Said by my son midway through Half-Blood Prince. "Malfoy is always around Harry."

Even a six-year-old can see the subtext.

In short. A few quibbles aside, I really liked the film. I was pleasantly surprised. And *sigh* Harry/Draco is love.

The comments to this post on Defamer [The Homosexual Undertones of the Half-Blood Prince] are amusing me. ( Read more... )

I had some thoughts about Draco after reading JKR’s recent interview. Part I and Part II (The Draco stuff is in the second part).

( Spoilers Ahoy! Sorry, it's long )

I do love well-written essays. I'm sure these will be on the Snitch come this evening, but here a few that I particularly found interesting.

~ Harry's homework: the new Slytherin ethos in HBP by fictualities

~ HBP: Appropriately long-winded thoughts on Percy by icarusancalionThe following one was posted a few days ago, but I nearly missed it because I was off-line over ( Read more... )

More thoughts on HBP, chapters 27 -28

( SPOILERS INSIDE )

Whew! I just finished it. Very, very rambling first impressions lie below.

( spoiler spoiler )

( My Half-blood Prince predictions (spoiler free) )