HBP of What?

[caspenzoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 105373

Angie <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> Probably a stupid question.  I've read all of the books, and I 
> don't remember any references to royalty pertaining to the wizard 
> world.  
> So what can the HBP be "prince" of?  Something in the Muggle world?


I don't think it's a stupid question at all. Seems to me that any 
comprehsive theory of whom the "Half Blood Prince" of book 6 is must 
address that question. So far, despite some referrences to royalness 
among the ghosts, no one I've read has pointed out anything 
canonical explaining "royalty pertaining to the wizard world." 
Neither has anyone given any canonical information about whether the 
ghosts derive their royal status from the muggle world or the WW, or 
both. I have read some theories over on a site called Redhen that 
the muggle and WW were undifferentiated politically and socially 
until some point in recent history - several centuries ago is my 
vague impression. I don't know if this theory is generally accepted 
or what it's based on. I'll have to go take a closer look.

I am fairly convinced at this point that the lack of hyphen in the 
title can't be a mistake, but must be a carefully thought-out 
choice. Therefore "HP and the Half Blood Prince" is at least doubly 
ambiguous as a title - we don't really know what it means, let alone 
whom it refers to. There's been some interesting related discussion 
on that point here in the last couple of pages.

Casey