Estel is the Half Blood Prince

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

In post 106761 over on HPfGU ( 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/106761 ) CDR 
speculated that the two eggs given to Hagrid (Norbert and Aragog) 
were linked. And I wondered in a follow-up post if the egg giver was 
Voldemort's prophesy informer from The Hogs Head, and if they might 
also be the Half Blood Prince.

Well here's a quiz for you. 

Let's call the mystery character Estel, since that is his name in 
Sindarin. Who is he? Here are some more clues.

1) He is a well travelled character who one first meets in a pub 
where the locals are very wary of him.
2) He is a character who is mainly human but is also part elf, thus 
he is a half-blood.
3) He is a character whose father was a king, thus he is a prince.
4) He is a character who has fought in many battles in lands near 
dragons and giant spiders, and would thus have access to eggs of 
either species.

The serious draw-back to my proposal that Estel is the Half Blood 
Prince is that he appears in the wrong book series: 
http://tinyurl.com/5cbua :-(

Cheers,

Dumbledad.