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Year 6: Yale and the half-loved grad student

Published Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The literary event of the summer was without question the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." For my part, I dodged the late-night release parties and costumed hullabaloo and picked up a copy in a bookshop in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station on the way home from work. Ten hours later I was finished, breathless and terribly upset, wondering how in the final book of the series everything would be resolved, and also questioning how on earth I could endure the wait until Book Seven's release.

In that moment I couldn't help but reflect on a few of the parallels between...

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