make his best friend happy like that.
Snape's intelligence is sadly overlooked in the films. He was a student and was smart enough to edit the mistakes of textbooks written by "professionals" as well as creating a multitude of spells. Imagine how powerful he would have become had he lived a long life.
I agree. But I don't think they are mistakes. He is essentially "building a better mousetrap". Improving on something that already works. The formula in the book will work. He just figured out how to make it better.
@@semperaugustus661 Yeah, but he also created pretty powerful spells too. It’s not that his corrections were groundbreaking or anything, but he’s the one that made them. That means he was way more ambitious than his classmates. Had he not been so obsessed with Lily and learned to let her go he might have become way more successful in life.
@@SymphonyBrahms actually no he is not the best he would not have destroyed voldermort without his friends.In the ministry he would have gotten killed if the aurors werent there .
i love how the camera shows us in this moment 2:03 the faces of draco and harry at the same time as they realize that felix felicis can make their dreams come true...they were the most ambicious...thats why the camera turns to them at this moment BRILLIANT
1:05 Little easter egg- The love potion changes colors, according to what Hermione's describing. At the end, the color turns red/orange, which is obviously not the color of toothpaste. She was probably smelling rons hair. Also explains why she had that facial expression.
Back when it came out, I couldn't appreciate Half-Blood Prince for what it was. The calm before the storm that came with Deathly Hallows. The last bit of innocent school life before these kids got turned into literal fugitives(Harry, Ron, Hermione), eaten by a werewolf(Greyback killed Lavender), or living in a traumatic situation under house arrest where you and your family might be killed at any given moment(Malfoy). And in the case of Neville, Dean, and Seamus, watching their school transform into a Dark Arts school. These were probably some of the last good memories these kids had before being forced into war.
Harry learned more from Snape's notebook then he did from Snape himself in 5 years of classes. Goes to show how good a teacher he could have been if he wasn't more interested in Bullying then teaching his students. And goes to show Harry was never truely bad at potions. He was just to busy being bullied to make good ones.
Yeah if I remember correctly there is a scene in the 5th book when Harry was in potions class and Snape was clearly ignoring him and was not on his neck like he was previously and due to that Harry actually made a really great potion by himself
Don’t forget that he literally got exceeds expectations and is one of the dozen of students who did so. He was never bad, he just thought he was because snape was always down putting his work
I also think there was some bias on Harry's part too. He didn't want to learn from Snape while he was in his class but had no problem learning from his writing in a book. Even in the first book they assume Snape is the bad guy when he isn't. They also assume that about him a few other times.
@@nathanaelluisdesousa4938 I've only read the 5th and 6th book so most of what I know is from the movies. He seems closer to one of my harsh but fair wrestling coaches than he does to an abusive teacher.
Imagine how much of a breath of fresh air it must have been to have gone through 5 years of Snape's cruelty and torture then to have a fun, friendly teacher like Slughorn 😊
0:35 Notice how Draco is disconnected from all the others, usually when Hermione is speaking he looks at her in disgust, but now he just doesn't care. Too much conflict with himself, the person he's becoming.
Does he roll his eyes when Hermione says her name? It looks like he does... lol Also it's ironic he is even there I call it a coincidence because Harry and Ron decided to go here cause Mcgonagall's saw them having to much fun laughing with their free period while the whole school was hectic. Lol
it’s so ironically funny how harry’s not that outstanding in Potions when Snape was teaching it. Then when they changed to Slughorn, he’s now finally acing the subject with the help of Snape. 😂
I noticed in the books that Snape would write instructions on the board, and then the students would follow either that, or their books, or both. Harry never seems to bother following what Snape writes on the board bcs he's too preoccupied with being mad at him, and in the books Snape's criticism of Harry is that he didn't follow some specific instruction from the board.
Very biased still. When you don't care about helping weaker students just groom celebrities you're obviously should't be a teacher. Still nicer then Snape, I agree.
The thing about Hermoine is that while she has a good brain, she doesn't have the spirit of an Ravenclaw. Lune's dad said it best; 'painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' For her, if it's written in a book it's written in stone, otherwise it's not true. I think the reason she was so bitter about the Prince's book is because she was jealous. This was someone who could not only learn from the book, but build on it. Someone who would experiment, innovate, and make something original; something we've never seen her even attempt.
So that makes Hermione similar to a classical computer. She’s logical and can execute steps with precision. Hermione is very much a by the books kind of person which is why she finds the library to be a comfort of sorts. Books give her direction. Developing a strong friendship with Harry and Ron helps her open up a bit through the story. She does exhibit some inventiveness by Book 7 though. Using the undetectable extension charm to turn her bag into a cargo bay to carry all their supplies is advanced magic. But she had a quite of bit of skepticism initially when it came to the Deathly Hallows.
Looking up ravenclaw values "Ravenclaw values its members' intellect, learning, wisdom, and wit" - that is in fact Hermione so she'd fit right in a ravenclaw, even if she can have issues separating from book instructions. Her desire for learning & knowledge sounds like one of the foundation of that house if not THE foundation. She mentioned in the books that the sorting hat seriously considered placing her in Ravenclaw Frankly she was probably only put in Gryffindor to keep the three main characters together, she has values of Gryffindor as well but seems far more of a ravenclaw IMO From the little I remember of the books she did experiment outside of reading as well, such as making her own curse for anyone who betrayed Dumbledor's army in the 5th book
@@MsJubjubbird she has all three to different degree's she's basically the biggest voice of reason and wisdom among the main group. Just because she can get caught up focusing on the books in class doesn't mean she can't be clever or wise
@@aryamanbhadauria1584 it’s actually a reference to Ron, from earlier in the movie where he clears up toothpaste from Hermione. Of course, toothpaste is not a wizard thing and it does not appear in the book either. She stops at “fresh parchment and…”. In both the book and the film, Slughorn is perplexed as to what a dentist does.
Thank you Rucha, Ron's my favorite character as well, it's so sad that he often gets overlooked. For me he's always the underdog, and I can relate myself to him. Go Ron!
I almost had a similar thing during a maths exam in school. After I completed the test there was extra pages clipped on revealing all the answers. But unfortunately everybody in the class had them too and somebody blurted it out to the teacher who ripped my pages out immediately.
@@hotstuffwatcher that’s what I thought at first but after rewatching I’m pretty sure the toothpaste was a call back to the beginning of the movie when Ron was flirting with her saying she had a bit of toothpaste on her.
@@P.Whitestrake Agree. As I remember, at some point in that book Malfoy curses Hermione, and as a result her large front teeth got even larger. When Madam Pomfrey shrinks it back to it's normal size, Hermione tells her to keep going and gets it shrink to a normal tooth size.
1:05 Freshly mown grass and new parchment is the smell of the Burrows, and the night before this scene, Ron noticed that Hermoine has a little bit of toothpaste on her face.
that shows that if given the right resources, harry can do something well, but not if he has to figure it out. MAYBE IF DUMBLEDORE DIDNT TELL HIN EVERYTHING IN RIDDLES, VOLDY WOULD BE DEAD 10 YEARS EARLIER
I think Potions is primarily based on your ability to follow the damn instructions. Not every Wizard has the ability to remember everything. Harry did that well, and it just so happened that the instructions were even better than what the other students got.
People seriously asking how Harry didn't recognise Snape's handwriting? This kid didn't even realise he's a wizard when he made a glass vanish into thin air
What are you implying at? Imagine if you had that situation, would you presume you're a wizard? Plus, handwritings do change. Harry is usually very observant to detail.
