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Harry Potter · Book 8

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

Published
16 July 2005
Pages
640
ISBN-13
9781408855706
Type
novel

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About this book

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005, 640 pages) precedes Deathly Hallows as the sixth novel, continuing the war story J. K. Rowling built the series toward -- sacrifice and the cost of standing up to Voldemort weighing more heavily with each book.

Its place in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is book 8 in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It is followed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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