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Talk Fantasy To Me

Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince: Highlighted Key Differences Between the Novel & Film

Talk Fantasy To Me

Riddikulus Productions

Arts

5.0765 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

Page 43 midway through Dumbledore's letter to Harry (regarding his request for Harry's assistance in persuading Horace Slughorn out of retirement) "If you are agreeable, I should also be glad of your assistance in a matter to which I hope to attend on the way to the Burrow. I shall explain this to you more fully when I see you." We have arrived at the final episode in which Chase & Josh cover Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! As always, at the end of every book in this arc, the Riddikulus Crew compares the novel to the film and highlights the key differences whether good or bad. In this episode we detail quite a few moments we both liked and disliked and discuss the importance and potential damage to the storyline. Instances such as, Dumbledore appearing out of nowhere at a muggle train station and demanding Harry to take his arm and to do as he says, the omission of the meeting between Cornelius Fudge and the Muggle Prime Minister, the lack of a meeting in the broom shed between Dumbledore and Harry where he is supposed to learn that he will be taking private lessons with Dumbledore, Ron confirming that Mrs. Weasley almost pulled him and Ginny out of Hogwarts and tailing Draco in Diagon Alley just to name a few. So continue along with us here at Fact or Fantasy as we finally close out Half Blood Prince before we jump into the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise next week! With Death Eaters showing up randomly at the Burrow for Christmas, the omission of key memories that Harry and Dumbledore are suppose to enter through the pensieve, Snape just letting Harry go after using a specific curse on Malfoy, the omission of Kreacher and Dobby entirely and much more, you will see why we make these differences episodes and why they drive us up the wall. As stated on page 568, "Almost absentmindedly, Dumbledore raised his wand again, twirled it once in midair, and then caught the crystal goblet that he had conjured out of nowhere."

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0:00.0

Oh, We're back again. It's Chase and Josh with Fact or Fantasy. That's Chase. I'm

0:35.3

Josh and we are here to finally put to rest Harry Potter and the Half

0:39.3

Blood Prince. Today we are tackling our differences episode between the novel and the film.

0:45.4

It's going to be an interesting episode.

0:47.7

These ones always are.

0:48.8

These are where Chase Naya are at our best on this show is when we get to sit back relax and talk a little bit about

0:55.6

what we see visually from what we read in the novel there so I'm excited to kind of

1:01.0

break down what we saw things that made us happy things that pissed us off and everything in between man what about you?

1:08.8

Yeah, man, it's I was I was okay with it It's okay with it okay with it but we got a lot we got a lot to dive into

1:17.6

that's for sure and yeah with that I'll let you kind of kick us off from here.

1:24.3

But yeah, guys, thanks for always, you know,

1:27.2

tuning in with us and being on this ride,

1:29.9

but I know, you know, I didn't think the movie was terrible like I remember when I was

1:37.0

actually working at the theater when this came out and this was the one like

1:40.8

order the Phoenix like people camped out for this thing and now

1:44.4

looking back that I just read the book I was like man I was so stoked for

1:49.2

it was like a rental it was on that rental level man. What about you?

1:56.0

So for me, it's interesting, right?

1:59.0

Because I kind of, we talked about this before we started the episode today.

2:02.0

Like, I have, like a... about this

2:05.0

I have I don't hate this movie as much as I've had you know dislikes for the ones previous

2:10.0

like there's still a lot I didn't like about it, but if I'm going to be like relatively speaking, it's probably the best one that we've seen to date when it comes to the novel to film adaptations in terms of when we just finished reading the novel going right into the film.

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