Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 652
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: September 16, 2006
Dates Read: September 24, 2018 – September 27, 2018
Rating: 5 stars
Summary & Image via Goodreads: When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens, the war against Voldemort has begun. The Wizarding world has split down the middle, and as the casualties mount, the effects even spill over onto the Muggles. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods, and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered grievous losses. And yet, as in all wars, life goes on.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, having passed their O.W.L. level exams, start on their specialist N.E.W.T. courses. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, losing a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry becomes captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, while Draco Malfoy pursues his own dark ends. And classes are as fascinating and confounding as ever, as Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.
Most importantly, Dumbledore and Harry work together to uncover the full and complex story of a boy once named Tom Riddle—the boy who became Lord Voldemort. Like Harry, he was the son of one Muggle-born and one Wizarding parent, raised unloved, and a speaker of Parseltongue. But the similarities end there, as the teenaged Riddle became deeply interested in the Dark objects known as Horcruxes: objects in which a wizard can hide part of his soul, if he dares splinter that soul through murder.
Harry must use all the tools at his disposal to draw a final secret out of one of Riddle’s teachers, the sly Potions professor Horace Slughorn. Finally Harry and Dumbledore hold the key to the Dark Lord’s weaknesses… until a shocking reversal exposes Dumbledore’s own vulnerabilities, and casts Harry’s—and Hogwarts’s—future in shadow.
Review: Well Harry, we meet again. And this time, you’ve grown. After the entire wizarding world doubted you about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s return AND surviving a year with Umbridge, you’ve turned into a blunt, “I don’t care what you say, I’m doing it anyway” teenager. You’ve learned the hard way that sometimes adults don’t listen to you and that it may be up to you to change things.
I haven’t re-read this series in a loooooong time and so it was refreshing to dive back into the books. I also was watching the movies after I read the books and…..it was soooo dissatisfying. The books are so detailed and cover so much that I don’t think anything Hollywood would’ve produced would have given me what I wanted.
I loved all the HP books and I guess my reviews aren’t really reviews but more affirmations of my love for reading them. Whenever the autumn season comes around, I just feel like reading an HP book next to my living room window. The autumn air is so…. Harry Potter lol. I love these books and always feel so comfy reading them. It transports me to a different world in a way that most other books haven’t done.
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