text: [[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HP6.jpg]]->''"Apparently I underestimated you, Potter. Who would have thought you knew such [[BlackMagic Dark Magic]]?"''-->-- '''Severus Snape'''''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is the sixth and second-to-last ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book, published July 16, 2005. The Ministry has finally accepted that Voldemort is back, but that's not really making the situation any better. With everyone terrified, obviously unjustifiable arrests and misinformation still being printed, just in the other way, events play out to show that the Ministry can't really stop Voldemort in its current form.But while those events linger over the plot, the action stays fully grounded at Hogwarts. Harry learns more about Voldemort's BackStory, becomes increasingly suspicious of Snape's loyalty and discovers an old potions textbook annotated with powerful spells and useful notes from its previous owner who identifies himself only as "[[TitleDrop The Half-Blood Prince]]". Draco Malfoy is tasked with something by Voldemort himself; [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wacky romantic hijinks ensue for everyone]]. As WordOfGod has noted, ''Half-Blood Prince'' is where the serialization of Harry Potter hit its max. Where all five of the previous novels ended the main plot, Half-Blood Prince's ending builds up to an emotional release but simply prepares the reader for ''Deathly Hallows'' to start up at a much faster pace. Also, due to the fact that ExecutiveMeddling forced Rowling to slim down ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', there is a a lot of FridgeBrilliance here when compared to ''Chamber''.Followed by ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.----!!Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent:* AbusiveParents: Dumbledore calls out the Dursleys for being this -- not only to their nephew Harry, but also to their son Dudley.* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler: Harry and Ginny. Type 1. (In a fit of celebration)]]* AccidentalMisnaming: [[spoiler:In the scene where Harry and Ron go to Slughorn and Ron accidentally drinks a bottle of poisoned mead,]] Slughorn calls Ron Ralph.** Mrs Cole, the director of the orphanage in which Tom Riddle grew up, introduces Dumbledore to the young Riddle as Dumberton and then Dunderbore.* AcquittedTooLate: Morfin Gaunt, who was framed by Voldemort for the murders of [[spoiler:Tom Riddle Sr. and his parents]]. Dumbledore found evidence Voldemort was the real culprit but Morfin didn't live long enough to see the verdict being overturned.* ActingUnnatural: Hermione attempts to act casually in Borgin & Burkes and immediately gets noticed.* TheAlcoholic: It's implied that the head of young Tom Riddle's orphanage, Mrs. Cole, is one. It's not surprising given the stress of running such an establishment - for over at least the last 11 years - and that Dumbledore's visit coincided with the threat of war with Nazi Germany.* AmbitionIsEvil: ''Finally'' averted in the person of Horace Slughorn, which is nice given that he is a member of Slytherin, the ''Former TropeNamer''. He has a tendency for favoritism, singling out people he hopes will benefit him in the future due to their talent or family connections, but even this is equal-opportunity and he doesn't hold (much) prejudice against other houses or non-purebloods. He is also genial, more likable than all prior Slytherins (DracoInLeatherPants notwithstanding), [[spoiler: is [[WhatHaveIDone ashamed]] of accidentally helping Tom Riddle's StartOfDarkness]], and isn't, you know, ''evil''.\\\It's also mentioned that the people he singles out really do have knacks for going far in life (which is why he makes favorites of Hermione and Ginny, even though they aren't from prominent families). So it's really a win-win for both sides, with him providing opportunities to students that they might not get otherwise and them sending him various gifts in exchange. If you think about it, it's no worse than a College Professor giving a student they think has potential pointers and tips. ** WordOfGod is that Slughorn's character was specifically created to show that not all Slytherins are assholes.* AndThatsTerrible: In the song about Odo:-->''And Odo the hero, they bore him back home\\To the place that he'd known as a lad.\\They laid him to rest with his hat inside out\\And his wand snapped in two, which was sad.''* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Snape opens his defence against Bellatrix's accusations with one of these, pointing out that ''Voldemort'' trusts him (obviously, or he'd be dead), so does she think that ''she'' knows better than Voldemort?* AscendedExtra: Ginny, who goes from minor character to a rather vital person in Harry's life. [[Film/HarryPotter The film]] at least tries to temper this by giving her a more prominent role.* AssholeVictim** Played with. [[spoiler:Tom Riddle Sr.]] had a reputation as being [[RichBitch snobbish]], but [[spoiler:Merope effectively kidnapping and date-raping him with a LovePotion still comes off as morally wrong to many]].** Also with [[spoiler:Morfin Gaunt]], {{Muggle}}-[[FantasticRacism hater]] who was framed with the murders of [[spoiler:Tom Riddle Sr. and his parents]], all of whom were [[AssholeVictim victims]] on their own right.** [[spoiler:Draco, as the victim of Voldemort's manipulation and threats on his and his family's lives - he may not be a nice person (an understatement), but he is a 16 year old boy, and the book and movie both make clear that he is in way over his head veering towards a nervous breakdown.]]*** YMMV here, but remember Malfoy was also cheering when he got the vanishing cabinet to work? ** Also, [[spoiler:Aragog]].* BeautyToBeast: [[spoiler:Bill, whose handsome face is terribly scarred from being attacked by a werewolf]]. Also Voldemort's back story, due to his own efforts.* BecauseDestinySaysSo: This and about half of the Fate and Prophecy index get smashed into bits by Dumbledore and Harry's discussion on TheProphecy. To make it short, there's no greater providence at work, being TheChosenOne is little more than a technicality, [[TheUnchosenOne Harry has no particular destiny to fulfill nor is there any higher power ensuring his success]] and the only reason he and Voldemort need to kill each other is because [[ItsPersonal they both want to.]]** It's also because Voldemort ''believes'' this trope is in effect, so he will do everything in his power to kill Harry. Because of this, Harry will ultimately have no way to stop Voldemort other than killing him.* BeneathSuspicion: Nobody believes Harry as he argues that Draco is a Death Eater plotting against them, since Draco is mostly a joke to them by this point. [[spoiler:Dumbledore knows, but he has his own plans in place. And eventually Harry finds firmer evidence that Draco is up to something, which Hermione can't refute.]]* BerserkButton: Harry implies that Dumbledore is leaving the school vulnerable whenever he goes searching for Horcruxes. He immediately realizes he has [[OhCrap crossed a line]] and Dumbledore, who is normally very understanding and accomodating with Harry's outbursts, is legitimately angry with him for the first time.* BigManOnCampus: Harry finds himself in this role now that he's Gryffindor Quidditch Captain ''and'' everyone knows he was telling the truth. The combination of celebrity, a growth spurt and everyone seeing the scars from Umbridge's detentions turns him into an unwilling ChickMagnet.* BigNo: Harry throws an epic one when it's announced that [[spoiler: Snape is the new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher.]]