Thursday, November 12, 2020

Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

This review was written by Eugene Kernes

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Genre = Novel, Fantasy

Elaborate Description

With the Ministry of Magic no longer able to deny the returns of Voldemort, measures are being taken to protect everyone and Harry Potter is proclaimed The Chosen One. The war sees many deaths and disappearances which are no longer restricted to the wizarding communities but now spill over to the muggle world. Even at Hogwarts there are machinations which see conclude in tragedy.

It is professor Dumbledore who takes Harry from the Dursley’s this time in order to aid in the acquisition of a new teacher. This year at Hogwarts, magic is learned to be used without vocalizing the spells and students are able to learn how to apparate. But Harry takes additional lessons with Dumbledore. Dumbledore’s lessons have them jump into different memories to try and find out information about the enemy, Voldemort. Harry has to learn the history of his enemy in order to one day defeat him.


Book Details

Edition ISBN:  9781781100547
Pages to read:   451
Publication:     2015
1st Edition:      2005
Format:            eBook

Ratings out of 5:
Readability    5
Content          2
Overall           4