finally, we have what we have been waiting for! not book six itself which we have wished for for months but the title. the next harry potter book will be named harry potter and the half blood prince. this comes after a week of hoaxes and counter-hoaxes over in JK's realm. her official website did not contain the information until someone hoaxed the whole thing telling everyone that the title was harry potter and the pillar of storge. JK does let us know that this was utterly false and the HP:HBP is the true title. she also let's us know that the half blood prince the title refers to is neither harry nor voldemort. hhmmmm... who could it be? my first thought was neville but i then dismissed that because neville is a full blood wizard. any thoughts of your own? if you have the need to think it over with a vast community of HP fanatics check out the forums at thesnitch.net. i'm sure someone there will entertain your flights of fancy.

by the way, i know that i never reviewed the HP:POA movie mainly because i'm lazy and i have trouble putting my opinions online. i thought it was an exceptionally great movie. the editing was grown-up and it kept all of the thematic elements of the book that needed to be kept and threw the others out. i was quite impressed with cuaron's take on the harry potter world. i hope he'll come back and direct another one in the future.

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