{"id":677,"date":"2005-07-19T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=677"},"modified":"2005-07-19T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T01:11:16","slug":"rove-and-the-half-blood-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Rove and the Half-Blood Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ith the release of the new Harry Potter book, I’ve been looking around, curious for the major<\/em> clue in that book: JK Rowling killed off a main character of the series. I haven’t read any of the books. I have seen half of the 3 movies (time wise!<\/em>): that was either because I got bored with the commercials in between or because I fell asleep (I hear Alfons has a somewhat related problem<\/a>). Don’t get me wrong: these books are probably brilliantly written by an equally brilliant author, but for some kind of reason they just don’t move<\/em> me. Good for the kids who read them. I lose, I gather. (Oh: I had this one in my bookmarks for the longest time: a long CBC article about Umberto Eco and his latest book ‘The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana’<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

So: plenty of kudos<\/a> to the ones who’ve read the book and (morally?) refuse to give up the clue. I feel like a sore loser, so maybe it’s time to get some money together and actually buy the books. Or DVDs.\n<\/p>\n

Which reminds me of a dream where mr. Rove revealed the clue of ‘The Half-Blood Prince’ (does he read anyways?), before it was released. I dare not tell what happened, nor do I dare to explain why I would dream such weird dreams.\n<\/p>\n

update<\/em>: Boring<\/a> (via Metafilter<\/a>).<\/small>\n<\/p>\n

update 2<\/em>: More spoilers at Kuro5hin (you do not want to click this link!)<\/a>
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update 3<\/em>: Google ‘knows’ it too…<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the release of the new Harry Potter book, I’ve been looking around, curious for the major clue in that book: JK Rowling killed off a main character of the series. I haven’t read any of the books. I have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}