Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Pitch Meeting
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in JK Rowling’s massively popular book series, and dives into the mystery of the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort’s backstory, the assassination of Dumbledore and the teenage romance occuring between the characters at Hogwarts. The movie though seems to spend a whoooooooole lot of time on the romance.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince raises a lot of questions. Like why not use the Felix Felicis liquid luck potion immediately? Or why not use the Truth Serum on Slughorn rather than create a super elaborate plan and hire him as a teacher? Can’t the Weasley’s stop their house from burning down? Do Harry and Ginny have any chemistry whatsoever?
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@evildoughboy7773
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Putting children in mortal danger is TIGHT!!!
@MrWhitegold13
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
y8
@jackmcleod2837
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
The beginning of the movie takes place in 1996 so the millennium bridge had just started planning
@jonathanlopez2650
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
“Ohhh… what’s going on with Voldemort tho” 🤣
@SuperbattleshipYamato
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
A lot of the plot holes really can be explained as “should’ve read the book, you idiot”!
@Asyranok
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
One movie you say its okay that whites are race swapped to blacks "its 2024 it shouldn't matter", but then the reverse happens and you do an "oh my God"… hypocrite.
@phil2160
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I'm sorry, but I'm disliking just for the 20s ad
@zohaib_a
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Literally LOL watching this. Well done my guy
@AriesDZ
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Felix Felicis should be called “liquid plot armour” 😂
@joshhardy5646
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I hated this movie the most, because it was my favorite book. Movie 5 and 6 are tied for the worst adaptations from the books. Even Goblet was easier on the brain.
@SgtPepper67
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
This is the one HP pitch meeting where I was like, "Thank you!… THANK YOU!!" 😂
@helloidharbl6753
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
3:20
Right there sums up the series. HP is bland.
@renatwatts
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Hey so a random fact about the novels and the films. They're 2 separate universes. Philosopher's Stone take place in 1991 whereas the film takes place in 2001. There're a lot of inconsistencies if you think they take place in 90's like A LOT.
@I_am_always_right
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I remember in the summer between order of the Phoenix and half blood prince I sent the whole time on AOL forums reading theories about who the half blood prince was. Many people thought it was Harry , no one thought it was Snape.
@eliben294
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
You don’t really see the things that don’t make sense until you watch these pitch meetings.😂
@piemuggs
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I like the way you money, boy.
@dboluvscinema3968
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
"I like the way you money."
I'm stealing that……
@futurechemist3852
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
2:22 Hold on a sec, did Producer Guy READ an actual BOOK!?!?!?🤯🤯🤯
@bobwallett
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Even at 6 minutes I thought this was too long. God that film must be unbearable
@minarik01
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I've seen every single pitch meeting and nothing has made me laugh harder than writer guy saying 'cormack mcclagen!!' with so much glee
@shrayanduari9119
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I was expecting a "Shoving pieces of your soul into objects is TIGHT!"
@Goremaid
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Even at the time I remember really disliking the book and how Ginny and Hermione were really sexist to each other all of a sudden.
@Nurburaj4307
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I love that he points out how horrible and nonexistent Harry & Ginny's "chemistry" was! Absolute cringe! But…so were all the other pointless teenage romances…
@SimulatedSirens
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
So I was not the only person bothered by unnecessary teenage romance.
@harkamal77
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
when the weasly house burned down remus and his wife were trying to fight the fire with magic to make a path to chase harry. meanwhile the death eaters were flying in the black mist thing as they do. i was just thinking wait. the last movie established the order of the phoenix can fly in the mist like death eaters but they travel in white mist cause good team i guess..
If u ever start making updated versions. or extra indepth pitch meetings u should mention. huh cant they fly as established in the last movie instead of fighting the fire with magic
@karenw.1561
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
When they brought up Twilight, I realized how lucky we are they didn't tell the actor who played Cedric and Edward he was still under contract, was going to play Ron, and that the actress who played Bella would be Lavender Brown. FYI, she becomes a werewolf when bitten in the next movie, Bellatrix turns Hermione into a vampire when toturing her, and they've already written scripts for four movies to make after Harry Potter ended.
@Kmichaelcook87
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
2:35 ooh, having producer guy suddenly able to fill in the backstory when needed is fun. I feel like that’s maybe part of the evolution. It saves a lot of space/time, no doubt about it
@MsAsasi
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
2:06 that is an amazing idea! I wonder why no wizard or witch ever thought about it!!!
