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Half-Blood Prince

Horcruxes

by Behold a Phoenix 07.01.2009

Chapter 23 (“Horcruxes”) is one of the most important chapters in the book with great implications for what happens thereafter, especially the last novel. The Felix Felicis potion is wearing off as Harry arrives at the portrait of the Fat Lady, but not before he finds out from Nearly Headless Nick that Dumbledore arrived at [...]

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Essence of Insanity, by “Lily Luna”

by Travis Prinzi 06.27.2009

Special thanks to Lily Luna for her willingness to guest-blog for Chapter 22 of our Half-Blood Prince Read-Through! She’ll be returning for “Flight of the Prince” as well. Enjoy! ~ Travis
I am honored to be asked to assist with the HBP read-through.
In Chapter 22, Slughorn extracts a bottle of valuable venom from [...]

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The Unknowable Room, by “revgeorge”

by Travis Prinzi 06.26.2009

This is the first of several guest posts in our Half-Blood Prince Read-Through. Pub patron revgeorge has graciously agreed to cover Chapter 21. Enjoy! ~ Travis
As a first time author on this blog instead of a commenter, I’m a bit nervous and feel compelled to be both coherent and also brief at the [...]

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Lord Voldemort’s Request

by Dave the Longwinded 06.25.2009

Travis asked some of us to fill in on the HBP read-thr0ugh, since he’s busy, you know, editing a book!
It would be easy to skip through Chapter 20 thinking that the most important thing we learn is how Voldemort/Riddle came into possession of Hufflepuff’s Cup and Slytherin’s Locket.  We know that both end up becoming [...]

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Elf Tails

by Travis Prinzi 06.20.2009

I’ll admit that not much struck me in the re-reading of Chapter 19 of Half-Blood Prince, so I’ll have to leave much of the discussion to the pub.  Lots of humor, of course.  The Dumbledore/Snape argument is the most interesting part of this chapter, but having that answer now, there isn’t a lot to say [...]

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Apparition, Bezoars, and Poisoned Mead

by Travis Prinzi 06.18.2009

Chapter 18 of Half-Blood Prince gives us one of those references to Snape’s first potions class which lead Cathy Liesner, in John Granger’s Barnes and Noble University class, to speculate about “Stoppered Death” in the weeks following the release of this book.  Mr. Granger ended up expanding on the theory and including it in Who [...]

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A Sluggish Memory

by Travis Prinzi 06.13.2009

The first few pages of chapter 17 of Half-Blood Prince belong to after-break catching-up.  Hermione gets filled in on the Snape/Draco conversation, and Ron begins to show more signs of discontent in his relationship with Lavender.
Fawkes and Loyalty to Dumbledore
The action begins once again in Dumbledore’s office, where one of my favorite Dumbledore/Harry moments takes [...]

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Christmas Eve at the Burrow

by Travis Prinzi 06.11.2009

We’re halfway through Half-Blood Prince!
More Snape irony in this chapter: As Harry what he overhears to Ron, he’s convinced he knows that Snape is on Voldemort’s side, because “No one’s that good an actor, not even Snape.”  Wrong!  Funny that as Harry is being vindicated about Malfoy, he’s completely wrong about Snape.
Dumbledore really becomes a [...]

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