The Titlings

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No: HPFGUIDX 108216

SSSusan [to chrisp]:
> > Thanks for clarifying.  I think it makes a difference in how one 
> > predicts, from your earlier model, WHO Book 6 will be about.  
> > With your idea in mind, when you said the person is "related to" 
> > Harry, it bears on picking another "related to" person for Book 
> > 6.  With a fairly loose definition of "relation" it really opens 
> > the field of candidates up, wouldn't you say?
 
Geoff:
> I think this is a question of semantics isn't it? I think what 
> Chris means is that there is a "relationship" between Harry and 
> another person rather than them being "relations". As we have said, 
> Sirius is not a blood relation of Harry although being a godfather 
> should imply a close relationship  which brings him near to being a 
> relation if you take my point.


SSSusan:
Yup, I take your point.  *MY* point, though, was that Chrisp was [I 
think] pointing out how we might, if the pattern he was suggesting 
held true, predict who the HBP is.  If "relationship" is the 
description of how we tie the PoA to Harry, then I don't think it 
will be very helpful in our predicting who the HBP will be.  Aren't 
there scores of people Harry has a relationship with?  Fewer with a 
close relationship, if that's what was meant, but still....

Here--here's what was originally written by Chris:
> Now, we know that the next title's going to be 'Harry Potter and
> the Half Blood Prince' which seems to be like a pattern:
>
> SS,GF : an item that brought Harry face to face with Voldemort
> CS,OP : a place or group of people in which the people, if not
> pros, against the pureblood idealism
> PA : a man that's related to Harry
>
> If this pattern is true and I don't make mistake on drawing the
> conclusion, then this halfblood prince would surely has some
> relation with Harry also.


SSSusan again:
So do you see my point, Geoff?  That we're really not a whole lot 
nearer to figuring anything out from this pattern if the only clue 
is "a person with a relationship to Harry".  I had thought maybe 
Chrisp was thinking of something quite specific when he 
wrote "related to Harry", which is why I went fishing for 
clarification in the first place.  I wasn't arguing semantics; I was 
trying to find out what Chrisp had in mind.

Does that clarify?

Siriusly Snapey Susan, not trying to be difficult--really.