REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Published: July 26, 2007, 3:10 pm

Tags: reviews, harry potter, books, reading

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released two years ago but Mad Professah re-read it this week in preparation for my perusal of the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which occurred this week.The only thing I still remembered from my first reading of Book 6 in 2005 was the obvious "Dumbledore Dies!" but there is much more to the story than that earth shattering event. The sixth installment of the Harry Potter series has even more teen angst than the hormone-soaked fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This time, though, the teenaged trio does have serious things to worry about, like the results of important exams (O.W.L.s, which is a clever play on the British 'O' level exams which Mad Professah himself took when he lived in a Commonwealth country in the mid-1980s and in the British system of education are extremely important in determining one's future educational career path).The most interesting

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