False alarm.

[icarus]

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.

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[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

Wait, Dumbledore didn't know it wasn't the right Horcrux, he never got the chance to examine it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

In real life it would be like that, but JKR doesn't throw away scenes. If it's been made to look unimportant (like Snape's cramped handwriting when writing his Owls turns out later to be a big clue to solving who the "half-blood Prince" is) it's almost always an important part of the jigsaw.

But there's no way to know the answer until she gives us another piece of the puzzle, and that won't be for another two years or so.

Icarus *muttering*