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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[story by Stuart Heritage]
kathryn says
who is the new person
andi says
hi
Michelle says
The new person’s Maclaggen. So says the book’s publisher, while hintingly humming “Love is in the Air.” A new romance for Harry?
joe says
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!!!!!!!!!
Vanessa says
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
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vanessa says
what is this person sry for?
Anonymous says
can anyone just tell me who is mark evans
kate says
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!!
samantha says
i don’t really want anyone 2 die. but if sum1 has to i think it should be crabbe or goyle.
megan says
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.
vanessa says
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!!!
Lynx says
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.
Lynx says
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.
vanessa says
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.
Dumbledore says
He did die! Bad luck for all of you.
ava says
Well… I am confused does he die in the sixth book or seventh? Please answer in need it by wednesday- tomorrow ( the 3rd) for a book report.
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bob says
ok bit of a waste of time to put this now after both the books are out but i was dared to write something on a forum and i cba to make an account on a proper one.
Why did pople asume the half blood prince will die?
no 1 said that it came out of nowhere.
And for anyones intrest
A large speculation went around that dumbledore faked his death (and i suppose planing it isnt far off) They thought this becuse:
At the begingning slughorn fakes his death
We learn about draught of the living dead
We know the head master can get rid of the charm for no apperating (as the students did aperating b4 in the book while dumbledore temporarily removed charm)
It never once says that dumbledore dies. it always sais wat harry new to be dumbledores body ect
We learn about non verbal spell
the avada kadavra curse dont make u raise into the air.
What (suposedly) happened is:
Snape said some other thing non verbaly (well thought it) while saying avada kadavra, which is why some weirdo thing happened
Dumbldore then aparated nearer to the ground so he wont be killed from the fall
He drank drought of living death
WOOT hes not dead
Unfortunatly either jk rowling made it to make speculation, she didnt realise that would be thought, or she had intended him to of faked it and changed her mind in next book
jasmine says
I THINK THE PERSON THAT DIES IS EITHER DUMBLEDOOR OR hagrit or nevel or maybe rons brothers sorry cant remeber their names but im pretty sure its dumbledoor cause on all the websites it says dumbledoor dies on the 6th one but if he does then on the 7th one voldomort will be the strongset and who knoes what will happen to harry n whos all the new people i cant wait to watch it soooooooo happy <3
Hubert says
One big thing that gave a shock, at the end of the novel was the death of Dumbledore. Its pretty hard to take in what just happened there.
Thanks to J.K. Rowling and all the Harry Potter Directors and their respective team, that we have a good time reading, and looking at this unusually hectic world of Harry Potter.
Hubert says
We’ll have to just catch up with Harry on his lone search for his enemy Voldemort. Its going to be very painful.
Anyways it was Dumbledore who died at the end, and professors were actually thinking of closing down Hogwarts. But the Harry Potter adventure must go on.
Hubert says
may be i be late for responding this, but its in the sixth book(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) that Dumbledore dies at the end to be precise.
Hubert says
Oh well, he does. Great tragedy.
Tiffany says
No I Watched the movie once and dumbledor does die acctually.
Tiffany says
Snape is the half blood prince acctually :D
Tiffany says
2 people die, dumbledor and arragog the spider that hagrid owns.
Tiffany says
dumbledor dies!!!!
ANN says
As Hubert tells , I too thank to J K ROULING & all the HarryPotter film members for such a film.And i really think that in the sixth series Doumbledore would die!!!!!!
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