Websites
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Quiz yourself on each of the books in the Harry Potter series.
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A fan site looks at the origins of names of spells, people, creatures, and places found in the Harry Potter series.
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Check out what J.K. Rowling has to say about her work.
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Find out on this handy pronunciation guide.
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Confused about who's who? Can't remember who's a Gryffindor and who's a Hufflepuff? What that doodad is? Need a love potion? This will help you.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Harry Potter books. Check out the Wizard Atlas, the Quidditch Handbook, visit the Bestiary, get a Visitor's Tour of Hogwarts, or brush up on your Magical Theory and Muggle Studies. The Lexicon also has a massive encyclopedia of people, places, spells, potions, and more.
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Check out a list of the differences between Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the UK and US versions.
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Check out this timeline of how the Harry Potter series came to be.
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Find out more about Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of all of the Harry Potter books.
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Here, you'll find a calendar that accounts for every event in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Movie or TV Productions
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The official movie site for Harry Potter 6.
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IMDB walks you through each of the Harry Potter films.
Video
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Watch J.K. Rowling's speech given at Harvard University's commencement on June 5th of 2008.
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Watch an excerpt from a documentary about J.K. Rowling.
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Watch an interview with J.K. Rowling.
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J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.
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Watch an interview with J.K. Rowling on 60 Minutes.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie trailer.
Audio
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Purchase and download the Audiobook from Random House Audio.
Documents
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The New York Times reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 31st, 2005.
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Famed critic Michiko Kakutani reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on July 16th, 2005.
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Read a 2003 interview with J. K. Rowling.
Images
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We don't need a picture to help us imagine the castle, but if we did, this one would do the trick.
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A Mary GrandPre illustration of Harry
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A Mary GrandPre illustration of Voldemort.
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An illustration of Hagrid, carrying Harry.
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A picture of the writer herself.
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The New York Times provides a slideshow of fans around the world receiving their copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the first time.
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Check out the different covers of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from around the world.