half blood prince

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No: HPFGUIDX 107856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
> 
> Neri:
> Allow me to correct. Power(s) tranfered from Voldy are mentioned 
> EXACTLY twice in all the five books: once in CoS, and once in DD's 
> words in the end of OotP. Regarding the mind link, in canon it is 
> NEVER connected with the transferred powers. Not that I believe for 
> one second that there is no connection between these two things, but 
> in canon they are never connected. Parseltongue is mentioned EXACTLY 
> once outside of CoS: in GoF when Draco tells about it to Rita Skeeter 
> in order to blacken Harry's name. 
> 
> There wasn't any background rumble about the transferred powers. 
> There was a resounding silence. It is high time these mysterious 
> powers will make their appearence.
>

Kneasy:
Mentioned? Who said anything about 'mentioned'?
If you have to wait for JKR to explicitly mention something you might as 
well hand in your analysts badge and tear up your membership card for
The League of Conspiracy Theorists. It's hints, allusions and possible
connections; that's what you've got to ferret out - not marking time 
until  JKR sees fit to draw a map covered in signposts. Second-guessing
the author is the name of the game.

Read between the lines, become like Scaramouche - a snapper-up of
unconsidered trifles. Build molehills into mountains and vice versa.

OK. CoS. We learn there has  been a transfer of powers from Voldy to 
Harry. 
First thought (back when I  first read the books in 2000) - "Aha! That's
what this scar thing is all about! That's why JKR hints that it's significant." 

Next thought - not only is there a transfer but a link is being maintained,
hence the pain/irritation whenever Voldy starts acting up. So strictly
speaking pain from the scar is a manifestation of the transfer/link. If
the transfer hadn't happened the scar wouldn't react, though this 
connection has only become evident in the later books. Possession (OoP), 
mind-reading (SS/PS), thought transfer (GoF -The Riddle House) or 
visions projected at a distance - all properties of the transfer/link.

Thirdly - those trifles. Like Moody's magic eye following Harry everywhere
at Grimmauld Place and his later comment that "...there's something
funny about that Potter kid, we all know that." This from an Auror
renowned for his ability to sniff out Dark Magic. The accessing of Snape's
memories when he's supposed to be protecting his own and the hint in 
the OWL exams - Harry may develop/be developing a Legilimancy facility.
His willingness to use an Unforgivable Curse. All grist for the mill.

> 
> Neri:
> But JKR just told us that there is no connection between them:
> "The link I mentioned between books two and six does not, in fact, 
> relate to the 'Half-Blood Prince' (because there is no trace left of 
> the HBP storyline in 'Chamber'.) Rather, it relates to a discovery 
> Harry made in 'Chamber' that foreshadows something that he finds out 
> in 'Prince'."
> 
> I warned you about my nitpicking.
> 

Kneasy:
So the link between the two books is totally unrelated to HBP the person.
I'm dubious. It's difficult to find anything of significance in the books
that isn't in some way apparently or conceivably connected to everything 
else, though the connection may be fragile, indirect and convoluted.

Nitpick away. That's what LOON-aspirants are for. Keeps 'em out of
mischief. Personally I'd much rather rummage around for hints and clues 
and make connections. Much more fun. Doesn't matter if I'm wrong;
sometimes that's even more fun - 'cos it means I get to do it all over
again.