"Prince" in HBP

[cattatra]

No: HPFGUIDX 107313


Has anyone concidered that the 'prince' could be a female, and 
everyone thinks their looking for a male so she's safe(ish)? Like, 
Voldemort says 'look, I'm looking for this half-blood prince, get 
out chop chop to find him' when he actually should be, or secretly 
is, looking for a woman/girl, and he's doing it to test his DE's or 
something? 

Cattatra, museing on the possibility and it's repercusions.



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doddiemoemoe" 
<doddiemoemoe at y...> wrote:
> Angel wrote:
> > When everyone is guessing which boy/man the "Half Blood Prince" 
is 
> > referring, my question is - how come a prince emerges? 
> > 
> > As far as we know, wizarding world is ruled by Ministry of 
Magic. 
> > There're no king, queen, prince or princess. So what kind of 
> prince 
> > is this character? How should we understand the term "prince"? 
> Should 
> > we take it literally as a boy born to a royal family or what 
> exactly 
> > does it mean? 
> 
> 
> 
> I have been thinking along the exact same lines...
> 
> My conclusions(or thoughts thereof--because, really, whose 
> conclusions have ever been..well, conclusive.):
> 
> 1.  HBP may well be Grindewald (he who DD dfeated and is an 
accolade 
> on the back of chocolate frog trading card..  What with moody's 
> missing leg and various body parts I could well write an essay 
> on "Why Harry's scar is in the same spot as the 'little girl who 
was 
> horrid'(for those who do not know, she has a little curl in the 
> middle of her forehead--teehee)"...
> 
> a. this may well be why "Tom Riddle" in COS is simply not killing 
> Mudbloods. He gives no explanation other than he is desires to 
kill 
> Harry....all can save the geneology pool theory until they can 
prove 
> Ms. Norris transfigures, or that she is something other than a 
kitty.
> (sheesh why shouldn't Tom not save us all a heptology and commit 
> suicide there and then?!??)   I suppose it  would be beneficial to 
> at least note that he was "hi-jacking" the life force of GINNY--a 
> pure blood who, at that time, given the crush she has on Harry, 
has 
> no anti-mudblood ideology in her brainpain... 
> 
>  Since Tom Riddle is not simply ordering the Basilisk to kill 
> only "mudbloods"(does one simply get that he wants Hogwarts closed 
> down?) I tend to think that: 
> 
> b. Lucious MAY have done some handy spell work on the diary, hence 
> he has his own agenda, not simply Voldemort's plans.(just 
> think...Lucious is EXACTLY the type of person to let some 'other' 
do 
> the "dirty" work(maybe even Harry?)..If there is one thing we can 
> garner from Lucious and his precious son it is that the Malfoys 
are 
> better because there is no other wizard line that is as "clean" as 
> theirs.)
> 
> 2. HBP may also be DD at the very least, he is a champion of half-
> bloods; and what "champion" have we ever denied at least an 
honorary 
> title of "prince" to...(isn't it like a prince to say "all those 
who 
> are loyal etc....")
> 
> 3. I do not believe HBP can be Godric Griffyndor, Hela Hufflepuff, 
> or Rowena Ravenclaw, nor Salzar Slytheryn....any past prince in 
> their realm would have opened their OWN school(hence the 
> establishment of Hogwarts....and if any were stronger than the 
> others..they simply would have had their own univerisites
(Beaubetans 
> and Durmstrang......not simply their own primary and secondary 
> schools.
> 
> At this time, I simply cannot think of anyone JKR has given enough 
> background on that may be the HBP..
> 
> However, it is such a long time until we see book six though. 
*heavy 
> sigh*