There are also other explanations to the glass vanishing. Harry could’ve been psychic and teleported the glass. I can actually imagine several cars crashing in the street cause a large pane of glass suddenly appeared in the middle of the road from nowhere.
Fun detail: Hermione from book/movie 1-5 Hermione always makes perfect potions. This is when Snape taught the class When Snape leaves to teach DATDA, Hermione’s potions are nowhere near as good as they used to be. The only one who makes perfect potions is Harry, and he has Snape’s old textbook
@@doctorwitherdorakuro6028 Not only that, Slughorn seems ineffective at teaching as he's only out to score 'prized' students or steal materials that he can later sell for profit. He's not interested in actually teaching the youth. May be the reason why Snape and Lily excelled, they could have had to learn by themselves.
Conclusion snape gave the students his improvised recipes of the potions. That proves it that he was a true teacher. But he was always overlooked because of his strict and mean expressions
I remember years ago at school in English literature class I pulled an old anthology from the cupboard because I forgot mine at home. Each poem had notes and clever insights all around it. It was incredible honestly. Thank you passed students!
Theory (probably not original): noticed when she said grass it turned green, but when she said toothpaste it was orange. Maybe she lied because she was to embarrassed to say it smells like Ron's hair? Hmmmm...
When Hermione smelled the love potion she said toothpaste because Ron tried to wipe the toothpaste off her cheek at the beginning of the movie. That was a little thing I discovered about Hermione's love for Ron.
The fact that the book is by Snape actually proves that Harry is reasonably good at making potions,he just couldn't make it in front of Snape because of the bullying. Snape never taught the students from the book,he wrote his own instructions, so Harry was basically using Snape's instructions all this time, but he actually managed to make the potion properly when Snape wasn't around
In Britain at least, back before... Oh, I want to say the 50s? The mortarboard hat as it's known was part of the standard dress for a teacher. Obviously the series is set either in the 90s for the books or the 00s for the films, but Slughorn is something of a throwback.
Those hats and cloaks have always been traditionally for teachers to wear. It was sort of like their uniform or an indication of what they do, like how doctors would wear lab coats. It's not like that for teachers anymore obviously, but as it's the wizarding world things are a bit more traditional!
Harry and Ron being late to potions class without their books, Harry becomes top of the class making both Hermine and Malfoy hilariously jealous, priceless lmao 🤣.
I really like how Hermione's appearance's changing during that scene 0:56, 3:29, 3:494:10, 4:16 From perfect to scruffy student under the pressure 0:55 perfect school outfit (the most accurately arranged tie, robe and also hair) 3:29 Confused Hermione with unfastened button and slightly loosened tie, but still in robe, slightly disheveled hair 3:49 Stressed Hermione with more curly hair, without a robe and rolled up sleeves and more loosened tie 4:10 grin and bear it xD like "I keep trying everything is OK" even worse looks 4:16 Her hair is the best, xD says everything and she's like "that's illegal I should've been there" xD
Before this, Snape always write the potion recipe in the board hence Hermione nailed it every time. Now, she had to follow books and Harry follows Snape's recipe.
I wonder how many times Snape experimented with making this potion before writing down all the more "helpful" instructions, like "crush the bean; don't cut it" and "use 13 beans instead of 12". Seeing that potions class is kinda equivalent to muggle chemistry classes, I'm guessing Snape had a very good understanding on the inherent properties of each ingredient and how they would interact with each other.
According to Lupin Snape could very easily have tampered with the Wolfsbane potion he made him when Lupin taught at Hogwarts but Lupin said Snape made it so he didn't suffer at all and its revealed the Wolfsbane potion is incredibly difficult to make so Snape must have a genius level intellect with potions and he clearly taught Harry reasonably well because he did get Exceeds Expectations in his O.W.L and he hates Harry lol
When Hermione is smelling the potion, the colour of the potions steam changes to what she is describing but at the end, when she says spearmint toothpaste, the steam is red/ orange which is probably the smell of Ron's hair, hence her facial expression. In the books, it also mentions that she stopped on the second line and looked embarrassed and didn't finish her sentence
Funny parts in this scene: When Ron and Harry both wanted the new book but Harry got the torn up one. The girls smelled the love potion, got close to it and then Slughorn closed the lid. “How’d you do that?” “Crush it, don’t cut it” “No, the instructions specifically said to cut it” Everyone was jealous that Harry got liquid luck.
If you pay attention to Draco, his reaction when the luck potion gets brought up. It just made me think, he was probably thinking "Maybe this potion will get me and my family out of this mess with Voldermort." I kind of felt bad for him that he didn't get it.
I think Draco wasn't actually jealous or angry at Harry this time. Like I legit believe that Draco needed that Liquid-Luck to help him, since he's facing a lot of internal conflict with his mission. If you notice, 2:06 after Professor Slughorn mentioned the effects of Liquid-Luck it made Draco interested to work hard in this assignment. Last detail of inferential evidence, he was working hard, he didn't waste time insulting, Harry, Ron and/or Hermoine. He was so genuine that he wanted I'm sure, but because of Harry's book, Harry takes the spotlight again.
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Even when Snape isn’t teaching potions, he’s still teaching potions
But Better.
LMAO that's true
snape usually wants to teach
defense the dark arts
@PewDieMilestones I don't know if that's a reference or not 😂 because I remember in half blood prince they were learning non verbal spells and that was a good scene in the book 😁
And he is pretty good at it
I love the fact that Snape always writes down the instructions for the potions on the blackboard instead of letting the students use an instruction book.
I wonder if he gives the corrected recipes or deliberately holds them back. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a great teacher who didn't know how to motivate his students, causing them to perceive his courses as impossible.
Slughorn was clearly a better teacher than Snape who didn't try to score points with his students in class.
Snape was a terrible teacher. Not because he didn’t know his subject- he was an expert- but because he bullied people in his class rather than motivating them, unless you were a slytherin. Though to be fair, we don’t see how Snape treats the non-Gryffindor students, so it’s possible he’s fairer to them, but it’s doubtful. Slughorn is better than Snape because he doesn’t create an air of fear around his classroom and acts much friendlier towards his students, but his habit of picking favourites is also problematic, because he neglects the other students in favour of them.
@Marisol Vadillo - Agreed.
@@scottishjedi1522 Snape's so much like my old Latin teacher...I was so terrified of her
This whole book was Snape basically teaching Harry
I wonder who was Snape's potions teacher during his time as student.
It was all his plan.
@@Onmysheet slughorn. It's slughorn..
@@shadowmamba95 no, it wasnt.
Professor Slughorn
"causes some students... to not pay attention" - Snape in Philosopher's stone
Ironic how Potter here is paying attention to Snape's book.
Harry was literally taking notes on Snape's speech when he said that.
@@streakermaximus That was the great irony to Harry and Snape's relationship- Harry was very much Lily's son as Snape had hoped he'd be, but he couldn't see past the aspects of James that Harry inherited. Had Snape realized that the eyes- the window to the soul- were the most important thing, perhaps he would've treated Harry like the surrogate son he had hoped for.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 If Snape would have treated Harry like son he hoped to have, would been interesting potion lessons (like imagine Snape trying make sure Harry doesn't fail single thing XD )
“I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in Death.”
“Then again some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!”
