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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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2005
168,923
2005
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1 - The Other Minister
2 - Spinner's End
3 - Wil and Won't
4 - Horace Slughorn
5 - An Excess of Phlegm
6 - Draco's Detour
7 - The Slug Club
8 - Snape Victorious
9 - The Half-Blood Prince
10 - The House of Gaunt
11 - Hermione's Helping Hand
12 - Silver and Opals
13 - The Secret Riddle
14 - Felix Felicis
15 - The Unbreakable Vow
16 - A Very Frosty Christmas
17 - A Sluggish Memory
18 - Birthday Surprises
19 - Elf Tails
20 - Lord Voldemort's Request
21 - The Unknowable Room
22 - After the Burial
23 - Horcruxes
24 - Sectumsempra
25 - The Seer Overheard
26 - The Cave
27 - The Lightning-Struck Tower
28 - Flight of the Prince
29 - The Phoenix Lament
30 - The White Tomb
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Text copyright © 2005 by J. K. Rowling
TO MACKENZIE.
MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER.
I DEDICATE
HER INK-AND-PAPER TWIN.
It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.
May contain spoilers
His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
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Synopsis (may contain spoilers)
The wizarding war with Voldemort is spreading into the Muggle world as Harry's sixth year at Hogwart's begins.

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Added: 18-Jul-2005
Last Updated: 26-Apr-2022

Publications

 16-Jul-2005
Scholastic, Inc.
Hardback
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Date Issued:
16-Jul-2005
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$29.99
Pages*:
672
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
527
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-439-78454-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-439-78454-2
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Mary GrandPre  - Cover Artist
Mary GrandPre - Illustrator
Front Flap:

THE WAR AGAINST VOLDEMORT is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing.  Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names.  Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.

And yet...

As in all wars, life goes on.  Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process.  The Weasley twins expand their business.  Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love.  Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter.  Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort - and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.

Jacket art by Mary GrandPré © 2005 Warner Bros.
Jacket design by Mary GrandPré and David Saylor


Back Flap:

PRAISE FOR
HARRY POTTER
AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

- The #1 New York Times Bestseller -

"As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better....  She has looted the shelves of literature and mythology, fairy tales and folklore, anthropology and comparative religion, firing up a pop-culture crockpot and adding pratfalls, wordplay and dread....  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is rich and satisfying."
- John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review

"Rowling has not lost her flair as a storyteller or her ability to keep coming up with new gimcracks to astound her readers.  But her true skills lie in the way she ages Harry, successfully evolving him from the once downtrodden yet hopeful young boy to this new, gangly teenager showing all the symptoms of adolescence."  - Booklist

"By the time we finish The Order of the Phoenix, with its extraordinary passages of fear and despair, the distinction between 'children's literature' and plain old 'literature' has ceased to exist....  This is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages."
- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

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SCHOLASTIC
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Notes and Comments:
I started reading this the day it was released (July 16, 2005) in the US.  I purchased it at Wal-Mart and interrupted my reading of Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial by James Luceno to read it.  My son went back to the hospital with pneumonia for the fourth time during the reading of this book.  It seems that at least half of the nursing staff were reading it also.

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Author(s)

J K Rowling  
Birth: 31 Jul 1965 Yate, South Gloucestershire, England, UK
Notes:
J.K. Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. Her full name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling.

J.K. Rowling was divorced and living on public assistance in Edinburgh, Scotland with her infant daughter when she wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.  The Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to finish the book which she sold to Bloomsbury and Scholastic Books.  Harry Potter won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize and also received great reviews in England and in America.  She graduated from Exeter University.  She was 26 years old when she moved to Portugal to become an English teacher.  She married a journalist in Portugal and they had a daughter named Jessica who was born in 1993.  Rowling moved back to Edinburgh and she was unemployed when she wrote the first Harry Potter book.  Rowling sold the novel, Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, to Bloomsbury in England for about $4,000.  In 1997 the book won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize.  The Harry Potter books have been printed in 35 languages and have sold over 30 million copies.

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