Mystery of Caradoc Dearborn

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109482

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale" 
<omphale at o...> wrote:
> Does anyone else share my obsession with Caradoc Dearborn, the one 
> who "vanished six months after this, we never found his body..." 
in 
> the picture (OotP p158 UK hb edition). Now there's a open ended 
clue 
> if ever I saw one. I do believe he is the HBP in book 6, due to 
his 
> name:  Caradoc was one of King Arthur's knights who was the son of 
> Arthur's niece (therefore a princess and him a prince) whose 
father 
> was a wizard.  He suffered the misfortune of having a life sucking 
> snake attach itself to his arm and went into hiding - eventually 
he 
> was rescued by his true love .... for full details of the story 
see 
> http://www.bartleby.com/182/107.html Now the question for me is, 
> where has Caradoc (the final c is either not pronounced or is more 
a 
> soft ch, as in the German Kirche, at the end, it's a welsh name 
btw, 
> echos of Lily) been hiding all this time and why. 

Jen: Yes! I share your interest in this character. Two canon 
thoughts to support his return: 1) The only other person in the 
series who supposedly died, but no body was found, was Peter 
Pettigrew and 2) Caradoc's passing mention in OOTP was much like the 
passing referance to Sirius in Book 1.

As to whether he's the HBP, well....I'm still going with Dumbledore 
as my first choice. But I might upgrade my second choice from Godric 
Gryffindor to Caradoc with your information! There's just so little 
to go on like you said. And it does seem a *little* late to 
introduce a major character, one who will have a whole book named 
for him, but...JKR likes twists, so it's a possibility. Luna 
certainly got some major page time in OOTP even if the Book wasn't 
named after her.


Saraquel:
But I'll fly the lone flag for Caradoc as HBP until 
> book 6 is published, which, IMO the publishers will hope will be 
in 
> time for Christmas and so privately, do I.  I'm facing a very long 
> plane journey at the end of the year and my dream would be to have 
> book 6 to while away the time.


Jen: That would be wonderful to have the POA DVD released in 
November and Book 6 in December! I tend to think it will be next 
June though, since the releases have always been in summer.