Harry Potter: Book 6: The Half-Blood Prince

            Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling, is my favorite book in the series.  I really like it and will be praising it in this.  Harry starts another school year and starts it with a new teacher, like always, something happens with Malfoy, like always, and Harry eventually wins, right?  Wrong, Harry does start another school year and something does happen with Malfoy and it's debatable whether Harry wins or not, but what is different is that another character dies at the end.  I say that it's different because nobody thought this could ever possibly happen under any circumstance, but it does happen.  Whether you like it or not, someone does die and someone gets seriously injured and the tide turns. 

            I like Professor Slughorn a lot just because he's so clueless.  He is good at the subject that he teaches, but he is so clueless when it comes to what Harry wants, kind of like Professor Lockhart but not as extreme.  And he does cause Harry to get the Half-Blood Prince's book, so he is a major story element.  He also gets a job that no one thought he would get.  Everyone thought he would teach Defense Against the Dark Arts; well, he doesn't.

            This is a great book and I think that the best moments of the series were in this book.  Everything about it is just great, except for this one thing that Dumbledore did.  It just takes so many turns that no one expects on their first time through if they haven't had spoilers.  And the way that the story flows is just amazing.  I was genuinely sad at the end after what happened, and that's the mark of a good book.  Also, Fred and George create something that I really want to go to.  But I can't go to it because it's not real.