Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince By J. K. Rowling (PDF-Summary-Review-Online Reading-Download)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series. Set during Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of Harry’s enemy, Lord Voldemort, and Harry’s preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his director and mentor Albus Dumbledore.

The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on July 16, 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold nine million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record that was finally broken with its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were many controversies before and after its publication, including the right to read copies delivered before the Canadian release date. The novel’s reception was generally positive, and it won several awards and distinctions, including the 2006 British Book of the Year award.

Reviewers noted that the book took on a darker tone than its predecessors, although it contained some humor. Some considered the main themes as love, death, trust, and redemption. The considerable development of the character of Harry and many other teenage characters also caught the eye.

The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released on July 15, 2009, by Warner Bros.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Summary

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are taking notice. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.

And yet . . .

As in all wars, life goes on. The Weasley twins expanded their business. Sixth-grade students learn to Appear and lose some eyebrows in the process. Teens flirt, fight, and fall in love. Classes are never easy, as Harry receives extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it’s the front of the home that takes center stage in the sixth multi-layered installment of the Harry Potter story. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search the full and complete story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thus discover what his only vulnerability may be.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review

The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, possibly exaggerated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question in the minds of children, adults, fans, and skeptics is: “Is the hype worth it?” Fortunately, the answer is simple: yes. A magnificent show that is worth the price of admission, Harry Potter, and the Mystery of the Prince will leave you speechless. However, since so much has been invested in protecting the book’s secrets (including armored trucks and court orders), don’t expect any spoilers in this review.

It’s so much more fun not knowing what’s coming, and in the case of Rowling’s delicious sixth book, you don’t want to know. Just sit down, despite the revelations that will shake the earth, and you will have your head in your hands as you wait for the words to rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one caveat seriously: Don’t open Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until you’ve found a secluded place, safe from prying eyes, where you can hide for a good long read. Because once it starts, it won’t stop until you get to the last page.

A darker book than any other in the series thus far with a level of sophistication that belies its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into darker waters and marks Rowling’s arrival on the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her intelligence and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully nuanced portrayal of a warring community. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, no one and nothing is safe, including preconceived notions of good and evil and good and evil.

With each book in her series becoming more remarkable, fans have nervously viewed J.K. Rowling raises the stakes; The simple delights of butterbeer and delighted sweets were gone, and the days when the worst ailment could be cured with a bite of chocolate. A series that started as a colorful lark full of magic and discovery has turned into a dark and deadly war zone. But this should not surprise loyal readers. Rowling prepared the fans with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by killing popular characters and engaging young students in battle.

Still, there is an unexpected desolation from the beginning of Book 6 that casts a shadow on Quidditch games, silly flirting, and mountains of homework. Ready or not, the tremendous finale to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will leave amazed fans wondering what great and terrifying events await in Book 7 if this sinister darkness is meant to light the way.

About The Book Author J. K. Rowling

Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, “No one ever called me ‘Joanne’ when I was young unless they were angry.” Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry, she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King’s Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother’s maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother’s paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

Rowling’s sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village of Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael’s Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael’s, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: “I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly, the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee.” At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said “taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind,” gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford’s autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling’s heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, “I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life.” She had a difficult home life; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, “Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She’s a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I’m not particularly proud of.” Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as “not exceptional” but “one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English.” Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Quotes

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in the company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

Dumbledore will only leave Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.