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It turns out Amazon was just ~~striking terror in my heart~~ covering their bases. I got the book on time and should not have believed random emails about "we might be late." *panics again*

Have read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Loved it. Though if I knew someone about to read the HP series right now, I'd tell them to wait until the next book is out because, while this is not quite a cliff-hanger, it's so close to one as to leave you a little hungry.

Current Mood: pleased

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amanuensis1.livejournal.com

I'm still reeling at its being a cliffhanger. Of course it's a cliffhanger. It's just--insane that it's a cliffhanger. We know. We know that Snape did all that on Dumbledore's orders. That Dumbledore begged Snape to kill him because either he or Snape was going to die, and he didn't want Draco to be a murderer, and Snape had to keep his cover, and he didn't want Snape to be the one to die--they'd agreed on it, and he was holding Snape to it. Why in god's name does that need to be a cliffhanger if we KNOW?

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icarusancalion.livejournal.com

I'm sticking with my theory that the green potion was one V's horcruxes, and by drinking it D became a horcrux. Thus the need to AK him. Thus the need for a great wizard to drink it (anyone less it would completely take over). Thus his strange behaviour outside Rosmerta's.

I'm convinced that whatever that stuff was, at the very least it was much more than a poison. Otherwise it doesn't make sense D would sacrifice himself and not at least mention "oh shit, I'm a goner and all for nothing."

I reeling from the cliffhanger, too. But given where it is in the series (and the need to build drame for the last book), she had a choice between writing a cliffhanger, or writing a transition chapter. The cliffhanger was the better choice.

Icarus