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Before discovering the Half-Blood Prince, The Grandma has offered them a new Cambridge Key English Test A2 Example.
Half-blood is the term commonly given to wizards and witches who had known Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents.
Half-bloods were the most common type of wizard or witch, as the pure-blood wizarding population would have become extinct had they not inter-married with Muggles and Muggle-borns.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series.
Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry's preparations for the final battle against Lord Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore.
The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold nine million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record that was eventually broken by its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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There were
many controversies before and after it was published, including the
right to read copies delivered before the release date in Canada.
Reception to the novel was generally positive, and it won several awards
and honours, including the 2006 British Book of the Year award.
Reviewers
noted that the book took on a darker tone than its predecessors, though
it did contain some humour. Some considered the main themes to be love,
death, trust, and redemption. The considerable character development of
Harry and many other teenage characters also drew attention.
The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released 15 July 2009 by Warner Bros.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series.
The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997, with an initial print-run of
500 copies in hardback, 300 of which were distributed to libraries. By
the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold
medal in the 9- to 11-year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book
Prize.
More information: Wizarding World I & II
The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the longest novel in the Harry Potter series, was released 21 June 2003.
After the publishing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
was released 21 July 2007. The book sold 11 million copies within 24
hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in
the US.
J.K. Rowling stated that
she had Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince planned for years, but
she spent an entire two months going over her plan before she began
writing the story seriously.
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This was a lesson learned after she did not check the plan for Goblet of Fire
and had to rewrite an entire third of the book. She started writing the
book before her second child, David, was born, but she took a break to
care for him.
The first chapter, The Other Minister, which features meetings between the Muggle Prime Minister, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, and his successor, Rufus Scrimgeour, was a concept J.K. Rowling tried to start in Philosopher's Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Order of the Phoenix, but she found it finally works in Half-Blood Prince.
She stated that she was seriously upset writing the end of the book, although Goblet of Fire was the hardest to write. When asked if she liked the book, she responded, I like it better than I liked Goblet, Phoenix or Chamber when I finished them. Book six does what I wanted it to do and even if nobody else likes it and some won't, I know it will remain one of my favourites of the series. Ultimately you have to please yourself before you please anyone else!"
More information: Screen Crush
J.K. Rowling revealed the title of Half-Blood Prince on her website on 24 June 2004. This was the title she had once considered for the second book, Chamber of Secrets, though she decided the information disclosed belonged later on in the story.
On 21 December 2004, she announced she had finished writing it, along with the release date of 16 July. Bloomsbury unveiled the cover on 8 March 2005.
The film adaptation of the sixth book was originally scheduled to be released on 21 November 2008 but was changed to 15 July 2009. Directed by David Yates, the screenplay was adapted by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron.
The film grossed over $934 million worldwide, which made it the second-highest-grossing film of 2009 worldwide and the fifteenth-highest of all time. Additionally, Half-Blood Prince gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
More information: The Guardian
You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips,
you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare...
He dared — he dares — he stands there — filthy half-blood.
Bellatrix Lestrange
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