The book, for those of you who may have had your head stuck in a sand-pit since 1997, focuses on the adventures of Harry Potter, a mistreated orphan who is whisked away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not only is the book about magic spells, eccentric wizards and witches and flying broomsticks, but we also follow Harry as he experiences starting at a new school and making new friends - something that many children are themselves able to identify with.

One of the beauties of J.K. Rowling's writing is that she uses a language that is straightforward but not overly simplistic to the point of being patronising to the younger reader. As I'm sure most of you have read at least some of the Harry Potter series you will probably agree that the author has a strong narrative style to her writing and a strong plot that keeps you reading to the last page.

But then I think that there is a flaw in this story which most of the people have just skipped. It is well known that Harry is a parselmouth which helps him to communicate with snake. Now, this is the most easily visible flaw which no one observed.

If you ask zoologists, then they will tell you that the snakes are amphibians and hence they can't hear. They detect the presence or absence of an object by detecting vibrations in the earth.

So, even if Harry can understand parseltongue, but, to make snake understand he must have used the vibrations not the voice i.e. rather than speaking in a hissing manner he should have made the vibrations on earth. This is because snake can't hear. But, in this book snake can hear and can respond to it which defies the basic laws of science.

So, the book on which there is so much research is going on and for which many people are crazy, they should wake up. Since, this is nothing more than a simple fictional book.

The story starts out with Snape, one of Harry's teachers, talking to his friends and saying that Lord Voldomort is back, and that they need to help him catch Harry. Then all of a sodden the story goes to the Dursley's house, Harry's aunt and uncle. Dumbledore, Harry's headmaster at school, is trying to get the Dursleys to let Harry come to school for his sixth year. But they won't let him go. So Dumbledore does some magic and gets them to let him go. After Harry and Dumbledore leave they go to a man named Horace Slughorn's house to get him to teach at Hogwarts. Dumbledore and Harry talked Slughorn into teaching and they went on their way.

On Harry's first day at school he forgot his potions book for Mr. Slughorn's class. So Slughorn gave him one of the used ones. Inside the book there was a name that read, the Half-Blood Prince. There were also writings on the inside that gave Harry hints on how to make some of the potions. When he used the hints his potion always turned out right.

Because of all the talk that Voldomort was back, Dumbledore gave Harry some private lessons to help him defeat Voldomort. In those lessons Dumbledore and Harry went back in time, into peoples memories. These memories told Harry things about Voldomort's past, and how Harry could defeat him. Dumbledore and Harry figured out that Voldomort had created things called Horcruxes.

Horcruxes were a part of the person's soul that made them. I meant that unless Voldomort's Horcruxes were destroyed he could never die. They learned that Voldomort had six of these Horcruxes, and Harry had already destroyed on of them in one of the other book. So Dumbledore and Harry tried to figure out what the other Horcruxes were.

While all of this was taking place one of Harry's enemies and classmate was creating something in one of the rooms at Hogwarts. Harry tried to figure out what it was but he couldn't. Then one night Dumbledore told Harry that he fond out where one of the Horcruxes was, and that they needed to go get it. So the went to a cave that was far away from Hogwarts. Inside the cave they found the Horcrux. They tried to destroy it but couldn't. So they went back to Hogwarts, where they ran into some of Voldomort's followers.

Dumbledore was very weak from trying to destroy the Horcrux. Snape, who turned out to be a follower of Voldomort killed Dumbledore. Harry ran inside and there were more of the bad guys fighting the students and teachers. The bad guys finally left but there was a lot of destruction and some dead people.

It turns out that the thing that Harry's classmate was making was a portal to get Voldomort's followers into Hogwarts. It also turns out that the Half-Blood Prince was Snape. Then the next day after all of this had taken place, the people of the magic world buried Dombledore.

I really enjoyed the book. I have read the other five Harry Potter books and I think that the whole set is interesting. The author always kept me on the edge of my seat. I was always wondering what is going to happen next or, what is going to happen to that person. The author really put detail into explaining things. I can imagine in my head what the scene would of looked like. I can't wait to get the next book. The only one that Harry thought could help him defeat Voldomort, Dombledore, is dead.