.harry potter and the half blood prince.

i met up with 5some today to celebrate the july babies birthdays again. as i have mentioned before, many of my friends have their birthdays in july. SHAN IS BACK!!!! haha... she still looks the same. well, all of us look the same. however, there is something that has not changed is zhihui and weifang are forever late for all meetings. haha... they were examining my hair today. hai... lousy hairdresser and ugly haircut. irritating! i hope my hair will grow long soon so that i can layer and style my hair. hopefully, i will look better than now. =) we went to eat jap food. i seriously think that jap food is not my cup of tea. the food is too salty. yucks! the soup and main course i had. it does not suit my taste buds. anyway, we are meeting up soon to watch fireworks. woohoo!!!!! wait for my reminder masseages guys!

those who have NOT read the book, please do not read beyond this point . =)

i have just finished reading the book. it took me almost a week to do so. i could not find a full free day last week to sit down to complete my readings. i only had time for less than five chapters each day before i headed for bed. how tiring school can be. i think that the book is better than the fifth book, in terms of thickness and content. i could not remember much from fifth book except that Sirus died and umbridge.

the sixth book serves as an introduction to the final showdown between who-you-must-not-name and harry. it pieces all the information from the previous five books nicely together. an example is how lord voldemort was able to exist in various forms. it goes deeper into the background of the characters, especially lord voldemort (tom riddle when he was young). many of my friends pity him when they find out his background but i do not. he had become who he was because of his own doings. he could not resist the temptation of greed and power. he wanted to be immortal so he went on a killing spin. on the other hand, my impression of malfoy became better. he hesisted when he had the perfect chance to kill the defenceless dumbledore in his office. he seemed to be threated by voldemort to do so. it just shows he still had a humane side.

i was truly sad when dumbledore died. although snape had made the unbreakable vow that he would protect malfoy during his mission and his private conservations with malfoy suggest he was on the dark side, i was hoping that he would kill the death eaters and save dumbledore when he dashed into the office. in the end, he shocked me. i believed in dumbledore and thought snape was a spy planted by dumbledore to watch over the happening in the dark side. up till now, i still cannot believe that snape betrayed the trust dumbledore had in him. i have this feeling that dumbledore knew what was installed for him when he instructed harry to obey all his instructions before their quest for the third horcruxes. he had foreseen that his death is inevitable. he may have instructed snape to end his life instead of having malfoy to do so to prevent malfoy from suffering in the misery of comitting a murder. hence, i feel that snape is still part of the order of the phoenix.

romance was brewing between ron and hermione. they were such a cute couple. deep down in their hearts, they knew that they felt something for each other but nobody wanted to make the first move. it's entertaining to see how angry hermione was when ron got hooked on lavender brown. not forgetting the short romance between harry and ginny. =)

will hogwarts be closed next term because of the unforunate night? i hope not or else there will not be a common place for harry, ron and herminoe to start on the next journey in the final book. will harry finally meet voldemort and defeat him? i hope he will survive the orderal and save the wizard community. i believe he has the ability to do so because he has an advantage over voldemort. harry can love. =)

"dumbledore's man through and through"