JKR's comments about the "half blood prince"

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109140

Josh said:
"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."


DuffyPoo:
Not, the HPB is 'not present', but, the HPB 'storyline' isn't present. Two different things as I see it. That's what JKR said, "there is no trace left of the HPB *storyline* in Chamber."  Which could very well mean, that for those who believe the HBP is Goderic Gryffindor, while he is mentioned in CoS, there is really nothing important about him, or, should we say, anything leading up to him being the HBP.  There's a lot of talk about Salazar Slytherin, but really nothing about GG, except that they started the school together and had a fight before SS left.  Nothing really iimportant about GG himself.  The disagreement between Slytherin and Gryffindor, was, after all, one of the discoveries of CoS.  HBP could easily be more information about GG and the reason(s) for the departure of Slytherin, which isn't a storyline of CoS. 




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