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Book Review: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)Private detective Cormoran Strike is back on a new case in The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling).  After solving the high-profile murder of supermodel Lula Landry in last year’s The Cuckoo’s Calling, Strike has had almost more business than he can handle, most of it filled with divorce cases, jealous lovers and jobs for the tabloids.  It’s not particularly fulfilling work but it’s allowed him to finally start clearing his debts, even if he’s running himself ragged in the process, causing his leg, which was amputated after an explosion in the war in Afghanistan, to become increasingly more painful.

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Before anybody could respond to this ominous pronouncement, the dormitory doors opened again and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley hurried up the ward.  They had done no more than satisfy themselves that Ron would make a full recovery on their last visit to the ward; now Mrs. Weasley siezed hold of Harry and hugged him very tightly.  “Dumbledore’s told us how you saved him with the bezoar,” she sobbed.  “Oh, Harry, what can we say?  You saved Ginny . . . you saved Arthur . . . now you’ve saved Ron . . .”

“Don’t be . . . I didn’t . . .” muttered Harry awkwardly.

“Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it,” Mr. Weasley said in a constricted voice.  “Well, all I can say is that it was a lucky day for the Weasleys when Ron decided to sit in your compartment on the Hogwarts Express, Harry.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“Er-my-nee,” croaked Ron unexpectedly from between them.

They all fell silent, watching him anxiously, but after muttering incomprehensibly for a moment he merely started snoring.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“Blimey, it was lucky you thought of a bezoar,” said George in a low voice.

“Lucky there was one in the room,” said Harry, who kept turning cold at the thought of what would have happened if he had not been able to lay hands on the little stone.

Hermione gave an almost inaudible sniff.  She had been exceptionally quiet all day.  Having hurtled, white-faced, up to Harry outside the hospital wing and demanded to know what had happened, she had taken almost no part in Harry and Ginny’s obsessive discussion about how Ron had been poisoned, but merely stood beside them, clench-jawed and frightened-looking, until at last they had been allowed in to see him.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“I don’t think she knows I exist,” said Ron with a desperate gesture.

“She definitely knows you exist,” said Harry, bewildered.  “She keeps snogging you, doesn’t she?”

Ron blinked.  “Who are you talking about?”

“Who are you talking about?” said Harry, with an increasing sense that all reason had dropped out of the conversation.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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Harry spun on the spot, lost balance, and nearly fell over.  He was not the only one.  The whole Hall was suddenly full of staggering people; Neville was flat on his back; Ernie Macmillan, on the other hand, had done a kind of pirouetting leap into his hoop and looked momentarily thrilled, until he caught sight of Dean Thomas roaring with laughter at him.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends!  Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“He accused me of being ‘Dumbledore’s man through and through.'”

“How very rude of him.”
“I told him I was.”

Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again.  Behind Harry, Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry.  To Harry’s intense embarassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knees.  When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.

“I am very touched, Harry.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“Well, it is clear to me that he has done a very good job on you,” said Scrimgeour, his eyes cold and hard behind his wire-rimmed glasses.  “Dumbledore’s man through and through, aren’t you, Potter?”
“Yeah, I am,” said Harry.  “Glad we straightened that out.”

And turning his back on the Minister of Magic, he strode back toward the house.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

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“An Unbreakable Vow?” said Ron, looking stunned.  “Nah, he can’t have. . . . Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m sure,” said Harry.  “Why, what does it mean?”
“Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow. . . .”

“I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling