Half-Blood Prince vs. Half Blood-Prince

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No: HPFGUIDX 103149

A thought just came to me about the lack of hyphen in the title we 
were given.

Perhaps JKR is trying to make us *think* that it's "half-blood 
prince" when really she's thinking more along the lines of "half 
blood-prince"? Not necessarily that this is a new hyphenated term, 
but that blood and prince are the words we should be grouping 
together, rather than half and blood. After all, in the canon, isn't 
half-blood always hyphenated?

Then comes the logical question, What the flips is a blood-prince? 
Well, to tell you the truth, I have no idea. It's just a theory. But 
it stemmed from the mentionings of Mark Evans as a "half-brother", 
which could form the "half" portion of the phrase "half blood-
prince". After all, even if Mark Evans is Harry's half-brother, it 
doesn't necessarily mean he is a half-blood. It means he shares with 
Harry either the pureblood parent or the mudblood parent, which means 
he could still either be pureblood or have no wizard blood in him at 
all.

I think I'm just rambling, but if you got anything from that, feel 
free to respond.