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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J.K. Rowling
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 Riddlethe 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 Riddles teachers, the sly Potions professor Horace Slughorn. Finally Harry and Dumbledore hold the key to the Dark Lords weaknesses... until a shocking reversal exposes Dumbledores own vulnerabilities, and casts Harrysand Hogwartssfuture in shadow.
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This remains my favorite in the series & I always look forward to rereading it. I‘m still frustrated that Dumbledore didn‘t give Harry more information while he had the chance & he knew his death was imminent. But I love seeing Voldemort‘s history & watching Harry take on responsibility as the Quidditch captain and as Voldemort‘s ultimate foe. I also love that Dumbledore tells Harry to share all the info with Ron & Hermione so he‘s not alone.

Vansa Oooh this one's my favorite too!I really like all the flashbacks in this one. 2mo
AvidReader25 @Vansa Yes! I feel like we get so much more information and character development in this one. 2mo
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Eggs Perfect 🧪 2mo
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OriginalCyn620 💚💚💚 2mo
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Gissy
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August 2024 Book #1

It is always a pleasure to re-read these books. So sad the another magnificent actress died💔

What can I say? I just loved the books. The adventure in this story is just splendid. The audiobook is amazing. I read my paperback collection. Next time I will re-read them using the illustrated collection😃 4.5⭐️

Gissy #ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin (#19) Wanted to read it @TheAromaofBooks #ISpyBingo (pattern the snake has a pattern in its scale😜)
#ChunksterMini (652 pages) @Amiable
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
Gissy YouTuber #SavidgeReadijgPrompt2024 prompt (January)- snake on the cove 3mo
Amiable Nice job! 3mo
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My August list for #bookspinbingo

Hazel2019 Oh goodness - August already. I can‘t say the year is flying by, it isn‘t; but I continuously forget how far along we are. Love your list BTW! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5mo
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CrystalE02
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I enjoyed reading this book. I took my time reading this book. I loved seeing the characters again. One more book to go then I am done with the series. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

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Twainy
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My favorite Harry Potter book!

Severus Snape - You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? Yes. I‘m the Half Blood Prince.

Best quote of the series next to Hagrid‘s, “You‘re a wizard Harry.”

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good morning! // 💍☕️

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ladygrey
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Number 6! ~

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I‘ve read the first few books a couple times, but this is the first time reading through the entire series and it saddens me into a state of loneliness to realize that after The Half Blood Prince, I‘ll only have the last book left to read for the first time. After that, it won‘t be, “Oh, I‘m reading the (insert book number here) Harry Potter book!” Rather, it‘ll be reread after reread. There‘s nothing like reading a book for the first time.

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Super_Jane
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5/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 #harrypotter #hogwarts #fantasy

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Shannon_McKinney
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The character development is beyond anything I have ever read. 5 witches! 🧙 🧙 🧙 🧙 🧙

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Kshakal
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I love how you get to see the growth that the characters have made and that they are becoming adults. A great set-up for the final showdown! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Karkar This one was my favorite of the whole series. Snape became my favorite after it! ❤️📚❤️ 13mo
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Kshakal
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I found the perfect addition to my reading room couch… a hufflepuff squishmellow!! #potterhead

Ruthiella So cute! 13mo
Graciouswarriorprincess I got the Ravenclaw one! 13mo
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Super_Jane
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5/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 #harrypotter #hogwarts

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I'm reporting 635 books found (6,350 points!) for #scarathlon week 1's game. I queried the Open Library API for keywords related to the buddy reads of #batbrigade and then filtered the results with a Python script. @Catsandbooks For more details, check this link to my GitHub repo: https://github.com/wapisani/public-pyprojects/tree/main/Litsy/Scarathlon_2023/We....

Catsandbooks That's awesome and so smart!! 🙌🏼🧡 1y
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My sister texted me very upset this morning because she is only discovering Harry Potter now and she read how Dumbledore dies and now this. RIP to Michael Gambon

I remember just after I finished re-reading A Monster Calls, I saw a missed-call from my sister and I called her,she told me that my grandfather died,after I hung up I saw that the call was between 12:00 and 12:14.The Monster visits at 12:07

Anybody else has weird literary coincidences?

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“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
#September2023

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SanjanaGhosh
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Another day, another audiobook completed!

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BethM
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Potter while I telework. I couldn‘t take it anymore and switched to the web version of Litsy. It‘s not terrible on your phone folks! The photo editor is not user friendly if you‘re taking a pic though 😂😂🙃

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ShyBookOwl Never made it this far into the series, but that's a good first line! 1y
lovisa! i love this
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jackilynn
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I started my reread of this series almost a month ago (amongst all my other ongoing books) in preparation for this upcoming themed trivia night. That being said, I have less than a week to read the last 2 books in the series. Will I finish on time?! It is goning to be a close one lol. 😬

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"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure," the ancient wizard says in chapter 3 of The Half-Blood Prince.

I thought I would share how cute my Harry Potter Sticker theme came out! I love this color on my Kindle!

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Crystal83
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I listened to the audiobook of this book. I also have the physical copy of the book. I love this book, because how much the characters have grown. I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars!!!

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ShawnYLibros
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Anyone Participating in Deweys 24 hour readathon tomorrow?