* BilingualBonus: In Latin, ''fēlīx fēlīcis'' are both words meaning "lucky". [[note]]Those are the nominative and genitive forms of the adjective; essentially, they're two different ways of saying the same word whose use depends on the grammatical role played by the noun it modifies. Notably, Latin nouns and adjectives are often displayed this way in high-school textbooks.[[/note]]** "Luck's luck" is one possible interpretation.* BloodMagic** As revealed by a memory given by [[spoiler:Slughorn]], one of the steps in creating a [[spoiler:Horcrux]] is to [[spoiler:commit murder.]]** Also, Dumbledore has to cut his own hand to enter a cave Voldemort has protected with Dark Magic. His main reaction is disappointment at Voldemort's lack of imagination. * BreatherEpisode: ** Between the [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Umbridge-a-riffic]] fifth book and the KillEmAll seventh, most of this book is a pretty easy-going tale with a lot of exposition and teen angst (not to mention [[Funny/HarryPotter many jokes]]). That is, until the last few chapters.** However, it is easily the most suspenseful of the books ''because'' of the [[NothingIsScarier lull in the action]]. What is Draco up to? And why is Voldemort laying low? This tension creates a perfect lead up to the end, where it goes into full-on WhamEpisode mode.* BrickJoke:** "Roonil Wazlib", Ron's misspelled name due to his Spell-Checking Quill malfunctioning. After Snape demands to see Harry's Potions book due to suspicion that he's cheating, Harry borrows Ron's copy, only to discover to his horror the misspelled name inside. [[BlatantLies He unsuccessfully tries to pass it off as his nickname]].** In the fifth book, there is a joke when one of the Weasley twins tells that the lowest OWL grade is T (for Troll), and Harry wasn't sure if they were joking or not (it would, after all, be [[{{Troll}} their kind of humor]]). In the beginning of the present book, the heroes receives their exam results and yes, Troll ''is'' an actual grade.* CallBack: And lots of them, some easy to miss. Why so many? Because [[spoiler: this is Harry's last year at Hogwarts.]]** Such as Harry going to Diagon Alley with Hagrid and meeting Draco in Madam Malkin's... only Diagon Alley is no longer the wonderful wizard bazaar of the first book, but under war conditions.** This [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]:[[invoked]] --->"You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens."** The most notable call backs from this book go all the way back to Philosopher's Stone - EVERYTHING from Snape's first Potions class becomes relevant.* CallingYourAttacks: Mostly played straight, as in the previous books, but [[AvertedTrope averted]] when [[spoiler:Snape begins teaching non-verbal spells in Defense Against the Dark Arts.]]* CaptainObvious: Harry saying "Ghosts are transparent." (Why he said it made sense in context but still got him told "Ah, I see six years of magical education have not been wasted on you.") ** The source of "You can't break an Unbreakable Vow." Harry snarks that he'd worked that much out for himself, and asks what happens if you DO break it. "You die."** The Chinese translation says that Slughorn is saying Ron's name wrong when we can all tell that from the dialogue.*** Probably an attempt to prevent what happened following the initial english release which was some people wrote to J.K Rowling to tell her she got Ron's name wrong. *Facepalm** CassandraTruth: Harry, dear, when you accuse someone of something it helps to have actual evidence backing it up. Somewhat subverted by the events of the next book, which reveals that [[spoiler:Dumbledore was fully aware of Draco and what he was trying to do, if not exactly how, but it suited his plans to let Draco come after him, to protect him from Voldemort's wrath.]]* CheatersNeverProsper: Two examples. One inversion and one subversion.** The first is when Hermione [[spoiler:uses a Confoundus charm on Cormac to make him miss his last block, ensuring Ron gets the position of Gryffyndor Quiddich Team keeper]].** The second is when Harry puts Felix Felicis in Ron's drink, which is forbidden; however, [[spoiler:it turns out he didn't actually put it in. Ron only thought it did, [[MagicFeather and it gave him the confidence boost he needed to win]]. While the plan worked, Ron mocks Hermione's earlier attempts to stop Harry from putting the potion in his drink and then makes out with Lavender, hurting her badly]].* ChekhovsGun: The series [[ChekhovsGun/HarryPotter has its own page.]]* ChocolateOfRomance: Romilda Vane attempts to give love potion infused chocolates to Harry. He gives them to Ron, who promptly falls in love with her.* CityMouse: Fleur Delacour. She doesn't appear to realize how much this aggravates her future in-laws (but there's clearly animosity on both sides).* ClingyJealousGirl: Lavender* CompletelyOffTopicReport: When the regular Quidditch commentator is unable to report on a match, [[CloudCuckoolander Luna Lovegood]] volunteers to replace him. During the match she talks about things like interesting clouds and whether one of the players suffers from something called "Loser's Lurgy", but never about the action or the score of the game.* ComplimentBackfire: Ron praises Luna for her performance as a commentator in a Quidditch match. Ron is sincere, but Luna isn't so sure since everybody else tells her she did poorly.* ContinuityLockout: Formally takes effect, Rowling dispenses of the -- rather tedious -- recap chapter that all of the other volumes start with. This is also the book which finally gets rid of the simplistic "Gryffindor good, Slytherin bad" mantra of the series up to then; we get a slightly-obnoxious but not evil Slytherin, and then a Gryffindor in whom Gryffindor courage manifests itself mainly as arrogance.* ContinuityNod: When Harry offers Ron a tainted drink, he says "Coffee? Tea? Pumpkin juice?" Exactly the same thing Umbridge had said to him the previous book when she was trying to get Harry to drink Veritaserum.* ContrivedCoincidence: If it is indeed chance and not one of Dumbledore's {{Gambit Roulette}}s, Harry happening to find [[spoiler: Snape's]] old potions book, which won him Felix Felicis ''and'' saved [[spoiler: Ron]] from dying, would qualify. In addition, both of Draco Malfoy's assassination attempts only fail due to contrived coincidences.* CoolTeacher: For all his favoritism, Slughorn does deliver an impressive first Potions lesson.* CreepyChild: Tom Riddle.* CuckoolanderCommentator: Luna during the last Quidditch match. While the game goes on she tends to draw attention to unrelated things like unusually shaped clouds or claiming that a Hufflepuff Chaser (who's failed to maintain the Quaffle for more than a few seconds) is suffering from "Loser's Lurgy".* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Harry vs. Snape is quite possibly the single most one-sided duel in the book besides Snape's earlier bouts with [[FakeUltimateHero Lockhart]]. The fact that Snape is using Legilimency to see what spells Harry is going to cast ''before he casts them'' just makes it even more pathetic.: Made worse still in that Snape kept telling Harry to clear his mind if he wanted any chance on beating him; i.e. attempting to teach him a lesson while kicking his ass.]]* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The creation of a horcrux is so forbidden that there's virtually no information on how to do it besides "kill somebody in cold blood". Hermione searches the immense Hogwarts library, and finds only a single mention of them, which gives no information other than that there's something out there with this name, and it's really bad (implied to be a MoralEventHorizon, or nearly so). It's even dangerous to the reader: J.K. Rowling once described the process of making one to her publisher, who vomited after reading it. A rare meta example.* DarkIsNotEvil / DarkIsEvil: The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher [[spoiler:Severus Snape]] imparts his personality onto the classroom and adorns the walls with plenty of pictures showing the various horrid things that happen to anyone who runs afoul of the Dark Arts.** According to WordOfGod, Slughorn's character exists for the express purpose of showing that not all Slytherins are assholes.* ADayInTheLimelight: Potions class gets some considerable focus in this book, seeing as how the resident new character for the book teaches it rather than Defence Against the Dark Arts and the title character's book revolves a lot around said course.* DeaderThanDead: Inferi. They're like zombies and thus have to be burned; other forms of magic such as Sectumsempra won't work because they have no blood and feel no pain.* DeadManWriting: The mysterious R.A.B.* DeathByChildbirth: Merope Riddle* {{Dedication}}: Rowling said that this book and her youngest daughter, Mackenzie, "were racing each other into the world", so she issued this dedication:-->To Mackenzie,\\My beautiful daughter,\\I dedicate\\Her ink-and-paper twin* DemotedToExtra: Defence Against the Dark Arts class. Snape (a teacher readers are already familiar with) teaches it this year and the overall threat level throughout the book is relatively low for the time being [[spoiler:except at the end]], so there's little need to go over any teacher (re)introductions and course material.* DesignatedLoveInterest: Ginny. Part of the hate for the pairing of Harry and Ginny is because of DieForOurShip, while the other part is rooted specifically to this. After her [[StrangledByTheRedString questionably rushed hook-up with Harry]], most of the development of the pairing took place off screen. In fact, there's a time skip following their hookup where Harry describes it at as some of the happiest moments in his life, but the readers never actually get to '''see it'''.* DespairSpeech: Slughorn gives one of these when he agrees to give Harry his memory about [[spoiler:the time he told Tom Riddle about Horcruxes.]]* DestinationDefenestration: Attempted on Fudge by an unnamed former Prime Minister. (It should be Margaret Thatcher if the books matched real life, but Fudge refers to the character as a male.)* DisappointedInYou: When Harry disappoints Dumbledore by not making much of an effort to get a memory from Slughorn, he would have preferred him to yell; "this cold disappointment was worse than anything."* DisproportionateRetribution: Hermione's SNEAK jinx in the previous book takes on a whole new level of menace when, months after being jinxed, Marietta still has the scars. WordOfGod is they will never come off.* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The circumstances of Voldemort's birth. Merope basically [[SlippingAMickey drugged]] Tom.** Take away the fantasy elementa and you will find that [[JerkAss Draco Malfoy]] basically joined a terrorist cult, went through several assassination attempts, all of which failing and nearly killing others, and in the climax he had basically started a school shooting. * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The love potions. They're basically the magic world equivalent of date rape drugs. Yet, using them is portrayed as sweet and innocent because it's the girls using them on the boys. Just imagine the uproar of the MoralGuardians if any of [[DoubleStandard the boys were shown using them on the girls]].** Deconstructed with [[spoiler:Merope's rape of Voldemort's father]], which is portrayed as a ''very bad thing''. The reason it's played for laughs with Ron is that Harry kept anything untoward from happening. And it's possible the DoubleStandard exists in the HP universe, and [[spoiler:Merope was put in ''deliberately'', to highlight it.]] Moreover, ''Harry'' certainly doesn't consider love potions "sweet and innocent", no matter ''who'' uses them--in fact, he actually compares them to Dark Magic at one point. (As they can be used to make a person act against their usual being, Harry probably has a point.)* DrunkenSong: When Hagrid and Horace get drunk at Aragog's funeral, they sing a song called "Odo the Hero".* DueToTheDead: Many students attend [[spoiler:Dumbledore's funeral]].* EasilyForgiven:** Averted with Harry's relationship with the Ministry of Magic. While Rufus Scrimgeour (sort of) tries to patch things up, Fudge's smear campaign -- combined with the new Minister continuing policies favored by Fudge and Barty Crouch -- leave the schism between Harry and Ministry wide open for the remainder of the series. Scrimgeour mentioning that [[NotHelpingYourCase Umbridge is still at the Ministry]] triggered Harry's BerserkButton about how she terrorized the school.** Played straight and subverted when Snape notes that while Voldemort was ''not'' happy that his Death Eaters had abandoned him (and as we saw in Book 4, was intent on exacting over a decade of penance from them), circumstances forced him to be pragmatic. If he hadn't forgiven those who lost faith, Voldemort would have been left with only a handful of Lieutenants to support him in the Second Wizarding War.* EnfanteTerrible: Tom "I can do bad things to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to" Riddle.* EnlightenedSelfInterest: Practiced by Professor Slughorn. Being a NiceGuy from the otherwise unsavory and self-interested Slytherin House, he'll often help people he thinks would have potential to become great (like Harry) so that he will gain some benefit some way or another later. [[spoiler:This backfired with [[BigBad Tom "Lord Voldemort" Riddle]], to whom he provided information on dark magics such as the Horcrux, and he regards it as MyGreatestFailure.]]* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Snape's murder of Dumbledore plays with it, although it is ultimately revealed as a subversion in the next book.]]* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even most dark spellbooks are reluctant to elaborate on the nature or creation of Horcruxes. This is subverted in the next book, when it turns out that some books actually do cover it. Dumbledore was GenreSavvy enough to pull them from the shelves after Voldemort came to power; Hermione only found them by summoning them from his office.* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Ron and Hermione.* EvilIsCool: Used InUniverse with [[spoiler:Snape as the Dark Arts teacher]]. Harry, upon hearing him talk about the Dark Arts thinks, "''It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them, as Snape was doing, with a loving caress in his voice?''"* EvilIsNotAToy: Draco is proud to be working for Voldemort... at first, anyway.* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: Voldemort put a curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position because Dumbledore wouldn't give him the job when he attempted to reapply.]] In this instance, it's not too surprising considering [[spoiler:it prevented Voldemort from acquiring relics of the founders he could use as potential Horcruxes.]]** There's an interesting, alternate interpretation of this as outlined in Fridge Brilliance. [[spoiler:What comes across as pettiness is actually a brilliant piece of strategic warfare. Without a consistent DADA teaching curriculum, the up-and-coming generation of young Wizards would have been ill-equipped to fight the First Wizarding War.]] Indeed, the people teaching that position have run the gamut from the competent (Lupin) to the incompetent (Lockhart) to the deliberately obstructive (Umbridge), and several shades in between.* FakeMemories: Horace has covered up his own memories of [[spoiler:giving the young Voldemort information about the Horcruxes]].