@@Alan-T85 i can hear the voice of Snape while reading this in my mind HAHAHA
Kids, next time when picking textbook in school, pick the oldest looking one
then it'll be full of doodles
Sao Dinh still worth it
Mad Titan yes,do that
I might do that
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no one gonna talk about how beautiful Snape's handwriting is?
idk
I concur.
He is a professional
Wish my handwriting was this perfect.
His handwriting is amazing
0:55 Even when Snape isn't the teacher anymore, Ron is still getting hit with a book in potions.
That was Snape's book, so one could say Snape was still hitting him.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩
@@DrBuntonDO lmao XD
Harry Potter style
Ron and Harry fighting over the nicer textbook, Ron winning, and Harry smacking the book in his hand out of spite while Ron still grins in sheepish victory is the most realistic and relatable highschool boy best friends thing to do ever.
And yet harry still ended up with the better book lol
I wish the movies had more moments like this, showing that Ron and Harry really are best friends.
My favorite is when Harry slapped Ron with his old book.
😂
It's funny when they fight over a text book.
For casual
This book proves that snape actually was the brightest student at that time.
@@ludwiggalaxy4277 both were incredibly talented in potions but their approach was very different . Lily did everything by the book and was absolutely perfect in it and took teachers advises very carefully whereas snape was that one quiet and intelligent kid who knew everything and did what he thought would be the best (he changed instructions to improve his potions) . Both approaches are respectable in education but i think snape was objectively better at potions . See the difference here comes between precision and accuracy . Lily was extremely precise in her potion making but way less accurate whereas Snape was much more accurate but way less precise
Always
@@AJ-vs3yz Where are you getting that info about Lily?
@@trueblue6201 just seemed to be how it was in my head
James and serius become anomegi on their 5th year, a feat no one thought actually possible. Also they created the map, that Snape could not break even after being a professor.
Hermione was so pissed off that for the first time someone was better than her :D
I don't think she was pissed because of that she is concerned about the book Harry is using since he followed different instruction
Snape was more intelligent than Hermione. That’s the moral of the story.
@@adtde2000 in potions at least
@@adtde2000 Tom Riddle, Snape and Draco were all very talented when it comes to magic, especially Tom. Hermione is just academically smart. She takes all classes, studies all the time, but on the long run she would get surpassed by Draco and Harry easily.
Draco was talented ? You got to be kidding. May be just last several years like when he used vanishing cabinets
Harry: FINALLY, NO SNAPE IN POTIONS!
Book: think again kid!
LOL...!!!! 😅😅😅
Book: No instead he's gonna teach YOUR FAVOURITE CLASS!
Harry: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
I think thats the thing, if they both weren't so overwhelmed of their dislike for each other, Severus really taught harry a lot of new magic and spells (that he later uses in Deathly hallows) and Harry ended up liking Potions too
@@traptinseid8577 what's his favorite class again was it charms
@@itzcyberhusky5948 Defence Against the Dark Arts
It’s really cool because hermione never had a problem in potions with professor snape as the teacher, but slughorn only goes by the textbook and she starts to struggle. It shows that besides the fact that snape torments his students, he is actually a really good teacher and is very smart.
Edit: when I said snape was a good teacher, I only meant in the sense of teaching potions. His personality automatically makes him a very bad and flawed teacher in most other aspects of teaching.
You could also argue that Slughorn goes by the book in order to identify students who step outside the box which fits his character.
Also, one other thing to note is that these books seem to be old. The same book used back when Snape was a student...
Snape never used these books... so Harry is using updated knowledge against past knowledge...
@@TheDeathmail exactly. It's almost like Slughorn knows that anyone strictly following the textbook isn't going to create a quality potion and only someone who is willing to experiment will have a chance.
I mean Hermione is still invited to his little club for special students, so she's not lacking that much, just this instance
It's Hermoine* not hermione. @ryanhorowitz6881 @lowhp_comic.
Harry: I've learned more from The Half-Blood Prince than I've done from Snape
Snape: Yes, I'm The Half-Blood Prince
Harry: tf you just say
AHHAHAHAHAHHA
@Amber death eaters be hypocrites
Amber but he always tries to cover it up. If a death eater mentioned it they would probably be killed
@Amber my father will hear about this
Lmao 😂
Harry: the Half-Blood Prince is a better potions teacher that Snape.
Snape: Well yes, but actually no...
@Amber how the tables have turned* i think that's what the phase is
@@aaacaaaaaab It's an Office thing.
Slughorn is a better “ teacher “ than snape
Lol
That statement is actually correct, if we account for the Half-Blood Prince and Severus Snape to be two different personalities sharing the same person. This isn't Split Personality Disorder that I'm on about here, just how the same character behaves in two different situations. Severus Snape is the teacher, the Professor, the spy. He's the sardonic (albeit most entertaining) bully of an instructor who causes undue trouble for certain students like Neville Longbottom. 'Severus' is the personality of Snape as he deals with the outside world. The 'Half-Blood Prince' is how he talks to himself. The notes in the margins were intended only for Snape's own use, not for others'. The textbook was his experiment journal. He taught children the same concepts in his classes, but refused to enlighten in a genuine manner, preferring to keep his charges in the dark about crucial topics and proceeding to sarcastically condemn them for that very reason. Severus is not the same person as the Half-Blood Prince, at least not in personality.
Harry: *Being top of the potions class*
Hermione: *_Wait, That's Illegal_*
Hermione would have been happy for Harry. But Harry was never an academic genius like she was. He had all the answers written down. She had to work it out herself. Harry was cheating his way through Potions.
@@klaudiagrob well, It is not considered as cheating. He made it himself. The instruction in the book Harry uses are a bit different which just helped in breweing the potion more effectively. It is the same as of Harry using a Firebolt while others use a not equally competent broom as his.
@@klaudiagrob it cant be called cheating can it
I mean he took the book but wasnt his fault the answers were written down
@@klaudiagrob Hermione was also following a book tho-
😂😂
The jealous look Hermione gives Lavander as she stares in awe at Ron entering the room is golden.
Emmione glares at everything all the time, though. Her two modes in the whole of the 8 films is a spectrum between looking annoyed and being angry at somethijg offscreen.
@@Sizdothyx Hater.
@@Sizdothyx that’s fair but Hermione is looking dead at Lavender with an unfamiliar look of an annoyance in her eyes
Fun fact: Emma Watson’s bushy hair at at the end of the scene is the same hairstyle Hermione has in the books.
Yes, through all the books
But she felt that was little shaggy for her, so they made a different hairstyle after the 1st movie...
@30mate lol now now
When "Wizard People Dear Reader" was released, that's all I could think of every time he calls her "The Wretched Harmony" lol. Super mean but super funny. At least someone got close to her proper description after the books.
In Monica's voice : IT'S THE HUMIDITY !
from The one in the Barbados :)
"Use it wisely"... potion ends up being used against him 😂
Lmaooooooooooo
:)
Maybe Dumbledore took a sip of liquid luck himself so Harry would win it.
USE IT WELL... I WISH IF HARRY COULD SAVE THAT UNTILL THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS...THEN NO ONE WOULD DIE..
Didn't Harry give Ron some of the vial during his Quidditch tryouts?
"FINALLY, Potions lessons without Snape!"
"I'M the Half-Blood Prince!"
"Dang it!"
Could you honestly imagine anyone at Hogwarts ever saying "Dang it"?
@@countiblis1246 "Bollocks!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Always
It would be
"OH GREAT HEAVENS"
@@countiblis1246 "Merlins Beard!"
