Summary

Rupert Grint and Jessie Cave recreate the scene from
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
in which Lavender Brown puts a “sweetheart” necklace on Ron.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
features a unique tone compared to the other movies in the franchise, featuring more darkness but also more romance.
The film is the last to explore what life is like at school for Harry, Ron, and Hermione before the franchise moves away from its depiction of Hogwarts student life.

Rupert Grint and Jessie Cave have a mini cast reunion, recreating one scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Released in 2009, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth film in the saga, following Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry after he discovers a mysteriously annotated copy of a potions textbook. The film explores the romantic relationships of various characters with more depth than previous installments, including the burgeoning relationship between Ron and Cave’s Lavender Brown.

In a recent TikTok shared by Dream It Conventions, Grint and Cave reunite at the ETWW convention and recreate an awkward scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Check it out below:

The scene in question features Lavender fixing a “Sweetheart” necklace around Ron’s neck, a gift that he is later embarrassed by.

Is Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Underrated?
The 2009 Harry Potter Movie Mixes Things Up

As seen in the chart below, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has the second-lowest audience score of any movie in the franchise on Rotten Tomatoes. It should be mentioned that, generally speaking, all eight Harry Potter movies are well-regarded, but the 78% audience score suggests that the film perhaps succeeds slightly less than its peers. The film is something of an outlier tonally compared to the other movies, which is perhaps why it proved moderately more divisive.

Title Rotten Tomatoes Critics’ Score Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 81% 82% Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 82% 80% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 90% 86% Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 88% 74% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 78% 81% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 84% 78% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 77% 85% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 96% 89%

As the franchise progresses, the saga becomes darker and more mature, essentially growing up alongside the Harry Potter cast of characters. The sixth entry features some of the franchise’s darkest moments, including a horror-movie-like sequence of Harry and Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) attempting to retrieve a Horcrux. In stark contrast to the darker scenes, the film also devotes a lot of time to romantic subplots, including the romantic tension between Harry and Ginny (Bonnie Wright), and Ron and Hermione (Emma Watson).

While Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince may feel like something of a mixed bag tonally, it’s the last movie in the franchise that explores Harry, Ron, and Hermione as students at school. It delves into student-type problems in a relatable way, while also advancing the larger story forward, setting up the major conflict to come. The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ending literally features the main trio remarking on how everything will be different moving forward. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince may not be the best movie in the franchise, but it’s certainly an entry worth celebrating.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth film in the Harry Potter film franchise, and continues the adventures of the titular protagonist and his friends in their sixth year at the wizarding school of Hogwarts. As Voldemort and his minions continue to wage war on the world of muggles and wizards, Harry discovers one of his textbooks is filled with mysterious spells and information connected to an individual known as the Half-Blood Prince. Meanwhile, Dumbledore begins the search for a means to defeat Voldemort.Director David Yates Release Date July 7, 2009 Studio(s) Warner Bros. Pictures , Heyday Films Distributor(s) Warner Bros. Pictures Writers Steve Kloves Cast Daniel Radcliffe , Emma Watson , Rupert Grint , Michael Gambon , Tom Felton , Alan Rickman , Jim Broadbent , David Thewlis , Maggie Smith , Robbie Coltrane , Julie Walters Runtime 153 Minutes Budget $250 Million