JKR's comments about the "half blood prince"

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 109117

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <hubbarrk at r...> wrote:
> 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: 
> 

>From her website, I quote, "The link I mentioned between books 2 and 
6 does not, in-fact, relate to the 'Half-Blood Prince' (because there 
is no trace left of the HPB storyline in 'Chamber'.) Rather, it 
relates to a discovery..."

No trace... the HPB is not present in Chamber at all. :) That she 
liked the title for Chamber could be a) naming the book after a small 
piece of the book's story, like GOF and/or b) it does seem like a 
likely title for Riddle, even though that's definitely not who she's 
going to describe with it in book 6.

Note that she could have inserted this strand in books 3-5, too. 
We're just going to have to wait and see, and I'm getting more and 
more sure that all of those waiting for an 'Aha! I should have 
known!" are going to be disappointed when it ends up being something 
from out of left field. :-)

Josh