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Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince
The Movie
Rumours abound that Harry Potter and
the Half Blood Prince
is now
rescheduled for summer 2009
Harry Potter's sixth
year at Hogwarts turns out to be
quite the exciting year. First off
is the arrival of a new teacher at
Hogwarts, Horace Slughorn, who is a
bit more useful to Harry than he
realizes. Next, Harry obtains a
Potions book which used to be belong
to the very mysterious Half-Blood
Prince. Harry finds that the
Half-Blood Prince's ancient
scribbles are written along the
margins of almost every page, giving
Harry advice on how to improve
greatly on his Potions work, and
also teaching him a few helpful (and
dangerous) spells along the way.
Amidst this, Harry is starting
private lessons with Professor
Dumbledore, during which Harry
learns the dark secrets of
Voldemort's past, hoping that they
could use these secrets to find a
way to defeat him.
Harry's year gets even more
stressful with the suspicious
actions of Draco Malfoy, who has
been sneaking around the school
doing, so Harry assumes, Voldemort's
bidding. Harry quickly becomes
determined, and slightly obsessed,
to find out exactly what Malfoy has
been up to and putting an end to
it.
Yet, during this time, Harry and his
friends go through daily life, busy
with school work, Quidditch, (in
which Harry has been made captain of
the team) and of course, romance.
Ron has found a new girlfriend,
Lavender Brown, a perky (if not
obnoxious) Gryffindor student, and
Hermione is not happy about it. Ron
and Hermione's friendship takes a
toll throughout the school year and
Harry, as usual, is stuck in the
middle. Harry, meanwhile, is facing
a romantic dilemma of his own: he
realizes he is falling for his best
friend's sister, Ginny Weasley, who
is unfortunately dating Harry's
classmate, Dean Thomas. Harry's
pining for Ginny and Ron's hilarious
relationship with Lavender give this
story a large dose of reality.
Throughout all the school drama,
however, the obvious darkness of
Voldemort's impending rise to power
is always apparent. The incredible
action-packed climax is sure to
leave the audience stunned and,
inevitably, prove that you shouldn't
trust everybody who you think is
good and also prove that not
everyone can manage to survive.
The
Videogame
The Quotes
[from
trailer] Harry Potter:
[from
trailer] Did
you know, sir?
Then? Albus
Dumbledore:
Did I know that
I just met the
most dangerous
dark wizard of
all time? No.
[from trailer] Tom Riddle -
Age 11: I
can make things
move without
touching them. I
can make bad
things happen to
people who are
mean to me. I
can speak to
snakes too. They
find me....
whisper things.
The Book
Harry
Potter and the
Half-Blood
Prince (Book 6)
by J. K. Rowling
(Author), Mary
GrandPré (Illustrator)
A
darker book than
any in the
series thus far
with a level of
sophistication
belying its
genre, Harry
Potter and the
Half-Blood
Prince moves
the series into
murkier waters
and marks the
arrival of
Rowling onto the
adult literary
scene. While she
has long been
praised for her
cleverness and
wit, the
strength of Book
6 lies in her
subtle
development of
key characters,
as well as her
carefully
nuanced
depiction of a
community at
war. In Harry
Potter and the
Half-Blood
Prince, no
one and nothing
is safe,
including
preconceived
notions of good
and evil and of
right and wrong.
With each book
in her
increasingly
remarkable
series, fans
have nervously
watched J.K.
Rowling raise
the stakes; gone
are the simple
delights of
butterbeer and
enchanted candy,
and days when
the worst
ailment could be
cured by a bite
of chocolate. A
series that
began as a
colorful lark
full of magic
and discovery
has become a
dark and deadly
war zone. But
this should not
come as a shock
to loyal
readers. Rowling
readied fans
with
Harry Potter
and the Goblet
of Fire
and
Harry Potter
and the Order of
the Phoenix
by killing off
popular
characters and
engaging the
young students
in battle.
Still, there is
an unexpected
bleakness from
the start of
Book 6 that
casts a mean
shadow over
Quidditch games,
silly
flirtations, and
mountains of
homework. Ready
or not, the
tremendous
ending of
Harry Potter and
the Half-Blood
Prince will
leave stunned
fans wondering
what great and
terrible events
await in Book 7
if this sinister
darkness is
meant to light
the way.
--Daphne Durham
For
children, sight word
recognition is an
important step to
being able to
efficiently learn to
read. If they don’t
have to stop and
consider what each
word is, they will
have the freedom to
comprehend the
meaning and context
of sentences and
paragraphs.
Consequently, it’s
critical for
parents,
babysitters,
guardians,
grandparents and
educators to help
beginning readers
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Harry
Potter and the
Half-Blood
Prince (Book 6)
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