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Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 9

In the ninth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Snape continues to act suspiciously, Potions is actually enjoyable, and then everything changes. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read Harry Potter.

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Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 8

In the eighth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the wish of MORE SNAPE is granted…yet not quite in the way anyway imagined. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read Harry Potter.

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Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 7

In the seventh chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, no one seems to believe Harry’s claims that Draco is now a Death-Eater. On board the Hogwarts Express, we are reunited with Neville, Luna,…



Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 6

In the sixth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry and his friend make their way to Diagon Alley, where the effects of a society in the midst of war are more obvious…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 5

In the fifth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we learn more about the stress of living in wartime and also see how our characters are still doing their best to continue living.…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 4

In the fourth chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore and Harry set off on a journey to acquire a new professor for Hogwarts. In the process, their relationship begins to grow into…



Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 3

In the third chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the narrative finally focuses on Harry Potter, whose life is in a slight disarray due to the events at the end of the last…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 2

In the second chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling continues to shatter everything we’ve ever thought of the whole series by STILL not focusing on Harry. This time around, we meet some…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’: Chapter 1

In the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling surprises us again by having only one mention of Harry at all; the entire scene is between the Muggle Prime Minister and Cornelius…



Mark’s Thoughts on ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ Movie

As promised, I’d like to take a moment to elaborate on how I felt about the adaptation of the fifth Harry Potter book to the screen. And because it’s now universally accepted that my life…


Mark Theorizes About the Future of Harry Potter: Part 2

I am just going to start this like so:

IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO SHOVE YOU BEYOND THE VEIL, THEN GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE DID ON THIS REVIEW.

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Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 38

In the thirty-eighth (and final) chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic publicly states that Lord Voldemort is back as the wizarding world prepares for the next great…



Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 37

In the thirty-seventh chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore speaks candidly about why he’s ignored Harry this whole books and, sadly, reveals how even he can fail when people most…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 35

In the thirty-fifth chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, we reach the first point in the book where we (by “we,” I mean “me”) doesn’t want to read any further. Intrigued?…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 34

In the thirty-fourth chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and his group fly to the Ministry of Magic aboard thestrals. When they arrive, they find the Ministry mysteriously empty. And…



Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 31

In the thirty-first chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry, Hermione, and Ron suffer through the very difficult O.W.L.S. exams, despite the many distractions in their lives. Oh, and everything is…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 30

In the thirtieth chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, we learn why Hagrid is always beat up and why the centaurs hate everyone. And this book goes back to being utterly…


Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 29

In the twenty-ninth chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry’s takes a huge risk by breaking into Umbridge’s office to speak with Sirius and Lupin about what he’d learned about his…



Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 27

In the twenty-seventh chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, OH MY GOD GUYS SHIT JUST GOT SO REAL OH MY GOD. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read Harry Potter.

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Mark Reads ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’: Chapter 26

In the twenty-sixth chapter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, every terrible thing that has happened in this book suddenly receives a (temporary) vindication. In short, this might be the best chapter…