Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Reviews

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When I began reading the Harry Potter series, books one through five had already been published, so Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the first installment that I had to actually wait for. It was agony! My hat goes off to all of the people who have been reading these novels since the beginning - you deserve a medal for the amount of time you've had to stew in misery between release dates!

I was, of course, at one of the many, many midnight parties that spanned the globe (at the time, I was actually working in a bookstore, so I was right in the thick of it all!), and when I finally...

I plan to see the movie based on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so I figured it was time to re-read the book that the film is based upon.  I didn't remember totally loving this book, but I was convinced that I liked it much better than Book 5: Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.  After re-reading it, I think that Book 6 is wonderful.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince picks up the summer after The Order of the Phoenix in which Harry's godfather and friend, Sirius Black, was murdered.  The Ministry of Magic has finally acknowledged that Lord Voldemort has returned to power...

Harry becomes suspicious of his rival Draco Malfoy, after overhearing several of his conversations, and when Katie Bell is almost killed while attempting to deliver a cursed necklace under the influence of the Imperius Curse. Meanwhile, Ron is displeased with his younger sister Ginny dating anybody, forcing Harry to ignore his attraction. After an argument with Ginny in which Ron's dating inexperience is made clear, Ron takes up with Lavender  creating a divide between him and Hermione. This rift is only mended when he accidentally consumes a love potion attracting him to Romilda vane, and then...

Wonderful read. Volumn 6 gets darker. There are more questions answered, but more unanswered. Rawling has a way with leaving at the edge of your seat. You learn more, but she leaves you wanting more. She leaves questions that can only be answered by reading the next book. She pulls you along with the plot. The danger is much more evident. Harry and the professor D isn't believed, even though it is obvious that V is alive again.  The emotion when someone important dies that rips your heart out along with Harry's. The betrayal so it seems is just as bad. It left me wanting more of the story to find...

The sixth volume of the series was not my favorite, if for nothing else then because it was more a history lesson then anything else. Of course the history is important for the over al story line I...

This book is kind of the turning point for Harry and his friends, because he is just starting his fifth year and problems form more quickly then all of the other books. The fifth Harry Potter book is the one where people start asking all the questions at the end, and you have to what until the next book to get all your questions answered. But in all, this book is the best of all.