Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WITH SPOILERS

[Cylor]

You mean the 5th one cyl??

Yeah, help me out, will ya?

[Vykromond]

Spoiler Warning Oh My God Spoiler Warning

Yeah, help me out, will ya?

fifth harry potter book

harry is attacked by dementors in the beginning so he patronumizes them and gets expelled from the school. he acts very angry and angsty for a while until he is kidnapped from his uncle and aunts house by some sort of wizarding enclave including some ministry of magic people, MAD I MOODY, and some other retards. they're the ORDER OF TEH PHOENIXXX and they're here to fight He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Reamed. so they take him to sirius black's family estate, wacky hijinx ensue. dumbledore is AVOIDING HARRY OMG WHY? harry acts very angry and angsty for a while. cornelius fudge tries to expel him but fails. the very dark subtexts of the book become apparent!! it seems that the ministry of magic may not be such a force for good, as predicted at the end of BOOK THREE: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN!!!!! harry acts very angry and angsty for a while.

boring shit happens. harry goes to school. he starts having dreams about locked rooms!! and candles!! and oh my god I am so scared right now. the ministry of magic starts a crackdown on hogwarts THOSE BASTARDS ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and they appoint one of their like secretaries or whatever named DOLORES UMBRIDGE to be Hogwarts High Inquisitor (THIS IS A VERY CLEVER ALLUSION TO THE "SPANISH INQUISITION," A TIME OF GREAT TROUBLES FOR HISPANICS NATIONWIDE). she is very very mean. harry acts very angry and angsty for a while. eventually dumbledore gets fired for some dumb reason. he vows to be back in black, like ac/dc (but with a robe and wizard hat). about 500 pages of irrelevant nonsense in the middle of the book. at some point harry discovers that his dreams about locked rooms and candles oh god just give me a second i have to pull the covers around myself i am shivering right now from the fear OH NO LOOK BEHIND YOU HARRY IT'S A MONSTGSAUOGXHCLKX are really sent by v0ld3m0r+, which means voldemort is inside of Harry Potter's head!1111!11elevenses! This means that Voldemort is evil. because of this harry has to take singing lessons and also mind-closing lessons with sirius snape. he discovers that sirius snape was not a happy youngster. snape discovers that harry is not a happy youngster. they share each other's troubles over lingering tea-drinking sessions, until one day snape finally lets his feelings for harry be known. "i love you too, sirius," harry responded, tears streaming down his face. sirius reached across the table with one of his well-manicured hands to brush away the tears from harry's angelic visage, while his other hand slid down into WHOA LOOKS LIKE I GOT A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY THERE harry acts very, very angsty and angry for a couple dozen more pages. then he learns that sirius black has been kidnapped by voldemort and will be killed by him and so harry has to get out of the school but to do that he needs to get dolores umbridge crushed by a giant in the forest that hagrid is raising so he does that and then rides on semi-invisible flying horses with his friends including HERMIONE GRANGER, RONALD WEASEL, NEVILLE LONG BOTTOM, LOONY LOVEGOOD (an annoying bit character), GIN AND WEASEL, and their pet cat "pikachu" to the ministry of magic The Department Of Mysteries, which is extremely mysterious, where they battle to recover a prophecy about Harry's birth with various voldemort supporters and THE MAN HIMSELF, THOMAS MALOVONIO "THE RIDDLER" RIDDLER, who weren't keeping sirius black captive after alll but were just using him as bait to get mr. potter to read from the prophecy or whatever so then TOTAL HIJINX EVERYWHERE because DuMbLeDoRe (risen once again, not unlike the Lord Jesus) and co. also come in and there's a TOTALLY HUGE BATTLE WITH ASPOLOSIONS EVERYWHERE and dumbledore personally kicks voldemort's ass but He-Who-Must-Occasionally-Be-Named escapes anyway to his island fortress. and sirius black dies. <- Oh My God You Certainly Don't Want To Read That Spoiler Because It Is Very Spoiling! and the prophecy is that there will be a chosen one to lead the people out of the matrix, wait no, a chosen one to defeat/be defeated by voldemort (thus determining the fate of the universe), and harry potter is the chosen one. except it might have been neville. but it's not because harry potter has the lightning scar (the [Mark of the Chosen], you might say).

