新学期就要开始了,邓布利多教授却来到德思礼家找到哈利•波特,哈利六年级的学习似乎就这样出人意料地开始了。更出人意料的事还在接踵而至,哈利从教室的储藏柜里翻到一本魔药课本,它的前任主人是“混血王子”,从此哈利在神秘“王子”的帮助下成为“魔药奇才”。
邓布利多开始了给哈利的单独授课,在课上哈利经历了几段关于少年伏地魔的惊心动魄的记忆,揭开了伏地魔不同寻常的身世之谜。邓不利多带着哈利去寻找伏地魔的魂器,在遥远山脉的洞穴中,邓不利多喝下不知名的毒药。
霍格沃茨上空出现了黑魔标记,邓不利多和哈利急忙赶回学校,在塔楼上,斯内普向邓不利多教授发出了索命咒,邓布利多仰面掉下塔楼,凤凰唱起最悲壮的挽歌。在葬礼结束后,哈利决定完成邓布利多的遗愿,去寻找剩下的魂器。
As the Harry Potter series draws to a close, Harry's greatest adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it arrives in paperback July 25, 2006.
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.
And yet . . . As with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. And with Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the full, complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thus finds what may be his only vulnerability.