Chapter Twenty-Eight: Flight of the Prince
In chapter twenty-eight of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry attempts to fight Snape, the Hufflepuffs are kind of badass, and all interesting parts of this were cut for time from the movie.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
*90% of the following cool battle has been cut from the movie so we could watch more vomit inducing romantic scenes*
So Snape grabs Draco like “thanks loser for blowing my cover” and then Harry runs off after them, bent on revenge, and comes across the Order fighting Death Eaters and another moment that metaphorically stuck it’s foot out and tripped me, bashing me in the head with a frying pan labeled “Ginny 2.0 is hot and perfect for Harry, why don’t you see this what’s wrong with you” on it while I flail from the head wound:
Ginny was locked in combat with the lumpy Death Eater, Amycus, who was throwing hex after hex at her while she dodged them: Amycus was giggling, enjoying the sport: ‘Crucio–Crucio–you can’t dance forever, pretty–‘”
Ginny 2.0: so hot even Death Eaters in a life or death battle must comment on it!
Harry runs into Ernie Macmillan, eternally undervalued Hufflepuff who’s shown up with other Puffs because they heard a noise and a rumor about the Dark Mark and came out to investigate instead of hiding like the BAMFS they are.
HPotz shoves Ernie out of the way because he’s got some illegal curses to cast on Snape, and then Snape swats him away like he’s Ernie Macmillan standing in Harry’s way or something and then FREAKS OUT when Harry tries to cast Sectumsempra on him. While this is all well done in the book, the movie is an unholy abomination where–you know what? I’m just going to quote Cleolinda again:
HARRY: SECTUMSEMPRA!!
SNAPE: Bitch, please.
HARRY: ARRRRGH
SNAPE: *eyeroll*
HARRY: *FALLS DOWN*
SNAPE: Look, do you mind? Yes, I am the Half-Blood Prince, and I just killed my only friend and I’ve got my hands full here with Prince Valiant and the pedowolf and however many Carrows we’re up to now–BELLA! I said LET’S ROLL!
The Part That’s Really Sad
[Harry weeps over Dumbledore’s lifeless body, Ginny holds him, and McGonagall leads the students in throwing up their lighters wands to dispel the Dark Mark. This is either a heartbreaking tribute or the worst outdoor concert ever.]
The Part Where Dumbledore Usually Explains It All
MCGONAGALL: But Harry, what about the “half” and the “blood” and the “prince”? No one ever said what that means!
HARRY: *THE HAND*
Cleolinda Jones Movies in 15 Minutes
Movie!Snape is just like “yeah I’m the Half-Blood Prince” then swans away like any of that makes sense with absolutely no follow up. Seriously, I don’t know how anyone who watched movies 4-8 without reading the books had any idea what was going on.
Poor Hagrid’s hut is on fire and his bowtruckles have burned to death, and he’s hearing that one of the only people who’s ever cared about or respected him is dead, murdered by his colleague, and dammit someone give Hagrid a hug! He’s been taking L’s all book!
Naturally RHagz is in denial, and then he’s forced to spot the remarkably intact corpse of one Albus W. P. B. Dumbledore. (I don’t mean to be constantly inappropriate yes I do but shouldn’t Dumbledore be a little more…er…squishy after that huge fall?)
To top off Harry’s No Good, Very Bad, Shitty Cold Night, he snags the locket from Dumbledore and opens it up, only to find out it’s a fake.
I should be sadder here but really, I’m just kind of excited to get to the Regulus backstory!
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