The Half Blood Prince

[davewitley]

Ali: 
> 
>  
> > 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".
> 
Heidi: 

> 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."

Heidi, Heidi, Heidi...

It's misdirection.  You don't suppose witches go through morning 
sickness, heartburn and labour pains, do you?  Or even all that icky 
sex?  It's just swish and flick, a simple "Dilato" spell, and - 
pop! - there's a baby in the cradle, sex and babygro colour as 
determined by the parents.

After all, think about the drugs part.  Hermione doesn't just *take* 
Polyjuice, she *pushes* it to her best friends, even encouraging 
them to assault and rob a couple of innocent fellow-students to do 
so.  Later, when Fred and George try to benefit from this lucrative 
market, she abuses her powers to keep them off her patch.  And the 
teachers are no better.  Snape gives Lupin a highly potent 
tranquilliser, which Lupin *openly takes in front of a student*.

David