Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (part 1)

Just a quick note: this may be an awkwardly long blog post, so please just... keep... reading...(well, it is a big book!) So, anyway, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is another harry potter book (duh!).

A lot of the energy in the lessons that Harry took from Dumbledore is spent trying to find out about Voldemort (oh no! I said it!) and his past. It's important to find out this because this may help them defeat Lord Voldemort. They go into many people's memories with the Pensive and each one is about something to do with Voldemort. You need to know your enemy's strengths and weaknesses.

Here are a few things that Harry may have discovered in that range.
Voldemort's Strengths:

• He can obviously stand to kill someone, which is probably his main strength.
• He was a pretty good student when he was at Hogwarts. In fact he was pretty much the best student anyone had ever seen. So he's probably pretty smart.
• He has an army of Death Eaters--he basically controls them with fear.
  
• He has killed many people to make Horcruxes. A Horcrux is a part of a person's soul that got ripped apart from the rest. You can't be killed if you have your soul ripped up into pieces until the many pieces are destroyed.
  

Voldemort's Weaknesses:

• He is not good at making friends.
• It's not really good for you to have a ripped soul. He doesn't even look human anymore. He looks kind of like a snake.
• Voldemort never told anyone about the Horcruxes. So it is a weakness that his enemies know, y'know. Now they can destroy however many Horcruxes they know of. They believe the number of Horcruxes is 6, with the 7th piece of soul still in him. Voldemort knows that 7 is the most powerful magical number.
• They have destroyed two, one which was Voldemort's diary, and the other was Marvolo's ring (Marvolo was one of Voldemort's ancestors, to be precise his Grandfather). They think the other ones are: they thought they had found a horcrux in Slytherin's locket (but it turns out to be a fake, there is a piece of paper in the fake that says that someone intends to destroy the real one but we just know they intend to, not whether they actually did), Helga Hufflepuff's cup, and something of Griffendor's and/or Ravenclaw's.
• Dubledore says that Harry has a power that Voldemort doesn't--he can love. It's kind of weird to me. And Harry might think "how is that a power" as well, but still then again Dumbledore is pretty smart!

In my next post I will talk about some other stuff in the book.