Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince is out in the UK!

[Lucy]

I'm suprised no one else has made a post about this...or have they and I just haven't noticed? If that is the case, I'm sorry! I've been in Romania doing mission work for 2 weeks so I'm not really up to date!

So has anyone read it yet? I haven't started it but have the bok now, so will do very soon!

Has it come out in the US? If not do you know when it will do?

[iKnowWhatYouDid]

Yeah it came out in the US on I think the 16th.  I'm no good with dates  :razz:

[Lucy]

Ok that was the same as the UK then :roll:

[Jophess]

I finished it yesterday. It was really good!

[angelheart56]

I finished it on the 16th.... I liked it a lot but still sad over the ending

[Lucy]

I have only just caught up with sleep since getting back from Romania on Wednesday, so I'm starting Harry Potter now!

[TSE]

I read it.  A question:

Who still thinks Dumbledore is right and Snape is really good?  I don't think JK Rowling would just have Dumbledore be wrong about who he was loyal to the whole time.  There HAS to be more behind what Snape did.

[angelheart56]

I read it.  A question:

Who still thinks Dumbledore is right and Snape is really good?  I don't think JK Rowling would just have Dumbledore be wrong about who he was loyal to the whole time.  There HAS to be more behind what Snape did.

yea there def has to be more to it.

[Jophess]

I read it.  A question:

Who still thinks Dumbledore is right and Snape is really good?  I don't think JK Rowling would just have Dumbledore be wrong about who he was loyal to the whole time.  There HAS to be more behind what Snape did.

I don't know. I thought it was really brave of JK Rowling to kill off Dumbledore and I liked how she can do that. The ending was a little too angsty for me... I've read that some people think Dumbledore isn't dead, but I am sure he is. I think there's more to Dumbledore trusting Snape... but I think Snape is bad.

[angelheart56]

I think Harry will still be able to contact Dumbledore if he had to through the headmaster pictures

[jlmusicchick]

I think anything is possible...I definitely think that the locket Hocrux or however you spell it is that locket that they found while cleaning out Sirius's apartment in the 5th book...the one that they couldn't get open. Which can only lead me to believe that RAB is Regalus Black.

As for Snape...I don't know what to think. It's possible that Dumbledore knew about the Unbreakable Vow and was asking Snape to kill him, but at the same time Dumbledore kept going on to Harry about how he also makes mistakes and that his tend to be big ones. I think that if Snape really was double crossing Dumbledore then JKR did it only to show that, though a great wizard, Dumbledore is just a man with faults - his being that he puts complete trust in what others say.

And the romance in this book is INSANE. i love it :-P finally, Harry and Ginny together! and it's only a matter of time before Ron and Hermione swallow their pride and get together...woot!

I definitely liked this book. It gave a lot of information and still sets up suspense for the 7th book. i can't wait for the 7th to come out  now!

[Vanity]

I read it.  A question:

Who still thinks Dumbledore is right and Snape is really good?  I don't think JK Rowling would just have Dumbledore be wrong about who he was loyal to the whole time.  There HAS to be more behind what Snape did.

I think Snape really has gone over to Voldemorts side, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was all an act, and he ends up helping Harry in the last book. No matter what, I'm pretty sure he's going to die in the ending, either as a traitor or right after he has clearned his name. We'll just have to wait and see

[Arwen]

At first, I was so pissed at Snape  that I refused to listen to any theories that proved Snape to be good. But now I'm on my third rereading, and even on the second rereading I saw blatant clues that pointed us to the fact that Snape is still good. Either that, or Jo is really trying to trick us.
Anyways, I loved the romance in this book and I was rejoicing when Harry smelled that "flowery smell that he had smelled at the Burrow" in the love potion in Slughorn's first class, because I knew that it was Ginny. I have been waiting for those two to get together since SS.
Everytime I think about it I'm still really sad that Dumbledore died. He was funny, yet so powerful. I do think that Harry will be able to communicate with him in some form though.

[GeNuInEwAnNaBe69]

Ok, I have heard a ton of theories about Dumbledore, one is that he is not dead.  I had my doubts when, at the end, his portrait was hanging up but didn't say a word--unusual.  You also never see Dumbledore's body.  For all we know Dumbledore might've switched bodies with somebody.  Who really knows with Jo?

The other theory about Snape killing him only to bring up his end of the Unbreakable Vow is a little more plausable, but I am still in denial!  In this book Dumbledore was at his funniest and thus his most lovable.

But, he had to go so that Harry could fight off Voldy on his own, it is a sad but necessary thing.  

But, by far my favorite storyline, only because of the word "snogging" was Ron (WonWon) and Lavender, it reminded me of a taudry High School Romance.

[ChocoNutz]

I'm mad mad mad at JK! lol I still can't believe it!
I don't care bout the theories lol all I know is that she should never have done that! argh argh argh!