I didn t write much harry potter reviews recently. So today, I m writing about harry potter and the half blood prince, which is both my second- to- favorite book in harry potter series and above all the books.Well, I told you about harry s fifth year at hogwarts, remember? This series is one year per one book, so harry s sixth year is about to start. Harry s godfather, Sirius has died during last book, so harry s cracked up a bit. Sirius was , in Harry s thought, the only person who cared about Harry outside of Hogwarts and he s miserable to accept that Sirius won t write him again. This was really sad... I kinda knew from the first place that Sirius would die quite soon, but this death was still sad news. Also, when Dumbledore told Harry last term about why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry as baby so badly, and the broken prophecy, it barricaded like the invisibility wall.Dumbledore himself picks Harry from the privet drive and bring him to the burrow. In the broom shed, Harry and he have quite conversation.When Harry goes back to Hogwarts, everything seems murky and mystified. He quite can t believe that Severus Snape is on their side, and Draco Malfoy is trying to kill someone. But what bothers Harry the most apart from these convictions is that Dumbledore doesn t seem to believe Harry s story about mysteries . He seems to be in his own thought, own world. Does he have his reasons? Or is he just trying to hide his real, shocked, expression? No one knows, at least, yet.The ministry, who wasn t to keen to be pals last year, try to use Harry as their mascot. Of course, Harry doesn t accept this. He still haven t quite forgot Umbridge s behavior.The best quote for me in this book was,"Well, it is clear to me that he has done a very good job on you. Dumbledore s man through and through, aren t you, Potter?""Yeah, I am. Glad we straightened that out."This phrase come out once more toward the end, and it s really touching then.It turns out that Draco Malfoy was up to something, and also Snape wasn t on Dumbledore s side. Harry remorse. How could a person like Dumbledore could have misunderstood that? How could he have possibly trust Snape, when he knew Snape had once been a death eater?In the hospital wing the day Dumbledore die, everyone s attention is on Harry, and he explains how everything has happened. Because Harry was the only one who was with Dumbledore when he died.Tonks declare her feeling toward Lupin in the public, and they all understand her less bubbly behaviour.Everything seem to fit... Yet, in a way that is murkier than ever. Harry has his long journey waiting for him to hunt down Voldemort and kill him. He will have to set a foot on a path which Dumbledore has created for him, and he will have to go alone this time. But he s friends will always be there for him, have some adventure together.For this thought, one stray of warm light lands on Harry s heart which seem to be frozen after Dumbledore s death.
There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building… wherever they had murdered…When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort s darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny...Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort s darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny . . .One of the greatest literary adventures of modern timesHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter Two, Spinner s End ‘You are avoiding my last question, Snape. Harry Potter. You could have killed him at any point in the past five years. You have not done it. Why?’ ‘Have you discussed this matter with the Dark Lord?’ asked Snape. ‘He … lately, we … I am asking you, Snape!’ ‘If I had murdered Harry Potter, the Dark Lord could not have used his blood to regenerate, making him invincible ?’ ‘You claim you foresaw his use of the boy!’ she jeered. ‘I do not claim it; I had no idea of his plans; I have already confessed that I thought the Dark Lord dead. I am merely trying to explain why the Dark Lord is not sorry that Potter survived, at least until a year ago …’ ‘But why did you keep him alive?’ ‘Have you not understood me? It was only Dumbledore’s protection that was keeping me out of Azkaban! Do you disagree that murdering his favourite student might have turned him against me? But there was more to it than that. I should remind you that when Potter first arrived at Hogwarts there were still many stories circulating about him, rumours that he himself was a great Dark wizard, which was how he had survived the Dark Lord’s attack. Indeed, many of the Dark Lord’s old followers thought Potter might be a standard around which we could all rally once more. I was curious, I admit it, and not at all inclined to murder him the moment he set foot in the castle. ‘Of course, it became apparent to me very quickly that he had no extraordinary talent at all. He has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends. He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-satisfied as was his father before him. I have done my utmost to have him thrown out of Hogwarts, where I believe he scarcely belongs, but kill him, or allow him to be killed in front of me? I would have been a fool to risk it, with Dumbledore close at hand.’ ‘And through all this we are supposed to believe Dumbledore has never suspected you?’ asked Bellatrix. ‘He has no idea of your true allegiance, he trusts you implicitly still?’ ‘I have played my part well,’ said Snape. ‘And you overlook Dumbledore’s greatest weakness: he has to believe the best of people. I spun him a tale of deepest remorse when I joined his staff, fresh from my Death Eater days, and he embraced me with open arms ? though, as I say, never allowing me nearer the Dark Arts than he could help. Dumbledore has been a great wizard ? oh yes, he has’ (for Bellatrix had made a scathing noise) ‘the Dark Lord acknowledges it. I am pleased to say, however, that Dumbledore is growing old. The duel with the Dark Lord last month shook him. He has since sustained a serious injury because his reactions are slower than they once were. But through all these years, he has never stopped trusting Severus Snape, and therein lies my great value to the Dark Lord.’ Bellatrix still looked unhappy, though she appeared unsure how best to attack Snape next. Taking advantage of her silence, Snape turned to her sister. ‘Now … you came to ask me for help, Narcissa?’J.K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 78 languages, and made into 8 blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. In 2012, J.K. Rowling’s digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy her new writing and immerse themselves deeper in the wizarding world. J.K. Rowling has written a novel for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy, and also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.As well as receiving an OBE for services to children’s literature, she has received many awards and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
