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Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince: More Mysteries And Unraveling Of Lord Voldemort’s Dark Secrets
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the sixth part of the charismatic Harry Potter series. Now the fans are awaiting the movie’s release on 15th July 2009. It reveals the enemies of Harry, especially Lord Voldemort, their past and their dark and cunning plans. It also unveils more mysteries, creatures, spells and some shocking facts.
In the Hogwarts Express, Harry spied on Draco and overheard him talking about the orders given to him by Voldemort. Harry has since been very suspicious about him. Later in this part, Ron is nearly killed when he drank poisoned mead and Katie Bell nearly died in Hogsmead while handling a cursed necklace. Harry suspected that Draco was behind these attacks. Draco also revealed at the end of the story that he has been setting paths for Death Eaters to enter the castle and carrying out attacks on students.
During his year at Hogwarts, Harry gets hold of a notebook of a former student. Through this book, he is able to improve his scores in potions, learns new tips, and spells as well. During a fight with Draco, he uses one of the lethal spells from the book, which injures Draco very brutally. He was later punished by Snape for doing this. He was also called to regular meetings with Dumbledore where he taught him about Voldemort’s past and his Horcuxes. He told Harry that it was important if he was to tackle the events in his future life.
This book also reveals shocking truth about Snape. When Harry and Dumbledore reach the Astronomy tower after the search of one the Horcuxes of Voldemort, Draco arrives to fulfill Voldemort’s order of killing Dumbledore. However, Draco fails to carry out the orders. Consequently, Snape arrives at the scene and kills Dumbledore. When Harry follows them out of the tower, he tries to attack Snape, but the master was better than his student. There Snape disclosed that he was the Half Blood Prince, son of Muggle father and Pure-Blood mother.
A main character of the movie is Lord Voldemort. He was a dark wizard, who once studied in Hogwarts. His real name was Tom Marvolo Riddle. He was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts. He attacked Harry’s parents in their house. However when he attacks Harry, he somehow loses all his powers and the baby Harry remains alive with a scar on his forehead. He now lived in a non-existent form trying to regain his physical form and powers.
In the movies, Voldemort appears in three forms. One is the child Tom Riddle, played by Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. The teenage Tom Riddle is played by Christian Coulson and the scary appearance, which Voldemort currently takes, is played by Ralph Fiennes.
In this part, he has been planning most of the attacks and evil schemes assigned to his followers. For example, he planned Dumbledore’s assassination and gave Draco Malfoy the task. He, however also carried out some murders himself. He killed Amelia Bones of the Magical Law Enforcing Department and a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Emmeline Vance.
Although most of the story is engulfed by scenes of war and death, it reveals one of the most confusing and thought provoking mysteries of the Harry Potter series. Therefore, in a way, it delivers the promise that the viewer will not be bored and would also depress him due to some of the sad scenes in it.
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The New Harry Potter Film is showing at your local cinema from 15th July 2009.
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King's Cross Station
King’s Cross Station is situated in the North of London and was built in 1851 on the site of a former smallpox and fever hospital.
The station is the southern terminal of the East Coast Mainline which runs between London and Edinburgh. King’s Cross is situated opposite St Pancreas which operates as the southern terminal for the Midland Main Line.
Lewis Cubitt was responsible for designing the original building that still stands today despite several changes to the inside platform configuration.
In 1972 a small extension was added to the front of the station and although it was intended only to be used temporarily it still stands today.
In 2005 Network Rail announced that £400million funding would be spent restoring Kings Cross, which will see the 1972 structure replaced and a new open air piazza will be developed.
Today the station is served by routes from the North and East of England and Scotland, connecting London to major cities such as Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Inverness.
These routes are operated by three networks; GNER, First Capital Connect and Hull Trains, with GNER being the main and controlling operator.
Over 20million people use the station each year many of which regularly commute to London from northern cities for business commitments.
The station features in the Harry Potter stories as the starting point for Hogwarts Express train and filming for the film ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ took place in the station, however St Pancreas was used for the external shots.
Kings Cross station is well served with several shops including a WH Smiths newsagent and a Burger King and has its own tube station. There are also regular bus services that operate from the station and taxis are readily available. Car hire is also available one mile from the station through Sixt rent a car who also offer a low cost service called Sixti. Sixti allows the renter to hire a small car from just £9 per day.
If you are travelling to London and think using King’s Cross is the right option for you tickets can be booked online through the train networks or independent booking agents.
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Car hire from Kings Cross.