Categories | Growing Up & Facts of Life |
Author | J.K. Rowling |
Publisher | Arthur A. Levine Books; Reissue edition (June 26, 2018) |
Language | English |
Paperback | 688 pages |
Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
Dimensions |
5.25 x 1.3 x 8 inches |
I. Book introduction
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth novel in the Harry Potter series, and takes place during Harry Potter’s sixth year at the wizard school Hogwarts. The novel reveals events from the early life of Lord Voldemort, and chronicles Harry’s preparations for the final battle against him.
The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record eventually broken by its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were many controversies before and after it was published, including the right-to-read copies delivered before the release date in Canada. Reception to the novel was generally positive, and it won several awards and honours, including the 2006 British Book of the Year award.
Reviewers noted that the book had a darker tone than its predecessors, though it did contain some humour. Some considered the main themes love, death, trust, and redemption. The considerable character development of Harry and many other teenage characters also drew attention.
Plot
After his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry has spent two weeks mourning the loss of his godfather, Sirius Black. As Albus Dumbledore escorts him to the Weasley home, they visit the retired Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn, who agrees to resume teaching. Meanwhile, Bellatrix Lestrange and her sister Narcissa Malfoy convince Severus Snape to make an Unbreakable Vow to protect Narcissa’s son Draco at Hogwarts.
While out shopping for school supplies, Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger observe Draco making inquiries at Borgin and Burkes, a shop known for its connection to the Dark Arts. At Hogwarts, the students learn that Slughorn will be teaching Potions, while Snape will be taking over Defence Against the Dark Arts. For Slughorn’s first class, Harry and Ron borrow a pair of old textbooks. Harry’s textbook previously belonged to someone known as “The Half-Blood Prince”, and it contains many helpful tips. Following the instructions of the Prince, Harry becomes an expert potion brewer. He rises to the top of the class and wins a vial of the luck potion Felix Felicis.
Dumbledore prepares Harry for his eventual battle with Voldemort by educating him about Voldemort’s past as Tom Riddle. While a student at Hogwarts, Riddle had asked Slughorn about objects called Horcruxes, which can grant immortality by encasing fragments of a wizard’s soul. Dumbledore wants to see the memory as it appears in Slughorn’s mind, and asks Harry to retrieve it from him. Harry joins the Slug Club, a group of Slughorn’s famous, talented and well-connected students. Hermione and Ginny also attend the club, which causes Ron to feel left out. He accepts an invitation from Hermione to Slughorn’s Christmas party, but upsets her when he kisses Lavender Brown. Meanwhile, Harry develops a crush on Ginny.
When Ron is poisoned and admitted to the infirmary, Hermione visits him, which brings an abrupt end to his relationship with Lavender. Harry discards his Potions textbook after he nearly kills Draco with one of the Prince’s scribbled spells. Later, Harry’s luck potion helps him obtain Slughorn’s memory and causes Ginny to break up with her boyfriend Dean Thomas, which allows Harry to start seeing her instead. Slughorn’s memory suggests that Voldemort created six Horcruxes, though Dumbledore explains that two are already destroyed. He asks Harry to accompany him to retrieve another.
In a remote cave, Harry and Dumbledore overcome many obstacles before seizing the Horcrux. Back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore unexpectedly immobilizes Harry under his invisibility cloak. A group of Death Eaters arrives with Draco, who falters in an attempt to kill Dumbledore. Snape then casts the killing curse on Dumbledore and sends him falling to his death. Harry tries to fight Snape as he flees, but is overpowered. Snape reveals himself as the Half-Blood Prince and brags about creating the spells Harry is using. After Snape escapes, Harry discovers that the Horcrux he obtained is fake. He resolves to find and destroy all the remaining Horcruxes, and Ron and Hermione pledge to join him.
About the Author (J.K. Rowling)
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name J.K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.
Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published in 1997. Six sequels followed, concluding with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). By 2008, Forbes had named her the world’s highest-paid author.
The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts (a school for wizards), and battles Lord Voldemort. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. Its influences include Bildungsroman (the coming-of-age genre), school stories, fairy tales, and Christian allegory. The series revived fantasy as a genre in the children’s market, spawned a host of imitators, and inspired an active fandom. Critical reception has been more mixed. Many reviewers see Rowling’s writing as conventional; some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive. There were also religious debates over the Harry Potter series.
J.K. Rowling has won many accolades for her work. She has received an OBE and made a Companion of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. Harry Potter brought her wealth and recognition, which she has used to advance philanthropic endeavours and political causes. She established the Volant Charitable Trust in 2000, and co-founded the charity Lumos in 2005. Rowling’s philanthropy centres on medical causes and supporting at-risk women and children. In 2012, Forbes estimated that Rowling’s charitable giving totaled US$160 million. She has also donated to Britain’s Labour Party, and opposed Scottish independence and Brexit. Since 2017, Rowling has been vocal about her opinions on transgender people and related civil rights. Her comments, described as transphobic by critics and LGBT rights organisations, have divided feminists, fuelled debates on freedom of speech and cancel culture, and prompted declarations of support for transgender people from the culture sector.
