Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 19

In the nineteenth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we learn how severe Ron’s poisoning is. Unfortunately, that means McLaggen takes Ron’s place during Quidditch, but we all win when Luna Lovegood announces it. When Harry is shockingly injured, he devises a genius plan to stalk Draco Malfoy. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read Harry Potter.

CHAPTER 19: ELF TAILS

Oh, is it time? Is it time for me to write? Well, hello there, readers. I haven’t done one of these before and I suspect that Mark got a foul bit of Glumbumble treacle mixed in with his coffee this morning. Why else would he allow me the simple pleasure of writing one of these reviews?

I suppose I’m supposed to relate the events of this chapter but I’m much more interested in talking about Erumpents because I heard they moved out of the African sahara and might be taking refuge in the Forbidden Forest. Though, I guess that the weather wouldn’t be complementary…then again, they do have rough hides.

My father said he rode an erumpent once! He really has all the great adventures.

Oh, right, I guess I should talk more about this chapter. Isn’t it strange that both Katie Bell and Ron Weasley were attacked by mysterious objects that were probably intended for other people? My father says that it’s probably rogue Death Eaters, but the Ministry is simply too distracted to care. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised by that, since they ignored the murder of that poor Cedric Diggory. And we wouldn’t have lost Sirius Black if they had just listened to Harry Potter in the first place.

Where are we? Oh, Professor McGonagall is trying to tell me that we’ve moved on. Should we move on? I’d much rather talk about the pack of Demiguises that walked onto the grounds last week. I’ve always wanted an Invisibility Cloak, but I also don’t want to harm those beautiful beasts.

Let’s talk about Snape. I don’t particularly like him. He seems to be pretty mean and walks around as if he’s got his own personal rain cloud hanging above him. Wait…perhaps it was Snape who had a run-in in with some Glumbumble! I’ll have to write that down. Perhaps that’s the reason Dumbledore had an argument with him. Though, perhaps they simply couldn’t agree on what to do with a Minister of Magic who is a vampire. Yes, that’s probably it.

Where we were? Oh yes, I got a chance to announce the Quidditch match this time around. It was great fun. Maybe I impressed Mark so much that he allowed me to do this review! I do think people miss all of the good stuff during these games because they’re so set on wanting to see who wins. They missed the flock of Doxies that flew by!

I’m terribly sorry that Harry got hurt. I rather like Harry a lot. He doesn’t make me feel weird. I must go visit him in the hospital ward as soon as I can. I have to compliment him on the ingenuous method he devised to spy on Draco Malfoy! Using two competing house-elves…that’s surely one of his best thoughts! And he’s thought about creating Dumbledore’s Army before, so Harry has a lot of great thoughts.

I should probably go now. I’ve heard that the Death Eaters have found a way to manipulate Lobalugs to use their poison and I must see if my father’s going to print anything about it in The Quibbler. See you all next time!