Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Overview
 
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

series by British author J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...

. Set during protagonist Harry Potter's
Harry Potter (character)
Harry James Potter is the title character and main protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard...

 sixth year at Hogwarts
Hogwarts
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or simply Hogwarts is the primary setting for the first six books of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, with each book lasting the equivalent of one school year. It is a fictional boarding school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of...

, the novel explores the past of Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort is the main antagonist of the Harry Potter series written by British author J. K. Rowling. Voldemort first appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was released in 1997...

, and Harry's preparations for the final battle alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a major character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts...

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The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries.
Quotations

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

I take my hat off to you— or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness.

Of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would make sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

 
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