"J .K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rowling J. K)

Chapter 1: The Other Minister ______________________________________ 3
Chapter 2: Spinner's End _________________________________________ 12
Chapter 3: Will And Won't ________________________________________ 22
Chapter 4: Horace Slughorn _______________________________________ 31
Chapter 5: An Excess Of Phlegm ___________________________________ 44
Chapter 6: Draco's Detour ________________________________________ 57
Chapter 7: The Slug Club _________________________________________ 69
Chapter 8 Victorious Snape________________________________________ 83
Chapter 9: The Half-Blood prince ___________________________________ 91
Chapter 10: The House of count __________________________________ 103
Chapter 11: Hermione's helping hand ______________________________ 115
Chapter 12: Silver and opals______________________________________ 125
Chapter 13: The secret riddle _____________________________________ 137
Chapter 14: Felix felicis__________________________________________ 148
Chapter 15: The Unbreakable Vow_________________________________ 160
Chapter 16: A very frosty Christmas________________________________ 172
Chapter 17: A sluggish memory ___________________________________ 185
Chapter 18: Birthday Surprises____________________________________ 197
Chapter 19: Elf Tails ____________________________________________ 212
Chapter 20: Lord Voldemort's Request______________________________ 224
Chapter 21: The Unknowable Room________________________________ 237
Chapter 22: After the Burial ______________________________________ 248
Chapter 23: Horcruxes __________________________________________ 260
Chapter 24: Sectumsempra ______________________________________ 272
Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard __________________________________ 283
Chapter 26: The Cave ___________________________________________ 294
Chapter 27: The Lightning-Struck Tower ____________________________ 306
Chapter 28: Flight of the Prince ___________________________________ 316
Chapter 29: The Pheonix Lament __________________________________ 323
Chapter 30: The White Tomb _____________________________________ 334
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 sug-
gest that they were not spending enough on bridges. The bridge was fewer
than ten years old, and the best experts were at a loss to explain why it had
snapped cleanly in two, sending a dozen cars into the watery depths of the