my favourite HBP picks...

[armadillof]

No: HPFGUIDX 103396

Ok.  Before I solicit my random musings...just some thoughts....

#1  PRINCE OF WHAT?
#2  Blood line inheritance of royalty....or selected?
#3  Do you think the character's parents are dead? 
#4  Anything to do with new governing/MoM?
#5  Anything to do with DADA teacher?  wait that'd be a suggestion 
of mine so I guess onto my picks.... ;)

1. LUPIN:  

    I LOVE the Lupin idea.  I also remember reading a JK quote 
stating that Lupin would play a BIG role in the last 2 books.  I 
mean, it's only fair that after she named a book after Sirius, she 
could do one for our other favourite Marauder....but then again we 
weren't introduced to Lupin until POA....so maybe not...(we all know 
he's a Prince in our hearts though...)

2. SNAPE:

     I can only imagine.  (Well, who's to say he's NOT? -other than 
the fact that it would/could be a horrible crashing down for my book 
7 theories, but whatever :P)

3. DUMBLEDORE:

   Because he's precious....although wouldn't being a Prince require 
the royal line member ahead of you to be alive....although this IS A 
MAGIC WORLD WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.....besides...interesting quote that 
makes me believe it is not Harry who would be related to Gryffindor 
but DD himself....

"And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still-greater power 
could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort...perhaps 
they now pay allegiance to another...perhaps that champion of 
commoners, of Mudbloods and Muggles, Albus Dumbledore?" GoF p.562

BUT that doesn't make him a Prince.  Just have to wait?

4. TOM RIDDLE:

   Actually who I thought was the subject at first...but i mean, he 
IS Voldemort.  So he WASN'T born evil...but he said he did say "I AM 
LORD VOLDEMORT"...I mean he spelled it out for us...need we more 
proof?  plus...my title instincts aren't always right with JK.  That 
and Dumbledore spoke to him calling him Tom; he and Harry now share 
blood...it just doesn't make sense blood wise with what we've been 
told...

5. RANDOM OOTP CHARACTER:

   Well....Caradoc Dearborn vanished...it IS a possibility (ok am I 
having to much fun here?)
 
6. DADA Teacher:

   Another cool one would be nice for a change...


......So, out of any of my suggestions, I guess I would have to rely 
on my last 2 picks on being the most likely to happen.  It's 
probably someone we may not know a lot about at the moment....I 
won't put Lupin out of the running...he's not high on my list b/c of 
appearing later.  I think if Snape were the Prince, I don't think 
we'd find out until the end of the book. We can't quite risk having 
our spy be a half-blood prince and relating to Voldemort on 'good 
terms' with little scandal in the school...I mean imagine...SNAPE 
BEING THE SCANDALOUS TEACHER WITH EVERYONE 
KNOWING!!?!?!?!?!?....totally not right....*yet*....then the gloves 
would be off and open for book 7.  Similar idea with DD....it would 
just be a distraction in the school IMO making it less unlikely, 
though JK has awesome creativity and could pull it off I'm sure....I 
just can't quite picture him right now either.....

thoughts?

AF :D