II. Reviewer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
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1. THARINDU DISSANAYAKE reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“5. Should you feel that a family member, colleague, friend, or neighbor is acting in a strange manner, contact the Magical Law Enforcement Squad at once. They may have been put under the Imperius Curse.”
Time for interesting little subplots is over. We’ve arrived finally, where everything is closely tied to the core of the story and progressing fast. It’s always delightful to see, everything that was great about the series still remains the same, if not better. However, disappointments, sorrow and hardships are what the reader is going to encounter for the most part. As I finished reading Half-Blood Prince, more than ever before, I feel being trapped in a hopeless situation filled with nothing but forebodings.
“Destination…determination…deliberation…”
One would imagine, we’re beyond being accommodated with new characters, but the author will quickly convince you otherwise, and introduction of new and interesting characters continues. It’s great to see how Rowling keeps outperforming herself with each new book . Harry’s ill-tempered nature and suspicions does not end with the last book as I hoped it would, but the results are quite the opposite this time around. Honestly, I did not anticipate the way how things turned out right till the last three chapters.
“To friendship! To generosity! To ten Galleons a hair!
We’ve been somewhat used to happy ending in the first four books (relatively) with 5th being a bit disappointing but this one, it was the most depressing ending for me yet. It probably comes down to reinforcing the suspense toward the final book but, it’s a difficult place to be in – especially if you had to wait for a year..
“Eet ‘as been too long!”
2. CHELSEA HUMPHREY reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I’m not sure why, but this one took me completely by surprise. I was expecting this installment to be mainly filler to get us to the Deathly Hallows, but so much happened here that I must have forgotten from the movie. The Half-Blood prince was considerably darker than the previous 5 books, and I just adore how this series has progressed and grown just like most of its readers have. Obviously I knew what the big reveal was prior to finishing the book due to my viewing the films before, but it didn’t take away from the experience the novel had to offer. I have this nervous lump in my throat knowing that the next book is the final one, but am simultaneously excited to finally read what the films surely have left out surrounding the conclusion of the series.
3. SEAN BARRS reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I’m yet to mention one of the most important characters in this series in a review. I’m, of course, talking about Severus Snape.
Severus, the unsung hero.
Severus, who sacrificed his own soul.
Severus, who loved another more than life itself.
Severus, the half-blood prince- the truth about his character was, and will likely always be, one of the most surprising twists I’ve ever read in fiction. The set up is all in this book.
4. NILUFER OZMEKIK reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
For a long time this book had a special place in my freezer with my favorite ice creams and frozen food I was banned to cook (I eventually burn them when I defreeze them. I was born with non-culinary skills!) I repeated what Joey Tribbianni did because after finishing this book I cried so hard,
I cursed nonstop, I screamed till my local cords declare their uselessness and I tried to throw the hardcopy out of the window but I changed my mind because an innocent kid may have found the book at the outside and started to read and cry nonstop! So instead of throwing away or burning the pages( which is so harsh punishment because this book is still a classic and it’s one of the best ones of the series)freezing the book and never forgiving the author for killing one of my favorite characters were the best choices I’ve had.
As my new weekend quarantine habit: I started retro weekend tradition and reread my favorite series. Even though this book broke my heart more than a decade before, at least this time I prepared myself with lots of tissues and golden toilet papers( they’re so precious things and I hang them on the walls with hand sanitizers as if they’re historical artifacts.) and I bottled up my happy memories inside my head to protect my heart tear apart.
This is sweet 16 adventures of Harry: the girl crushes, secret smiles, hormonal and characteristic changes, seeing the world from different aspect! If I didn’t get so sad with the unexpected ending, this might be second favorite HP book because JKR- wizard of the words reflected the emotional and psychical changing as they grow up more and realize the biggest danger out there to steal their best times of their lives.
I never get bored to reread any HP books or anything JKR writes. (instead of shopping list. Lately they made me sleep!) So I had quite great time with my nostalgic journey to the past and realize I will find myself reading these books a decade later and I will still get the great taste of literature and have quality time. That’s the magic of skilled writing and gifted talent!
5. BERNARD HAMILTON reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Amazing book with an interesting caveat
When I first read this book all those years ago, it was my favorite by a mile. Discovering Voldemort’s history alone was thrilling. Reading it over now, I find I didn’t like it as much and I found Harry’s constant anger at Dumbledore a little annoying. Regardless, the ending still punches hard and it’s an amazing read from the mission to find the horcrux go down. Now instead of first it is ranked second behind goblet of fire in the list
6. KIMBERLY SCOTCHIE reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Half Blood Prince
I have always loved the Harry Potter books. They have given me much happiness and relaxation over the years. I take them out and read them at least once a year. The Half Blood Prince puts another spin on the Harry, Dumbledore, Snape puzzle. It’s a great read.
