SHP#38 – Love and Infatuation
Part 2 of a special series dedicated to the movie ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’.
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Now this is weird… Episode #38 (working) gets posted, but the previous one is still broken in the RSS feed – no link to the MP3 file.
Got Episode #38 but no #37.
Episode 37 is still absent Fr. Roderick.
I do nto like the fact that the only way to get it is by Itunes. When I subscribe by google reader, it is only a page but no like to an mp3. When I go to website, there is no way to download as mp3.
Episode 37 should download now. David Sweeney has fixed it.
@Morana Revel – it’s not true you can only get it through iTunes. You can get it using any podcatcher by subscribing to this feedburner feed.
I am a bit upset that the funeral was not filmed. I think it would of been very interesting to see the centaurs, merpeople & Fawkes tributes. According to some sites through Wikipedia, Dumbledore’s funeral would not be in HBP or DH movies yet it would be mentioned.
I am also disappointed that the kissing scene between Harry & Ginny were moved from the Common Room to the Room of Requirement. However, the line and way Ginny performs the kiss was very unique, even though Harry was the one who started the kiss.
I was just listening to episode SHP#38 and I found your discussion about Slughorn’s first potion lesson very, very interesting. Especially when you explained that the love potion pointed out the difference between real love and infatuation. What struck my mind immediately when I heard you saying it, was this:
This scene was left out in the movie, but in the book Dumbledore shows Harry a memory of Voldemort’s parents – of his mother Merope Gaunt from this old “pure-blood” family falling in love with this muggle Tom Riddle. And because this Tom Riddle was always seen with another girl at first, but ran away with Merope shortly after her brother and father were gone, Dumbledore told Harry that, in his opinion, she might have given Tom Riddle a very strong love potion, so that he ran away with her and married her.
Furthermore, Dumbledore explained that he thinks that at the beginning, Merope was still hoping that Riddle would REALLY fall in love with her, so that she wouldn’t need the love potion anymore. But after some time she realised that he would never love her, so she stopped giving him love potion and he left her immediately – when she was already pregnant with Voldemort.
So maybe because this memory and the explanation of Dumbledore afterwards are left out in the movie, they wanted to give a little hint to Voldemort’s parent’s during this first potion lesson when it was about the difference of real love and infatuation.