* FantasticRacism: Tom Riddle murdered a woman for her artifacts and framed her House Elf for it. Dumbledore tells Harry that the Ministry should have investigated further but didn't "...because she was a House Elf". Harry had never sympathized with Hermione's campagin as much as he did at that moment.* {{Foreshadowing}}:** Hagrid mentions overhearing Dumbledore and Snape getting into an argument regarding a task Dumbledore entrusted Snape with. The next book reveals that the "task" was in fact [[spoiler:Snape's "betrayal" and murder of Dumbledore, although it's more complex, being more comparable to Assisted Suicide as Dumbledore was dying anyways from the curse on Marvolo's ring.]]** When Harry catches a whiff of a love potion (which smells different to everyone "according to what attracts us"), he notes that it is a bit familiar, and he has smelled it around the Burrow. Shortly afterward, he notices that it's Ginny's perfume. Later on, he begins to develop serious feelings for her.** During the argument in Spinner's End, Bellatrix claims that Voldemort, at some point, entrusted her with his most precious ''something''. [[spoiler: It won't be clear until the next book that she's talking about the Hufflepuff Cup-turned-Horcrux in the Lestrange's Gringotts vault.]].** In the Christmas chapter: "She [Mrs Weasley] gave Lupin an annoyed look, as though it was all his fault she was getting Fleur for a daughter-in-law instead of Tonks."* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: After Dumbledore tells Harry about the importance of destroying Horcruxes, the latter is concerned about the potential difficulty of finding said artifacts in the first place, but then the headmaster tells him that he had already destroyed Marvolo's Ring, and that Harry himself had destroyed Riddle's Diary in ''Chamber of Secrets'', so there are only four more Horcruxes to worry about.* FriendVersusLover: Hermione vs. Lavender and Ginny vs. Ron.* GangOfBullies: It turns out that Tom Riddle was already recruiting followers while he was still a student. According to Dumbledore, members of this gang ended up becoming the first Death Eaters.* {{Geas}}: The Unbreakable Vow.* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Ron and Hermione try and fix the former's misspelled essay due to a worn out auto-correct quill, one of the things Hermione notes is "Augury doesn't begin with O-R-G' either.'** Ron saying "Do you want people to be saying my sister's [[ReallyGetsAround a...]]" before Ginny [[CurseCutShort interrupts him]] with "A WHAT, exactly?!"* AGlassInTheHand: Dean Thomas after seeing Harry and Ginny kiss. Romilda Vane seems to be even angrier, as she is described as looking like she's about to throw something.* GottaKillThemAll: The quest to find and destroy all of the Horcruxes.* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Averted and {{lampshaded}}. -->Meanwhile, the Hogwarts library had failed Hermione for the first time in living memory. She was so shocked, she even forgot that she was annoyed at Harry for his trick with the bezoar.* HeroesWantRedheads: Harry and Ginny.* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Harry does a stupid, stupid thing and tries out a spell on another human being despite the only thing he knew about the spell was that it was marked "For enemies". Harry learns a lesson in responsible spellcasting and how dangerous casting unknown spells can be. He pays for this in the book, and is ''darn'' lucky a person was nearby who could set it right. ([[KarmaHoudini In the movie, he doesn't have any comeuppance]].)]]* HopeSpot: Arguably Scrimgeour succeeding Fudge as Minister of Magic. As the former Head of the Auror Office, he's a veteran of fighting Dark Wizards and seems the perfect choice for a wartime leader. Then he continues or resurrects policies of Fudge and Barty Crouch Sr. It ends up making things worse. * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] via Felix Felicis.* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Dumbledore uses this method to leave Harry alone with Professor Slughorn so as to persuade him to return to Hogwarts -- specifically, by asking to use the loo. The fact he returns afterwards with a magazine he wants to keep "for the knitting patterns" just highlights his eccentricity and hilarious kookiness. It was still a nice bit of obfuscation.* InsecureLoveInterest: This is Lupin's reason for not getting together with [[spoiler:Tonks.]] He comes round in the end.* InspectorJavert: Harry to Draco.* InsultBackfire: "Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you?" "Yeah, thanks for clearing that, Minister."* InvertedTrope: In the previous book, Harry was wrong and everyone else was right [[spoiler: That Voldemort was trying to lure Harry into the Department of Mysteries - Harry's being mislead resulted in the death of Sirius]]. This is switched around in this book, as Harry is right and everyone else is wrong, and again resulting in the death of a major character.* {{Irony}}: Snape stops teaching Potions class and teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts and is replaced by Professor Slughorn. Previously Potions was Harry's worst subject because he hated Snape and never made the effort in class. In his first class with Slughorn he finds a second-hand book labelled as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince". Inside the book are vast amounts of hints that help Harry in his Potions classes, making it his best subject. Then the big reveal is that [[spoiler:Snape is the Half Blood Prince]]. At one point in the book Harry even makes a throwaway remark that The Prince was a much better teacher than Snape. Dramatic irony at its finest.* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Right before Christmas vacation, Ron and Lavender are described as "saying a thoroughly nonverbal good-bye".* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Harry has to tell Ginny this. She [[AvertedTrope knows exactly what he's trying to do]] and ignores it.* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] encourages [[spoiler:Draco]] to go on about his plans in order to buy time. Since [[spoiler:Draco]] is reluctant to kill him, he complies.* KarmaHoudini: Averted with Fudge, who can't dodge the bullet of political and public pressure for his role in covering up Voldemort's return in the previous book.** Played straight, however, with Umbridge. She's still working at the Ministry despite her own role in the cover-up (and the horrific child abuse she commits in book 5). Harry is ''not'' happy when he learns she hasn't been sacked.* TheKetchupTest* KickTheDog: Greyback attacked the five-year-old son of Ms. Montgomery when she refused to cooperate with the Death Eaters. The boy later died from his injuries.* KickTheSonOfABitch: After everything he did in Book 5 and the end of Book 4, it's hard to feel sorry for Fudge after he's forced to resign in disgrace, and more so in that he was planning to use Harry to booster morale after slandering him.* KillItWithFire: Dumbledore specifically states that fire is the most effective against Inferi. The RingOfFire he uses in the cave is even in the British cover pictured above.* KissingDiscretionShot: A literary version as Rowling brushes off their new relationship from the reader. We've sat through Harry's journey to find love, and Ginny's quiet pining after Harry for years - now that they are together, it's pretty much none of our business what they are doing in the quiet corners of Hogwarts.* KnowledgeBroker: Horace Slughorn.