JKR's Edinburgh Festival Q&A is on her website now (under news) (HBP)

[Marissa]

No: HPFGUIDX 110238

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lilypo2007" <lilyp at s...> wrote:
> Julie <juli17 at a...> wrote:
> > The question of whether V/TR has ever loved anyone 
> > leads us rather neatly to the Half Blood Prince, sez JKR. But 
does 
> > this mean the half blood prince is in some way directly connected 
to 
> > V/TR, or does this mean the half blood prince, like V/TR, has 
never 
> > loved anyone (or, likely, been loved by anyone)? <snip>
>  
> 
> I had a different interpretation of what JKR was meaning with the
> words Half Blood Prince. I think she was not meaning the character,
> but simply book six, the plot of book six. Probably we'll know more
> about Voldemort and his lack of love in book six.
> 
> "lilypo2007"

Hmmm... could the half blood prince be Voldemort's son? One he 
doesn't love?