Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince holds a special place in my heart, and the film version will soon be released. I was co-managing a mall bookstore at the time, so I got to unload the shipment of TOP SECRET boxes (even the opening of the BOXES was strictly prohibited)—which were not be tampered with until the pandemonium of the 12:01 A.M. On Sale Time.
I had also just finished reading all of the first five books, one after the other, as I had not discovered that Harry Potter was actually GOOD until reading about J.K. Rowling’s deviously clever plot spinning which resulted in her actually writing the first chapter of Half-Blood Prince (titled “The Other Minister”) before writing several of the millions of words before it. I hadn’t known Rowling had planned and diagrammed the whole seven book plot for a year before writing the deceptively simple and genuinely delightful first volume, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. Oops, sorry, I nearly forget that Scholastic made her change “Philosopher’s” to “Sorcerer’s”, preparing the first round of kindling for the fire of controversy that would eventually follow in evangelistic circles.
But back to the point.
Coming soon.
Ginny’s character comes out from the sidelines.
And I have every confidence that the young starlet-to-be will rise to the occasion—I mean, she’s already FAMILY, for Gringott’s sake, in a way that no other film franchise operates.
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