Slytherin as HBP?

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 105191

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jakedjensen" 
<jakejensen at h...> wrote:

> Who is the half blood prince? I think the books suggest Slytherin. 
> After all, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was originally a 
> possible title for CoS. CoS focuses a lot on Slytherin and his 
> background. Half Blood Prince would make sense as a title if (1) 
> Rowling discussed Slytherin's background in book two and (2) 
> Slytherin was a half-blood. 

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Mike:

I'm convinced that the secret in CoS has to do with the past history 
of Gryffindor and Slytherin, but at first I figured it would be more 
of a "Harry is related to Gryffindor as Tom Riddle is related to 
Syltherin" sort of thing.

However after reading your post it seems quite plausible that 
Slytherin may have been half-blooded and takes his pureblood 
fanaticism from hatred of Muggles and abuse he has taken from them. 
I can just imagine the shock it would be to all the Slytherins right 
now if they found out that their houses' founder wasn't the 
pureblood loyalist they think he is, rather another 'mere' half 
blood. This is a reason in my mind why some Slytherins may join 
together with the rest of the houses (Sorting Hat's song about House 
unity to defeat LV). For more info on that you can check 
the "Slytherins join Hogwarts" topics around here that are still 
being debated in :)

Good post and idea, will be added to my list of possible people of 
who the HBP could be.

Mike