HBP Poll

[pcaehill2]

No: HPFGUIDX 104884

Jocelyn wrote:
> I voted other because I suspect... Viktor Krum

me (Pam):
I've wondered about Krum as well, although the theory that he might 
be HBP has been shot down since
 1) he doesn't appear in Chamber of Secrets, and JKR has indicated 
that COS foreshadows Books 6 & 7 (esp. since HBP was originally the 
working title of COS, I believe)
and 
 2) Krum is very likely to be pureblood, given 
Durmstrang's  "slytherinesque" preoccupations.

HOWEVER--I think that perhaps the tie-in to COS is not overt (hbp 
need not necessarily be a character from COS, that is), but covert, 
e.g., hbp is only found in the missing pages that JKR decided to 
wait and introduce in book 6.  

Speculation:  these pages may have to do with the almost 30 years of 
Voldy's rise to power, before the years of terror.  

Additional speculation:  these years may have been spent in some 
slavic country (Albania?--why was LV so quick to seek refuge there? 
Perhaps he'd already spent a great deal of time there, in the 
company of Durmstrang graduates?  

And a (surely not final) speculation: Perhaps the HBP is one of 
these slavic royal types, hobnobbing with the purebloods but not one 
with them in his sympathies?  I also tend towards a European or East 
European prince, since OoP pointed out the need for the houses to 
stand together, and GoF (maybe indirectly) the need 
for "international magical cooperation" to defeat LV.

Pam (loving all this digression)