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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Juvenile Fiction)
  • Author:  Rowling, J.K.
  • Author:  Rowling, J.K.
  • ISBN-10:  0439784549
  • ISBN-10:  0439784549
  • ISBN-13:  9780439784542
  • ISBN-13:  9780439784542
  • Publisher:  Arthur A. Levine Books
  • Publisher:  Arthur A. Levine Books
  • Pages:  672
  • Pages:  672
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2005
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2005
  • Item ID: 100007248
  • List Price: $32.99
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As the Harry Potter sequence draws to a close, Harry's most dangerous adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it starts July 16, 2005.

We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory.
We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory.
July 25, 2005
'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince': The Kirkus Review
Review Date: JULY 25, 2005
Category: NONE
Classification: ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Revealed at last–now that the fog of whipped-up anticipation, secrecy, hints, threats, news stories of legal action, wild speculation, midnight-oil-burning and marketing smoke is thinning–the penultimate Potter sequel delivers, as have its predecessors, a tale worth the wait. Readers who felt a bit hammered by the adolescent rage coloring Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) will be relieved to find that Rowling has returned to the lighter tone of earlier episodes, though properly portentous events do swirl in the background, and, as promised: There Is a Death.

Harry enters his sixth year at Hogwarts knowing that he has a pivotal role to play in the now-open war against Voldemort, sure that Draco Malfoy is up to something, and more than a little conflicted by his attraction to Ginny Weasley, sidekick Ron's suddenly not-so-little sister. Harry's relationship to Dumbledore is entering a new phase, too, as under the kindly old wizard's direct guidance, he begins taking trips through a series of magically preserved memories to explore his archenemy's parentage and character.

Meanwhile, Harry's glee at getting a leg up in Potions class thanks to a heavily annotated old textbook that once belonged to a mysterious “Half-Blood Prince” rivals his discomfort at being caught between Ron and Hermione, who are going through a rocky patch, and the horror of discovering that his new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor is none other than hated, hateful Severus Snape. How could DumbledorlĂ8