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Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
When Harry Potter became a world phenomenon, I didn?t pay so many attention in the books or the films. I remained totally unaware of the whole universe created by J.K Rowling. However, something aroused my curiosity: how can an author attract so much interest from young people for books with more than three hundred pages, without any illustration? How did the writer manage to train this entire generation of readers?
Since the beginning, the books and the films got a immense popularity around the world. Until now most of the fans help this story achieve more and more success.
Years later, precisely in 2021, I set myself the challenge of reading the work of J.K Rowling. So, as part my project of read book in english and spanish, I am going to read the seven books in the original language.
First of all, it?s important to explain the plot of this adventure. Harry Potter is a little guy that lives with his uncle Valter, his aunt Petúnia and his cousin Duda. They mistreat Harry so much. Our main character is a young wizard, as his parents, who died when he was a baby.
I started reading from the first one, THE PHILOSOPHER?S STONE. In this part, Harry discovered that he was a wizard and went to study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hagrid introduced him in the magical universe. There, he knew his best friends, Hermione and Ron. They live an intense adventure. In the first part we see the struggle against Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, and Harry. He discovered that Valdemort killed his parents. Harry had a great fame among the magical community because of his father and his mother. Valdemort wanted the Philosopher Stone to became immortal and powerful, but Harry could avoid this destroying it. The eventful school year ends and Harry returns to Privet Drive for the summer in order to spend his vacation with his repulsive relatives.
The second book that I had the opportunity to read was HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. Harry spends the summer in his uncle?s and aunt?s house after the first year studying at Hogwards. His relatives tried as they could the return of Harry to that wizard school. Besides Valter and Petúnia, a little and peculiar monster called Dobby appeared out of the blue in order to avoid Harry?s returning to school because the boy wold take his own life in risk. Harry ignored but the monster caused troubles to him. His uncle locked him in the bedroom and he had to be rescued to his best friend Ron in a fly car. At this same way, with great adventure, they arrived at Hogwarts. With his best friends Ron e Hermione, Harry discover the chamber at school and experience a great adventure. This place is so dangerous and the basic rule was never try take risks, most of them didn?t even know about the existence of that chamber. Ron?s sister was attracted to that place for an student and Harry had to enter there. He found Ginny unconscious guarded by Riddle, who reveals that he used the diary to manipulate Ginny into reopening the Chamber, and that he is Slytherin's heir and Voldemort's younger self. In the end, Harry could overcome this very difficult task, could bring his friend safe and sound, showed his loyalty to Dumbledore, acquired more experience and points as a wizard student.
In HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISIONER OF AZKABAN, the young wizards are in the third year at Hogwarts School. Harry had a great connection with the history of his parents through Sirius Black. He escaped from Azkaban, a prison. Everyone believes that he was an old ally of Lord Valdemort. With Sirius Black free, Harry?s life was in danger. Professor Remus Lupin helps Harry to achieve more experience and be less scared, principally because Harry was been attacked frequently for strange creatures called Dementor. Harry needed to face this kind of things to overcame this situation. Lupin teaches Harry how to defend himself from Dementors using the Patronus charm. Harry, Ron and Hermione live intense adventures, even the use of time-turner in order to rescue Hagrid?s Hipogriff to be executed by Ministry of Magic after injuring Draco Malfoy. In the end of the history, Harry stayed face to face with Sirius Black, but discovered that he was innocent, a good person, he was one of the best friends of his parents and Harry?s godfather. The truth was almost reestablished. Harry helped Sirius to scape from the sentence to have his soul sucked out by Dementors and the man went away flying in the Hipogriff.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GLOBET OF FIRE starts with the main character in a nightmare with an old man been killed after overhearing Lord Voldemort conspiring. Then, Harry and his friends went watch the Quidditch World Cup before one more year in Hogwarts.
At Hogwarts, the students knew a new teacher. It was Auror Alastair ?Mad-Eye? Moody. It was a very rare year in that place because of the THREE WIZARD TOURNAMENT. The rules were simple: three magical schools were competing in three different kinds of challenges. Each of that schools should have had a student for the competition representing the institution.
The detail was that the competitor should have aged seventeen and above, put his name in the globet of fire, that would choose the right person. Mysteriously, after had chosen the three names, the globet of fire chose Harry Potter too, who just was eleven. After a great reflection about the odd case, teachers decided about the authorization to Harry to be part of that competition. So, Hogwarts had two competitors, Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory.
What nobody knew was that Harry?s participation was a mousetrap produced by Valdemort. With courage and loyalty, Harry was just brilliant in each challenge, most of the time saving the others competitors? lives. In the last task, we discover how Valdemort practically reborn with the helping of Petter Pettigrew and others bad wizard. The villain was responsible of Cedric?s death. Harry can scape safe and sound, in spite of suffer a little bit. He got had rescued Cedric?s body and told to Dumbledor about the return of Valdemort.
In, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHEONIX, Harry and his cousin Dudley are attacked by Dementors. Because of this very unpleasant situation, the young wizard was forced to use magic out of Hogwarts. He was judged and took the serious risk of expulsion.
Harry went to the house os de Sirius? childhood, where he met some wizards belonging of the Order of the Phoenix. It?s a very important group that struggles agains Valdemort.
Harry was defended by this group, that could get avoid the expulsion, with the valorous helping of Dumbledore.
In this book, Harry discovered the truth about his story with Valdemort. It?s about a about a prophecy that the man who would destroy Valdemort would be born. Wanting to avoid the fulfillment of this prophecy, Valdemort tried to kill Harry, who was protected by his own mother, who paid with her life. Valdemort was back and ready to destroy Harry. It is nearing final reckoning.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is the sixth book of the serie. The young wizard is preparing himself to the greatest challenge his his life. The final battle against Valdemort.
The villain got more and more power and wanted to kill Harry at all costs. During private sessions with Hogwarts? director Dumbledore, Harry investigated Valdemort?s past in order to obtain some clues of how to destroy his enemy.
Dumbledore picks up Harry at his uncles? house. During the way, they went to Horácio Slughorn?s house, an old teacher in Hogwats. This old wizard knew Valdemort during the period in witch he studied at Hogwarts, and witnessed how Valdemort became a master of dark wizard. Unconsciously, this teacher helped Valdemort with precious informations and blame himself until now because of that. Dumbledore and Harry tried to convince Horácio to return to the Hogwarts.
So much things happened during this journey, and, in the end of the year, Dumbledore was killed by professor Snape, than runned away with Draco. Dumbledore?s death caused a great impact in Hogwarts school. The next year would be the most important. Harry and Valdemort, finally, will have reckoning.