Originally Posted by Ishmal

good series that!!!

anyway,

back to HP&HBP

Originally Posted by me

Are you really sure that J. K. Rowling really wrote the so-called sixth book in the series Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? Well maybe I can believe that after her previous ... well ... fiasco, but until recently I respected the HP series for being a fantastic (both fantasy and extremely well done) series. And I respected the author.

To tell the truth, I felt this book wasn't planned but a way for the publishers, and indeed Rowling herself, to get more revenue. It felt like a book added onto the series like a weird growth after shaking hands with stranger whom you suspect doesn't wash as thoroughly as needed - what I mean to say is that it added something to the atmosphere of the story, and gave you a little background on the world but generally something that is sin against nature. It seems that, instead of dipping into the talent, which we certainly know that the author possesses, that she decided that the customer is always right, and she fell into temptation presenting us with a soppy love story that rambled on about the characters, and then abruptly ended it with a ending that you could have seen coming even if you were blind.

However, I must admit, I could not put it down. I felt that the story that has been running for the six books so far, the battle against all that appears evil, and the decisions that make a man, that make Harry Potter a hero. I just hope that the series does not slip through the fingers of J. K. Rowling, and that she can show her critics that no matter what happens, the story that she is telling is really fought in all of us.

And now isn't that a Harry Potteresque ending after all?