Since his return to the States, the Shalom drillers have completed 27 water wells and started farming programs to teach the Pygmies how to survive on their own again. Justin won a unanimous decision and donated part of his earnings to FFTF. I was bedridden in my Shalom dorm room in Bunia only three weeks into my yearlong trip to the Congo. No one could seem to agree. How did I get here? During that first week, a Water4. We rented a truck to carry hundreds of foot pipes and 20 heavy-duty canvas duffle bags full of drilling equipment. Bunia, the city closest to the Pygmy tribes, was a mecca for peace-driven NGOs and has a UN presence, so it drew lots of missionaries, humanitarians, and aid workers from all over the world.
News spread among us very quickly, especially when someone got ill. Not to be impolite, I ate a salad, a well-known no-no in the third world. When I went to visit Frank, the doctors had put a port in him for multiple IVs. It felt like the sore knuckles you get the day after a grizzly fight, but this aching spread to my finger joints, knuckles, and wrist. Frank had told me that if the pain traveled into my shoulders, neck, and back, then I had malaria.
Suddenly, my elbows felt achy. It was a Friday. On Saturday, I woke up feeling off, but I tried to push through it. I seemed to be sweating a lot as well. We heard that some other missionaries had gotten some kind of a virus, and chalking it up to that, I spent the rest of the day in bed. On Sunday, I slept completely through my alarm for church. I knew I had a fever, as my bed was soaked in sweat. I bounced from hot to cold sweats all of Sunday until the guys thought it best I head to the clinic. The Bunia clinic had four rooms all packed into a one-room building with a small reception area teeming with sick children and the elderly.
The doctor pricked my finger and let a couple of drops of my blood drip into a cartridge that worked like a pregnancy stick for malaria. It would only tell you yes or no. While we waited for the results, a nine-year-old girl ran by and bumped the table and my quick test slid across the table, but the nurse caught it before it fell to the ground.
I wondered if the bump could have messed with the results, but I left that up to the professionals. I tossed and turned and sweat and shivered. I could control my body from shivering. I put on extra blankets. I threw them off later. I took a fever reducer, and tried to get my mind off the shaking.
I woke up Monday with my Congolese friends standing over me in my dorm room. I told my team that I felt worse — way worse — and they prayed over me. They brought in a nurse, and from my symptoms alone, she could tell I had malaria. Throughout the day, I became extremely nauseous and started vomiting. My temperature skyrocketed to I love my food, but every bite was like a chore. On Tuesday, my team brought Dr. Jean to my room, who drew blood and started a port in my arm for multiple IVs.
He started giving me a medicine called quinine, which fights and kills the malaria parasites in the blood. An hour later, I started vomiting violently. To all of our surprise, the blood test results were negative for malaria, but I did have low-grade Typhoid fever. Jean started treating the Typhoid very aggressively.
My guys insisted I had malaria, but Dr. Jean kept pointing to three failed tests that showed otherwise. Unfortunately for Harry, Malfoy notices Harry spying on him and once his friends have alighted from the train, he paralyses Harry, breaks his nose, covers him with the Invisibility Cloak and leaves him on the train. During the first Defence Against the Arts class of the year, Harry receives a detention from Snape as he had talked back to him following Snape trying to use him as a guinea pig to show how a nonverbal spell works.
Later that day, they attend Potions, where Harry and Ron receive old copies of Advanced Potion Making from Slughorn as they did not buy the book. To everyone's surprise, Harry's potion is judged the best by Slughorn and is awarded a bottle of Felix Felicis as a prize. A jealous Hermione then tries various spells to reveal the true nature of the book, but the book proves to be a normal one, allaying Ginny and Hermione's fears. Due to Harry's popularity, it proves to be extremely taxing and difficult, with even first-years, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs turning up for the trials.
In the end, Harry selects a team which includes among others, seventh-year Katie Bell , the only member remaining from the Quidditch team Harry joined in his first year, Ginny, who returned as a chaser, and Ron, who returned to his position as Keeper , staving off competition from another seventh-year and Slug Club member Cormac McLaggen.
