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  1. Followed by. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth novel in the Harry Potter series, and takes place during Harry Potter 's sixth year at the wizard school Hogwarts. The novel reveals events from the early life of Lord ...

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    • What Makes Up The Harry Potter Franchise?

    Harry Potter books are the best-selling fantasy book series of all time and the best-selling books series overall, having sold over 500 million books worldwide, in front of the Goosebumps and Perry Mason series. The series has sold an estimated 180 million books in the USA. There are over 1 million words(1,084,170) in the Harry Potter book series.

    A US survey found: 1. 18% of people have read all of the Harry Potter books 2. 31% have read at least one of the books 3. Among 18-34 years-olds, 32% have read all the books, and 48% have sold at least one 4. 25% of Americans had seen all of the movies, and 61% had seen at least one

    The Harry Potter franchise is made up of 7 core books, 3 supplementary or extended universe books, 1 play, and 10 movies. 7 core Harry Potter books (in order): 1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 5. Harry Potter and ...

  2. Book 6, Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince, published in July 16, 2005, sold 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours. 6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book 7 in the series, was published by Scholastic on July 21, 2007, and had an initial print run of 12 million copies. The book sold 8.3 million copies in the first 24 hours. 7.

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    • The Other Minister. "The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister." — Rufus Scrimgeour, to the Muggle Prime Minister. The Muggle Prime Minister receives a notice that Cornelius Fudge is to meet him.
    • 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?
    • Will and Won't. ""It is a long time since my last visit... I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing. " — Dumbledore, to the Dursleys. Albus Dumbledore comes to visit Harry Potter at 4 Privet Drive to take him to The Burrow, where he would spend the rest of his summer holidays.
    • Horace Slughorn. "He seemed remarkably unabashed for a man who had just been discovered pretending to be an armchair." — Description of Horace Slughorn.
  3. Half-Blood Prince is the second Harry Potter novel written after the September 11th attack on New York’s World Trade Center. For America and the UK, the events of 9/11 ushered in an era of anxiety about extremist ideology and caused people to question the government’s ability to combat these new threats, especially after long and deadly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan miserably failed to ...

  4. Jul 18, 2005 · By Edward Wyatt. July 18, 2005. Scholastic Inc. said yesterday that an estimated 6.9 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" were sold in the United States in the first 24 hours ...

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  6. Dec 8, 2015 · Books. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. J.K. Rowling. Pottermore Publishing, Dec 8, 2015 - Juvenile Fiction - 652 pages. There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building... wherever they had murdered... When Dumbledore ...