July 14, 2011 · 3:49 pm
- At the start of Film Six, Harry is hitting on a Muggle in a coffee shop when:
Cockblocked by Dumbledore
- Harry notices Dumbledore’s hand is withered and rotting:
"It's a thrilling tale" and I'll tell you one day.
- Dumbledore takes Harry to see:
Horace Slughorn - Dumbledore uses Harry's presence to persuade Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts
- Meanwhile, at Snape’s home, Bellatrix LeStrange and Dracos mother arrive. Draco has been given a task by Voldemort, and his mother wants Snape to promise to help him:
Snape makes the Unbreakable Vow to assist Draco in his task
- Harry arrives at Hogwarts, where he finds Slughorn is not teaching Dark Arts, but Potions. Dark Arts is instead being taught by:
Severus Snape - who has long lobbied for the position and long been denied by Dumbledore for fear that it would "bring back his old ways"
- At Potions Class, Harry borrows a used book from the cupboard:
- Using the notes scrawled in the margins, Harry out performs every student in the class:
Including Hermione
- And for his great work is rewarded with:
Felix Felicis - Liquid Luck
- Meanwhile Draco refuses help from Snape and begins to repair:
A Vanishing Cabinet, Locked in the Room of Requirement
- Harry takes special lessons with Dumbledore – lessons that delve into Dumbledore’s memories of:
Lord Voldemort as a boy
- On the way back from Hogsmeade, Harry and Co. discover:
Katie Bell is possessed and touches a cursed necklace intended for Dumbledore
- Slughorn takes a special interest in Harry, forming his Slug Club of students with well-to-do connections or talents:
Slughorn likes to "collect" famous students
- Voldemort was once a prize student of Slughorns. Dumbledore shows Harry one of Slughorns memories:
Voldemort asks Slughorn about Horcruxes - the memory is altered by Slughorn to show him sending Voldemort away
- Dumbledore tasks Harry with getting the correct memory from Slughorn:
After bringing up Horcruxes, Slughorn begins to avoid Harry at all costs
- Harry continues to excel at Potions, thanks to the Half Blood Prince’s book. He begins to suspect it belonged to his mother, Slughorn’s favourite student:
A young Lily Potter in the Slug Club
- Ron gets busy with Lavender Brown:
Fresh off a Quidditch victory
Hermione doesn't take it so well
- Harry gets close with Ron’s sister Ginny:
- Draco, unable to fix the Vanishing Cabinet and fearing for reprisal from the dark Lord:
Harry finds Draco crying in the bathroom
- Draco attacks Harry, who uses a curse he found scrawled in the Potions book:
Sectumsempera - Harry nearly disembowels Draco
- Snape arrives in time to save Draco. Snape seems impressed that Harry knew such Dark Magic. Ginny convinces Harry to get rid of the book:
Ginny helps Harry hide the book in the Room of Requirement - then jumps his wand
- Harry, desperate to get the memory from Slughorn, takes the Felix Felicis. He then follows Slughorn to:
Hagrid's dead spider!
- Always the opportunist, Slughorn extracts priceless spider venom from the corpse. Then Hagrid and Slughorn get rip-roaring drunk after the funeral:
Harry convinces Slughorn to give him the memory, imploring that if he doesn't, Lily would have died for nothing
- Harry takes the memory back to Dumbledore:
Dumbledore and Harry watch Slughorn's memory
- Harry learns that a Horcrux can be any item in which a portion of a wizards soul is kept, thus rendering them immortal as long as the item is intact. They learn that Voldemort made seven. Dumbledore reveals he has already destroyed one:
The Second Horcrux - A ring that belonged to Voldemort. The curse inside the ring destroyed Dumbledores hand
- Dumbledore tells Harry that Harry destroyed the first one:
The First Horcrux - Tom Riddle's Diary, destroyed by Harry in the Chamber of Secrets
- Dumbledore believes he knows where the next one is – and asks Harry to accompany him:
The Cliffside near Tom Riddle's childhood Orphanage. Dumbledore tells Harry that he must obey every command, even if it means leaving Dumbledore to die
- They enter a cave, where they discover:
A locket in a pool of water - they cannot touch the locket, but they can drink the water
- Dumbledore drinks the water and is driven near mad. Harry picks up the locket:
- Dumbledore, weakened, becomes unbearably thirsty, and rushes to the water below to drink. This spawns a horde of:
Harry tries to fight off the Inferi
Dumbledore summons his strength and saves them both
- Harry and Dumbledore rush back to Hogwarts to find:
The Dark Mark has been cast over the school
- Landing on the astronomy tower, Dumbledore sends word for Snape. He instructs Harry to hide. Then Dumbledore encounters:
Draco has fixed the Vanishing Cabinet and teleported Death Eaters into the school
- Draco disarms Dumbledore. He tells him he is under orders from Voldemort to kill him – that he has been trying and failing all year.
- Dumbledore tells Draco that he knew this, and that he was beginning to think his heart wasn’t in it. They are met on the rooftop by:
The Death Eaters surround Dumbledore
- Dumbledore greets them all cordially. Then, Harry, hidden below, encounters:
Harry lets Snape pass
- Snape joins the Death Eaters on the roof. For the first time, Dumbledore appears scared. He pleads with Snape:
Severus, Please
- Snape casts the Avada Kedavara:
- Dumbledore is blasted from the tower, dead.
- The Death Eaters flee, Harry chases after him. He encounters Snape:
Snape refuses to fight Harry, he tells the Death Eaters that Potter must be left for the Dark Lord
- Snape reveals that he is the Half Blood Prince. The Death Eaters flee.
- The school mourns the death of Dumbledore. Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he intends to drop out of school to hunt for Horcruxes:
Ron and Hermione tell Harry that they are joining him.