After lying to Hagrid that they had dropped Care of Magical Creatures as they could not fit it into their timetables, Hagrid reconciles with them. Slughorn then invites Harry and Hermione for dinner with the other Slug Club members in his office, which Harry declines as he has to do his detention with Snape.
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Harry finds a couple of spells scribbled on the Half-Blood Prince's textbook. He tries one of them Levicorpus in his dormitory , but points his wand at Ron by mistake, which results in Ron hanging by his ankle from the ceiling. In his second lesson with Dumbledore, Harry first sees Caractacus Burke talking about a locket of Salazar Slytherin 's that a pregnant and desperate Merope Gaunt had sold him, Riddle having abandoned her when she stopped giving him Love Potion , then goes into a memory of Dumbledore's to the orphanage that Riddle had grown up in.
Harry learns that Merope had later died in childbirth, and that even at an early age, Riddle had developed his powers, which he used to punish people who annoyed him and had a sadistic, cruel and independent nature, just like the adult Voldemort. Dumbledore also reveals to Harry that Voldemort likes to collect trophies. During a Herbology lesson, Ron expresses his jealousy of not being invited to Slughorn's upcoming Christmas party, to the point of teasing Hermione about it.
When she tells him that she was planning to invite him, however, his attitude changes, and they begin to show signs of attraction to each other. Harry is unsure how he feels about this, remembering his unsuccessful relationship with Cho Chang during his fifth year. With Katie unable to play, Harry recruits Dean Thomas onto the Quidditch team , which continues to improve. On their way back from practise however, Harry and Ron come across Dean and Ginny kissing behind a tapestry. Harry feels a huge surge of jealousy toward Dean, while Ron and Ginny have a heated argument.
Ron states that he doesn't want to see his sister "snogging" kissing people in public, while Ginny tells him that her love life is none of his business, and that he's only upset because he's never kissed anyone, referencing Harry and Cho's relationship and revealing that Hermione had once kissed Viktor Krum. This piece of information wrecks Ron's relationship with Hermione , as well as his Quidditch skills, and badly alters his personality. Harry meanwhile tries to convince himself that his feelings for Ginny are entirely elder brotherly, but eventually realises that he has fallen in love with her.
To improve Ron's Quidditch and mend his friendship with Hermione, Harry pretends to slip Ron some Felix Felicis on the day of the match between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Feeling lucky, Ron goes on to save everything the Slytherin chasers throw at him, and Gryffindor hammers Slytherin. However, the plan backfires. After the match, Ron accuses Hermione of not having faith in his Quidditch abilities, because she thought he really had taken lucky potion, and starts going out with Lavender Brown to spite her.
On their return to Hogwarts , Harry notices Ginny is not enthusiastic about meeting Dean, and tells Hermione about what he heard between Malfoy and Snape , but she also believes Snape was working on Dumbledore 's orders. When Harry mentions Fenrir Greyback , a werewolf Lupin had told him about during the holidays and the werewolf that bit him, she recalls Malfoy threatening Borgin with him, and Harry states that this proves Malfoy 's a Death Eater. Hermione, however, got past this one, saying that it might have been "an empty threat. He first investigated his father, and later assumed the name Lord Voldemort upon discovering his father was a Muggle and never attended Hogwarts.
Dumbledore and Harry then go into Morfin Gaunt 's memory, where he reveals to his nephew, Voldemort how he was conceived. After hearing this, Voldemort went on to murder his Muggle ancestors, taking revenge on them for abandoning him, eliminating the last of the "unworthy" Riddle line, stealing Morfin's father's ring and implanted false memories into Morfin, framing him for the murders.
