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I'll talk about the actual EVENING later. For now,
I'm not finished reading the book, but I've skimmed, then read the last chapter. So far I don't really love this one. The last one was great... appalling, but great. This one is not so much.
1. Yes, it's Dumbledore who dies. This was pretty logical, and not too surprising. What DID surprise me is the killer: Snape. What surprised me even more is that a camshot was repeatedly posted to a MySpace Harry Potter community the other day depicting the bottom of page 606. When I got home with my book, the first thing I did was check page 606 to see if it was the same... I really thought the camshot would have been easy to fake. But it WASN'T faked, and I wonder who got it ahead of time and leaked it?
2. Snape is the Half-Blood Prince, and it's a pun. His mother's last name was Prince. Snape also gets DADA this year. Snape is also working for the Death Eaters, NOT the Order of the Phoenix.
3. That sickening-ass spoiler that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ragdoll was complaining about the other day was tru-EW. Yeah, Tonks and Remus. Suck it up.
4. Even more sickening for me: Harry and Ginny in wuv. I knew it would probably come, but ick. I've never liked Ginny at all, and I never wanted it to happen. In fact, even though I was pretty sure that it would be Dumbledore dying in this volume, I was kinda hoping it would be Ginny, and I even said so more than once.
5. Wonder no more about Blaise Zabini. He's a he, and you get a description of him on the train to Hogwarts. I can't recall whether the gender was cleared up in the last book or not.
6. JKR seems, so far, to have started writing Dumbledore with Michael Gambon in mind. The portrayal in his first few scenes in this book is similar to how Gambon played Dumbledore in PoA.
7. I'm thinking that R.A.B. (someone who thwarted Voldemort in something and left a note about it) will turn out to be Regulus Black, though it isn't answered by the end of the book.
8. Fleur and Bill are getting married. In the climactic battle, Bill is bitten and disfigured by a werewolf (evil Fenrir Greyback, NOT Remus). Everyone assumes that Fleur, La Hotnesse, will dump him, but she gets really pissed off that everyone assumes she's so shallow just because she's beautiful, and the wedding will go on anyway.
9. Draco becomes a Death Eater and is tasked by Voldemort with killing Dumbledore, but is also kind of being set up, as Voldemort expects him to fail. Snape makes a magical pact with Narcissa that he will protect Draco AND do the job if Draco can't.
10. The entire first chapter would appear to be about... John Major? (Too early chronologically to be Tony Blair, so Blair must be the "opponent" to whom the Prime Minister alludes.)
Can't think of anything else to add to this for the time being. I'm going to bed.
I'm not finished reading the book, but I've skimmed, then read the last chapter. So far I don't really love this one. The last one was great... appalling, but great. This one is not so much.
1. Yes, it's Dumbledore who dies. This was pretty logical, and not too surprising. What DID surprise me is the killer: Snape. What surprised me even more is that a camshot was repeatedly posted to a MySpace Harry Potter community the other day depicting the bottom of page 606. When I got home with my book, the first thing I did was check page 606 to see if it was the same... I really thought the camshot would have been easy to fake. But it WASN'T faked, and I wonder who got it ahead of time and leaked it?
2. Snape is the Half-Blood Prince, and it's a pun. His mother's last name was Prince. Snape also gets DADA this year. Snape is also working for the Death Eaters, NOT the Order of the Phoenix.
3. That sickening-ass spoiler that
ragdoll was complaining about the other day was tru-EW. Yeah, Tonks and Remus. Suck it up.4. Even more sickening for me: Harry and Ginny in wuv. I knew it would probably come, but ick. I've never liked Ginny at all, and I never wanted it to happen. In fact, even though I was pretty sure that it would be Dumbledore dying in this volume, I was kinda hoping it would be Ginny, and I even said so more than once.
5. Wonder no more about Blaise Zabini. He's a he, and you get a description of him on the train to Hogwarts. I can't recall whether the gender was cleared up in the last book or not.
6. JKR seems, so far, to have started writing Dumbledore with Michael Gambon in mind. The portrayal in his first few scenes in this book is similar to how Gambon played Dumbledore in PoA.
7. I'm thinking that R.A.B. (someone who thwarted Voldemort in something and left a note about it) will turn out to be Regulus Black, though it isn't answered by the end of the book.
8. Fleur and Bill are getting married. In the climactic battle, Bill is bitten and disfigured by a werewolf (evil Fenrir Greyback, NOT Remus). Everyone assumes that Fleur, La Hotnesse, will dump him, but she gets really pissed off that everyone assumes she's so shallow just because she's beautiful, and the wedding will go on anyway.
9. Draco becomes a Death Eater and is tasked by Voldemort with killing Dumbledore, but is also kind of being set up, as Voldemort expects him to fail. Snape makes a magical pact with Narcissa that he will protect Draco AND do the job if Draco can't.
10. The entire first chapter would appear to be about... John Major? (Too early chronologically to be Tony Blair, so Blair must be the "opponent" to whom the Prime Minister alludes.)
Can't think of anything else to add to this for the time being. I'm going to bed.
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This one is just meh. Slughorn is dull although I think she's trying to show that not all Slytherins are evil geniuses. Some of them are just overly ambitious and like their creature comforts etc. Most of the more interesting adults just sort of walk on, have a few lines and then walk off and then the romances all seem really forced. I have only read like the first 90-120 pages for real (vs. the skimming to see about the spoiler stuff I read) so maybe I'll feel a little differently later but right now, this one just seems lackluster. Plus a lot of the things she hinted at in the last book (including Ron's fight with the flying brains and Sirius's death) either are ignored or just sort of glossed over. "Oh yeah, Sirius is dead." Maybe having 2 babies in 3 years and all the hype just didn't do much for her writing.
and like I said, apparently Dumbledore is the world's biggest dumbass who isn't nearly as clever as Harry who obviously knows better.