The Half Blood Prince

[heiditandy]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> worked out 
the identity of the half-blood prince, in a somewhat clever way. 

 
> What would any child of Ron and Hermione be? a Half Blood. Q.E.D: 
> Hermione will have Ron's son in the next book, and he will be a 
Half 
> Blood "Prince".


If it's that, then JKR will be writing something she'd said she 
wouldn't write. In 2000, at http://www.the-leaky-
cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0700-jones-newsweek.html JKR 
said "I feel it would be inappropriate-in these books -were Hermione 
to have an underage pregnancy or if one of them were to start taking 
drugs, because it's unfaithful to the tone of the books. It's not at 
all that I don't think those themes can be explored superbly in 
children's literature."

In other words, she thinks it's fine that children's literature 
includes things like kids dealing with issues like sex and pregnancy 
and drugs, but it's not part of the story that she herself is 
telling right now. 


Heidi

Heidi