[HPFGUOver40] Chapter titles from Half-blood Prince

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In a message dated 11/12/2004 1:03:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
ladypensieve at yahoo.com writes:

OK -  latest from JKRs website for those who are interested....

Chapter Two:  Spinners End; 
Chapter Six: Draco's Detour; 
Chapter Fourteen: Felix  Felicis

Since Spinners End sounds like a place, and it has been said  that 
this book will be Harry's shortest stay with the Dursleys, it may be  
that he's going there!

I wonder about Draco's Detour, because  fanfic has Draco BIG, but in 
the canon, Draco is someone more to be made  fun of.  He always seems 
to end poorly...such as the last chapter of  OOP.

JKR giving him his own chapter, in a way, seems that it's bringing  
him back into the fold...giving him more of a part than we've seen  
before.  hmmmm.

Your guess on Chapter 14 is as good as  anyones...LOL

Kathy





Hmmmm, well Felix Felicis means happy, fortunate lucky.....given JKR's  
penchant for names that mean something this could be a character named Felix  
(maybe HE's the half blood prince) who's particularly happy....Spinners  
End...could be something about fate, or it could be about the death of  spiders....
 
Re, Draco..I'm afraid that this is one of the reasons I don't read fan  
fiction. There is no indication in the books that Draco is anything but what he  is 
portrayed as...an evil wizard in training ready to follow after his father,  
his mother, and his aunts....As far as being a sniveling coward, most evil  
bullies ARE cowards....and only strike when they are sure their opponent is  
outnumbered, cringe when cornered (just like Peter Pettigrew in the Shrieking  
Shack scene), and use underhanded methods to attack their enemies. (I read on a  
sister list that people were surprised when in the CoS movie, Lucius did not  
look worried, but rather contemptuous when Draco falls off his broom...this 
is  congruent with the way in which evil people treat their children). Draco 
has a  major role in the books as Harry's contemporary arch-enemy, although he 
has  never played with the "big boys" as Harry has...he's only been part of 
Umbrage's  rein of terror as a toady.
 
OTOH, JKR is a classicist, and writes in the context of a universe where  
virtue is alive and active. In such a universe (as in our own) transformation is  
always possible. Someone evil always has the opportunity to turn away from 
the  dark side, and a few do. (Look at the slave trader who wrote Amazing  
Grace!).
 
In this vein, I wonder if Professor Snape will be the next to die --  
protecting Harry perhaps?) I have always predicted that Dumbledore will die in  the 
last book, in the final battle. Snape is an amazingly multidimensional  
character.
 
I am wondering (this has probably been discussed) if Harry will become the  
teacher or at least the "student teacher" for the Defense Against the Dark Arts 
 in Book VI.  After all, he has successfully taught/coached his classmates  
-- Neville has improved exponentially -- several have passed their O.W.Ls 
thanks  to Harry's tutelage.
 
Susan McGee in Michigan
 


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