Half Blood Prince Theory

[LadyMyneh]

No: HPFGUIDX 107615

> Luckdragon64 writes:
> 
> Until JKR reveals who the halfblood prince is my bets are on Tom
> Riddle!
> 
> There is a passage in COS where Dobby tells Harry he was giving him a
> clue about Tom Riddle, not Voldemort, because he had not changed his name
> yet at that point. This clearly defines that in JKR's world Tom and
> Voldemort are not considered one and the same. COS was about Harry and Tom
> Riddle. I think HBP will be about Harry learning more about why Tom Riddle
> became Voldemort.



That's my second guess. I definitely think that what Dobby said in 
CoS has some significance for books six and seven, but I think it 
might have more to do with the final battle between Harry and 
Voldemort (possibly a way for Harry to survive the series, though my 
hopes of that aren't terribly high). However, I still think its 
Hagrid simply because we've no evidence of there being any 
specifically royal line in the Wizarding world (although there's 
certainly a psuedo-nobility). While you could also argue that there's 
no evidence for a royal line among the giants either, we've had five 
books that focus on the wizarding world, but only brief mentions of 
the giant world. And there's also the fact that the Grawp storyline 
needs to be resolved, indicating a focus on the giants in HBP.

LadyMyneh