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Pitch Meeting | November 11, 2025



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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?

To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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  6. @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.

  13. @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.

  14. @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.

  23. @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…

  25. @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

  26. @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.

  27. @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

  30. @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…

  32. @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.

  33. @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?

  34. @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.

  35. @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.

  39. @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 😂😂

  42. @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.

  45. @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

  46. @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.

  47. @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! 😼

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