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Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince
 
 
by
J. K. Rowling
Illustrations by Mary Grandpré
 
 
 
Arthur A. Levine Books
An Imprint of Scholastic Press
 
To Mackenzie,
My beautiful daughter,
I dedicate
Her ink-and-paper twin.
Text copyright © 2005 by J. K. Rowling
Illustrations by Mary Grandpré copyright © 2005 by Warner Bros.
HARRY POTTER, characters, names and related indicia are trademarks of
and © Warner Bros. Harry Potter Publishing Rights © J. K. Rowling.
All rights reserved. Published by Arthur A. Levine Books,
an imprint of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920.
SCHOLASTIC, THE LANTERN LOGO and associated logos are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.
 
No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005921149
 
ISBN 0-439-78454-9
 
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Printed in the U.S.A.        23
First American edition, July 2005
Chapter 1
The Other Minister
 
It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when the wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress unpleasant memories of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was not much space in his head for anything else. The more he attempted to focus on the print on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see the gloating face of one of his political opponents. This particular opponent had appeared on the news that very day, not only to enumerate all the terrible things that had happened in the last week (as though anyone needed reminding) but also to explain why each and every one of them was the government’s fault.
The Prime Minister’s pulse quickened at the very thought of these accusations, for they were neither fair nor true. How on earth was his government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing? It was outrageous for anybody to suggest that they were not spending enough on bridges. The bridge was fewer than ten years old, ............

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