Nitwit ! Blubber ! Oddment ! Tweak ! Thank you.
I have more than "a few words" after I finished reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" over the weekend.
The novel was a cracking read and one that I mostly enjoyed.This is JKR's darkest Harry Potter novel so far and it certainly doesn't disappoint.
The death of a major character does pull at the heart strings, although the impact is not as much as say, when Harry hears his mother speak when surrounded by Dementors("Goblet of Fire") or when he conjures his dad's Patronus("Prisoner of Azkaban"). Also, the scene about meeting the Muggle Prime Minister seems contrived and perhaps serves only to introduce the new Minister of Magic.
All in all, the book sets the tone and pace for the finale to the Harry Potter saga in Book 7 and I am eagerly looking forward to Harry meeting Snape, Draco and the Dark Lord.
The novel was a cracking read and one that I mostly enjoyed.This is JKR's darkest Harry Potter novel so far and it certainly doesn't disappoint.
The death of a major character does pull at the heart strings, although the impact is not as much as say, when Harry hears his mother speak when surrounded by Dementors("Goblet of Fire") or when he conjures his dad's Patronus("Prisoner of Azkaban"). Also, the scene about meeting the Muggle Prime Minister seems contrived and perhaps serves only to introduce the new Minister of Magic.
All in all, the book sets the tone and pace for the finale to the Harry Potter saga in Book 7 and I am eagerly looking forward to Harry meeting Snape, Draco and the Dark Lord.
posted by Vibhu at 7/17/2005 09:54:00 PM
3 Comments:
Yep!, I enoyed this one more than others..definitely.
Lot of loose threads to be tied up. So I hope it is not the usual two years before the next one.
Don't tell me you've already bought the book and read it!! Man, talk about Pottermania. Anyway, I don't need to buy the book now, thank you!
Subbudu: Yep, it is going to be two years before you get HP7. As for the loose threads, it was inevitable, JKR has already said that HP6 and HP7 is/are a two-parter.
Amit: I'd have finished the book earlier than I did, if not for the fact that I was constantly on the move on sat'day.
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