* LastMinuteHookup: Not only do Harry and Ginny become a couple close to the end after Harry spends a good portion of the book crushing on her, but they actually manage to ''break up before the end of the book''! Doubly so because the novel glosses over the few weeks Harry grows closer to Ginny, in the span of a chapter going from crush to couple. [[Film/HarryPotter The film]] rectifies this a bit by expanding Ginny's screen time and giving her more scenes alone with Harry.* LoopholeAbuse: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] when Harry orders Kreacher to spy on Draco. Mindful of what happened in Book 5, Harry makes sure to close every potential loophole that would allow Kreacher to tip off Draco.* LosingTheTeamSpirit: [[spoiler:Dumbledore's death]] has this effect on the entire school.* LoveEpiphany: Harry's "chest monster", as he calls it.* LoveHungry: Merope Gaunt for Tom Riddle Sr. See above entry for LovePotion.* LovePotion** Part of the merchandise at Fred & George's joke shop. One of Harry's fangirls attempts to trick him into eating a box of chocolates spiked with them. HilarityEnsues when Ron eats them instead.** [[spoiler:In addition, this seems to be the entire reason that Lord Voldemort exists in the first place, as his mother had used a Love Potion on a snobbish {{Muggle|s}} -- Tom Riddle Senior]].* LoweredRecruitingStandards: Harry and Ron, among others, get into NEWT Potions because Slughorn has lower standards than Snape.** As noted in FridgeBrilliance, it's likely that Snape allowed everyone with an E into NEWT Defense Against the Dark Arts because otherwise Harry (who got an O, something that not even Hermione managed to do) would've been the only student in the class. * MacGuffin: Voldemort's Horcruxes.* MagicallyBindingContract: Introduces the Unbreakable Vow, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.* MagicFeather: Harry pretends to give Ron a luck potion to give him confidence. A slight subversion in that the potion would have actually worked if added for real, but its use in contests is of course banned.* MeaningfulEcho: Near the beginning, Dumbledore tells Harry they shouldn't find trouble. "You are with me." This laster becomes "I am not worried, Harry. I am with you." Former TropeNamer.* MeaningfulFuneral: [[spoiler:Dumbledore]]'s funeral is also the end of Harry, Ron, and Hernione's days as schoolchildren, and indeed as children; from here on out it's the real world for the PowerTrio.* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Dumbledore.]]* MetaTwist** Horace is set up as the new-DADA-teacher of the book. Harry is as surprised as the reader to learn he's actually replacing Snape, who's moved positions after wanting the job for years.** Two previous RedHerring characters are behind the main plot, and this time Harry is on to them from the beginning. [[spoiler:So is Dumbledore, but he's keeping quiet about it in case Voldemort catches on through Legilimency.]]* MilitariesAreUseless: The aurors may qualify, depending on whether you consider them as an army or not. In the sixth book, they fail to kill or capture any Death Eater, put innocents in jail ([[NiceJobBreakingItHero where they are captured]] and {{Brainwashed}} by said Death Eaters) instead, and do nothing to prevent the ministry from being infiltrated by Voldemort.* MindRape: Dumbledore goes through this while [[spoiler:drinking the potion guarding the locket Horcrux]].* MoodWhiplash: Early in the book, Harry confides in Ron and Hermione about the prophecy made about how "neither of us can live while the other survives". There's a shocked moment... then the prank telescope (one of Fred and George's devices) Hermione had idly picked up explodes in a cloud of black smoke as a tiny fist punches her in the face, giving her a brilliant black eye.* MyGreatestFailure** [[spoiler:Slughorn revealing information about Horcruxes to a young Tom Riddle.]]** [[spoiler:We hear Dumbledore going through his during his mind rape.]]** Also [[spoiler:Snape's feelings about giving Voldemort the prophecy and dooming James and Lily, though Harry believes this to be a lie at the time]].* MySisterIsOffLimits: Harry struggles with this. In the end, Ron is fine with him dating Ginny, though. After all, they are best friends!** Indeed, it's implied that Harry's the ''only'' person [[ShipperOnDeck Ron wants Ginny dating.]] * NeverMyFault: During the meeting at Spinner's End, Snape sarcastically inquires if Bellatrix is still considered a confidant of the Dark Lord after the fiasco in the Department of Mysteries. Bellatrix responds that it was all Lucius' fault. However, it was her getting trigger happy which derailed the entire operation, got all the operatives except herself thrown into Azkaban, ''and'' exposed Voldemort's return to the Wizarding world at large.** Even better, Narcissa gets ''pissed'' that she's trying to shift the blame to her husband and calls her sister out on it.* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The 1940s-era Dumbledore choosing not to tell the other Hogwarts teachers about the young Tom Riddle's love of cruelty and bullying. If he had not given Riddle a chance to turn over a new leaf, Wizarding history would probably have taken a different turn.* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The unnamed prime minister that Fudge terrifies in the first chapter. If you go by the internal chronology of the books, it should be UsefulNotes/JohnMajor, although the caricature reads more like a spoof on UsefulNotes/TonyBlair. But if it was Major, it would provide attentive readers with the amusing image of Margaret Thatcher throwing Cornelius Fudge out of her office window (although the idea of gray and unflappable UsefulNotes/JohnMajor getting worked up to the point of attempting homicide is equally funny). * NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: [[spoiler:Voldemort's mother at first used a LovePotion to make Tom Riddle, Sr. fall in love with her. She then decided that it didn't feel real because it wasn't genuine, so she neutralized the potion, hoping that he'd really be in love with her after it wore off. Unfortunately for her, he dumped her like a hot potato, abandoning her and her child.]]* NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Harry, Dumbledore and the Horcrux-containing potion. Harry keeps his word, but only barely.* NoNameGiven: Two prominent Death Eaters at the end of the novel are unnamed but referred to constantly, the first one is only referred to as "The Brutal-Faced Death Eater" and then later we see "The Big Blond Death Eater". Both of these individuals are identified early on in the next book as Yaxley and Thorfinn Rowle.* NonIndicativeName: In-universe example. Love potions can't actually create love, only infatuation.* NoOntologicalInertia** [[spoiler:Dumbledore's body-bind spell.]] There are hints throughout the books that this is a common and expected phenomenon -- magic dies along with the wizard that performed it.* NotADate: Harry and Luna at Slughorn's party. He makes it clear that they're going as friends, which she is perfectly happy with. Peeves, of course, overhears them and zooms off cackling about how "Potty loves Loony."* NotHelpingYourCase: Minister Scrimgeour when trying to rally Harry to become the Ministry's poster boy mentions that [[WhatAnIdiot Umbridge is still working at the Ministry]], and she actually said that Harry wanted to be an Auror, in an attempt to bribe him. Harry bristles and shows the minister the "I must not tell lies" scar that he received from his various detentions. * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Draco Malfoy. In the previous books, he was a bully, but not even a pawn when it came to Harry vs. Voldemort. But in this one, Harry will get ''serious'' trouble because of him, and it turns out that he is trying to [[spoiler:assassinate Dumbledore]], and nearly kills two others in the process.