Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince - Dumbledore Dies?
Then buzz it up
May 25th, 2005 at 16:00 by Stuart Heritage
The Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince (Books) hype gathers pace all the time, like an out of control juggernaut hurtling down a mountain towards an orphanage.
In what is either a masterstroke of publicity or a massive
cock-up, the plot of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince may have
been leaked. And it doesn’t look good for poor old Dumbledore.
So far we know that Edinburgh Castle is going to be transformed into Hogwarts at the stroke of midnight on July 16th so J K Rowling
can read bits of the new Harry Potter book out to some children,
instantly wrecking the argument made by sappy grown-ups that it isn’t a
children’s book at all, actually.
It also appears that a train, the Minnesota Zephyr of Stillwater, is to be turned into the Hogwarts Express
at the same time, for the enjoyment of American children. Harry Potter
loving kids can go for a 40 minute ride and buy the book at the same
time. Only they won’t be able to hear Rowling boom wizardy nonsense into a microphone like a shonky dictator.
As usual for a book that’s so overwhelmed with it’s own self-importance, no details whatsoever have been released about Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince,
except the cryptic gubbins that’s meant to get us all salivating.
Rowling has said that a character will die in the new book. Who could
it be? Ginger Ron? Cracker? Harry? The nation’s numbskulls worked themselves into a frenzy trying to work out who bites the dust.
Thank goodness for the people of Bungay in Suffolk. They’ve more or less all put bets on Dumbledore croaking. What’s so special about Bungay? Well, that’s where the book is being printed, you see.
This isn’t the first Bungay security leak - when book five was being
printed there a forklift truck driver stole some copies and tried to
sell them to newspapers - but it is the best. Because if it’s true,
it’s the literary equivalent to telling people that Bruce Willis was really a ghost in The Sixth Sense (DVDs) before anyone had seen it.
Bloomsbury, who published the book, are trying as hard as they can to dissuade potential readers from believing this. "There was a huge amount of speculation about Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and it was wide of the mark", a spokesman is quoted as saying.
It’s unclear if the first pressings of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince will go on sale with "Dumbledore dies" crossed out and "One of the others dies" written above it in biro.
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May 27th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
who is the new person
May 28th, 2005 at 11:21 am
hi
June 6th, 2005 at 12:06 am
The new person’s Maclaggen. So says the book’s publisher, while hintingly humming “Love is in the Air.” A new romance for Harry?
June 7th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
no i dont think dumbledores gonna die. if he dies it will probably be in the next book. and how did you get a hold of the publisher even if you did he or she wouldn’t tell you what the new person is!!!!!!!!!
June 9th, 2005 at 4:51 am
hi, omg new romance or harry i think thats good somebody his own age. i dont think dumbledore will die it might be in the next book or something. im sad thought that sirius died. they should have kept him for like 1 more book. i loved him so much.who will maclaggen be like what part in the book??? and why would the publisher tell you thats weird??? I CANT WAIT!!!!
xoxoxo
vanessa
June 9th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
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June 12th, 2005 at 2:52 am
what is this person sry for?
June 15th, 2005 at 9:51 am
can anyone just tell me who is mark evans
June 15th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
mark evans is a random boy, j.k rowling says that she didn’t even think that mark evans and lily potter had the same name. it was a mistake.
can’t wait till the sixth book comees out!!
June 18th, 2005 at 9:10 am
i don’t really want anyone 2 die. but if sum1 has to i think it should be crabbe or goyle.
June 18th, 2005 at 9:14 am
i don’t think dumbledore will die coz the half blood prince has got to be hagrid. not that i want him to die either, but still.
June 19th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
i dont think its Hagrid that is the half blood prince i think its Nevil i think that how u spell it because in the 5th book dunmledore talks about that how its harry or him. Well whats that about lily? where do you guys find that out well tell all!!!
June 25th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
I really dont think their going to kill off Dumbledore when everyone is just beliveing voldemort is coming back. I mean he is the olny wizard voldemort was scared of. L cant belive she killed off Sirus. I wish she would find a way to bring him back.
June 25th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
i dont think its nevil or hagrid. nevil is well just not the brightest.plus dumbledore talked about the predicitonand he said it could have either been harry or nevil so voldemort took a chance and picked harry and well you know the rest.
June 26th, 2005 at 12:22 am
oh riGHT WELL then who is it going to be cause like dumbledore will not die thats a positive i think atleast. well um…….. for the 7th book is harry going to die cause she cant write he lived happily ever after. he has to die right!!!I DONT WANT HIM TO!!!! ahhhh o well its a book. thnks Lynx for the help. i think im going to read the 5th bok again so i know where i left off.
v.a.n.e.s.s.a.
February 17th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
He did die! Bad luck for all of you.