Hard to believe, but not every book critic loves Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Read the full post.
Jul 27
2005
01:26 PM ET
Harry Potter and the Half-Bloodied Critic
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excuse me!HBP rocked. Sure, it might be pretty gross since there’s alot of snogging, but come on, man. they’re teenagers. 16 year old teenagers. it had to happen sometime! and besides, to me, it was pretty cool how romance was all around,couples getting together.. and then boom. dumbledore dies, and it’s up to him and him alone to find the hocruxes. I think the whole everyone’s-falling-in-love thing was pretty important. can’t say why, since it would be freakin’ long. And this book I think is really important, it gives a lot of clues that are need in the 7th. Wonder how long that’ll take…
Honestly, i am rather disappointed about book 6. The book was like an empty space that stretches on and on, obstructed only by some scrubs. The front parts were quite uninteresting and though i hate to say this, I was not hooked like when I was reading the other books, especially PoA. I ended up taking about a week to finish it. However, I think the romance parts are not so bad, like some of you said, cos I think it’s a part of the characters’ growth and maturation. I particularly liked the last few chapters that encompassed sacrifice, love and death. Overall, I thought Ms. Rowling hadn’t really lived up to her ‘there-is-not-a-single-boring-page’ status, but she still did enough to fuel my anticipation for what may be coming up in the grand finale (I so hope it won’t be over so soon!). I’d like to see the magical world beyond Hogwart’s careful grounds.
I totally loved hbp, but i have to admit that i expected much more than just romance and voldemort. the character for hbp also dissapointed me because i thought it would be a new character. i just hope that the last book is so awesome it would make up for hbp. after all it is the last one.