My take on the Half-blood Prince

[aggiepaddy]

No: HPFGUIDX 105747

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ericoppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:
> One thing that I haven't seen (pardon me if this has come up; my e-
> mail is slightly on-the-fritz, so I'm a bit behind on this group) 
is the possibility that the Half-Blood Prince might be Viktor Krum.
Krum's last name itself provides a clue---it is the name of the Khan 
> whose Turkic people founded the Bulgarian nation.  They were 
absorbed by their Slavic-speaking subjects, but retained the name and 
> continued to identify in many ways with the original, non-Slavic 
> Bulgars.     <HUGE SNIP on this theory>  
 

Aggie,

I believe it is possible that Krum will play a part in the remaining 
two books (why tho? I'm not sure as I've just remembered he doesn't 
really feature in OotP!  Although we do know that Hermione is still 
in contact with him so maybe that's why?!?! I confuse myself 
sometimes!!)

Anyway back to the point I wanted to make!!  I agree that your theory 
is plausable and had JKR not said that it was to be the original 
title to CoS then I would probably agree with you, However, she has 
said that this was the case and as Krum was only introduced in GoF, 
it cannot relate to him (IMO).

Although, now I've just put this in writing another thought has 
occurred to me.  I wonder what JKR's actually wording on this is. . . 
let me check it out. . . 

Darn and Blast!  I had the brain wave (think that should say brain 
ache though!!) that perhaps we'd been seeing this all wrong, that 
MAYBE just because it had been ONE of the titles for CoS we all 
assumed that the HBP in book 6 is going to be the same HBP that would 
have been in book 2.  I did wonder, if only for 2 minutes, if they 
were in deed two different beings!!  On JKR's web site she says that 
it was an original title for CoS and that lots of info that was 
originally destined for CoS in now going to be in HBP, so it could 
still be a relevant theroy . . . couldn't it?. . .