Re: The Half Blood Prince (was my favorite HBP picks)

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 103717

>> James "Slurdodger" wrote:
>> Salazar Slytherin was undoubtedly an incredibly powerful and 
important wizard too regardless of his unfortunate lineage, so much so 
he might be touted as "The Halfblood Prince". <<

> Del replied:
> ... And the King of Hypocrites then ! Remember, Slytherin is the one 
who started that whole pure-blood business ! LV himself denied his 
Muggle-side in order to fit into Slytherin's philosophy. I imagine 
that Bella's horror at discovering that her beloved LV is a half-blood
would be NOTHING compared to LV's horror when discovering that his 
idol Slytherin was a half-blood...
> Nope, sorry, it just doesn't work for me. <


boyd:
On the other hand, Del, wouldn't finding out such a horrible secret 
about himself be exactly the kind of thing that could drive Slytherin 
to 1) go insane with rage at his accursed muggle blood, 2) so mistreat 
any who who don't adhere to his elitist pureblood ways that he 
alienates Godric Gryffindor (thus the split), 3) become so 
pureblood-centric that he constructs the Chamber of Secrets and places 
a muggleborn-killing basilisk there, 4) possibly somehow create the 
lifeforce behind Lord Voldemort (see my SSHARP OWW post #103326)?

That's my current theory, because it ties to COS yet was not central 
to the plot at that time, bears heavily on the destruction of LV in 
books 6&7, and explains the Chamber, the split between the founders, 
and the need for a CoS book in the first place. Doesn't JKR indeed 
almost give it away in CoS if viewed through this lens?

--boyd