[Zerzera]

Probably the most amazing books ever.

define amazing....

[Sleepy Weasel]

if u ask me, j.k. rowling snoozed and loozed. she took too long to write the damn 4th and 5th books. people who were at a prime age for that stuff when the first three came out are looking at what colleges they want to go to by now. people who are a prime age for it currently are screwed because they would have to read 4 books in a row to understand this one.

The books are so successful because they appeal to all ages. I'm 24 and I'll admit I"m looking forward to the new one. Not going to buy it, but going to borrow it from my friends sister. People aren't going to drop the series because they are too old for it.

Give me Tolkien or George R.R. Martin anyday over Rowling, but that doesn't mean I don't like these books as an amusing diversion. It's kind of like watching a kids movie like "School of Rock." Sure it's for kids, and it's not going to intellectual stimulate you like some books/movies, but still you can't help but enjoy it.

[brookus]

They are a decent read. The only problem is that apparently JK fired her editor in the last two books (particularly the last). There was way too much pointless stuff going on in those. More than likely they fell victim to the "you can't edit down my books, I'm <insert author>" syndrome.

llater,
Tony

[Jacklyn]

i wanna read the new one :X

LOL tony!

[AcidBomber]

i wanna read the new one :X

ME TOO! ^-^

[Vykromond]

apparently JK fired her editor in the last two books (particularly the last). There was way too much pointless stuff going on in those. More than likely they fell victim to the "you can't edit down my books, I'm <insert author>" syndrome.

llater,
Tony

this is all too true. the first few books may have sucked, but at least they only take up 1 book's worth of shelfspace

[Liquid Blue]

My bookstore made me and the other employees sign a sheet saying we wouldn't open any of the boxes until midnight friday

I'm working from 9-5 saturday, it will probably be hectic. Thank god I'm not working the midnight opening, that will be crazy.

EDIT: I got the days mixed up, for some reason thought today was firday

[Asmodeus]

I'm a big fan of the movies. I'm all into that magic shit. It's good for the imagination.

[Kim]

My bookstore made me and the other employees sign a sheet saying we wouldn't open any of the boxes until midnight friday

I'm working from 9-5 saturday, it will probably be hectic. Thank god I'm not working the midnight opening, that will be crazy.

EDIT: I got the days mixed up, for some reason thought today was firday

I'll give you the money for the book, you mail it to me, and I'll host anything you want ^___^.

[Liquid Blue]

A buddy co-worker of mine reserved 3 in my name (the more reserves you get, the better it looks to our District Manager :greedy: ) , so it'd seriously be np if you want a copy. Just send me the money and I can get you the book. With the reserve price it will be like 18 bucks, I don't know if I can add on my store employee discount ontop of that though. Hook me up with a PM if you really want one.

[Liquid Blue]

Ok Harry Potter on Saturday wasn't hectic usually (they came in spurts...the crowd I mean...still sounds wrong.. :fear: ), it was just long. I worked from 9-5 that day, and from 9:40- 2:30 I worked the free stuff/activity table right outside the store (which is in a mall). It's surprising how nice and polite people can be when you are giving them free stuff, lol. I went in and worked a register from 2:30- 5, and I alone easily sold at least 50 copies of Harry Potter. We had gotten an extra shipment Thursday night, so we had more copies than everyone else and probably by 1pm were the only store in the area that had any copies left. Those badboys sold like hotcakes.

[Ilya]

...

hello everyone i didnt know we were in middle school

hello everyone i didnt know we were in middle school

hello everyone i didnt know we were in middle school

[Liquid Blue]

I've noticed most of the people that make comments like that, haven't read any of the books. Not all, but a large majority. They just assume it's a kiddy story.