7. A. ALI reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rowling Casts Her Spell Again.
There are really very few superlatives one can justifiably use in describing “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Rowling’s literary treasure is unique among modern phenomena in that it manages to deliver on the months and even years of hype that is built into each novel by the contemporary publishing machine. To be sure, it will be described by the reviewers as ‘triumphant’, ‘dazzling’, and even ‘devastating’, and deservedly so. But what most who delve into the story will find is a marked change of theme and tone of the story: gone are the fanciful spells and whimsical bouts of underage magic, and raised in their stead are dark intentions and gruesome histories, wicked betrayals and a terrible, horrible murder. In short, as Harry has matured, so have the stories, and Rowling is all too adept at making sure that we understand that the ‘magic’ of the wizarding world is not simply about enchanted objects, flying brooms, and unicorns. It is also about tolerance, humility, and above all racism, for that really is the underlying theme of the books, each one propounding it deeper that Death Eaters view the ‘magical’ race as the superior race, and non-magical (or Muggle) peoples can be used, abused, and exterminated at will. It would be very easy to rewrite the novels substituting the words ‘Nazi’ or ‘White-Supremacist’ or ‘Pick-Your-Favorite-Genocidal-Bigot’ in place of ‘Death-Eater.’
The book also matures sexually, and one finds as they read it that there are not only hints at Harry’s burgeoning sexuality, but also Ron’s and Hermione’s. In particular, one finds frank appraisals of adult sexual themes in the story of Voldemort’s mother, Merope. We are told that she was tortured by her merciless father and brother, that it was a common family practice for the women of the family to be wed to their closest relatives (as close to incest as is truly possible) and there is also one particularly telling moment when the term ‘slut’ appears in the story. There is even a good dose of sexual blackmail that occurs in one of the story’s flashbacks. Granted, these are fairly adult themes and terms employed by Rowling, but they are never used unwontedly and show–in classic story telling style–the hellacious conditions which literally gave birth to Lord Voldemort. Surely, there will be those who decry the inclusion of such themes in a ‘children’s’ series, but Rowling remains true to her characters and maintains the integrity of the conflict at hand. One of the lasting achievments of Rowling’s writing is that she has helped diminish the barrier between ‘children’s literature’ and ‘Literature’. She has shown, for the sixth time now, that they are not mutually exclusive.
The most consequential development in the sixth installment is the murder of a major, MAJOR character, one whose loss weighs far heavier than those any sustained by Harry thus far, including his godfather Sirius Black. Some of the reviewers have remarked that they saw the murder being foreshadowed early on with hints from the previous book indicating this character would fall. I, however, found it impossible to believe that it actually could happen, and was both shocked and horrified and in complete disbelief when it did happen. In fact, I was so sure that this character could not be killed that I thought they would ‘come back’ by the end of the book and prove that they were in fact indestructible. It is to Rowling’s credit as a writer and her expert development of the character’s relationship with Harry that I both screamed and cried when the character was killed. For me, the murder of this character was tantamount to the murder of Harry Potter himself. It is therefore with great anticipation, and also great trepidation and sadness, that the final chapter of this saga is awaited. Whatever the outcome, Rowling will surely not disappoint.
8. M. L. ASSELIN reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Of Freud and Horcruxes
At this point, I’ve already seen both parts of the movie version of the last book, but in my quest to read all seven volumes of Harry Potter aloud to my daughter before she begins college–I think she was eight when we started–this intrepid reader and critic soldiers on. I wouldn’t miss that experience for the world. To paraphrase “Casablanca,” we’ll always have Hogwarts. (Even if, as is the case, she’s read all the books herself many times over, and readily offers trenchant criticism of my oral interpretation.)
The sixth and penultimate volume of the series, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (HPTHBP), follows the trend set by the preceding volumes in being more serious and sombre than what’s come before. Although some of this is due to tragic plot outcomes, a large part of the darkening mood is occasioned by the psychological examination of the series’ villain Voldemort. This is accomplished through visits to the past by the Hogwarts Headmaster, Professor Dumbledore, and the hero, Harry Potter, through the use of the magical television of personal memories, the Pensieve, which was introduced in earlier books. (Another way to look at it is as the holodeck on “Star Trek.”) In effect what you have, then, is an psychological biography of Voldemort’s early years, and J.K. Rowling does a commendable job eliciting pathos and disgust in her readers towards Voldemort’s earlier circumstances and acts of violence. A related thread in this book is Harry’s attempt to capture a particular memory from Slughorn, a returned professor whom Dumbledore knows is suppressing recollection of what he once taught Voldemort. It takes more than a penny for his thoughts.
