HBP again!

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 107693

Hi,

I'm half- ashamed actually writing this post, since I thought 
following theory would be faaar too apparent to be warranted as send-
able. Perhaps someone already did my job, whilst yahoo- mort gave me 
some indecorous bounces or when I spend my holidays thinking about 
nothing, which was pure stress (the next time I will try my luck as 
nearly- headless/ bookless, THAT should do).


 especially since JKR gave us this juicy tidbit- the sixth books 
title. And that helpful hint neither Harry or Voldemort would fit for 
that noble (?) job.

To make it short: I believe the half- blood- prince is going to be 
dear Dudley Dursley. *stepsbackthinking* Yes, still do. 
*helplessgrabforarguments*

Yet, I'm afraid don't have solid arguments to built a blow- safe 
theory. It's just
 my mind always travells ways even I'm not able to 
follow
 but then I guess those 
 those
 err- let me call 
them "points" could be relevant:

- we learned from JKR that some older wizard is meant to use magic 
under great pressure in the upcoming books
. I always thought that 
would be Aunt Petunia saving her family as a literarily mirror to her 
sister Lily saving Harry.
I felt that maybe Petunia WAS a witch, but too scared to enter the 
magic world since that war was going on and she, like her sister, was 
a "Mudblood". I assumed her jealousness concerning Lily was because 
she felt like a coward beside her; Lily ATTENDED Hogwarts nonetheless 
as a muggle- born.
Petunia maybe even had a deal with Dumbledore- to be never revealed 
as a witch, to be able to live a Muggle- life in peace and harmony 
like her parents did (Petunia the flower- power- teen, aw!), whilst 
Lily was fighting for her life as a Muggle- born- witch in WW and of 
course played tricks on her not- quite- so- courageous- sister.
Obviously she is far to frightened of dementors just to have only 
heard from them as a side- note in OoP IMO
 she had to have some 
touch with the wizard world to be THAT freaked- out and –just 
hypothetically- then made a deal with Dumbledore to be isolated from 
that horrifying world.
And what had Dudley heard when the dementors drew nearer to him 
(*lol*, now that's really beside the point, but: I just noticed my 
PC's writing programme has to be one of those very few being taught 
not to underline words such as "dementor" & Co.! See, he HAS a 
personality!)? Something akin to Harry? A war going on, his mummy 
begging Dumbledore to make her undetectable as I witch for the 
Ministry? Oh, poor nerves!

- We heard another smashed prophecy- orb during the Ministry of Magic-
 fight: someone new will come at solstice and nobody will follow him.
When I heard the new books title, I not only shocked my poor friend 
with a very sudden and very table- rocking "AH!", but immediately 
thought of that short prophecy. I reckon the prophecy refers to that 
Half Blood Prince.
Now, if I recall correctly- the pagans celebrated 8 Sabbath- feasts, 
2 (?) of them on solstice. We know that Dudley has his birthday circa 
1 month before Harry: June.
June 21 is midsummer; a solstice.
So IMO the prophesy is likely to foretell Dudley's birth as Prince. 
Maybe Petunia knew about this prophecy
?

BTW: why are those prophecies locked in the Ministry? Aren't parents 
told what is said about their child's future? Who is allowed to hear 
the content of those glass balls?

surely a question of moral, such as the question about altering 
human genes in general to prevent certain inherited diseases? If you 
were pregnant Mrs. Riddle and were told your baby is very likely to 
become the Dark Lord
 Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, WAIT! Maybe she WAS told and 
rejected her child, hence Riddle's innermost "evilness" (lack 
of "Urvertrauen")
? 
Mrs. Rowling, this wrinkle here is yours. *sigh*

- And nobody will be Half Blood Prince ever again- hm. Then who was 
Prince before him? Codric Gryffindor, the first Muggle- lover ever? I 
always thought his sword identified him as a nobleman. Why not 
Prince, Half Blood Prince?
What if Lily's family was somehow related to Gryffindor ages ago? Did 
Voldemort know this? Was this why he never intended Lily to die? To 
save the blood line that was foretold to produce the half- blood- 
Prince? Maybe he being half blood himself would have loved the idea 
of such a prince. We –and assumed Voldemort DOES know from that 
prophecy- and Voldemort simply don't know about that Prince 
significance: why IS he the last one of half-bloods? Won't there be a 
muggle world after that inevitable war coming?  Would Voldemort love 
that?

- In the threads I read commenting that title people said the HBP 
can't be person we never heard about before: to make this person 
important in no time at all this person is better off being known to 
the reader already so it would be just a shift of significance.
What is Dudley's USE in the series so far? Harry already has some 
literal mirrors in Neville, Riddle, Krum and Sirius- and the torture 
is easily managed by Vernon without Dudley's engaged assistance
 so? 
There still has to be something in the sack for Dudders.
That OoP- dementor- attack not only gave me chills, but also the 
impression that NOW is Dudley's time- he will gain his place in that 
upcoming war, because JKR made him vital by giving him emotional 
depth and by connecting him to the magical world.
The longest time I thought HE was meant to be the late- time- 
bloomer, but then: he couldn't see those dementors as wizards are 
meant to do and is not an person counting as "late in life", is he?

- Therefore if his mother his really a witch, his dad the muggle-est 
Muggle, he is half- blood, born just the right time for another 
prophecy next to Harry's/ Neville.

It somehow just clicks for me. Please discuss.

.annie sooo glad Harry is not the prince
 I still hope he is also not 
the man for the Dark- Lord- defender- job: Neville, hopefully 
(although my heart would broke if sweet Neville won't survive/ would 
have to murder Voldemort)
 I like my Harry as closest to normal and 
alive as he can get (go to the hair- dresser, marry Hermione and 
settle down, boy- just let Rosamunde Pilcher make your further life).

PS: What's the matter with Trevor?! *g* Sorry, couldn't resist. This 
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(please pardon my poor English- not my mother tongue and no time for 
rectification, since my friend threatens to eat all my jelly beans –
and to ruin our friendship by doing just that- while I'm typing here 
*throwsthemousepadathim* "Weg da! Du machst ein gefährliches Mädchen 
traurig.")