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Old 21st July 2005, 11:11 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Originally Posted by Hypes
Finished it a day ago and though it was enjoyable, I'm a bit disappointed as to what really happened in the book: nothing (apart from Dumbledore being snuffed, what else did really happen? Everything else is far too ambivalent to be conclusive, still). But a very good prologue to number seven, I'd say.
I think that's been the trouble over the last couple of books, really.
Rowling's always said that she's know the ending of the story ever since she wrote the first book.
Possibly she's stretched it too far in an attempt to delve into her own mythology and has moved away from the core of the story (which is Harry vs Voldemort) a little. That would explain the relative meanderings of the last 2 books as opposed to the tighter structure of the previous.
I expect book 7 to be much more focused.
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