I love how Hermione‘s hair in the end looks how it is always described in the books.
I don't think she wanted to stop using conditioner for years when she was filming 🤣🤣
Yeahhh... i am also glad for it.. it was looked like as like as the descriptions of the book.😅
I find it funny at how bitter Hermione was when Harry created the perfect Draught of Living Death, and she brewed Polyjuice Potion in her second year 😂😂😂
Hashtag: Hermione when she wakes up and forgets to do her homework!
@@DeanHartshorn
Is that even possible?!
4:23 He says congratulations and use it well to Harry.
Harry: Uses it to get information from him.
😂😂😂😂
Well, he "used it well."
Haha lol😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Ah! The irony!
Harry should use it to get information about how to make more of that lucky potion
*Harry Potter: but Snape finally teaches Harry how to make potions.*
lol
@@theanomaly2587 Why are you THE only comment
@@okkevandijk4281 idk
I don’t get it
Lmao accurate
'Only once did a student brew a potion sufficient to win this prize' - obviously Snape.
oh i thought it was Lily bc she was his favourite + extremely gifted at potions too
I think it was Tom Riddle. He probably used the luck potion to get the horcrux info from slughorn, the same way that Harry uses it.
@@AwesomGuy971 Nah it was pointed out Riddle was extremely charming and manipulative and just managed to use those to get the info from Slughorn, hence why Slughorn was so ashamed.
@@emilyb4768 Ooh that's interesting. I always thought Snape because he would have used the same method as Harry, who also won.
I personally think its Tom M. Riddle. Wasn't he favorite brightest student of slughorn's?
Ron being honest at how bad he was with the potions, but the teacher just brushing it off and encouraging him anyways, was a very surreal and wholesome moment, the thing is there are often teachers you will become honest too, without trying anything, and it is pretty good.
It's funny afterwards that teacher almost never gets Rons name right.
@@Red_MOON187 roonil wazlib :D
@@Red_MOON187 and he never gets invited to the slug club
@@BaronVladHarkonnen"DESPITE.... BEING THE STUDENT.... WHO SHARES... A CERTAIN..... affinity... to slugs" - Snape
Imagine snape wrote "this book belongs to severus snape" instead of "this book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince"
Harry would go crazy
Dude that would be epic but i think he hates his surname so he wouldn't do that
Imagine he wrote, “Snape, Snape, Severus Snape,” then on the next page is just, “DUMBLEDORE!”
@@D0CT0RS133P Herrrrmoine!
@@D0CT0RS133P First page: "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape"
Second page, in what is unmistakably Albus's handwriting: *_"D U M B L E D O R E !"_*
Snape was an edgelord. No way he'd write his name. Half Blood Prince is chuuni as feck
Harry and Ron fighting over the neater textbook is so wholesome. 😂
That scene rings so true.
One of my favorite parts of this movie. It shows, some might say ironically, that they were very good friends. As I explained to my wife one time, guys show affection by insulting each other. 😆
little did they know
And really funny
At the end, they are just teens
The reason hermione got the potion wrong was because snape never told them to follow the books but gave them instructions himself hence hermione always got it right
Because snape was not teaching and slughorn told them to follow the books , hermione got it wrong while harry who was following half blood prince's (snape) instructions, he got it right
This is why I want to read the books, so many more small but interesting details i want to know.
The lesson there is that not everything you read is right, sometimes you have to find your own answers.
Oh my goodness, I never realized that! You eagle-eyed genius!!
She would've still gotten them wrong
@@yk_6624 You definitely SHOULD!!! They are full of fun details! The movies don't do them justice
No ones gonna talk about how funny it is
How Harry and Ron are fighting over the cleanest and neatest potion book 😂
Ron emerged victorious- The neatest handbook😂
The scene was so dark I could barely see what they were fighting about.
On a separate note, don't judge a book by its cover (or in this case, its state of condition). You may find a treasure inside.
@@jazzyparker9944 Despite openly admitting being terrible at potions, he still prefers the nicest book.
That's a classic best friend moment
Every student has done that at lest once.Theres always a good one amongst a few bad ones and you fight for it.
I love how Draco is cutting his materials so elegantly.
Elegantly**
Timestamp?
@@lanabanana7890
3:03 - 3:06
@G E T R E K T 905😂😂😂
@G E T R E K T 905 I know it's a joke (or maybe not) but draco is actually good in potion though and he's supposedly to be second from hermione so I think he had always pay attention even if it looks like he doesn't 😂
Look at how Draco is depressed. And look at how the potion gets his attention at 2:05, I think he wants it for the mission.
He wanted it to get out of the mission.
I am guessing you haven't read the book before making this comment.
I know why he wants it so that the potion makes him be able to not be a death eater cus he hates it when Bellatrix destroyed the Great Hall.
@@Kncperseus Wow buuuurrrnn I haven't read this book yet but I am on to order of the phoenix.
@@Kncperseus I haven't read the book so excuse me for asking. Why did Draco want the liquid luck potion?
I love how Ron doesn't even care that Harry won, he's just smiling.
Bestie for a reason
He is his best friend maybe they both are more like brothers- in - arms
he's his friend. And Ron isn't really the competitive type.
Hermione was like 😠. Bitter that she wasn’t the best for the first time.
He said he's lousy at potions so he's not surprised somebody besides him won it lol
I think this has to be one of my favorite scenes of the academic sides of hogwarts. A teacher setting a friendly competition in front of his students for a tidy reward, which directly or indirectly gets them to learn.
In real life, a teacher would probably use extra credit as the incentive and that would be enough, but of course in Harry Potter the stakes are raised with the magical concept of “liquid luck” which is just fantastic.
If you make it competitive thats naturally going to give a lot (esp lads) of them a tail up. We’re competitive creatures, also we find it motivating and entertaining. The problem most schools have is not understanding our personal natures and instincts,, not understanding what type of personalities they have amongst their classrooms. Hence why you get a lot of bored and disinterested students (esp lads) who are staring off into space,, academics is very boring for most youngsters. Watching the scene where Harry is teaching them in the room of requirement,, how much more excited and motivated they look because its all very competitive and the stakes are getting higher,, its a lot more motivating when theres something at stake.
I had a teacher who used lollies as an incentive he used to have us play a game called "around the world" where we would either do maths or spelling challenges with one student going from student to student being asked questions if they got the question right they move to the next student if they get it wrong but the other student gets it right they continue on while the first student sits down in the others seat.
Anyway, the game goes on until someone gets to the teacher who gave them the bag of lollies. If at any time both students get it wrong, then they get another question and the teacher gets one lolly.
He would also eat a lolly if we wouldn't shut up. I won the maths one once and the spelling one a few times.
Maths wasn't my strongest subject.
Also for more incentives it was a $1 worth of lollies which back then was a big bag and for clarification there were lollies for 5 and 10 cents so in a $1 bag you would get 2 of each 5 cent lollies and 1 of each 10 cent lollies that's quite a lot of lollies. I would on occasion get a 50 cent bag that was 1 10 cent lolly and 1 of each 5 cent lolly. So you could imagine a bunch of 8 and 9 year olds might really want to win the bag of lollies.
this scene, along with lupin’s biggest lesson in prisoner of azkaban, are the absolute most wholesome teacher student portions we get to see where the teacher interacts with other students and not just harry!
