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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Real-Life Political and Cultural Connections
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has a lot of real-life implications throughout, especially about culture and politics. It deals with common cultural anxieties such as evil, deaths through the fact that evil forces are present everywhere and cannot be controlled, therefore bringing existential fear to people. The book was also being written during the global financial crisis of 2007-08, reflecting the political situation in the United Kingdom as Rowling traced the British post-9/11 experience of terrorism and the lack of governmental responsibilities to enlighten citizens, reflected in the very first scene of the book with the attacks in London.