my favourite HBP picks...

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No: HPFGUIDX 103406

"armadillof" <armadillof at y...> wrote:
> 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

Hmmmmm. Interesting analysis.

Personally, I'm betting on a new character, quite possibly the DADA teacher, but also 
possibly a new student, either a first year (nice to see Harry remember what it was like to 
be an 11-year-old celebrity, perhaps) or a transfer....

On point #3 (DD): A prince is not necessarily the son of a king. A prince is in fact a 
monarch of a principality, such as Monaco. Prince-as-son is an honorary title--ie Prince of 
Wales for the son of the English Monarch, since Wales is a constituent state of the UK. So 
Dumbledore could be in fact a prince and be parentless. Then again, what is there to say 
that DD's parents (or at least the one holding the throne) aren't alive? I mean, wizards are 
remarkably long-lived....

Of course, the prince in question could be Aberforth, rather than Albus....