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Harry Potter is back and is, once again, in the thick of
wizards, witches and Hogwart’s, and involved in trying to
stop the evil that is growing under Lord Voldemort’s
influence. J. K. Rowling’s sixth book in the series of Harry
Potter novels doesn’t disappoint her fans around the world.
The long-awaited book may be her best to date as Harry and
his friends, Ron, Hermoine and Ginny go to battle once more
with the evil side of wizarding. This book has more than a
few surprises for his fans.
Harry has turned into a teenager and is beginning to suffer
all the new and uncomfortable feelings that come along with
the age. It doesn’t make matters any easier that his friends
are going through the same changes as he. The book, picking
up where the last left off, finds Harry being whisked away
by Dumbledore, head of Hogwart’s School for Witches
andWizards, who appears one evening at Harry’s Muggle
family’s doorstep long before school begins. Apparently
Harry is not safe even in the world of Muggles – humans -
after the battle of the Prophecy. An eerie gloom has settled
over both the magic and the Muggle world with Death Eaters
and Inferni appearing in both worlds more and more
frequently. It looks like this time Lord Voldemort may
obtain his ultimate goal and rule all.
As Harry is welcomed back at school after being kept safe
throughout the summer months, students whisper and wonder if
he really is the “chosen one.” Never one to pay much
attention to flattery, Harry doesn’t let on what was said in
the last, most terrible battle. Harry is startled when
Dumbledore begins to conduct private lessons with him. His
trusted friends from prior years at Hogwart’s are the only
ones he entrusts with the knowledge learned during his
visits with Dumbledore. But not even Harry himself knows
where these lessons will lead him in the end. Not until it
is too late do any of the forces fighting to keep Voldemort
at bay realize what is to occur. Without even his friends at
his side, Harry is left to fit the pieces from the lessons
together himself after the most deadly and personal battle
he has ever had to fight. Rowling leaves her fans astonished
and craving her seventh book in the hugely popular Potter
series.
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Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince