JKR's comments about the "half blood prince"

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 109015

Sherry wrote:
> > So, she [JK] says that "half blood prince" could be described as
> > a strand of the overall plot.  I found that interesting, and I am
> > trying to figure out which particular strand it could be.  What 
> > does anyone think?

Eleanor answered:
> I think she was saying that it's no strand we've seen yet, because
> she took it out.

Now Yblitzka, for clarification:
JK has commented on her site that the HBP title was the original 
title for CoS, but she removed the HBP storyline from that book, 
saving it for a later book when it would be more relevant. There is 
no HBP storyline in CoS, but the HBP title /does/ relate to something 
Harry discovers in CoS. In short, we /have/ seen a "strand" of the 
HBP, in that when we read Book 6, we will all go running for CoS at 
some point and yell: 

*/AHA!!!!! THAT'S WHAT SHE MEANT!!! /*

(or something similar.)

~Yb