{"id":1394867,"date":"2016-11-29T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394867"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:05:39","slug":"how-well-do-you-know-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/how-well-do-you-know-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"How Well Do You Know <em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/nov29howwellhbpquiz1_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all make mistakes. Sometimes we say things that are, in the fullness off time, ultimately revealed to be just flat-out incorrect. For example:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8220;That Quirrell guy seems normal, let&#8217;s put him in charge of schoolchildren&#8221;\u2014Dumbledore in <em>Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone<\/em>, probably<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I sure am glad I have such a long, full life ahead of me&#8221;\u2014Cedric Diggory in <em>Goblet of Fire<\/em>, probably<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I remember <em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em> fairly well. I bet I could ace a quiz on the subject if I had to&#8221;\u2014You, right now, probably<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying you <em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em> ace a Harry Potter quiz. I&#8217;m simply saying you couldn&#8217;t ace THIS Harry Potter quiz, because it&#8217;s brutal. \u00a0Our previous quizzes simply hail in comparison. The Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone one? Child&#8217;s play. Chamber of Secrets? A cakewalk. Prisoner of Azkaban? Easy as pie. Goblet of Fire? An absolute breeze. Order of the Phoenix? Don&#8217;t even get me started.<\/p>\n<p>Look, even <em>I<\/em> thought this quiz was hard, and I know the Harry Potter books better than I know my own life. I failed, utterly, because I am a coward and I won&#8217;t survive the winter. \u00a0But maybe\u2014just maybe\u2014you&#8217;re a better man than I. Maybe you&#8217;re the one we&#8217;ve been waiting for. Maybe you&#8217;re here to save us all.<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to go face-to-face with destiny?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all make mistakes. Sometimes we say things that are, in the fullness off time, ultimately revealed to be just flat-out incorrect. For example: &#8220;That Quirrell guy seems normal, let&#8217;s put him in charge of   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[32,3497,21619,3345,20770,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394867"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}