Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[INTRO]

## Book Description

### Chapter 2: Spinner's End

"*Do you really think that the Dark Lord has not asked me each and every one of those questions? And do you really think that, had I not been able to give satisfactory answers, I would be sitting here talking to you?*"
— Snape, to Bellatrix Lestrange

### Chapter 3: Will and Won't

"*It is a long time since my last visit... I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.*"
— Dumbledore, to the Dursleys

### Chapter 4: Horace Slughorn

"*He seemed remarkably unabashed for a man who had just been discovered pretending to be an armchair.*"
— Description of Horace Slughorn

### Chapter 5: An Excess of Phlegm

"*Seven OWLs, that's more than Fred and George got together!*"
— Molly Weasley, to Ron

### Chapter 6: Draco's Detour

"*WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO? YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO - THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!*"
— Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes poster

### Chapter 7: The Slug Club

"*I enjoyed the meetings too... it was like having friends.*"
— Luna Lovegood, about the DA meetings

### Chapter 8: Snape Victorious

"*I think you were better off with the old one. The new one looks weak.*"
— Snape, about Tonks' Patronus

### Chapter 9: The Half-Blood Prince

"*Slughorn could've handed me that book, but no, I get the one no one's ever written on. Puked on, by the look of page fifty-two...*"
— Ron, about Harry taking the Half-Blood Prince book

### Chapter 10: The House of Gaunt

"*From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.*"
— Dumbledore, about his assumptions about Riddle's plans

### Chapter 11: Hermione's Helping Hand

"*Oh, come on, Harry. It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable.*"
— Hermione about Harry

### Chapter 12: Silver and Opals

"*He did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behaviour, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.*"
— Description of Harry's obsession about the Half-Blood Prince book

### Chapter 13: The Secret Riddle

"*I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to.*"
— Tom Riddle, to Dumbledore

### Chapter 14: Felix Felicis

"*Ron... you're my best mate, but carry on treating the rest of them like this and I'm going to kick you off the team.*"
— Harry to Ron

### Chapter 15: The Unbreakable Vow

"*How would you like to come with me to Slughorn's party tonight?*"
— Harry asking Luna to Slughorn's party

### Chapter 16: A Very Frosty Christmas

"*Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you, Potter?*"
— Rufus Scrimgeour, after Harry's negation to work for the Ministry

### Chapter 17: A Sluggish Memory

**Phineas Nigellus**: "*I can't see why the boy should be able to do it better than you, Dumbledore.*"
**Albus Dumbledore**: "*I wouldn't expect you to, Phineas.*"
— Phineas Nigellus about Dumbledore's mission to Harry

### Chapter 18: Birthday Surprises

"*Meanwhile, the Hogwarts library had failed Hermione for the first time in living memory. She was so shocked, she even forgot that she was annoyed at Harry for his trick with the bezoar.*"
— Hermione not finding about Horcruxes in the library

### Chapter 19: Elf Tails

"*Surely nobody in their right mind would have let Luna Lovegood commentate?*"
— Harry, about Luna

### Chapter 20: Lord Voldemort's Request

"*You see, we have never been able to keep a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to Voldemort.*"
— Dumbledore, about Tom Riddle's request

### Chapter 21: The Unknowable Room

"*And I bet that's why he's been disappearing off the map - come to think of it, I've never seen the Room of Requirement on there!*"
— Harry, about the Marauder's Map

### Chapter 22: After the Burial

"*You didn't meet him, Hermione. Believe me, being dead will have improved him a lot.*"
— Ron, about Aragog

### Chapter 23: Horcruxes

"*It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.*"
— Harry thinking about Riddle's search for immortality

### Chapter 24: Sectumsempra

"*Who would have thought you knew such Dark Magic?*"
— Snape, to Harry

### Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard

"*You'd think people had better things to gossip about... three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a hippogriff tattooed across your chest.*"
— Ginny, to Harry

### Chapter 26: The Cave

"*I am not worried, Harry, I am with you.*"
— Dumbledore, to Harry

### Chapter 27: The Lightning-Struck Tower

"*No, Draco. It is my mercy, and not yours, that matters now.*"
— Dumbledore, at the Astronomy Tower

### Chapter 28: Flight of the Prince

"*DON'T... CALL ME COWARD!*"
— Snape furiously yelling at Harry

### Chapter 29: The Phoenix Lament

"*And he knew, without knowing how he knew it, that the phoenix had gone, had left Hogwarts for good, just as Dumbledore had left the school, had left the world... had left Harry.*"
— Harry thinking about Fawkes

### Chapter 30: The White Tomb

**Rufus Scrimgeour**: "*I see you are-*"
**Harry Potter**: "*Dumbledore's man through and through. That's right.*"
— Harry to Scrimgeour