Half blood prince is probably the most aesthetically shot episode in the whole series. Look at the colors, the angles, Harry’s eyebrows, the sound tracks, the dialogues, the atmosphere, etc... everything is so well polished
It's my favorite of them all.
I love the dark theme of the camera direction
Yeah it's almost a dreamy sort of episode
I love how you included Harry’s eyebrows there.
It and Prisoner of Azkaban are the best looking films in the series easily.
“Harry’s friends are friends of mine” *proceeds to forget Ron’s name all the damn time*
Lol
Roonil wazlib or let's just say Rupert
XD
Wallaby 😂
L
The best part is that Slughorn never knew Harry was using snapes book. So the whole time Slughorn assumes that Harry got talent from his mom.
Ever since I was young I always hated when they would tell the truth at the end of the show/movie. So I liked when Slughorn never knew.
Maybe he did get some talent from his mother but Snape's teaching made him lose all interest in actually trying to do better in potions from years 1-5. In the sixth year, when he saw the Half Blood Prince's book was giving better instructions his interest was perhaps rekindled.
ktgirl 75761 Funny how it was Snape who still ended up “teaching” him.
@@ktgirl-oh9px or what if lily actually just average in potion,but snape help her become good
@@harizirfan5117 possible. Then again the Potter side supposedly had good potion makers too. That's a major reason behind their wealth. So anything is possible, I guess.
Looking at this now, Slughorn is actually a pretty solid teacher
I’d love to have as a professor
Sure, except for the whole blatant favoritism thing
@@limiv5272 Yeah, but it's kinda normal for a teacher to like a student better than the other, they are human after all. Atleast he isn't bringing down any other student. At some point, every teacher would have some kind of flaw
@@limiv5272 When I was studying philosophy, I had a professor like Slughorn in the regard that he had his own "debate circle". A few students, no beginners of course, would be invited to his home and discuss some philosophical matters. Always as a group, so no funny business
But even though he clearly had these favorites, he was still fair to everyone else and a great teacher. You can have both
0:47 the best part of the video in my opinion
Yeah, it was totally unexpected and it really demonstrates their chemistry.
Alex Ayers Their 'chemistry', get it? It's a chemical-related class...
me getting biology textbook.
it really is
In the book only Harry doesn't have a book, so Slughorn gets the book out of the cupboard and gives it to him. The movie does it better.
This scene shows something very important, Hermione has always relied on books as J.K said before. That's why anything that couldn't be explained in books would be impossible for her to acknowledge. Sometimes you need to "break the rules" or be a little "adventurous" to discover new things. That's why she was so angst towards Harry, the simple fact that he could overcome her without doing what she has done through all her life was unfathomable.
I agree that is also a reason why she isn't in ravenclaw, yes she is intelligent but she isn't wise and creative (I love her tho)
I disagree, Harry followed the book. But the halfblood prince’s book. That’s why he got the potion right. I mean he didn’t choose to not to follow ingredients or instructions.
@@elaphus4811 Harry isn't good at potions. That's not the point. The point is that Hermione has a fairly rigid approach to everything she does. She's insanely smart, Im pretty sure has a photographic memory and can easily recall a ton of things shes learned. But she doesnt as easily develop insight into the whys and hows because she tends to not bend the rules. Shes been shown to be able to do so, but it's tough for her. Shes like structure and rigidity. And is a lot less likely to experiment.
To be fair, so did Harry in this scene aswell.
@@kylehallman8183 Harry got an E on his Potions OWL.
i read once why hermione is not a ravenclaw even tho she's so smart and this scene show exactly why. she's a book smart and to be ravenclaw it requires you to think out side the box and not always follow instructions step by step. nevertheless, hermione is still the brightest witch of her age.
Ahhhh Luna Lovegood and riddles
But Hermione granger is very brave
Hermione herself explained in Order of the Phoenix that the Sorting Hat wanted her in Ravenclaw but she wanted to be in Gryffindor.
She specifically asked to be placed in Gryffindor, much like Harry asked not to be put in Slytherin. Because she had the traits of a Gryffindor as well as a Ravenclaw, the hat granted her request. This is explained in Order of the Phoenix to the DA members just as they were being founded. I believe the topic came up when they were being told about the parchment they all signed that would hex anyone who tells any staff or other unwelcome students about the organization, which Hermione herself had made.
It's more about your values. What do you value the most? For Hermione, friendship and bravery was more important, she says that to harry in the first book during the final scene's setup. That is why she was gryffindor, she did value knowledge but she valued other things even more.
Anyone else laughing at Hermione's stressing and failure with the potion in the class?🤣🤣
🙋♂️
I’m mostly laughing at how this movie implied she had some semblance of “daddy-issues.”
She admits the scents of fresh cut grass and toothpaste are attractive to her, and later on tells people her parents are dentists! I know women are capable of mowing lawns, but since it’s more common for fathers and sons of families to do this, she basically admitted to being attracted to qualities of her father!
@@HuginnHufflepuffThat's not daddy issues. Most women are attracted to the qualities of their father, since their father represents, at least to a young, growing mind, the "ideal man." That's why absent, or abusive, fathers are so damaging to children (men and women by the way).
I think the toothpaste is referencing the time when the trio were in the Weasley's house, Ron was saying Hermoine had a bit of toothpaste on the corner of her mouth after brushing, at the beginning of the movie. Hinting Hermione's affection towards Ron.
@@arnoldthomas5278Keen observation. You could be right.
If there is ever a “What if...?” Harry Potter series, one of the plot lines should be: What if Ron Weasley would have taken the Half-Blood Prince book?
" Ronald Wealsey and the Half-Blood Prince "
He would have used liquid luck to get hermione sooner
ItIt's mentioned in the books, he wasn't able to read the handwriting
He might still would have exchanged it with Harry!
Based on the history of Ron always having lousy used books, he'd still trade it with Harry to get a better-looking book. Harry would've trade it as well since he knew Ron always got lousy used books. Wanted to make his best friend happy like that.
Am i the only one who is having fun watching hermoine struggling in this class?
Nope I love seeing her getting frustrated and her hair becoming all wild and crazy 🤣🤣
Nope you’re not alone 😹🙈
Yes you are
Well she’s book smart but not as much as “Snape”
Nope.
Snape's intelligence is sadly overlooked in the films. He was a student and was smart enough to edit the mistakes of textbooks written by "professionals" as well as creating a multitude of spells. Imagine how powerful he would have become had he lived a long life.
I agree. But I don't think they are mistakes. He is essentially "building a better mousetrap". Improving on something that already works. The formula in the book will work. He just figured out how to make it better.
@@semperaugustus661 i don't know about better, his main goal was to circumwent certain steps so i think he was focusing on making everything faster.
@@semperaugustus661 Yeah, but he also created pretty powerful spells too. It’s not that his corrections were groundbreaking or anything, but he’s the one that made them. That means he was way more ambitious than his classmates.
Had he not been so obsessed with Lily and learned to let her go he might have become way more successful in life.
I know plenty of home cooks who write their own notes in the margins of cookbooks just like Snape does in his potions books.
He also kept voldemort out of his mind.
Malfoy seems so distracted, so lonely, so lost... The only time he pays attention is when Professor Slughorn explains the goodness of Liquid Luck
4:15 everyone's like god dammit harry always wins everything LOL
He’s the chosen one
Harry is the best. He's The Chosen One.
@@SymphonyBrahms actually no he is not the best he would not have destroyed voldermort without his friends.In the ministry he would have gotten killed if the aurors werent there .
