This will contain spoilers. If you have not read the book yet, and plan to, I advise against continuing in reading this post. Ok, I have finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in a second reading, and let me say that the losses, the events, and the ending did not get any easier. Of course I went into this with the entire book known, so the surprises weren't there, and I was watching closer for the hints I missed in the first reading. I also went in with the theories and suggestions that were gleaned from the Psychic Serpent Yahoo groups mail list. There were a lot of interesting ideas from that list, as that group has some of the most intuitive and creative minds I have seen in a group that isn't paid to read books.
Who really died on the roof? Did anyone die? If it was Dumbledore, was he killed at his own request? Why does Harry have to believe he is dead? Each book has brought hints from the ones before in this series, and everyone is wondering what from this book is hinting at what we shall see in book 7, what the amazing writer of this series, JK Rowling, has in store. In book 5 she killed off Harry's first hope of a loving person to be a parent to him. Now she has killed off his mentor, his hero. In book 7, no one is safe.
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