@thegodemperorhiram
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
And funnily enough, they managed to mess up the whole romance story between Harry and Ginny.
@panda4247
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
5:47 yeaah.
the whole movie felt like a parody of the book with all the love innuendos etc (starting with the first scene, all the stuff with LavLav, the shoelace scene being a bad metaphor for a bj), and random bs ("harry, you need to shave")…
But this scene, them just leaving Harry there, that made no sense at all in any way…
@Wherethehellarewegoing
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
When i saw it, having not read the books, when Snape reveals himself i thought oh ok, cool, he wrote that book…
I'm guessing it carried a little more weight in the books
@cinematicbeauty2194
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Feels unfair for you to comment about them ignoring the moral implications of love potions, when you yourself continue to ignore the moral implications of having a literal slave race in these shitstain of a series.
@Muggz
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
It's so funny how bad of a writer JK was… yet she made massive bank. If you have a dumb kid's book, just make sure to market it and draw out the series to build suspense. Add in a couple of good connections and BAM! Massive hit. What a glorious world we live in, eh?
@Tailbiter231
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
"She's white now, she didn't used to be."
Um… When was Lavender in any of the previous films? As far as I can tell this is her first film. Are you referring to Harry or Ron's dates for the Yule Ball in Goblet of Fire? Those were Parvati Patil and her sister Padma Patil.
@StrugglesWithStrength
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
What's so funny about the shoe tying thing is that while it's not at all a thing in American romance, in Thai BL shows it happens in at least half of the shows. When I first saw HBP I was baffled at the shoe tying and now I'm like, oh okay so it's legitimately a thing in some parts of the world.
@hamzaelbezzaf8881
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Yeah, I never read the books, so this movie confused the hell outta me.
@Vedg2210
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
"Bad Guys hate it when Bridges are standing" – Producer Guy
@chadakoin1
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Sure, being a death eater is gross.
Until one attempts swallowing a live chicken.
@spidavenom4
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I never noticed how much the success of the Twilight movies had on this movie until halfway through this video, then he pointed it out the end 😂😂
@spidavenom4
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
3:16 HAD ME RUNNING TO THE BATHROOM FROM LAUGHING 😂😂😂
@louisfivaz1367
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Ack lol, 2000 word comment seem's way too tight, much less a fanatical one.
@soconoha
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Harry not getting in trouble for slicing Malfoy is actually a reasonable plot point. A certain someone probably wouldn't want a certain spell from a certain affiliated book to become public knowledge.
@korrainomad365
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Two lines from Pitch Meeting that will never get old:
"Actually, it's gonna be super easy! Barely an inconvenience!"
and
"Wow wow wow wow! Wow!" 🤣
@samybasile
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
"oooh! what's going on with Voldemort though?"
@user-dr2yz8um3d
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
It’s been 15 years now since Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out!
one of the best movies of 2009
The film is more of a slow burner just watching these kids hook up with one another and dealing with this dark evil brooding on the horizon
The relationships develop making us care that much more down the line, the cinematography is sharp, Jim Broadbent is excellent as Slughorn, true this one isn’t all colorful or silly-natured like previous films but that is the point because we reaching more grown up conflicts whether it's love, dating, responsibility or complicated emotions
The magic serves as an allegory too for drugs alcohol etc. as well as themes and motifs of self sacrifice
An outstanding movie!
Its the best one by far next to ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ and ‘Goblet of Fire’ at the time
David Yates did a much better job here than ‘Order of the The Phoenix’
The pacing was prolly the worst part about this movie though
there's humor, emotion
all the characters are growing up and maturing very well and we finally get to see Voldemort’s origins
The series gets darker and darker from this point on laying the groundwork for things to come
@jamielondon6436
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
And since Ryan asked for the 2000 words essay, here's the TL,DR version: The point of the Slughorn memory is to find out how many Horcruxes Voldemort created.
If you hunt for three when there's five around, you're doomed to fail (i. e. in the final fight).
If you hunt for five when there's three around, you'll hunt forever.
@jamielondon6436
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
I'm okay with putting the teenage romance in the movie – it's a major part of the book, after all. ONLY HOW DO THEY FRAKKING DO THAT WITHOUT EVEN HAVING CHO CHANG IN THE MOVIE AT ALL?! WTAF! 😮
@namikpaul7505
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
Removing Dumbeldore trolling the Dursleys for being dicks for whatever that café scene was is criminal.
@beefgoat80
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 am
In the year two thousaaaaaaaaand…
In the year 2000, a hairy potter gives a hog warts.
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