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[reipan]

So, I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night. I'm not entirely sure I enjoyed it...

 

For one thing, I think Rowling is laying on the whole romance thing far too thick. Ginny dates Dean and then Harry, Ron dates Lavender and then really wants to date Hermione, Bill and Fleur are engaged...it's like the idea that she might put romance into the series only just occurred to her. The Lupin and Tonks thing at the end is sweet, but was slightly ruined for me by the fact that I was just thinking "For crying out loud, not another one". (Incidentally, at the beginning of this bit I accidentally wrote "Ginny dates Lavender". I think I need more tea.)

I also think that Dumbledore got much too involved, much too fast. Since the fourth and fifth books I was expecting him to up his input, true, but I think he took it a little far - like Rowling was trying to get everything she could out of him. The thing with Snape was quite a spectactular error of judgement, though, and goes to show that even the most brilliant minds can be destroyed through a mistake. (See me philosophise ^_^)

Draco's over-the-top evilness, while expected, wasn't very well done. He's quite clearly very troubled - the cynic in me expects him to perform some kind of spectacular redemption feat in the next book. Ron's idiocy (read: complete and utter twattishness) is comedy gold, Harry seemed a little flatter, and Hermione, by this stage, is just annoying. I liked Luna Lovegood (that bit with the commentary of the Quidditch match was perfect) and, strangely enough, Fleur Delacour. Oh, she's completely up herself as always, but at least someone's in character.

Now, as a review this is a bit crap xD - I'm just tossing my thoughts on the book out in no particular order. It's just...I dunno. These aren't the Harry Potter books I knew. It started out as a children's series and is now trying to grow up in a very clumsy way. They're just not the same.

~Reipan