"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"... Read it yet?

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Read it; loved it… First read through was done in 24 hours, the second took less than a week.

Ok… Per Prof. Dumbledore: First, take good note about what he said to Malfoy (i.e. a great way to hide). Sounds like very strong forshadowing to me. Second, it could easily go the way of Gandalf (Tolkien’s L.O.T.R.).

RAB: my guesses are either a member of the Bones family - they just kept coming up in EVERY book with no real reason (before now?). My other guess is one of the men who owned the store where Tom worked (last name started with B and might have felt ripped off?)

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I wouldn’t be teribbly suprised if this who series turns out to be even more blatenly allegorical once the series is finished. Perhaps some day it will be looked upon like Tolkien or Lewis as great ficticious allegories of our faith (perhaps, perhaps not - only time will tell)
 
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RAB: my guesses are either a member of the Bones family - they just kept coming up in EVERY book with no real reason (before now?). My other guess is one of the men who owned the store where Tom worked (last name started with B and might have felt ripped off?)
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I’m a strong believer that its Regulus Black. We already know he tried to leave the death eaters and was killed for it. The note refers to Voldemort as “The Dark Lord”, so whoever wrote it was once a death eater.

Oh, and I once more would like to assert Snape is not evil, and Dumbledore is not stupid. Remember Aslan at the stone table. We haven’t seen teh last of Dumbledore yet. He will always be present as long as there are those who are faithful to him. Heh, I always thought Dumbledore made a wonderful Christ figure.

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while i was reading it i thought of something at the end with Snape. Look at the words he has with Harry…He talks about not being a coward and doesn’t try to hurt harry (couldn’t kill him because he has to leave that for Val) but just to disarm him. Plus he takes Malfory but not the rest of the death eaters. Looks like he is trying to save the kids even though he may not like Harry he might feel quilty about V. trying to kill a baby. As for Malfory I think he will turn to the good side. Dum words to him hit him to the core of his body. He may like to have power but i don’t think he likes killing. He will help Potter in the end. As for Dum— remember he is not awake in his picture when they go to the office. A sign that he is not truely dead??
 
I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I am a fan of that sort of thing any how…as a wee thing I loved Enid Blyton and J.R. Rowlings is a little like that

The love interests are very amusing as I feel that they do encapsulate teenaged crushes rather well

I am very disappointed in Severus Snape

I do not understand the Papal concern with the books but I am pretty dim as a rule
 
nah, i don’t think dumbledore has even died

there is quite a few people out there who believe this is a mtake-off on LOTR where gandalf dies and comes back

one would suspect rowling has something similar up her sleeve

why do i say this?
  1. dumbledore was abolutely sure of snape
  2. dumbledore pleads with snape right before he dies. that’s hardly what he would do if he trusted snape so much.
    even if he doubted snape, can you seriously imagine dumbledore pleading?
    sounds to me like it was a signal of some kind.
    if snape did not act as if he were killing dumbledore, snape would be caught
  3. the unbreakable vow does not specify a time-limit
    it merely says, that draco malfoy fails in his job, snape must do it.
    there was no way snape could know that draco failed in his job. all he saw was dumbledore on the floor and draco standing up
one more thing, i really don’t think that rowling knows how to deal with death in her books
especially, in goblet of fire, where she doesn’t give any proper treatment to diggory’s death, she just hurried through it
it’s all the more important to deal proporly with the topic of death as children read these books
her treatment of dumbledore’s death also left a lot to be desired
 
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