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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 652 pp., $29.99)
REVIEWING a Harry Potter book is the ultimate superfluous act. No critic can hope to lay a glove on J. K. Rowling's series, which long ago passed into the realm of universal approbation reserved for mothers, flags, and balanced budgets. The only remaining Harry-skeptics--Christian fundamentalists on one hand and literary scholars like Harold Bloom and A. S. Byatt on the other--have been banished beyond the pale of civilized discourse, and everyone else has given in: We all love Harry, and Voldemort take anyone who doesn't.
It's not that the anti-Potter types don't have ...