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payton.laidlaw
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Lord voldemort has returned and his power has created tension in both the muggle and wizarding world. Two death eaters, Narcissa and Snape come together to discuss Narcissas son Draco, becoming a death eater. As result in Narcissas clear worry for her son, her and Snape make an unbreakable vow where snape promises to protect Draco under all costs. Dumbledore travels to number 4 privet drive to collect harry from the Dursley‘s.

payton.laidlaw On their way to the burrow, Dumbledore takes harry to visit and recruit and old friend, Horace Slughorn, who is to come back and teach at Hogwarts. Followng, Harry is reunited with his bestfriends, but his worst enemy as well. While shopping for books, Harry runs into Draco and follows him to a shop. Harry overhears Draco threatening the shop owner to fix an unknown object. 2y
payton.laidlaw Harry‘s suspicions of Draco being a death eater only increase after this event.

Back at school, Dumbledore announces Snape to be the new Defence against the dark arts teacher, a surprising fact.

Later on, Harry receives a potions book that once belonged to someone named the Half blood prince, the book contains spells and amendments in the margins of the pages. Harry uses these notes and to excel at potions class.
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payton.laidlaw Dumbledore begins to schedule meetings with Harry in which they use pensive memories to look at those who have been in direct contact with Voldemort. Dumbledore belives by learning about Voldemorts past it can help harry defeat him in the future. Through these memories, Harry learns about Voldemorts relatives and past that lead to his evil.

Ron acquires a new girlfriend, Lavender, to which Hermione is extremely jealous of.
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payton.laidlaw Harry spends most of his time playing quidditch and and following Draco Malfoy using the Mauraders map, a map that can track anyone within the school.However, Harry finds he can not often see Draco on the map, and that he is using the room of requirement on the seventh floor of the school. Untill Harry discovers Draco‘s intention with the room, he can not gain access. 2y
payton.laidlaw Eventually, Dumbledore and Harry leave Hogwarts to destroy a locket that is making Voldemort one step closer to being mortal. They just overcome a series of traps to find the locket that is hidden in a poisonous potion. Dumbledore drinks the potion while harry tends off the monsters trying to stop them. The take the locket and return to Hogwarts where they find the Dark Mark cast in the sky above the astronomy tower.
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payton.laidlaw At the tower, Dumbledore freezes Hardy with a spell and tells him to hide under his invisibility cloak. Draco Malfoy runs into the room and threatening Dumbledores life. Weak, and his wand out of his reach, Dumbledore talks to Draco, stalling him by telling him how he‘s not a killer. Draco lowers his wand and Snape enters the tower. Without hesitation, Snape raised his wand and kills Dumbledore, casting him off the tower. 2y
payton.laidlaw Once Dumbledore has died, the freeze spell he casted on Harry wears off and he makes off after Snape, determined to avenge his friend and headmaster.

Devastated that Snape managed to escape, harry examines the locket only to discover it‘s not the horcrux he thought it was but a fake with a note inside. Harry tells his friends that he will not be returning next year but be on a journey to kill Voldemort and destroy all the horcruxes.
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payton.laidlaw Ron and Hermione vow to journey with him.

This book is written in third person limited perspective. This is established because Harry is referred to as “he, his” throughout the novel but what goes on in his head is not unknown, as the reader can see his thoughts and feelings unlike with the other characters.The entire book is based around Harry‘s perspective.
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payton.laidlaw If you like books that contain magic, betrayal and tension between friends and enemies you‘ll like this book(only if you‘ve read the other 5:) it wont make sense if you haven‘t) 2y
MissYaremcio Thanks for the review Payton! 6/6 2y
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It‘s my house pride day!! #gryffindor woohoo 🦁

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5/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 My favourite book in the series #harrypotter #ravenclaw #book6 #dumbledore

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SimonB901
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Fantastic

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kelli7990
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I started this book last night but I only read the first chapter. Tonight, I read chapters 2 and 3.

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dysprosium2
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In this book, Harry is given more responsibility and starts to act more like an adult than a child. This one is really interesting to re-read knowing the major twists at the end. I remember reading this book at my great grandma's house, completely absorbed and ignoring everyone. It's a shame you can't erase your memory of books and read them again fresh. I remember this one being really suspenseful. Still very compelling even though I know the end

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Up next on audio! 🎧

#bookspinbingo

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jitteryjane724
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I've read these books countless times and they hit progressively deeper. At the end of book 6, my heart both longs and aches for the wizarding world. This time through the series, I'm appreciating the complexity, beauty, and value of the characters' relationships to each other.

(Image is NOT mine. Credit: https://susannedraws.tumblr.com/post/114315436969/neville-luna-ginny-harry-ron-a...

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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".....how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!"

Dumbledore accurately explains my depraved nature once again.

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I'm pretty sure this one is my favorite of the series, not in the least because I really love Harry and Ginny together. But the comedy and drama balance out SO well, too! #childrenslit #reread

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"....that they were still there on either side of him...not shrinking from him...was worth more than he could ever tell them."

❤️ ✨What matters. What keeps us. What sustains us.✨❤️

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We continue to descend.

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Jenniebooks
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Harry and company will continue on. I hope he goes out for blood in the last book.

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I hate Snape for this.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Awesome

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Merope

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Britdarko
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This was a treat to read as I haven‘t read it in probably 15 years. I am rereading the whole series which I started when I was a kid and then had to wait years for each new book to come out. This go round I‘ve been able to read without breaks and it‘s nice to go through the story continually. I enjoyed this one. I still stand my the third book being my favorite in the series but this was a nice reread treat.

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At last a solid thumb‘s up. After really enjoying the start of this series, I found books 4 & 5 rather disappointing. #6 got things back on track!