Spoiler Free Review of Harry Potter

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Harry Potter Review

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"Sixteen year-old Harry Potter is again whisked from his room in Privet Drive to the wonderfully busy home of the Weasley’s as we begin the sixth instalment of the series. Most notably the terrible sense of foreboding with which we were left at the end of book five has increased by the beginning of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts.  Numerous attacks and murders have occurred over the summer and it with apprehension, and a guard, that Harry embarks upon his journey on the Hogwarts Express.  The ever-present nemesis, Draco Malfoy, is at his most foul in this instalment, wrapped up in a Death Eater plan that is kept virtually out of the story until the tragic events towards the end of the book.

 Whilst a sense of fear permeates the novel, Rowling still keeps events lightened with the introduction on Professor Slughorn whose quest to be the centre of all social events at Hogwarts has left him ‘very well connected at the Ministry’.  Meanwhile, love and passion seem to be the dominant interests for most of the students, with pairings off in scenes painfully reminiscent of those rather sloppy and saliva smeared teen fumblings we can all remember well.

 Harry has lost the moody surliness that so dominated him in “Order of the Phoenix” and throughout the book demonstrates that he is quickly becoming the courageous hero we had all hoped him to become, whilst still maintaining his endearing fallibility. 

 As ever, Rowling’s skill at creating vast interlinking plot lines and an ever-increasing sense of urgency and tension in the story keeps the audience gripped to the very bitter, and hauntingly dark, ending.   What is particularly notable is the significant increase in pace and action in this book.  “Order of the Phoenix” suffered from its need to fill in a lot of back-story and to significantly progress the series. Meanwhile, emotions run high throughout, be they love, anger or misery. The death of a major character in this volume leaves the reader with a terrible sense of loss, and a feeling of great sadness at the theft of innocence and childhood that Potter has endured throughout his young life as he accepts his destiny and the very dark implications of that role.

At long last the millions of us who have waited what feels like an age to read the latest instalment in the adventures of boy wizard, Harry Potter, have been gifted with what is possibly the most exciting volume so far in the series.  I have been a member of numerous pub discussions over which title in the series is the best with many unable to make up their minds between Azkaban and the Goblet of Fire.  I think we can assume now that the “Half-Blood Prince” will silence the argument, for now."