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Actually, I Am Him: Harry doesn't realise he's talking to the Half-Blood Prince until he tries to use one of the Prince's own spells, at which point the Prince brags about his identity to a distraught Harry.Acting Unnatural: Hermione attempts to act casually in Borgin and Burkes, and immediately gets noticed.The Ministry didn't bother investigating the situation any further because she was a house-elf. Likewise, Voldemort also framed a house-elf named Hokey for poisoning her mistress with the same methods he used to frame his uncle.Dumbledore found evidence Voldemort was the real culprit, but Morfin died in Azkaban before the verdict could be overturned. Morfin Gaunt, whom Voldemort framed for his own triple murder of his Riddle relatives.Sirius Black is finally found innocent of the mass murder every wizard thought he committed, as Fudge tells the British Prime Minister during the first chapter.Second, it would also make Harry himself an Accomplice by Inaction if he gives the impression that he's working with the Ministry, he's also giving his tacit support to their "attempts" to solve the He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Problem, which are more about being perceived to be making progress than about actually making progress. This makes them all just as guilty for covering up Voldemort's return and allowing the Death Eaters to go on with their plans unopposed for a whole year, so Harry feels no obligation to help them clean up the mess they made. First, nobody in the Ministry (if they weren't also an Order of the Phoenix member) stood up for him when Fudge and his lackeys were harassing Harry, Dumbledore, and their supporters out of fear of losing their jobs if they had done so. Accomplice by Inaction: This is the reason why Harry refuses to become the poster boy for the Ministry of Magic.She is by this point more than a little inebriated, having knocked back several gin shots while talking to Dumbledore in her office.
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Cole, the director of the orphanage in which Tom Riddle grew up, introduces Dumbledore to the young Riddle first as Dumberton and then Dunderbore. In the scene where Harry and Ron go to Slughorn to treat a love potion, Slughorn calls Ron Ralph.Turns out everyone had been waiting for them to do so, even (albeit somewhat grudgingly) Ron. Harry, who's been fighting his attraction to Ginny all year, kisses her passionately without intending to or making the conscious decision to do so, he's just overcome by the emotion of the moment. Accidental Kiss: Celebrating winning the Quidditch Cup without Harry present on the team, Ginny gives Harry a big hug.This swiftly caused them to ditch the prank angle and just flat-out sell the hats (among other items like cloaks and gloves) as protective gear. It wasn't until the ministry ordered 500 of them that the two realized they had just invented wizard body armor, by accident, as a joke. Accidental Discovery: The Weasley twins thought it would be a great joke shop product if they enchanted a hat with a shield charm so that they could trick their friends into jinxing them and have a laugh as it backfires.that their relentless indulgence of Dudley's every whim has turned him into an obese, spoiled bully. The Dursleys don't understand what Dumbledore is talking about. Abusive Parents: Dumbledore calls out the Dursleys for being this - not only to their nephew Harry, but also to their son Dudley.In the canon, Florean is murdered off-screen by Death Eaters sometime during the events of this book. This was meant to be followed up in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but the thread was dropped as, in the author's view, it was "going nowhere", and his role was instead given to the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black. Aborted Arc: Harry and his friends spend spend an odd amount of page time pointing out that Florean Fortescue's ice-cream parlour has been boarded up and its owner kidnapped by Death Eaters.21-Gun Salute: The centaurs of the Dark Forest fire off a volley of arrows in honour of Dumbledore, at his funeral.0% Approval Rating: Fudge's popularity plummeted after the Ministry finally had to admit that Voldemort really had returned after a year of pretending he hadn't, and he was forced to resign.Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent: