half blood prince

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No: HPFGUIDX 107752

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:

> I think you stretch JKR's words a bit, Kneasy. There is no indication 
> at all that the thing that has "no connection with the Basilisk or TR 
> and the diary" is in the chamber (the place). I think you 
> misinterpret the sentence "the link I mentioned between books 2 and 6 
> does not in fact relate to the Half-Blood Prince... Rather, it 
> relates to a discovery Harry made in 'Chamber' that foreshadows 
> something he finds out in 'Prince' ". JKR clearly means 
> here "Chamber" the book and not necessarily "chamber" the place. 
> Throughout this answer she calls the six books by her favorite pet 
> names: "Stone", "Chamber", "Azkaban", "Goblet", "Phoenix" 
> and "Prince". I think this misunderstanding had started since that 
> old interview about the DVD of the second movie, where many readers 
> mixed "Chamber" the book with "chamber" the place, and thus the whole 
> story of "something small in the chamber" was born.
> 
> I personally tend to think that the foreshadowing discovery was the 
> Parseltongue. In HBP Harry is going to discover many other powers he 
> got from Voldy.
> 

Of course I stretch JKR's  words! Doesn't everybody?
We'd never get anywhere if we accepted them purely on face value.

What did we discover in CoS? 
Dobby
Borgin and Burkes
Lockhart
Flying Ford Anglia
Parseltongue
Moaning Myrtle
Aragog
The Chamber
Tom Riddle (separate from Voldy)
Gryffindor's sword
Transferred powers

Since then Dobby's been all over the books like a rash. Scrub Dobby.

B&B  is a possibility - that's been discussed before, particularly the
'Hand of Glory' artifact.

Lockhart - he could come back, and I've marked him as a bad'un,
though I doubt he's royalty.

FFA - not relevant, I  think.

Moaning Myrtle - JKR has said that MM will re-appear in later books.
She's more or less a permanent fixture  in that bathroom of hers.
And her bathroom contains the entrance to what? The Chamber.

Aragog - hmm, could reappear. I fancy Ron to end up as a dessicated
husk in one of his webs, one of these fine days.

The Chamber - still there, it seems to have been key in Tom's
development and Salazar built it for a purpose. You can bet that his heir
was going to inherit a lot more than just over-grown Medusoid fish-bait.
What else is down there?

Parseltongue and other Voldy powers have been a background rumble
for 3 books now ( particularly the last book; all that mind link stuff) and
I have difficulty tying these in with somebody else, i.e. this Half Blood 
Prince. If HPB refers not to Harry, TR or Voldy, why would those powers
be an important link to a third character? Unless that character was Salazar
himself - which would bring us back to the Chamber again.

Gryffindor's sword - unknown significance.

On the face of it there's not a great deal to choose from. Mind you, it 
could refer to something else entirely. But whether or no HBP is connected
to one of the above or Colin Creevey's cat, I'm still firmly convinced that
the Chamber still has a part to play before the end.

Kneasy