I REREAD Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince And Snape BROKE MY HEART

Dumbledore's hand was black and dead from the first page of Half-Blood Prince. The films treated it as a mystery. The book explains why — and the reason is the most human thing Rowling ever wrote about the greatest wizard in the series. Subscribe for more → @PotterFiles TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — The hand nobody explained 0:50 — Why Dumbledore put on a cursed ring 2:30 — Dumbledore planned his own murder 4:40 — Harry used Snape's textbook all year 6:30 — The spell that nearly killed Draco 8:20 — Draco lowered his wand 10:00 — Why Voldemort split his soul seven times 11:50 — What Dumbledore said in the cave 13:30 — Don't hurt them. It's my fault. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling, Albus Dumbledore's blackened hand was the result of putting on Marvolo Gaunt's ring, a Horcrux containing the Resurrection Stone, because he wanted to see his dead sister Ariana one more time. Severus Snape contained the curse but told Dumbledore he had one year to live. Dumbledore arranged with Snape months before the Astronomy Tower that if Draco Malfoy was about to fail or become a murderer, Snape was to kill Dumbledore himself. The murder was planned by the victim. Harry Potter used Snape's old annotated Potions textbook all year, worshipping the Half-Blood Prince's genius, and used the invented Dark Arts spell Sectumsempra on Draco Malfoy in Chapter Twenty Four without knowing what it did, nearly killing him. Draco Malfoy stood on the Astronomy Tower with Dumbledore disarmed and defenceless and lowered his wand. He could not do it. Tom Marvolo Riddle split his soul into seven Horcruxes not from ambition but from terror of death, the same fear that caused the orphan boy to seek out Professor Horace Slughorn at sixteen. In the cave, drinking Voldemort's Emerald Potion, Dumbledore said don't hurt them and it's my fault — words that fit only one night in Godric's Hollow when he was seventeen years old. The HBO Harry Potter series premieres Christmas Day twenty twenty six, produced by David Heyman who produced all eight original Warner Bros films, written by Emmy Award-winning Succession writer Francesca Gardiner, directed by Mark Mylod of Succession and Game of Thrones, with J.K. Rowling as executive producer. Cast includes Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore. ▶ Watch next: I Reread Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix And Nobody Gets This Right I Reread Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire And Dumbledore Scared Me Why Paapa Essiedu Will Be A Better Snape Than Alan Rickman