* NotUsingTheZWord: Inferi are basically magical zombies with a different name. (The original voodoo/vaudou kind, not the modern post-George Romero kind.)* ObviouslyEvil: Tom Riddle, as a child in the orphanage, to the point where even though nobody can prove anything he scares everyone, even those who run the orphanage. By the time he gets to Hogwarts he becomes very good at hiding this, enabling him to fool everyone except Dumbledore, who met him before he adopted the act.* OhCrap: Harry when he realizes what ''exactly'' the Sectumsempra spell does. [[spoiler:It rips open huge, bloody wounds in whoever the caster shoots it at.]]* OneLastFieldTrip: {{Invoked}} after [[spoiler:Dumbledore's funeral. Harry has lost his mentor and broken up with his girlfriend. He is going to drop out of school to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes]]. He is glad that he has "one last golden afternoon" to spend with Ron and Hermione.* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The protection around the Horcrux ensures that it's impossible for anyone (including Voldemort himself) to get at it without [[spoiler:hideously torturing them]].** Well, anyone who didn't think to bring along a second person (or elf) with them. Dumbledore sacrificed himself but could've made Harry drink the potion. R.A.B. had [[spoiler:Kreacher]]. It's reasonably easy to imagine that Voldemort would likely just imperius a muggle [[spoiler:or turn the potion clear to check, as he does in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'']].* OperationJealousy: Hermione attempts to do this by asking [[JerkJock Cormac McLaggen]] to Slughorn's party to make Ron jealous, only to fail spectacularly as she can't stand the guy's presence for more than a minute. Ron's relationship with Lavender has elements of this as well, and is more successful. Stuck in the crossfire of crappy decisions, Harry spends most of the conflict [[FacePalm facepalming]] at both sides.* PartTimeHero: Harry frequently neglects preparation for his battle with Voldemort in favor of sports and dating. [[spoiler:Snape calls him on this during their battle at the end of the book.]]* PerpetualPoverty: Finally averted by the Weasley Twins, who take Harry's Triwizard winnings as seed money and build a very lucrative business in Diagon Alley.* ThePeterPrinciple[=/=]{{Pride}}: Rufus Scrimgeour's TragicFlaw is that he's too proud to ask for counsel.* PleaseDumpMe: Ron takes the coward's way out and just pretends to be asleep every time Lavender visits him in hospital, to Harry's exasperation.* TheProfiler: The main plot of this book is Dumbledore and Harry constructing a profile of Voldemort's background, his motives and his behavior, so that they [[spoiler:can figure out how many Horcruxes Voldemort made and where he would have kept them]].* ProperlyParanoid: Harry (finally) turns out to be right about Malfoy being a Death Eater and planning something.* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Tonks loses control of her metamorphmagus powers in her depression over Lupin rejecting her. * RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Dumbledore. Let's see.... He gets an arm nearly burned off from a curse -- a curse that proceeds to slowly drain his life force away. Later he has to slice open his arm [[BloodMagic for a blood tribute]]. He drinks all that poison to retrieve the fake Horcrux. Then he gets a Killing Curse right in his chest and tumbles off the balcony of the tallest tower in Hogwarts.]]* RealityEnsues: At the end of Book 4, Fudge was informed of the return of the most dangerous terrorist in Wizarding Britain. The Minster of Magic responded by not only covering it up, but also wasting valuable time and resources persecuting and harassing the very people who tried to warn him. When Voldemort's return is confirmed beyond any doubt, it ignites a scandal of epic proportions. Quite understandably, Fudge loses all public and political support and is forced to resign in disgrace. * RealityIsUnrealistic: Some fans have made much of Harry being excluded from the reading of Sirius' will, even attributing sinister motives to Dumbledore in this regard. However, assuming Dumbledore is the executor, Harry learned of his inheritance the way most people do in RealLife; if you inherited something, you just get a notice from the executor saying what you've got, with no formal will reading involved.* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech** Played with, as it's not delivered by the BigBad, but [[spoiler:Snape]] does give Harry a rather good one when they are dueling at the end -- and, [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows in hindsight]], [[spoiler:it's very easy to interpret as Snape getting one last chance to say to Harry, "No, seriously, get better at the things I was trying to teach you or you are going to frigging '''die'''."]]** Harry also delivers one to Rufus Scrimgeour.** Dumbledore also gives a small one to the Dursleys in the beginning of the book, calling them out on not bothering to treat Harry like a second son and instead treating him like a piece of trash, though he does remark that Harry turned out better than he could have under more loving circumstances, because Dumbledore was able to see what happened to Dudley, [[SpoiledBrat who had been given everything he'd wanted]].* RedHerring: Both Inverted and {{Hand Wave}}d: the book starts out with Snape giving Bellatrix (and by extension the readers) a detailed accounting of himself during the previous books to make it plausible he could still be working for Voldemort despite the previous buildup of him as a [[GoodIsNotNice bad-mannered but otherwise trustworthy good guy]].* RefugeInAudacity: An InUniverse example: one Potions lesson has Slughorn presenting a mystery poison to the class and the students must concoct an antidote based on the contents of the potion. Harry, who has been receiving help from the Prince's annotations, realizes there's no real foolproof cheat around this (as Hermione also gleefully remarks on), so he grabs a [[BrickJoke bezoar]], which can be used as an antidote for most basic poisons, from the cabinet and presents that as his antidote. When Professor Slughorn comes around, he laughs and rewards him 10 points for "sheer cheek." No one else is amused.* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In-universe example. Fleur's insistence on marrying Bill forces Molly to admit that her future daughter-in-law is a far, far better person than she had given her credit for.* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Snape was the Death Eater who told Voldemort about the prophecy, bumping Lily and James to the top of his list. Harry, naturally, learns this ''minutes'' before going after a Horcrux with Dumbledore. It takes everything he has not to start tearing the office apart like at the end of the last book.]]* RightForTheWrongReasons: Hermione thinks the titular Prince was Eileen Prince, a student at Hogwarts, and theorizes that the title comes from her pride to be the child of her Prince parent. [[spoiler: The Prince is actually Snape, but Eileen was his witch mother. This means Hermione was entirely correct about the Prince being proud of their parent of the same name, she just had the wrong person.]]* RomanticFalseLead: Dean Thomas.* RunningGag: The running joke about each of the DADA teachers lasting only a year gets deconstructed as we learn [[spoiler: Voldemort placed a curse on the position after Dumbledore wouldn't give him the job.]]** However, it gets played straight as [[spoiler: Snape only lasts a year before fleeing Hogwarts after killing Dumbledore.]]* SelfGuardingPhlebotinum: The cursed opal necklace that kills anyone who touches it. Bonus points for being a ChekhovsGun from its brief mention in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''.