My take on the Half-blood Prince

[aggiepaddy]

No: HPFGUIDX 105789

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pcaehill2" <pcaehill2 at s...> 
wrote:
> > Aggie wrote:
>  [snip]
> > 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?. . .
> 
> Pam responds:
> 
> I agree; in choosing the HBP, JKR is not bound solely to characters 
> from CoS.  She only specified who HBP *was not*.  I think that 
> you're right--the material that was originally intended for CoS may 
> be info/plot/characters that didn't make it into CoS at all!!
> 
> As I wrote earlier, I think the HBP may be eastern European, mostly 
> due to these reasons:
> 
> 1) LV's years before his "rise to power" may have been spent in some
> eastern European country, because LV sought refuge in that region 
on 
> at least two occasions: when he met Quirrel, and before he met 
> Wormtail. Perhaps he was already familiar with the region--maybe in 
> years past he had the company of Durmstrang graduates (also Slavic)?
> 
> 2)OoP pointed out the need for the houses to stand together, and 
GoF 
> (maybe indirectly) the need for "international magical cooperation" 
> to defeat LV.
> 
> 3) OoP also contains a reference to Charlie Weasley's presence in 
> Romania, and his effort to muster support from international 
wizards-
> -this will surely be further developed in Book 6.
> 
> 4) There are a great many references to slavic countries: Krum's 
> Bulgaria, Charlie's Romania, LV in Albania, and the unknown but 
> slavic location of Durmstrang.


Aggie:

Thanks for agreeing with my ramblings!!  Gives me head ache all this 
conjecture and trying to second guess JKR!!

Lots of people are with you on the Eastern European theme.  
EricOppen, whose post I was replying to, believes it to be Krum.  I 
think this is possible and, as you say, the stress has been on the 
international ww working together.   Charlie has been in Romania from 
book 1 but maybe that's WHY he was there!  (Also to take in Norbert 
but that's by the by!)  Not much is put into the WW by JKR that isn't 
important.

. . .except 10 year old boys called Mark Evans. . .  LOL! ;o))