Except lavender 🤣🤣🤣
Karina Soroka no he wouldn’t but it is true, Harry needs his friends
3:16 Is it just me who finds that satisfying?
No xD
Nope.
Like that scene I’m toy story 2 I think when woody get fixed by the chicken dude 👌👌👌
Diego Cecilio Aaaah best scene in the movie. Litteral ASMR moment
Thats like squishing cockroach... How tf do you find it satisfying?
i love how the camera shows us in this moment 2:03 the faces of draco and harry at the same time as they realize that felix felicis can make their dreams come true...they were the most ambicious...thats why the camera turns to them at this moment
BRILLIANT
not ambitious, because they are the one who has missions.
I loved the difference in difficulty/material as the years went on, this really feels like an advanced potions class for the final year
1:05
Little easter egg-
The love potion changes colors, according to what Hermione's describing. At the end, the color turns red/orange, which is obviously not the color of toothpaste. She was probably smelling rons hair. Also explains why she had that facial expression.
Wow, very keen eye
Yeah, I believe in the books she smelled Ron's cologne or hair wash or something
I just read that part, she says the first two, then the narrator says she gets embarrassed. This third line is actually new for the film.
@@roachdoggjr45 yea
I notice that too
Instructions: “Cut up” one Sopophorus bean.
Snape: No, I don’t think I will
Snape: No U
I can see snape actually thinking that when he came up with a better way to extract the juice from the bean
0:53 that's the best friendship ever
Ron and Harry are hilarious lol.
Back when it came out, I couldn't appreciate Half-Blood Prince for what it was. The calm before the storm that came with Deathly Hallows. The last bit of innocent school life before these kids got turned into literal fugitives(Harry, Ron, Hermione), eaten by a werewolf(Greyback killed Lavender), or living in a traumatic situation under house arrest where you and your family might be killed at any given moment(Malfoy). And in the case of Neville, Dean, and Seamus, watching their school transform into a Dark Arts school. These were probably some of the last good memories these kids had before being forced into war.
Harry learned more from Snape's notebook then he did from Snape himself in 5 years of classes. Goes to show how good a teacher he could have been if he wasn't more interested in Bullying then teaching his students. And goes to show Harry was never truely bad at potions. He was just to busy being bullied to make good ones.
Yeah if I remember correctly there is a scene in the 5th book when Harry was in potions class and Snape was clearly ignoring him and was not on his neck like he was previously and due to that Harry actually made a really great potion by himself
@@thorragnarok8112 yeah he was ignoring him for weeks cause harry saw that scene where his father bullied him.
Don’t forget that he literally got exceeds expectations and is one of the dozen of students who did so. He was never bad, he just thought he was because snape was always down putting his work
I also think there was some bias on Harry's part too. He didn't want to learn from Snape while he was in his class but had no problem learning from his writing in a book. Even in the first book they assume Snape is the bad guy when he isn't. They also assume that about him a few other times.
@@nathanaelluisdesousa4938 I've only read the 5th and 6th book so most of what I know is from the movies. He seems closer to one of my harsh but fair wrestling coaches than he does to an abusive teacher.
You see Snape not only actively saved Harry on multiple occasions, he also helped him with his grades to do well in school. Such a wonderful teacher.
While also constantly bullying and belittling him.
Lol yess
Just in a roughly indirect way lmao
@@joshuadesautels yep people forget that
Lets not forget about neville and the other students.
3:04 Look at Draco, he is cutting the ingredient without problems. He was good at potions too.
He's good at everything
He was good at cutting. But not at potions. He didn't win the contest.
@@78lalrinpuia80 actually Draco was a very good student very intelligent and clever.
@@j-rmy3556 also important to mention... higher than Harry
@@j-rmy3556 Woahhhh
Imagine how much of a breath of fresh air it must have been to have gone through 5 years of Snape's cruelty and torture then to have a fun, friendly teacher like Slughorn 😊
4:29 - small detail, but it's cool how none of Slytherin are clapping.
Didn’t everyone know that XD
Happy new month for you guys and the rest
@@PalwinderSingh-uo4je Thank you
Because they're creeps.
They're like, *ive had enough of Harry being the golden student*
I love how the potion blows up in Seamus’s face, good nod to the first film!
EditorOfSL wasn’t that Neville?
No, it was Seamus, he blew up his water and his feather
@@aidan6620 I think he blew something else up too since he was missing hair from the back of his head lol
He has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.
The first film? That's supposed to be Seamus always. 😂😂
Man Harry is such a good friend telling Hermione to crush it like I would never tell someone 🤣🤣
I will. I am a good person
Slytherin or Ravenclaw?
Why? Why would you proudly claim selfishness ?
Same lol
@@lavishlyvice hufflepuff
0:35 Notice how Draco is disconnected from all the others, usually when Hermione is speaking he looks at her in disgust, but now he just doesn't care. Too much conflict with himself, the person he's becoming.
Does he roll his eyes when Hermione says her name? It looks like he does... lol Also it's ironic he is even there I call it a coincidence because Harry and Ron decided to go here cause Mcgonagall's saw them having to much fun laughing with their free period while the whole school was hectic. Lol
0:47 Imagine if Harry got the new textbook, and Ron got Snape’s
Merlin's beard😂😂😂
Ron Weasley and the Half Blood Prince!
@@purusothramanan7631 lmaoo
Then him and Hermione will really go into a huge fight, bigger than Harry and Hermione HAHAHAHAHAHA.
@@purusothramanan7631 🥴😂😂😂
it’s so ironically funny how harry’s not that outstanding in Potions when Snape was teaching it. Then when they changed to Slughorn, he’s now finally acing the subject with the help of Snape. 😂
Harry got Exceeds Expectations on his Potions OWL.
@@joshuadesautelsyes we know, but he got help from snape to become so good and get really good
Before he hated seeing Snape's face probably
I noticed in the books that Snape would write instructions on the board, and then the students would follow either that, or their books, or both. Harry never seems to bother following what Snape writes on the board bcs he's too preoccupied with being mad at him, and in the books Snape's criticism of Harry is that he didn't follow some specific instruction from the board.
@@al4381 yes ur actually right...Snape was pretty clever but he never showed it
The nicest slythern I've ever seen/read
Irving Ramirez Because being a Slytherin doesn't mean that you have to be evil, you just have to be cunning and very ambitious.
Very biased still. When you don't care about helping weaker students just groom celebrities you're obviously should't be a teacher. Still nicer then Snape, I agree.
Slughorn is slytherin ?
Who
@@kjk4795 He was, even head of house before Snape.
The thing about Hermoine is that while she has a good brain, she doesn't have the spirit of an Ravenclaw. Lune's dad said it best; 'painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' For her, if it's written in a book it's written in stone, otherwise it's not true. I think the reason she was so bitter about the Prince's book is because she was jealous. This was someone who could not only learn from the book, but build on it. Someone who would experiment, innovate, and make something original; something we've never seen her even attempt.
So that makes Hermione similar to a classical computer. She’s logical and can execute steps with precision. Hermione is very much a by the books kind of person which is why she finds the library to be a comfort of sorts. Books give her direction. Developing a strong friendship with Harry and Ron helps her open up a bit through the story.
She does exhibit some inventiveness by Book 7 though. Using the undetectable extension charm to turn her bag into a cargo bay to carry all their supplies is advanced magic. But she had a quite of bit of skepticism initially when it came to the Deathly Hallows.
