Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowlings (2005)
20 July 2005And to think after the 5th Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I was considering giving up on Harry Potter because I hated the whiny new Harry from that book. I swear all he did was whine. Well I have to say this book is different. It is excellent and amazing. Good from the start to the finish, and in fact I don’t see how they will do the movie of this because the kids spend half the book snogging. I finished this and all I wanted to do was discuss theories with other people who have read it. What a great book, I can’t believe I have to wait so long for the next one!
REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS….
This book sees Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in their sixth year of school, but this time while a war is on with Voldamort, or should I say the one who should not be named, and his death eaters. Harry is taken by Dumbledore to get a new teacher, or actually a returning one, who in fact only returns because he loves famous people, and wants Harry to become part of his club of students and contacts he makes. Harry is surprised to find that Snape is the new Defence Against the Dark arts teacher, and that he can take Potions to go towards being an Auror on graduation with the new teacher, but he must borrow a book from school, and he gets a book filled with notes, that quickly puts him to the top of the class in potions. The books was written by the Half Blood Prince. Ron and Hermione have a falling out, and Ron starts going out with another girl, and we see that Harry has fallen for Ginny Weasley, though she has a boyfriend already.
This is the darkest of the Harry Potter books so far, and one of the best. This is a must read!