Happy New Year, guys and gals! I didn’t want to stop in my on-going series
of re-reading and re-watching the Harry Potter series to do some sort of 2015
year in review. Most of what happened
you probably saw on my blog and to be honest, I wasn’t into reviewing the year,
not just yet anyway.
So, to continue on, I have just finished the penultimate
book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’m re-reading from a more adult perspective ten years and some months years later from the original summer release of Book Six back in
2005. Initially I started this project
as an attempt to pick out more details of Houses Ravenclaw and House Hufflepuff
since Pottermore, would later sort me into Ravenclaw and my best friend into Hufflepuff. Like almost everyone else I was convinced I
would be in Gryffindor.
Book Six is one of my favorite books in the series, along
with Book Two. As soon as I finished
reading Book Six for the first time, my mind was ablaze with the possibilities
of what kind of object the seventh Horcrux would turn out to be. Like my pronunciation of Hermione, the actual
pronunciation of Horcrux was, way, way off from my interpretation. (Why can’t they be Hor-cruz/Hor-cruise?) Book Six has one of the better endings being
entirely open-ended and somewhat cliff-hanger like, leaving ALL Harry Potter
fans salivating in anticipation for the final installment.
As always, spoilers to follow.
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