MANY SPOILERS

Finally, a bit of pace. It's all go now as Slug's memory reveals that a horcrux is the object in which a person has concealed part of their soul and Dumbledore explains how Mouldy Voldy managed to stay alive while dead. So the hunt is on for the horcruxes and another aspect of Harry's special powers is revealed.

The special power of anger management continues to elude him, however, and he nearly kills evil Draco in the girl's toilets. He is also singularly unable to persuade Dumbledore of the treachery of Snape, despite having evidence that sneaky Severus betrayed Harry's parents to He Who Is Most Horrid. Nevertheless, HP and Dumbledore desert Hogwarts and go apparating off together into the sunset to hunt down and destroy a horcrux.

On the romance front it's all change. It's off for Ron and Lavender, off for Ginny and Dean and … on for Ginny and the boy wizard. Yes, he finally quelled those doubts and with "the creature inside his chest roaring in triumph" he kisses the flame-haired beauty. Crikey. Still no joy for Ron 'n' Herm yet, though. Herm is too busy trying to prove that the half-prince was a woman.

Oh, and Gryffindor win a quidditch match against all odds. Again.

As events in HP6 get darker and doomier, it is now unquestionably day time here in Brighton. The sun is up, the sea is sparkling and surely, surely the book must be winding up soon?