"'Well, it was a bad night for romance all round. Ginny and Dean split up too, Harry.' Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could not possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga."
Hermione, en Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
"You heard him, Harry: "Wouldn't it be better, make you stronger, to have your soul in more pices... isn't it seven the most powerfully magical number...""
Dumbledore, en Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
"Harry suddenly noticed that ever single one of the old headmasters and headmistresses in the portraits around the walls was awake and listening in on their conversation. A corpulent, red-nosed wizard had actually taken out an ear-trumpet."
en Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
"Meanwhile, the Hogwards 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."
en Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
"'Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?' 'Yes,' said Harry Stiffly. 'Yes sir.' 'There's no need to call me "sir", Professor'"
Snape and Harry, en Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny....
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I know why I've been postponing ending this book. It's no mystery that after 6 goes 7, and I need a little time. I needed time to re(listened) Dumbledore's death, and I'm going to need a little more time to process what it's coming in the next book.
That's the problem to rereading, you know what is coming and you have to be prepared, not for the known this time.
What I really like about this one is how the Harry-Ginny love story starts and ends with almost the same abruptness.