Jim Dale Audio's 2011:

This one continues to expand. I, also, feels like so much happen in this book that there is almost too much happening for it be all kept in mind all at once. It's so very stacked all together.


We have more about the power of love from all edges. About the choice of whether to believe in prophecy or not, the importance of blood over anything else. Home's are in danger, people become prisoners. We start having to choose what is worth dying for as a whole group of people, especially everyone in the school.

Parents and bloodlines begin to matter, and the students talk about their relationships to their elder family members. They talk about their opinions, and we begin to find the divide between what ones family believe and what you have to choose for yourself. And how scary and pricey that choice can be.

It's one of the first times we find that Dumbledore is not all White-Perfection, which I like, because realistic people are so much more compelling.