Thursday, July 21, 2005
Title : The Half Blood Prince is....
Time : 10:30 am
Earworm: 40 kinds of sadness~~Ryan Cabrera SPOILER ALERT *but since the book was out on July 16th, this may not be much of a spoiler anyway* ..StinkinSnapewhomurderedDumbledorewhodiedwithoutarealgoodcause... sped thru the pages. finished within 2 nights, alternating with bio notes at times. sad life of a person sitting for A levels exams this year.
Didn't feel the title befitted the storyline. The Half Blood Prince revelation was sorta an anticlimax. somehow i always wanted to believe that Snape was actually good. i mean it was so easy to make him the evil character, and i expected Rowling to have more surprises up her sleeve. So even when in Spinner's End, Snape's true colours were revealed, i still stupidly held on to the belief that there must be some loophole, he's just pretending to be on the Dark Lord's side as Bellatrix accused. but no, one simple avada kedavra and dumbledore's gone. quite saddening the way he died and the mournful phoenix lament. but felt like he died for nothing. coz it wasnt a real Horcrux they found so he drank all that weakening poison for nothing. that chapter the cave was one of the gripping parts of the book, i was spooked by the descriptions of pale lifeless bodies in the churning waters and could feel the iciness when Harry jumped into the water. another rant is maybe the cropping up of so many romance plots Bill and Fleur, Ginny and Dean, Lavender and Ron, Harry and Ginny, Lupin and Tonks, most likely Ron and Hermione in the 7th book. can't believe its finally gonna end. wonder whether its part of growing up, that the books don't seem as magical as before, or is it that the standards have dropped or is it because its all getting darker and more desperate and i have this preconceived stereotype that magical things are supposed to bring happy endings? altho normally i don't like happy endings in a book, i prefer something where the ending is vague, that u can just concoct one yourself.all that said, waiting for Goblet of Fire coming on the silver screen end of this year. My fave book of the series, hope i dun get let down.
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