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Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
My rat­ing: 4 out of 5.

After a two year wait, Ms. Rowl­ing has finally released her lat­est book, Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6).¹ It’s a bit shorter than her pre­vi­ous book but it’s qual­ity not quan­tity we’re after and the Half-Blood Prince delivers.

Rather than con­tin­u­ing with Harry being an angsty, lit­tle brat; Ms. Rowl­ing gives him a bit of a fresh start. As usual, the story starts off at the Durs­leys but these child abusers are quickly left behind as Harry heads off to Hog­warts. On the train, Harry meets the new pro­fes­sor join­ing Hog­warts and begins his var­i­ous mis­ad­ven­tures. As you’ve prob­a­bly heard already, another charater dies in this book² and it wasn’t who I was expect­ing it to be. Though if you’re pay­ing atte­nion as you read the book; there is enough fore­shad­ow­ing for one to fig­ure it out. Addi­tion­ally, the iden­tity of the half-blood prince is pretty obvi­ous; if you think about it using the clues Ms. Rowl­ing gives dur­ing the course of the book.³

Though I’m not con­vinced Ms. Rowl­ing will be able to redeem the series after the wretched­ness of the pre­vi­ous book; Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) is def­i­nitely a step in the right direction.

¹ Tech­ni­cally, she released it a week ago but I only just got around to read­ing it.
² Actu­ally, many char­ac­ters get snuffed out in this book but most of them are just names in the Daily Prophet. The char­ac­ter I’m refer­ring to is some­body who’s been in all the pre­vi­ous books.
³ As usual, I got caught up in the story so both the iden­tity of the half-blood prince and the death caught me off guard.

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