Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School and the only mature wizard who poses a real threat to the foul Lord Voldemort, cannot protect Harry forever - nor can Harry be sure that he can protect himself. Up to now, Harry, while overcoming any number of harrowing trials, has managed to retain a trusting nature but at 16, worsening circumstances force him to realize that even though he regards himself as "Dumbledore's man through and through," he must also be his own man. These newest 652 pages - far darker than those that preceded them - are leavened with humor, romance and snappy dialogue, and freighted with secrets, deepening bonds, betrayals and brutal lessons, many of them coming from the sinister, Harry-hating Severus Snape, master of the dark arts. But, like other susceptible children (and grown-ups), who among them own 270 million copies of the first five books in the series, the Lebanese Potter fan had to wait until one minute past the witching hour of July 15, 2005, to satisfy his curiosity about what had befallen Harry since he battled the evil allies of Lord Voldemort (more prudently referred to as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named) in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." What this young reader - and everyone else - will discover is that Rowling has succeeded in delivering another spellbinding fantasy set in her consummately well-imagined alternate reality. The boy's inquiry did not produce the results he'd hoped for, but it may have settled a larger question: is there a book-loving child on the planet who isn't obsessed with Harry Potter? Um (or "er," as Harry would say), perhaps not. Rowling, author of the cliffhanger chronicles of the young British wizard Harry Potter and his pals, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
He had read the five other Potter books many times, he explained - both in French and in English, which "takes longer, but it's better, because it's her words." "Her," even to a boy growing up in the Bekaa, meant She-Who-Must-Be-Read: J.
In French-inflected English, he asked an urgent question: "Have you seen the new Harry Potter book?" Despite receiving a negative reply, he pressed on, "Have you heard what happens in it?" When the answer again was "no," he sighed in vexation. LATE on an ink-black night in June in the Lebanese hill town of Zahle, a teenage boy sidled up to two travelers as they strolled along the bank of a river. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE By J.
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