urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackkisses465blackkisses465blackkisses465blackkisses4652005-07-16T20:51:19Zurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackkisses465:724Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince2005-07-16T20:51:19Z2005-07-16T20:51:19ZWell, I just finished the 6th installment of the Harry Potter series... It definitely takes a lot out of you! Man! It was very interesting, although I did find the beginning to be rather slow... It definitely picks up though!!! This book opened the door to a lot of new theories, and makes one wonder what the outcome of the story will really be... Of course, it is thought by many that good will triumph over evil, etc, etc, and by the end of the seventh book, life will return to its "happy-go-lucky" state... However after reading this book, I'm not entirely sure that this will be the final story...Harry has made clear at the end of the sixth book, that he has no intention of returning to Hogwarts the following year... But, isn't the idea of the seven book, to reflect each of his years of schooling? So, I think that in the seventh book, Harry will be persuaded to return, although probably not very easily... I must say that Snape's devotion to the Dark Lord, wasn't not entirely a surprise, which is, I'm sure, just as Rowling intended it to be... How it all finally laid out, was not so much of a surprise, but more of a shock... Snape did say in the fifth book that Dumbledore was a very skillful with Legilimency, so how could he have over looked this fact? Snape claims it to be Dumbledore's weakness, that he must see the good in everybody... It turns out to be his fatal flaw. I plan to reread the book, within the next day, and then I will be able to better speculate what might happen in the seventh book... However, with the information that I have, I think that (don't mark my words entirely, for this is mere speculation, after reading the book only once) Draco Malfoy may come around at the end, and be essential in Harry's survival... Or destruction... I need to read the book through, several more times before I can say what I truly believe will happen...