In the next memory, Voldemort asks Slughorn about Horcruxes , which results in Slughorn yelling that he knows nothing about them. Dumbledore is confident that the memory has been tampered with, however, noting patches of grey fog that came up when Slughorn was shouting, and asks Harry to retrieve the true memory. Realising Harry is on to him after a botched attempt from Harry to get the memory, Slughorn starts avoiding him, and Harry instead chooses to focus on investigating Malfoy, using the Marauder's Map , noticing that Malfoy disappears off it at certain times. Ron reconciles with Hermione and Ginny.
Some time afterwards, Hagrid tells Harry that he overheard Dumbledore and Snape arguing, and Cormac McLaggen confronts Harry to ensure he can play in Ron's place in the upcoming Quidditch match. Harry also finds out that Ron has been avoiding Lavender. Later, at the Quidditch match, with Luna commentating, McLaggen grabs a beater's bat to show the beater how to hit the bludgers, and accidentally cracks Harry's skull. Finally, in the hospital wing, Harry summons Kreacher and Dobby and orders them to tail Malfoy. In their fourth lesson, Dumbledore is disappointed that Harry failed to obtain Slughorn's true memory.
Dumbledore shows him two memories: This post was thenceforth jinxed by Riddle; teachers never held the post for more than a year, suffering some terrible fate or humiliation which caused them to leave the position. It turns out that in reality, Slughorn told Riddle everything he wanted to know about Horcruxes, how they were objects that a person can conceal a part of his or her soul in.
This explains how Voldemort was able to survive his rebounding killing curse. Dumbledore believed that Voldemort made six Horcruxes: Harry learns the next day that Ginny and Dean have split up.
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He is unwilling to ask her out though, fearing Ron's reaction. Meanwhile, a recovered Katie Bell has returned to the school, and Harry asks who gave her the necklace. She states that someone Imperiused her in the girl's bathroom at Rosmerta's Pub in Hogsmeade. Shortly before the final Quidditch match of the year, Harry finds Malfoy crying over how his mission is failing. When he sees Harry, he attacks him. Snape witnesses the event, heals Malfoy, and gives Harry a large number of detentions that cause him to miss the match. Upon returning to the Gryffindor common room after his first detention, he discovers that the team had won the Quidditch Cup in his absence, and Ginny runs up and hugs him.
At this point, Harry finally reveals his feelings for Ginny and kisses her. Both of them are ecstatic and start dating.
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Some time later, Dumbledore asks Harry to come to his office. On the way, he runs into his old Divination teacher Professor Trelawney , who was trying to hide sherry bottles in the Room of Requirement before being thrown out. She tells Harry that she heard a male voice which Harry suspects to be Malfoy's whooping before she was ejected, and also reveals that Snape had told Voldemort about the prophecy concerning him and Harry, which caused him to murder Harry's parents.
Harry expresses outrage that Dumbledore later gave Snape a job at Hogwarts, but Dumbledore states that Snape felt great remorse for what he had done. He then asks Harry to join him in finding a Horcrux, Slytherin's locket, which Harry agrees to. Before leaving, Harry tells Ron and Hermione that Malfoy's almost certainly going to try something tonight, and gives them the remainder of the Felix Felicis.
Dumbledore and Harry travel to a cave in which Voldemort had tormented two children in his youth. They proceed through the cave, coming to an island in the middle of a lake. On the island, they find a basin of emerald green potion , with the locket at the bottom. On Dumbledore's orders, Harry reluctantly force-feeds him the potion, which badly weakens him and causes extreme thirst. In an attempt to save him, Harry gives him water from the lake, awakening dozens of Inferi Voldemort had placed to guard his Horcrux. Harry attempts to fight, but there are too many of them.
Just as he is about to be overwhelmed, Dumbledore creates a ring of fire around them, which fends off the Inferi, and allows them to escape with the locket to Hogsmeade, where they discover the Dark Mark above the astronomy tower at Hogwarts. Borrowing broomsticks, the pair fly to the tower. Upon hearing someone approaching them, Dumbledore uses a charm to paralyse Harry and hides him under his invisibility cloak, before being disarmed by Malfoy. Malfoy reveals that he had let Death Eaters into the school through a pair of vanishing cabinets, which were the objects Harry had overheard him questioning Borgin about.
