I am frankly disgusted with the Half Blood Prince.I patiently plodded through pages and pages of what I assumed was a stately build-up to something well planned and thrilling, and found ... ?A plodding, pedestrian and, frankly, stupid plot line, with a completely cop-out ending. I finished the book in bed late at night, clapped it shut, said "What a load of absolute Rubbish.", tossed it across the room onto the floor, and rolled over and went to sleep.In TV series parlance, Harry has finally "Jumped the Shark", ie. damaged its core essence so badly that no amount of re-writing later on, short of 'it was all a dream', will allow it to recover.In my opinion Ms. Rowling's only previous lemon was Chamber Of Secrets, and even it had its gripping and worthwhile components.Half-Blood Prince is simply dreadful, I'm sorry but its bad art.I would rather have waited another year while JKR re-wrote it than read this pile of pointless gibberings. Please do better with your next one Ms R.Jon