Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(J.K.Rowling/Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
来週いよいよ映画公開となる、ハリーポッター第6作目の原作。
今回の巻もまた、とんでもない展開だった。予想をことごとく裏切る。
推理小説のような謎解きは今巻でもあるのだけれど、小説のテイスト全体がかなり独特なので、「普通は、こういくだろう」という見込みからどんどんと離れていく。4箇所ぐらい、かなり驚いた場面があった。
最初の頃の巻の、多少なりとも明るい学生生活の雰囲気はまったく鳴りを潜めて、すっかりダークなファンタジーに傾いてしまった。その分、ハリーの主人公としての成長は感じられて、だいぶ頼もしい感じになっている。全体的に救われない話しが多い中、ジニーに関するイベントは良かった。
この巻では、今までと比べれば、横道に入ったサイドストーリーの量は少なかったけれども、それでもあちこちに話しが飛ぶので、それぞれの部分での掘り下げはちょっと中途半端だった感じがする。
次巻の最終巻に向けた、舞台作りの最終段階に入っている雰囲気で、この6巻は、そのお膳立てのために存在したパートなのだろうと思う。その、クライマックスに向けての盛り上がりは見事で、最終巻を読むのがものすごく楽しみだ。
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‘People expect you to have cooler friends than us,’ said Luna, once again displaying her knack for embarrasing honestly.
‘You are cool,’ said Harry shortly. ‘None of them was at the Ministry. They didn’t fight with me.'(p.133)
Hagrid gave another great snort. Harry rather thought some bogies landed on the potatoes, and was inwardly thankful that they were not staying for dinner.(p.216)
She’s Ron’s sister, Harry told himself firmly. Ron’s sister, She’s out of bounds. He would not risk his friendship with Ron for anything. He punched his pillow into a more comfortable shape and waited for sleep to come, trying his utmost not to allow his thoughts to stray anywhere near Ginny.(p.271)
‘I don’t want to be used,’ said Harry.
‘Some would say it’s your duty to be used by the Ministry!’
‘Yeah, and others might say it’s your duty to check people really are Death Eaters before you chuck them in prison,’ said Harry, his temper rising now.(p.325)
‘Firstly, and very importantly, Voldemort was, I believe, more attached to this school than he has ever been to a person. Hogwarts was where he had been happiest; the first and only place he had felt at home.’
Harry felt slightly uncomfortable at these words, for this was exactly how he felt about Hogwarts, too.(p.404)
He understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the different between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that there was all the difference in the world.(p.479)
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