Malfoy also explains that he was behind the cursed necklace and poisoned mead incidents, which were really assassination attempts on Dumbledore. Dumbledore reveals that he had known Malfoy was attempting to kill him, but allowed him to remain at Hogwarts because he knew that Voldemort would have murdered Malfoy once his cover had been blown. Dumbledore tries to persuade him to change sides, but the other Death Eaters join the scene and urge Malfoy to finish his mission. Then Snape appears, and with Malfoy still reluctant to finish off the unarmed Dumbledore, Snape kills Dumbledore.
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Released from the spell after Dumbledore's death, Harry pursues Snape through battle in the halls of the school and out onto the grounds. Near the entrance to Hogwarts, Harry attempts to curse Snape, who repels his attacks with ease and reminds the other Death Eaters they are not to harm the boy. When Harry tries one of the Half-Blood Prince's spells, an enraged Snape reveals that the spell is his own.
He is the Half-Blood Prince, having taken the title when he was a student as a pun on his mother's maiden name. Hermione's research later reveals that Snape's father was a Muggle named Tobias Snape and his mother a pureblood witch named Eileen Prince. When he returns to Dumbledore's body, Harry finds that the locket was a fake: After the battle, Ginny accompanies Harry to the hospital wing, where he learns that the only other person who died was a Death Eater.
None of Harry's friends are badly hurt, apart from Bill Weasley , the Weasleys' oldest child who was attacked by an untransformed Greyback, although the only side effects are permanent scars across his face and a liking for rare steaks. Fleur expresses her desire to marry Bill despite his potential transformations, and she and Mrs Weasley reconcile.
Tonks reveals her love for Lupin , who had refused her because he was a werewolf and felt that she deserved someone young and whole, unlike himself. Professor McGonagall questions Harry about what he and Dumbledore were doing, but Harry, under orders from Dumbledore not to tell anyone except Ron and Hermione, refuses.
The teachers then discuss the future of Hogwarts, and plans for Dumbledore's funeral. Harry turns his back on the Half-Blood Prince's book, and regrets ever possessing it, although Hermione and Ron comfort him, stating that while the Prince may have had a mean sense of humour, nothing in the book ever indicated that he was evil, or capable of murder.
The funeral is attended by many witches and wizards, including a number of minor characters in the series. During the funeral, Harry ends his relationship with Ginny to protect her from Voldemort.
She reveals that she had never given up on him; Hermione had advised her to go out with other people so she could relax around Harry, as previously she had trouble talking to him. As a result, he fell in love with her upon seeing who she really was, and regrets not asking her out sooner. Harry then meets Scrimgeour, who again makes the offer he'd made to Harry at Christmas, which Harry again turns down.
He then tells Ron and Hermione of his intention to leave Hogwarts to destroy the Horcruxes and then Voldemort himself. His two best friends agree to travel with him on his quest, and Harry happily acknowledges that there is "still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione". In May, , bookmakers in the UK suspended bets on which main character would die in the book amid fears of insider knowledge. A number of high value bets were made on the death of Albus Dumbledore, many coming from the town of Bungay where, it was believed, the books were being printed at the time.
Betting was later reopened. The Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books , obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court of British Columbia prohibiting the purchasers from reading the books before the official release date or of discussing the contents. Purchasers were offered a Harry Potter T-shirt and an autographed copy of the book if they returned their copies before 16 July. On 15 July, less than twelve hours before the book went on sale in the Eastern time zone, Raincoast warned The Globe and Mail newspaper that publishing a review from a Canada-based writer at midnight, as the paper had promised, would be seen as a violation of the anti-reading injunction.
The injunction sparked a number of news articles questioning the injunction's restriction on fundamental rights. In the same week, a Chicago Walgreens mistakenly sold a copy of the book.