BOOK 6 ANNOUNCEMENT ON JKR WEBSITE

[Debra]

No: HPFGUIDX 103301

>> Debra:
>> As for it being a completely new 
>> character that we haven't heard 
>> mention of even once: I don't 
>> think this is a possibility because 
>> although we couldn't possibly 
>> speculate about the female DADA 
>> teacher in OP, this character forms 
>> the entire *title*. I still think 
>> it's someone we have *barely* met 
>> before . . .

Wanda:
> Not only that, it must be a character 
> who appeared in CoS. The fact that 
> "Half-Blood Prince" was an early 
> draft of the TITLE of CoS seems to me 
> to indicate that whoever it refers to 
> was someone important to *that* book.

Debra:
I don't know... Anyone, feel free to shoot me down if you completely 
disagree, but I think that maybe, just maybe, JKR may have had the 
same title in mind for a different person.

Then again, the more I think about it the more I agree with the whole 
Tom Riddle thing... After all, she's already established them as 
separate people, with Dobby's clue ("Not... not *He-Who-Must-Not-Be-
Named*, sir...")