The half-blood Prince

I'm not sure where to start, because it hasn't been very long since I've read the book, and I'm still hurting. I just can't get the picture of Dumbledore dying out of my head, and this hasn't ever happened to me before. It's normal for me to cry when characters I like die, but now I have definitely slept over it, tried to think about other things but my heart still feels like it weighs about a ton.

Anyway, I really loved the book, apart from one, fairly important point to me: how very badly J.K has let Hermione down. This might sound mean, but she was farily out of character, and didn't have an important part to play in the book, apart from the story with Ron, furthermore both of them entirely refused to even discuss the possibility Harry was right about Malfoy and Snape, although he clearly was. And she was plain annoying about the Potions book. I really used to like Hermione a lot, but in this book I could seriously have hit her over the head with a cauldron, no problem. Apart obviously at the end, where everything seems to be fine again, when she and Ron come and tell Harry that they're with him. Far more like him.

Somehow, I also found the plot to be far less complex than in other books, but then that's probably first of all because I missed things, and second of all because it leads to the last book and more things will yet again be explained. Somehow, I refused to believe that Snape was evil until the end. I thought that Dumbledore had a much more powerful reason to believe in his truth than what it finally turned out to be. But I've always hated him. It seems a shame though that Malfoy finally does have something nice about him on the inside.

I though the romance part was a bit overdone, they're seem to be entire chapters about it. I would never have thought that Hermione and Ron were going to end up that way, and it also seems ridiculous, when at least a bit, that Harry would start hating Dean just like that, so suddenly but well I personally think J.K.Rowling put quite a lot of that in this book because they're will be none of very little in the next. And again, something she managed to convey beautifully without many words, it was that Love reamains the most important thing, and however ridiculous the behaviour of the teenagers seems, as long as those feelings are there, something at least is safe. Luna however was the one character who was entirely as fascinating as always, the part where she commentated was hilarious.

At the beggining, I somehow was a bit resentful to the book because it gave me none of very little of the security I have come to expect at Hogwarts, the feeling that's where I belong, but then I did realise that i have five other books (or at least four) that give me that feeling, and this also prevented me from feeling too resentful that Harry won't be coming back next year. Obviously, J.K. Rowling will be able to concentrate on the war, rather than have to spend pages describing the usual routine of the castle, which is perhaps better anyway.

And about the rest of it, I don't know I have the feeling it was perfect. I had expected long stories about how miserable Harry felt during the holidays because of sirius, but however J.K.Rowling was far more effective with a few words than she could have been with long laments, or at least so it felt. THe idea of Hoxcruxes is amazing, and makes lots of sense. In book seven,, we will probably assist at Harry's quest, helped along from his two best friends.

And the last thing I should talking about before boring you all and myself to death, is Dumbledore's death. It hurt so much. The way he suffered when driking that water, the way he pleaded with Severus, his mistake of always believing the best in everyone. I could say more, but I still feel too much lol.
Oh, and last point, Harry was amazing when talking to Rufus Scrimgeour. I loved him for that, more that I have ever loved him in any other book I think.

Well that's it, any comments welcome.