Magical adventures
Spoiler alert! I recently finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and it's definitely another winner from J.K. Rowling. I still can't believe that, single-handedly, she's managed to get kids to stay up until midnight just to buy a book. And the tome itself is around 600 pages. Let me repeat that. J.K. Rowling has found a way to get kids all over the world to stay up until midnight to read 600 pages. For that alone, she should be awarded some type of Nobel prize.
Anyway, the sixth installment in the Potter series is a great read. Voldemort and his cronies are now waging full-out war on the magical community, and some innocent Muggles are likely to get caught in the crossfire. Harry and Dumbledore begin an effort to stop the bloodshed, using Dumbledore's Pensieve to travel back in time and observe Voldemort during his formative years. They discover that Voldemort, in an effort to achieve immortality, has split his soul into seven pieces. Fragments of his soul are hidden in significant objects, and Voldemort can survive as long as at least one of these fragments remains undestroyed. Harry and Dumbledore begin searching for the objects that contain vestiges of Voldemort's soul.
In perhaps the most stirring development in book 6, Dumbledore is (apparently) killed. This creates a tension-filled set up for book 7, the final book in the series, as Harry now knows that he must confront Voldemort, and he has no one to protect him but himself. This is perhaps the most notable achievement in book 6 - the deft preparation for book 7. While still a great read in and of itself, book 6 creates an almost unbearable anticipation for the final installment in the story of the boy wizard.
Anyway, the sixth installment in the Potter series is a great read. Voldemort and his cronies are now waging full-out war on the magical community, and some innocent Muggles are likely to get caught in the crossfire. Harry and Dumbledore begin an effort to stop the bloodshed, using Dumbledore's Pensieve to travel back in time and observe Voldemort during his formative years. They discover that Voldemort, in an effort to achieve immortality, has split his soul into seven pieces. Fragments of his soul are hidden in significant objects, and Voldemort can survive as long as at least one of these fragments remains undestroyed. Harry and Dumbledore begin searching for the objects that contain vestiges of Voldemort's soul.
In perhaps the most stirring development in book 6, Dumbledore is (apparently) killed. This creates a tension-filled set up for book 7, the final book in the series, as Harry now knows that he must confront Voldemort, and he has no one to protect him but himself. This is perhaps the most notable achievement in book 6 - the deft preparation for book 7. While still a great read in and of itself, book 6 creates an almost unbearable anticipation for the final installment in the story of the boy wizard.
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