Harry and Dumbledore end their broom shed tryst with that flighty temptress, adventure (Yeah, let's see how long we can keep this gag going...) and knock on the back door of the Burrow. They are greeted by Mrs. Weasley and, oddly enough, Nymphadora Tonks (sans Atomic Pink Hair and feeling a bit on the melancholic side. Poor dear.) But Tonks ( Read more... )

(We seem to be missing a summarizer, so y'all will have to put up with me again.)

Chapter 3: Will and Won'tThough when we finally find our hero, he is in a decidedly un-heroic position, but in an altogether typically teenaged boy one. Poor Harry. We learn about the last several days of Harry's live through the rubbish on his bedroom floor. * ( Read more... )

Chapter 2 - Spinner's End or Twenty more pages of backstory and exposition you couldn't glean from reading 2000 pages of prose ( Read more... )

Alll-riiighty Potterheads! Get out your books! It's time to read & discuss A Chapter A Day.

Chapter 1: The Other Minister

As it was with the opening of Goblet of Fire, Half-Blood Prince book begins in a place that is not number four, Privet Drive, but rather in the Prime Minister's office. The Muggle Prime Minister's office. Who is having a ( Read more... )

Just a reminder to everyone that next Monday, August 15, we will begin summarizing and discussing Half-Blood Prince.

The ACAD forum is now up and running! Stop in and see what everyone has to say about HBP and the Harry Potter Universe: http://www.konekostudios.com/forum/

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Well, I can't believe we made it through all five books! When this started, the release of HBP seemed so far away and now we are but one day away. This group reading really made the time fly by.

We will begin reading and summarizing HBP on August 15. If you want to discuss HBP in the meantime, we will be discussing it on the ACAD Forums. Join us!

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The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...the one with the power to ( Read more... )

Beyond the Veil, or the Chapter of Amazing and Dramatic Entrances and Exits ( Read more... )

OotP Chapter 34 - The Department of Mysteries

He closed his eyes and put his face down into the horse's silky mane as they burst through the topmost branches of the trees and soared out into a bloodred sunset.

And so begins the journay that will decide Sirius' fate.  The six students mount the thestrals and leave the Hogwarts grounds for the ( Read more... )