The Half-Blood Prince Is...

.....Ben Affleck! Okay, not really, but there will be no spoilers about the new Harry Potter posted here. I finished the book this afternoon and it lived up to expectation. I wonder, though, how some smaller kids deal with such sad and brutal events within a book. If the world of Hogwarts and Diagon Alley is as vivid to this muggle in her late twenties, how real must this world be to little ones? Nancy Drew was never this scary!

After deliberating about it all afternoon, I have decided that my favourites are now, in order:

1. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban (#3)
2. HP and the Half-Blood Prince (#6)
3. HP and the Philosopher's Stone (#1)
4. HP and the Order of the Phoenix (#5)
5. HP and the Goblet of Fire (#4)
6. HP and the Chamber of Secrets (#2)

And now the long two or more year wait begins for the final installment.