Hairy Porno - em, Potter...***

So, yes, exactly 24 hrs ago I finished off "Harry Potter and The Halfblood Prince". I think I merely needed 2 1/2 days or less than 30 hrs. The book is a page-turner as the others were, and it's not true, what some critcs said, that it's weaker than it's predecessors. It holds a stunning revelation and I think it gives everything the story needs. The tragic death of (*if you wanna spoil your own fun then look here*) is not as half as surprising as it was the death of Sirius Black in "The Order Of The Phoenix" - he* prepares Harry with everything he knows himself and everything he might need to know in future. That there are certain things missing still as Harry is not even of age - well, yes. There are some questions in the end, which are a bit bewildering: Why isn't Dumbledore telling McGonagall everything he knows? Why does Harry really think he can solve it on his own and outside the school - while the secrets for sure still lay in the school? But I'm already keen on no. seven, because I think that the fog will clear there. More light-handed and more furious than Tolkien, I'm sure ;-)

Next question which was apparent in some of the reviews I read so far:
Is (*if you wanna spoil your own fun then look here*) a traitor or is he not? And which proof had Dumbledore for thinking he isn't? Well, yes of course he is a traitor, but his reasons are not really obvious: Something in his motives must have changed. While he was loyal to Dumbledore over most of the last 5 1/2 books, he must have felt save in the school. Save from the fellow death-eaters. But now, for a headstart, he hides Wormtongue, and in the end he betrayes everybody. I doubt it's only because of his favourite Draco and the spell Bellatrix and Cissy put on him. There must be some promise awaiting him at Voldemort, while on the other hand Harry Potter annoys him more and more or makes him more aware of his dreadful past. Something like that.

And, to finally join the guessings: The only one I can imagine having got and possibly destroyed the horcrux before Dumbledore and Harry got there is Regulus Black. Now, how long till book no. 7???

***(The headline of today was not really funny but inspired by this stoopid t-shirt which is out of print for some more or less obvious reasons. And, c'mon, the t-shirt is funny!