Looking up ravenclaw values "Ravenclaw values its members' intellect, learning, wisdom, and wit" - that is in fact Hermione so she'd fit right in a ravenclaw, even if she can have issues separating from book instructions. Her desire for learning & knowledge sounds like one of the foundation of that house if not THE foundation. She mentioned in the books that the sorting hat seriously considered placing her in Ravenclaw
Frankly she was probably only put in Gryffindor to keep the three main characters together, she has values of Gryffindor as well but seems far more of a ravenclaw IMO
From the little I remember of the books she did experiment outside of reading as well, such as making her own curse for anyone who betrayed Dumbledor's army in the 5th book
@@ststes She has very little wit or wisdom. Intellect and learning she has.
@@MsJubjubbird she has all three to different degree's
she's basically the biggest voice of reason and wisdom among the main group. Just because she can get caught up focusing on the books in class doesn't mean she can't be clever or wise
Slughorn- “Which will be found on page-“
Snape interrupting him- “394”
iykyk 😂
😂 a classic
fun fact: the last thing hermionie could smell from the potion was Ron's hair.
By the way,how a hair smells? I ve never got the smell of the hair
wasn't the toothpaste a reference to the first part of the book/movie where ron was telling hermione that she had some toothpaste left on her mouth?
@@nj7190 Of course. Funny, neither Ron, nor Hermione knew they were actually in love 💕
@@nj7190 No, it was a reference to her parents, because her parents are dentists.
@@aryamanbhadauria1584 it’s actually a reference to Ron, from earlier in the movie where he clears up toothpaste from Hermione. Of course, toothpaste is not a wizard thing and it does not appear in the book either. She stops at “fresh parchment and…”.
In both the book and the film, Slughorn is perplexed as to what a dentist does.
and so this is how hermione granger turned herself into bellatrix lestrange
what ? 😂
sitsia the crazy curly disheveled hair, i think
3:48
한인석 nooo but hermione ask me to make my name swag God help me
so i will give this account to the crazy harley quinn
This reaveals the genius of Snape that even as a student he is able to correct and modify recipies created by greatest magicians of that time
They are magicians does not mean they are Gods. ;-\
Snape being able to call Hermione an Insufferable Know it all when he's not even there is a blessing.
I love that little fight of Harry n Ron XD.
Also,Ron's my favourite character
RUCHA : Potterhead My fav character as well
RUCHA : Potterhead for me also
Mine too.
Thank you Rucha, Ron's my favorite character as well, it's so sad that he often gets overlooked. For me he's always the underdog, and I can relate myself to him. Go Ron!
He's such an underrated character
RON : "I'm awful at potions, sir"
Seamus at 3:35 : Back off bro, I'm the explosion L O R D 😆
Bro it’s a gag about the IRA
Seamus wasn't in the NEWT level Potions in the book.
(Megumin is rapidly approaching)
Neville: Dean, hold my butterbeer!
Draco: This is why I love coming to Hogwarts.
to this day, Seamus is still known as the kid that explosed everything. or better yet, the smoking face kid.
0:41 let’s be honest we’ve all been there 😂
Takes me back to when your in school and get assigned a raggedy book but it has all the answers and you coast into that easy A.
I almost had a similar thing during a maths exam in school. After I completed the test there was extra pages clipped on revealing all the answers. But unfortunately everybody in the class had them too and somebody blurted it out to the teacher who ripped my pages out immediately.
Phillip Martinez I did
One time i got a science book with answers on it.😂😂
Perfect
Hermione's expression when Harry won the potion as a prize was priceless 😅
She looked like she was about to join the slytherin's 😆
I know :-). And the reluctant clapping... lol
Anyone notice that when Hermoine talks about the smell of the potion she’s basically saying she has a crush on Ron
i thought it was muggle stuff like having a lawn and toothpaste and liking to study the smell of paper
@@hotstuffwatcher that’s what I thought at first but after rewatching I’m pretty sure the toothpaste was a call back to the beginning of the movie when Ron was flirting with her saying she had a bit of toothpaste on her.
@@hotstuffwatcher I figured that the toothpaste was because her parents are dentists
In the book she never finished saying what it smelled like to her. She just blushed and backed away
@@imastatistic8347 that’s our proof
I would love to have a chemistry teacher like Slughorn; patient, diligent, humble.
I like how Slughorn proved that not all Slytherins are awful people.
yeah apart from the favoritism doesn't seem that bad.
3:48 thats how hermoine is supposed to look, according to the book; wild hair of sorts
I'll be honest, she looks better that way
@@dusathemaid I think you hurt Emma Watson's feelings.
No there was no long teeth
@@ushasahay4196 The long front teeth was gone after the 4th year. She was basically became prettier after the 4th year, according to Rowling.
@@P.Whitestrake Agree. As I remember, at some point in that book Malfoy curses Hermione, and as a result her large front teeth got even larger. When Madam Pomfrey shrinks it back to it's normal size, Hermione tells her to keep going and gets it shrink to a normal tooth size.
4:15 Harry savouring the pleasure of outsmarting Hermione for once 😂😂
3:36 I guess it's a tradition for Seamus to always have something blowing up in his face xD
Haha lol yes
I guess so.
Lmao
Is it weird I can notice a cut in the scene?
1:05 Freshly mown grass and new parchment is the smell of the Burrows, and the night before this scene, Ron noticed that Hermoine has a little bit of toothpaste on her face.
I knew Harry is not a genius nor is a cheater, he just follows the instructions that was well written
You are right. Harry didn't cheat. He just followed Snape's written instructions. He was actually being tutored by Snape.
@@SymphonyBrahms yeah the Snape way was easy but both the way was right
that shows that if given the right resources, harry can do something well, but not if he has to figure it out. MAYBE IF DUMBLEDORE DIDNT TELL HIN EVERYTHING IN RIDDLES, VOLDY WOULD BE DEAD 10 YEARS EARLIER
I think Potions is primarily based on your ability to follow the damn instructions. Not every Wizard has the ability to remember everything.
Harry did that well, and it just so happened that the instructions were even better than what the other students got.
People seriously asking how Harry didn't recognise Snape's handwriting?
This kid didn't even realise he's a wizard when he made a glass vanish into thin air
What are you implying at? Imagine if you had that situation, would you presume you're a wizard? Plus, handwritings do change. Harry is usually very observant to detail.
There are also other explanations to the glass vanishing. Harry could’ve been psychic and teleported the glass. I can actually imagine several cars crashing in the street cause a large pane of glass suddenly appeared in the middle of the road from nowhere.
@@CesarACastillo but the glass was placed back after, dudley was locked in
@@Wienerslinky wasn’t that just the movie? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t replaced in the books.
Snape scribbled those when he himself was in 6th year, his handwriting probably changed a bit since then
Fun detail: Hermione from book/movie 1-5 Hermione always makes perfect potions. This is when Snape taught the class
When Snape leaves to teach DATDA, Hermione’s potions are nowhere near as good as they used to be.
The only one who makes perfect potions is Harry, and he has Snape’s old textbook
So Snape is an amazing teacher
@@doctorwitherdorakuro6028 Not only that, Slughorn seems ineffective at teaching as he's only out to score 'prized' students or steal materials that he can later sell for profit.
He's not interested in actually teaching the youth. May be the reason why Snape and Lily excelled, they could have had to learn by themselves.
I figured that. Snape is like that one really good teacher and you get good grades because of him, but is very scary and intense.
