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Dans un monde de plus en plus inquiétant, Harry se prépare à retrouver Ron et Hermione. Bientôt, ce sera la rentrée à Poudlard, avec les autres étudiants de sixième année. Mais pourquoi Dumbledore vient-il en personne chercher Harry chez les Dursley ? Dans quels extraordinaires voyages au cœur de la mémoire va-t-il l'entraîner ?

Dans une atmosphère assombrie par des meurtres violents et des destructions inexpliquées, cette sixième année à Poudlard voit Harry prendre la tête de l'équipe de Quiddich. Il apprécie tout particulièrement l'utilisation d'un manuel de potions ayant appartenu à un mystérieux prince de sang mêlé et rempli d'annotations, qui lui permet de briller dans cette matière et de gagner un temps précieux...

Dans un monde de plus en plus inquiétant, Harry se prépare à retrouver Ron et Hermione. Bientôt, ce sera la rentrée à Poudlard, avec les autres étudiants de sixième année. Mais pourquoi le professeur Dumbledore vient-il en personne chercher Harry chez les Dursley ?

C'est avec un mélange d'humour et d'art du suspense incomparable que J.K. Rowling révèle dans ce sixième tome l'extraordinaire complexité de l'univers qu'elle a créé, et qu'elle met en place tous les ressorts du dénouement.

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 bulding... wherever they had murdered...

When DUMBLEDORE arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is BLACKNED and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and SUSPICION are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinded that Malfoy bears the DARK MARK : there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need POWERFUL magic and true friends as he explores VOLDEMORT'S darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his DESTINY...

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny...

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny.

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny.

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort’s darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny.

Lord Voldemort has returned to power, and his wrath has been felt in both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds. Severus Snape, long considered an enemy of Voldemort and a member of Dumbledore’s anti-Voldemort coalition, the Order of the Phoenix, meets with Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco and wife of Lucius, an imprisoned Death Eater. Snape makes an Unbreakable Vow to Narcissa, promising to protect her son, Draco.

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. 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—and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort—and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.