Most of the action and tragedy is reserved for the book’s final pages. By then, one has long been ready for the plot’s amusement part ride, and J.K. Rowling does not disappoint. The reader who has managed to avoid the books and movies until now will be the only one who will be surprised at the ending. However that may be, the author paints the scene and its aftermath to move even the aware reader. One aspect that doesn’t seem to ring completely true, though, is the way the main characters, gathered in the infirmary after the book’s climactic battle, get sidelined by a discussion about marriage. Really? Now? After all that had just happened?
All in all, HPTHBP is to my mind the best written volume in this series thus far. It may not be as much fun as HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, with its varied contests, but in this story we get deeply into what makes Voldemort the villain (in a word, Freud) and why it will be so difficult to destroy him (horcruxes). This sets us up for the final battle to come in volume seven.
9. KASSIDY reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It seems like by now, everyone would realize they should listen to Harry..
Such a sad end 🙁 I knew that was going to happen before starting the series, but didn’t know when. It still got me in the feels, though.
The book as a whole was really fun and entertaining. I love the mystery and learning more about Voldemort. The romance drama was funny as well.
I can’t wait to see what adventures the next book brings and how it all concludes..
10. LUFFY SEMPAI reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I have read this book many times, although the penultimate one was years ago. Let’s say that this was the first time I’ve read them in e-book form.
The reading was marvellous. There were things I’d forgotten, e.g. how late Harry and Ginny got together. I’d also forgotten about most of the funeral. I’ll say no more, spoilers oblige.
What this book tells me is that sadly the more conservative of readers, grammarians etc will place so many books above Harry Potter #6, none of which is worth mentioning in the same breath as Potter lore.
To me this series is special. Nobody else will undertake waiting for each book to come out and lay our hands on them. The Potter universe will belong to our descendants forever. But it was we who helped create this fervor and unmatched popularity.
III. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Quotes by J.K. Rowling
The best book quotes from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
“I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.”
“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
“The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.”
“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?”
“Yes,” said Harry stiffly.
“Yes, sir.”
“There’s no need to call me “sir” Professor.”
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
“The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that there was all the difference in the world.”
“You’d think people had better things to gossip about,” said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. “Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest.”
Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.
What did you tell her?”
I told her it’s a Hungarian Horntail,” said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. “Much more macho.”
Thanks,” said Harry, grinning. “And what did you tell her Ron’s got?”
A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”“He accused me of being Dumbledore’s man through and through.”
“How very rude of him.”
“I told him I was.”
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry’s intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
“I am very touched, Harry.”“An Unbreakable Vow?” said Ron, looking stunned. “Nah, he can’t have…. Are you sure?”
“Yes I’m sure,” said Harry. “Why, what does it mean?”
“Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow…”
“I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”“It’s going to be all right, sir,” Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore’s silence than he had been by his weakened voice. “We’re nearly there … I can Apparate us both back … don’t worry …”
“I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.”“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that’s gripping the nation!”
“You could say sorry,” suggested Harry bluntly.
“What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?” muttered Ron.
“What did you have to imitate her for?”
“She laughed at my mustache!”
“So did I, it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”“Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.”
“Dumbledore’s man through and through, aren’t you Potter?”
“Yeah I am,” said Harry. “Glad we straightened that out.”“Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
“I don’t mean to be rude—” he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
“Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often,” Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.”“We’ll be there, Harry,” said Ron
“What?”
“At your Aunt and Uncle’s house,” said Ron, “And then we’ll go with you wherever you’re going.”
“No-” said Harry quickly; he hadn’t counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone.
“You said it once before,” said Hermione quickly, “that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We’ve had time, haven’t we? We’re with you whatever happens.”“Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!”
“I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.”
“Ginny, listen…I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.”
“It’s for some stupid noble reason isn’t it?”
“It’s been like…like something out of someone else’s life these last few weeks with you. But I can’t…we can’t…I’ve got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He’s already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend’s sister. Think how much danger you’ll be in if we keep this up. He’ll know, he’ll find out. He’ll try and get me through you.”
“What if I don’t care?”
“I care. How do you think I’d feel if this was your funeral…and it was my fault…”“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
“For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry…although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.”
“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
“Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.”
“Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?”
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
“The Death Eaters can’t all be pure-blood, there aren’t enough pure-blood wizards left,” said Hermione stubbornly. “I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It’s only Muggle-borns they hate, they’d be quite happy to let you and Ron join up”
“There is no way they’d let me be a Death Eater!” said Ron indignantly….”My whole family are blood traitors! That’s as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!”
“And they’d love to have me,” said Harry sarcastically. “We’d be best pals if they didn’t keep trying to do me in.”“Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.”
“And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.”
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
“What do I care how ‘e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!”
“It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .”
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