Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Adult edition) - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince is the penultimate book, out of a series of seven, written by British female author J K Rowling. The Half Blood Prince is currently being filmed and is due for release, I think, in Autumn 2008. Each book in the series is increasingly dark and in a more serious vein. The plot continues where the Order of the Phoenix left off. The book starts with the magical world's Prime Minster, attempting to warn the muggle world's Prime Minister, of the sinister events happening around the country, and to explain why they are happening. As any Harry Potter fan knows the muggle world is the non-magical world, that is the ...

It’s nearly 10 years since the first of seven books was published in the Harry Potter franchise. Since the coming together of the author, J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury Books, global sales have been astronomical mirrored by a string of movie adaptations to match the content of the books. I can’t profess to have read every single book (I’ve seen all of the movies on release at the cinema though) but the sixth of seven i.e. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” was the third book I’d chosen to read following on from the “Goblet of Fire” and “Order of the Phoenix” instalments. For anyone that hasn’t encountered the Harry Potter phenomenon, Harry Potter is a ...

Well okay, there’s no half-baked potato in this book. But there is a lot is snogging, in fact that word is chronically overused in this book. But first… Background If you’re not familiar with the Harry Potter books, let me give you a little background. When he was 11, Harry found out that he was a wizard, and who his parents really were. He also found out that he himself, at the age of one, had become a celebrity in the wizarding world by somehow not only resisting the attack of Lord Voldemort (or, “He Who Must Not Be Named”), the biggest, baddest wizard of them all, but in the process taking away almost all of his powers. Harry starts ...