HBP MUST have appeared in COS

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 103594

prpa_dbz wrote:

>>Hi, this is my first time posting(actually I just joined).<<

HunterGreen:
Welcome to the group.(o;

>>I am of the feeling that the HBP is someone that we haven't seen
before, or someone we have only seen in passing. The only other book
whose title concerns a character, POA, is about someone we've never
even heard of before. Up until POA we never knew who Sirius Black
was.<<
-A slight correction, while we didn't know who Sirius Black was, we 
had *heard* of him before, he's mentioned in the first chapter of 
PS/SS. (which really surprised me when I was re-reading it for the 
first time, and I caught the name Sirius Black...rather clever of her 
to slip it in two books before he's introduced).

>> As I said, I will not be entirely surprised that this HBP is 
someone we've never heard of, or someone who has, until now, played a 
minor role.<<

Neither will I. In fact, since the HBP (isn't it odd that its being 
used as an acronym *already*?) isn't Harry or Voldemort, I'm counting 
on him being a new or barely mentioned character.

>>And I'm not quite sure that this Mark Evans kid is someone who will 
ever play a major role. It just seems wrong that he will be related 
to Lily, it seems too predictable for JKR's writing. Though JKR never 
really mentions someone without having them play a role, I don't see 
Mark Evans as an important role. <<

I'm not sure how much of a role he'll have, but I'll be *very* 
surprised if he doesn't appear in the next book. Like Steve said 
yesterday on a slightly different thread, its very unlikely that two 
characters with the last name 'Evans' in the same book aren't 
related, *especially* since one of those characters is a very 
important character. Also, and this was the clincher for me, is the 
fact that's he's ten years old, in other words, he'll be eleven at 
the beginning of the sixth book, perfect age to be starting at 
Hogwarts.
I do agree that he's not likely to be the Half-Blood Prince. For one 
thing, he's most likely a muggle-born wizard, if he's a wizard at all.