Random thoughts: Does anyone feel like the title was slightly misleading? Yes, the HBP (Snape) plays a major role, but he doesn't really play a major role with Harry. Other than the whole spell thing.
I do too. Towards the end, there were a couple of chapters where the HBP wasn't even mentioned and I forgot that the book was supposed to be about him. Also, I thought the reveal was very rushed. There was a lot of other action going on at the time, and I think the readers needed time to let the whole Dumbledore death sit in, and Snape's apparent true evilness without also having to throw in Snape admitting he was the half-blood Prince. Maybe it would have been better if after the fact, Hermoine figured it out, and given Harry a chance to be shocked by that piece of news.
The McGonagall/Dumbledore thing makes sense. She has always been his right hand man, so I'm sure there is a lot of history there. I love Mconagall and I hope that she is shown with her new leadership position (with or without Hogwarts) in the next book.
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I do too. Towards the end, there were a couple of chapters where the HBP wasn't even mentioned and I forgot that the book was supposed to be about him. Also, I thought the reveal was very rushed. There was a lot of other action going on at the time, and I think the readers needed time to let the whole Dumbledore death sit in, and Snape's apparent true evilness without also having to throw in Snape admitting he was the half-blood Prince. Maybe it would have been better if after the fact, Hermoine figured it out, and given Harry a chance to be shocked by that piece of news.
The McGonagall/Dumbledore thing makes sense. She has always been his right hand man, so I'm sure there is a lot of history there. I love Mconagall and I hope that she is shown with her new leadership position (with or without Hogwarts) in the next book.