@@yk_6624 not scary but petty one who bullied you for no apparent reason and had favorites...
Conclusion snape gave the students his improvised recipes of the potions. That proves it that he was a true teacher. But he was always overlooked because of his strict and mean expressions
I remember years ago at school in English literature class I pulled an old anthology from the cupboard because I forgot mine at home. Each poem had notes and clever insights all around it. It was incredible honestly. Thank you passed students!
Freshly mowed grass = summer
Parchment = books
Spearmint toothpaste = her parents were dentists
from another comment I've seen I'm going to trade spearmint for Ron, the smoke turns red and she thinks of a different scent that would seem obvious
Theory (probably not original): noticed when she said grass it turned green, but when she said toothpaste it was orange. Maybe she lied because she was to embarrassed to say it smells like Ron's hair? Hmmmm...
I think she made up one because it turned orange for a second which is Ron's hair color then she said spearmint toothpaste
There was toothpaste scene where Ron touches her and says there's toothpaste. She smiles foolishly
When Hermione smelled the love potion she said toothpaste because Ron tried to wipe the toothpaste off her cheek at the beginning of the movie. That was a little thing I discovered about Hermione's love for Ron.
The fact that the book is by Snape actually proves that Harry is reasonably good at making potions,he just couldn't make it in front of Snape because of the bullying. Snape never taught the students from the book,he wrote his own instructions, so Harry was basically using Snape's instructions all this time, but he actually managed to make the potion properly when Snape wasn't around
Snape makes everything good except teaching
You’re right but Harry also succeeded in 6th year at Potions because he had Snape’s book with better instructions
Nonsense. Harry succeeded only because of Snape’s instructions. If Goyle got Snape’s book, he would succeed too
@@immortalfrom90 they were all using Snape's instructions in Snape's potions classes,too
He also achieved quite a high score on his OWLs so I wouldn't say he wasn't learning there
Why does Slughorn look like he’s graduating? He’s got the hat and everything. 🤣
In Britain at least, back before... Oh, I want to say the 50s? The mortarboard hat as it's known was part of the standard dress for a teacher. Obviously the series is set either in the 90s for the books or the 00s for the films, but Slughorn is something of a throwback.
Those hats and cloaks have always been traditionally for teachers to wear. It was sort of like their uniform or an indication of what they do, like how doctors would wear lab coats.
It's not like that for teachers anymore obviously, but as it's the wizarding world things are a bit more traditional!
Harry and Ron being late to potions class without their books, Harry becomes top of the class making both Hermine and Malfoy hilariously jealous, priceless lmao 🤣.
I really like how Hermione's appearance's changing during that scene 0:56, 3:29, 3:49 4:10, 4:16
From perfect to scruffy student under the pressure
0:55 perfect school outfit (the most accurately arranged tie, robe and also hair)
3:29 Confused Hermione with unfastened button and slightly loosened tie, but still in robe, slightly disheveled hair
3:49 Stressed Hermione with more curly hair, without a robe and rolled up sleeves and more loosened tie
4:10 grin and bear it xD like "I keep trying everything is OK" even worse looks
4:16 Her hair is the best, xD says everything and she's like "that's illegal I should've been there" xD
So true! Nice details 😁
Hermione: no one is smarter than me
Harry( with the help of the text book):hold my butter beer.
Hermione: No one is smarter than me.
Dumbledore, Voldemort, Snape, Sirius and James: You know nothing, Granger.
I like the part if the movie when they're walki g back from the 3 broomsticks having had some butterbeer and hermione is clearly a little tipsy
@@discretelycontinuous2059 Some of Slughorn whiskey end in Hermione's drink.
@@varric umm.i dont know if Sirius and james is smarter than hermione
@@harizirfan5117 They are. They invent the Marauder Map and become Animagus at fifteen. Hermione doesn't make anything important compared with them.
I always think that the Half-Blood Prince movie was so underrated...
Ismael Gouriguer lol you have to see the box office collection
No it’s not really, it’s just that a lot of fans are a bit dissapointed in the movie
I feel like the games are underrated
It’s my FAVOURITE!
It's my next to favorite. My favorite is The Prisoner of Azkaban. That is such a great movie!
Before this, Snape always write the potion recipe in the board hence Hermione nailed it every time. Now, she had to follow books and Harry follows Snape's recipe.
I wonder how many times Snape experimented with making this potion before writing down all the more "helpful" instructions, like "crush the bean; don't cut it" and "use 13 beans instead of 12". Seeing that potions class is kinda equivalent to muggle chemistry classes, I'm guessing Snape had a very good understanding on the inherent properties of each ingredient and how they would interact with each other.
Yeah, Sirius telling Snape: "Go and play with your chemistry set." 😂👌
According to Lupin Snape could very easily have tampered with the Wolfsbane potion he made him when Lupin taught at Hogwarts but Lupin said Snape made it so he didn't suffer at all and its revealed the Wolfsbane potion is incredibly difficult to make so Snape must have a genius level intellect with potions and he clearly taught Harry reasonably well because he did get Exceeds Expectations in his O.W.L and he hates Harry lol
@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 'genius' doesn't exist and knowledge of the potions is the point here
4:12 I just love how much enthusiasm he puts into saying that 😆
When Hermione is smelling the potion, the colour of the potions steam changes to what she is describing but at the end, when she says spearmint toothpaste, the steam is red/ orange which is probably the smell of Ron's hair, hence her facial expression. In the books, it also mentions that she stopped on the second line and looked embarrassed and didn't finish her sentence
Great observation - 10 points to hufflepuff!
0:14 Hermione's look at lavender 😂😂when she is grinning at Ron
😒
Funny parts in this scene:
When Ron and Harry both wanted the new book but Harry got the torn up one.
The girls smelled the love potion, got close to it and then Slughorn closed the lid.
“How’d you do that?” “Crush it, don’t cut it” “No, the instructions specifically said to cut it”
Everyone was jealous that Harry got liquid luck.
If you pay attention to Draco, his reaction when the luck potion gets brought up. It just made me think, he was probably thinking "Maybe this potion will get me and my family out of this mess with Voldermort."
I kind of felt bad for him that he didn't get it.
And what about Seamus when that potion exploded? It was like in the first film when his wand blew up when he tried to recite a spell! 😂😂
C.A. Nanney seamus
@@rstein926 it was WIN-GAR-DIUM LEVI-OSA
@@rstein926 yes he wanted to turn water into Rum... Maby he should have tried wine 😂😂
I think Draco wasn't actually jealous or angry at Harry this time. Like I legit believe that Draco needed that Liquid-Luck to help him, since he's facing a lot of internal conflict with his mission. If you notice, 2:06 after Professor Slughorn mentioned the effects of Liquid-Luck it made Draco interested to work hard in this assignment. Last detail of inferential evidence, he was working hard, he didn't waste time insulting, Harry, Ron and/or Hermoine. He was so genuine that he wanted I'm sure, but because of Harry's book, Harry takes the spotlight again.
Does anyone else think Hermione was partly jealous of how the Half-Blood Prince made Harry better than her in Potions?
@Sairi Erona Her hair certainly seals it… ;)
Definitely, in the books she basically tries to force him to get rid of it
Oh yeah she is. Then later on she gets even more pissed off that Harry and Ron don't believe the Half-Blood Prince is a girl.
If it was a girl she would call herself The Half Blood Princess. lol
Secret Guy Nah, even if it was a girl, still would be call “prince” due to fact the name canes from Snape’s mother family.