My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Carol]

Cassie wrote:
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> I think the reason they changed it was because they didn't want to have two full potions lessons in the movie.  It would've seemed too redundant.  I do agree that they could've presented the information/reminded us about bezoars in a much clearer way than they did.  Even Harry just reading that little notation while he's pouring over the HBP's potions book would've sufficed.

Carol responds:

Two full Potions lessons would take either two hours or four, if it's double Potions! I see nothing wrong with parts of two Potions lessons, just enough to show why Harry is failing to comprehend the lesson and resorts to the bezoar (even if they let out the flashback to Snape's first lesson, which would take, oh, fifteen seconds). But imagine the reaction of the film audience to the scrawled words "Just shove a Bezoar down his throat." Wouldn't that arouse their curiosity about the identity of the eponymous HBP and makes Snape's revelation at the end of the story a little less anticlimactic?

BTW, does Harry use any of the Prince's spells besides Sectumsempra (toenail hex, Langlock, Levicorpus, Muffliato)? Or does he just suddenly, out of nowhere, use Sectumsempra?

Carol, hoping that the Prince's spells are at least *mentioned*
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