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A new semester at Hogwarts had started. Harry Potter would meet new teachers and learn new subjects. Also, he would win Quidditch games and have some small romantic moments.
Bad things were waiting for him too, though. Malfoy was so eager to do something glorious for the Dark Lord Voldemort. He was definitely up to something dark and evil. And, he was so close to Professor Snape, to whom Dumbledore trusted deeply.
Harry received Dumbledore's private lessons. Through the memories shown at the lessons, more and more secrets about Voldemort were revealed to the boy. But there was something still remained mysterious, what a Horcrux is. This seemed to be the darkest thing in the wizarding world and the most unknowable mystery of Lord Voldemort.
Potion-making was a new course this semester. This course was a bit too hard for Harry. But the lucky thing was that an old copy of the textbook of potion making helped Harry very much with scrambled words at the edges of every page. Harry was always wondering who the book's owner "Half-blood Prince" was.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book of the series. J. K. Rowling still keeps up her successful way of story- telling in this book.
Every character was put in his very suitable place that cannot be changed and each one had his or her personalities. If you look close enough at them, you can still find out that everyone in the novel was growing and changing. But this growth or change is always in the most natural and reasonable way.
Dumbledore was always a symbol of rightness and powerfulness to all readers in the previous books. But we cannot deny that he was also getting older all the way down. In this book, Professor Dumbledore was weaker than ever before. He was also facing many more difficulties than ever. One of his hands was burnt black as if dead.
Nevertheless, Professor Dumbledore was still kind-hearted and tolerant as he was in the other stories. Some even might say he was too easy -believing, though.
Harry was one year older than in the last book "the Order of the Phoenix". He was now more mature not only because he was much taller, but also he was getting wiser and braver.
Being the Chosen One does not only mean being more famous. The other meaning was more responsibilities. Especially when the power of Voldemort was on the rise and more people were kidnapped or ki......
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The Worst of HP ever?
Irsis(Hangzhou)
Spoiler warning: key plot disclosed
It's ok, show me the full review.
2006-10-19 17:08 | 2 comments
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