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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-11-2005 21:18

The sixth of seven books will be released this week.


Any speculations on who the Half-Blood Prince is?


I think it may be Draco Malfoy. He is from a 'pure' family, but JK Rowling does say on her site that "none of these families is really pure - in other words, they simply cross off Muggles and Squibs off the family tree and pretend that they didn't exist." Also, "This subject (pure-bloods not being fully pure) is touched upon in 'Half-Blood Prince.'"

I think it may be a clue from JK Rowling that the Half-Blood Prince is a "pure-blood."


On the other hand, we know little about Nearly Headless Nick except of his execution and that he was some form of royalty. I believe he may be the Half-Blood Prince too, as, he could fit the 'prince' part.


Thoughts on who the Half-Blood Prince is?

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Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-13-2005 09:23

There is now a thread for spoilers.

Please keep spoilers to that thread and only threads that have "(WARNING: SPOILERS)" in the title.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jul-13-2005 10:20

I think the safety is, anyone who has started to read the book, does not go back posting in this thread that does not have a spoiler warning.

Madame Giry
Madame Giry

Jul-13-2005 10:38

I think that the Half-Blood Prince is Harry Potter because remember Lily Potter, his mom, was muggle born. So, Harry, perhaps the son of the queen and king Lily and James (metaphorically speaking), is the prince. Oh, and aren't kings and queens mainly well-liked? The Potters were quite popular as I recall! I also have another theory... remember in the prophecy, how it was kill or be killed between Harry and Neville? As was foretold in the prophecy, Harry and Neville had to kill or die. And Neville was from a "pure-blood" family, but his magical skills were quite poor. So maybe he's the half-blood Prince?

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-13-2005 10:44

JK has said neither Harry nor Voldemort is the half-blood prince.


And in the prophecy, it said "And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives." This refers to Harry and VOLDEMORT, not Harry and Neville.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jul-13-2005 13:52

Perhaps Harry has to protect the half blood prince, while Voldemort has to kill him.

P. Rockwell
P. Rockwell
Well-Connected

Jul-13-2005 14:13

Interesting Idea. The Thing with Neville was that it was possible for Nevile to be the one that banished He who must not be named, as he fit all the prophesy's requirments-as did Harry. Execpt Voldemort marked Harry when he attacked him, therefore (probably, that is) Nevile is no longer in the equasion. But...

bytten
bytten

Jul-13-2005 23:11

nope. no king, unless you count the chess kings, which I don't think are significant.

...I can't remember stuff either. I hope Draco doesn't end up important. I like him as an unimportant snot better.

bytten
bytten

Jul-13-2005 23:12

*expletives cut* I didn't realize that there were multiple pages on this thing. Disregard, everyone, it's just another idiot...

Milady
Milady

Jul-15-2005 06:12

*Execpt Voldemort marked Harry when he attacked him, therefore (probably, that is) Nevile is no longer in the equasion. But...*

I think confirmed that Neville was a bit out of the running. However... it doesn't mean he couldn't be the Half-Blood Prince. Now that would be interesting.

Colonel Shanty
Colonel Shanty

Jul-15-2005 13:12

There are a lot of good theories, and the answer will be revealed at one minute past midnight tomorrow. Anyway, I posted all the spoilers in jojo227's other HBP thread. Recently, the back cover blurb for the book was released to the public, but I thought it would be better if I posted it in the Spoiler thread. It is very interesting . . . so if you would like to venture there today or tomorrow, please do. But the information I posted could ruin the fun of it all.

So far we have many theories on the Half-Blood Prince, and this is a list I made after reading all of your theories posted here:

-Draco Malfoy
-Nearly Headless Nick
-Sirius Black (dead, but still important)
-Dean Thomas
-Neville Longbottom
-Ron Weasley
-A new character

Anybody I forgot? Remember: J.K. Rowling said that neither Harry nor Voldemort was the Half-Blood Prince. If there are anymore half-blood males in the series I forgot to mention, please write them down. Quickly. The countdown to the release has already started ticking . . .

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