Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
My favorite in the series (or maybe the last one, Deathly
Hallows, is better. Hard to say). The book in which Dumbledore first mentions, and
Harry, Ron, and Hermione begin to understand the importance of, horcruxes. And the
book in which the relationships between Ron and Hermione, and Harry and Ginny
first become apparent to them. As the book progresses, and the things are
building to a climax, Harry commits an act that would have been murder had
things gone a little differently. His has some twinges of conscience about this near-killing, but still seems more concerned about the resulting detentions than about the act that caused him to miss a Quiddich match. He's not a perfect characterThe end of the book lets the reader know that
no matter what happens in the final book this won’t be a case of “everything is
going to be alright”. The movie version, wherein Harry stands by and watches the killing of a person close to him, not intervening because he promised, always seemed much weaker than the original. In the book Harry is petrified by a spell that is only broken once the murder is committed, and that seems more true to character.
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