* SelfMadeOrphan: Voldemort.* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: When Hermione says Harry has never been more fanciable, American readers may see that as Hermione simply calling Harry likeable, but British/Commonwealth readers will know that Ron is acting so jealous because Hermione has just called Harry ''desirable'' in public.* SequelHook: Harry's decision at the end [[spoiler: to not come back to Hogwarts in favor of focusing solely on destroying Voldemort]] signals a radical departure for the final installment.* ShaggyDogStory: Did you hear the one about how the Horcrux Harry and Dumbledore nearly killed themselves trying to retrieve from the cave [[spoiler:turned out to be a fake, planted by someone else to buy the resistance some time for when Voldemort came back to get it?]]* ShippingTorpedo: A handful are especially prominent in this book, though play out in others as well:** Ron is not a fan of ''anyone'' dating his sister Ginny. ** In a more humorous example, this is initially Mrs. Weasley's reaction to Bill and Fleur.* ShipSinking: Though not officially torpedoed until [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Book 7]], this book effectively sank the ship of Harry×Luna. However, it does still give the readers some...* ShipTease: Harry and Luna get some moments, such as him telling her she's cool, refuting his thoughts about her from [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Book 5]], and when he takes her to Slughorn's Christmas Ball. After he asks her to go with him, Peeves also becomes a Ship Tease and starts singing, "Potty loves Loony!"* ShotgunWedding: Merope was hoping to have one of these with Tom Riddle Sr., or at least have him stay with her due to her pregnancy.* ShoutOut: Harry orders Kreacher to shut up to test his allegiance. Kreacher's eyes bulge as he grabs his throat and still mouths words. He then starts thrashing on the floor, which is accompanied by "frantic gulping". [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings One almost expects him to start whining about a precious ring he lost]].** The captain of the Slytherin (the house known for cunning, ambition and lust for power) Quidditch team is named [[Series/HouseOfCardsUK Urquhart]].** Hagrid and Slugorn's drunken song, "Odo the Hero", may be a reference to ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.* ShownTheirWork: When it is revealed that the only side effect [[spoiler:Fenrir's bite will have on Bill is a preference for very rare steaks]], Fleur declares that it is lucky that he is marrying her because "ze British overcook their meat." There is a French term "bleu" which is decidedly rarer than the British/American "rare". Essentially, it is just seared. The surface is cooked, but the inside is not really cooked at all.* SickeninglySweethearts: Bill and Fleur (as far as Ron and Ginny are concerned), Ron and Lavender (mainly the latter).* SmoochOfVictory: Harry kisses Ginny after she wins Gryffindor the Quidditch cup. (Also an AccidentalKiss). * SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Variant -- the one bringing this up isn't the one being accused of prejudice. When Slughorn talks about how surprised he was that Muggle-born Lily was so good at potions, Harry mentions that one of his best friends is Muggle-born and she's the best in their year. Slughorn plays it dead straight immediately after, denying any insinuations that he's prejudiced by rapidly pointing out that he's got several favourite Muggle-born students.* SoulJar: [[spoiler:The Horcruxes.]]* SpinningOutOfHere: Apparition is triggered by spinning in place.* StalkerWithACrush: Romilda Vane and Merope Gaunt.* SupernaturallyMarkedGrave: [[spoiler: Dumbledore]]'s grave, an enchanted tomb of marble.* SupernaturalSensitivity: In the cave scene, Dumbledore is shown to determine where the secret entrance is and the spells used on it without the use of any detection spells. * SwitchingPOV: To show us Snape's vow.* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Ron accidentally eats love-potion-spiked chocolates meant for Harry. Harry gets Slughorn to give him an antidote before things get out of control... and then he drinks poisoned wine meant for Dumbledore.* ThanatosGambit:** [[spoiler:Albus Dumbledore, though we don't learn it until the next book.]]** Also, apparently, R.A.B.* {{Telefrag}}: Not in the normal way, but we find out in this book that one danger of Apparating is that if you don't have enough will to go through with the teleportation, or aren't properly prepared, there's a very good chance that a part of your body will remain behind (though thankfully during all of the tutoring we see there are teachers on hand to reverse the process).* TonightSomeoneDies: Book 6 was hyped by the piece of info that one major character would die. Theories raged like wildfire throughout the year.* TookALevelInJerkAss: Malfoy, who breaks Harry's nose and tries to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Of course, this is before he gets in over his head and discovers the hard way that EvilIsNotAToy.* TwentyOneGunSalute: The centaurs of the dark forest fire off a volley of arrows in honor of [[spoiler:Dumbledore, at his funeral.]]* UglyGuyHotWife** [[spoiler:After Bill is mauled by Fenrir Greyback the Werewolf, Fleur still loves him. This is what finally convinces Ginny and Molly Weasley to accept her.]]** Inverted with [[spoiler:Merope Gaunt and Tom Riddle.]]** Played straight with [[spoiler:Lupin & Tonks]]. Though we're sure some fangirls will insist otherwise. After all, Lupin is ''actually handsome'', its just his age and his lycanthrophy puts the odds against him.** Also played straight with Mr. and Mrs. Delacour.* TheUnchosenOne: Dumbledore makes a point of making Harry realize that, regardless of the prophecy, what Harry does is ''his own'' decision and no one else's.-->"But, sir," said Harry, making valiant efforts not to sound argumentative, "it all comes down to the same thing, doesn't it? I've got to try and kill him, or --"\\"Got to?" said Dumbledore. "Of course you've got to! But not because of the prophecy! Because you, yourself, will never rest until you've tried! We both know it! Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy! How would you feel about Voldemort now? Think!"\\Harry watched Dumbledore striding up and down in front of him, and he thought. He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. He thought of Cedric Diggory. He thought of all the terrible deeds he knew Lord Voldemort had done. A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat. "I'd want him finished," Harry said quietly. "And I'd want to do it."* UnusualEuphemism: "Chest monster" is certainly an original term, though anyone who's been an adolescent male probably has no trouble sympathizing.* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Morfin Gaunt hexing Tom Riddle Sr. This simple act sets off a chain of events that not only ends up destroying both of their families, but also gives rise to the most dangerous Dark Wizard of all time.* UriahGambit: [[spoiler:Voldemort doesn't actually think Draco will succeed at assassinating Dumbledore, so the whole thing is an exercise in futility to punish Lucius for his failure in the previous book. EvilCannotComprehendGood, so it is likely that Voldemort assumes Dumbledore will kill Draco in self defense. Furthermore, when Draco fixes the vanishing cabinet, Voldemort dispatches a B-team to accompany him. The incompetent Carrows, the [[FantasticRacism supposedly inferior]] werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and accidental TeamKiller Thorfinn Rowle certainly aren't winning any awards for Death Eater of the Month compared to someone like Bellatrix Lestrange or Antonin Dolohov, who Voldemort could have chosen to send instead. He still wants Dumbledore dead, which is why he orders Snape to actually kill him, but he certainly does not believe that Draco Malfoy has even the slightest chance to kill the only one he ever feared.]]* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Dumbledore's death.]]* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: The Weasley twins essentially smuggling Love Potions into Hogwarts so that the female population of Hogwarts can use date-rape drugs on the poor, unsuspecting boys.* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:"So, when the Prophecy says, that I'll have 'Powers the Dark Lord knows not' it just means Love?" asked Harry, feeling a little let down. "Yes, just love" said Dumbledore. ]]** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [[spoiler: Love is precisely what saved Harry as a baby: Lily's sacrificial love is the source of his protection against Voldemort. It comes up again in ''Deathly Hallows'', when Harry's self-sacrifice protects everyone.]]* WhatTheHellHero: Harry calls out Scrimgeour on resurrecting Barty Crouch's policy of imprisoning suspected Death Eaters with no trial.** Harry [[spoiler: using an unfamiliar spell, the effects of which were unknown, on Draco, resulting in Draco being severely injured. Fortunately Snape was able to heal him, being that he invented the spell, but Harry feels appropriately guilty for the incident. Somewhat justified in that Draco attempted to hurt him first. Regardless, the fact that Harry could well have killed Draco makes it a pretty morally questionable move.]]** Possibly justified in that Malfoy had been about to use the ''Cruciatus Cruse'' on Harry, even though this makes no sense, as that would have earned Malfoy a one-way ticket to Azkaban.* WritingLines: Seamus accidentally knocks Flitwick off his desk with a spell, and has to write [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."]]* XanatosGambit: Voldemort's plan (ordering Draco to kill Dumbledore). The plan is to give Draco an impossible, likely-suicide mission in order to punish Draco's father, Lucius, for his failures. But, hey, if Draco succeeds, all the better.** Speaking of Voldemort, [[spoiler: his job interview with Dumbledore during one of the flashbacks. If the Headmaster hires him, then it gives him access to potential Hogwarts relics for Horcruxes, a recruiting ground for young Death Eaters, and stores of ancient magic to tap. If Dumbledore ''doesn't'' give him the job, that's okay too since he's using the brief access to the castle to hide one of his Horcruxes in the Room of Requirement.]]* [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Your Horcrux Is In Another Castle]]: Dumbledore and Harry go on a dangerous mission to find a Horcrux. [[spoiler: They find it... and it's a fake.]]----


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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: Once again, here's proof for the naysayers who think a single vote doesn't count. Following a recount in the closest legislative contest in New Mexico this year, state Sen. Clint Harden, R-Clovis, maintained his 36-vote victory over Democratic challenger Bob Frost. When the dust had finally settled, Harden prevailed with all of three dozen more votes in a district that stretches between seven counties in eastern New Mexico. What should be noted in this race is not that Harden won or that Frost lost, but that the number of people it takes to fill one small section of the stands at a Clovis High School football game proved to be the difference. The only votes that don't count are the ones that never reach the ballot box.
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LET THEM EAT CAKE: There are matters of national security, and then there are matters of personal security. Confirming what many have suspected for years, that inedible concoction better known as holiday fruitcake is a legitimate threat, that is at least to airport screeners. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, fruitcakes will set off baggage screening sensors. Aha! It is just as we thought - not necessarily that Aunt Tilda is a terrorist, but that her hideous fruitcake is a weapon of mass digestion destruction! Seriously, it seems a bit disconcerting that airport security sensors cannot discern the difference between a fruitcake and a legitimate weapon. Then again, if national security measures prevent stomach-churning fruitcakes from being handed down from generation to generation, then perhaps this item should have been included in the good category.
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FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE: And the American electorate thought the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Dan Rather were underhanded. Partisanship went to a new level - or sunk to a new level - when it was revealed that Ukraine presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was recently poisoned. Yuschenko reportedly suffered dioxin poisoning, allegedly at the hands of supporters of his opponent, the Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych. While it appears Yuschenko will recover, the effects of the poisoning made the candidate appear as if he had been in a knock-down drag-out fight - and lost badly. American politics may be no place for the timid, but thankfully, the campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry stuck to mudslinging, making only voters sick to their stomachs.
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Polymorphism in halogen-ethane derivatives: CCl3-CF2Cl and CF3-CF2Cl
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Molecular crystals of halogen–ethane derivatives C2X6–nYn (X = Cl, Y = F) are known to display order–disorder phase transitions involving changes of the translational, orientational, and conformational order. The appearance of a high-temperature orientationally disordered phase with a high symmetry lattice is expected for this set of compounds in view of their "pseudospherical" molecular geometry. In this work, we present a study of polymorphism of the compounds 1,1,1,2-tetrachloro-2,2-difluoroethane (CCl3–CF2Cl) and 1-chloro-1,1,2,2,2-pentafluoroethane (CF3–CF2Cl), in which conformational disorder is not present, by combining neutron (D2B and D1B instruments at the Laue-Langevin Institute) and X-ray scattering experiments. We show that despite the close molecular shapes and molecular structures of both compounds, strong differences concerning the disorder appear in the low-temperature phase. The low-temperature phase for CF3–CF2Cl is found to be fully ordered, with a monoclinic P21/n structure (Z = 4), while that of CCl3–CF2Cl is found to be orthorhombic Pmna (Z = 4) with a disorder concerning one Cl and one F sites, each one with a fractional occupancy of 50%. Details related to the high-temperature orientationally disordered phases (both body-centered-cubic) are also given.
CitationNegrier, P. [et al.]. Polymorphism in halogen-ethane derivatives: CCl3-CF2Cl and CF3-CF2Cl. "Crystal growth and design", 03 Gener 2012, vol. 12, núm. 3, p. 1513-1519.
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The 100,000-strong demonstration last Thursday supporting the fathers about to go to jail has been billed as the ultimate showdown between the secular state and the strictly Orthodox community.
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Speeches by Tel Aviv's Mayor Ron Huldai, TV star and presumptive politician Yair Lapid and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni served to further stoke the flames, as did the angry responses from Charedi politicians.
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