Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (part 2)

This is another section of my Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince blog post. It is about a certain section. Harry goes to a potions class, which he thought he wouldn't be taking because he only got an "E" on his OWLs because Professor Snape, who Harry loathes, was teaching it. Part of the reason is that Snape only continues teaching people who got "O" on their OWLs for potions. But Harry can take the class because Snape is not teaching it anymore!

Anyway, he forgot his book and then gets a spare which the last user apparently scribbled a whole lot of annoying notes in. He starts making the potion that Slughorn asked his students to make and then eventually (after deciphering the writing that was obscured by those annoying notes) he took a chance and tried to do what the annoying notes said. When he smashed a bean with a silver knife (he was supposed to cut it if he was just paying attention to the author) it did exactly what the book said the results should be.

He now knew that the annoying notes were not annoying at all! And the next time he followed the instructions and got what he wanted in like two seconds once again.

To me the significance of this is it lets Harry get Felix Felicis, which is liquid luck, as a prize. This unlocks a whole ton of things that rely on it so Harry can basically do almost anything he needs to.

A list of stuff Harry learns from the Half-Blood Prince:

1. How to be good at potions, even better than Hermione!
2. A few spells that the Half-Blood Prince invented himself: Levicorpus (which makes someone float in midair) and Sectum Sempre (which makes the person aimed at spill out their blood--the Prince wrote "should only be used against enemies.")

Hermione really doesn't approve of the Prince. Because Harry is kind of following someone else's orders, she gets quite unhappy. She thinks that the person who invented the spells was a dark wizard.

Harry really feels good about this Half-blood Prince but Hermione is suspicious. They both are kind of right but I believe the proof of who this Half-blood Prince is, personally I must say, belongs in my next post.

Stay tuned (please...)!