[HPforGrownups] TEH Half-Blood Prince (WAS: Re: The [Real] Importance of being Draco Malfoy)

[Paula "Elanor Pam"]

No: HPFGUIDX 114200

From: "samnanya" <yswahl at stis.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>


> I wonder if JKR will suprise us all and have Draco Malfoy
> turn out to be the Half-Blood Prince.  We know that his
> mother's line is pure because of the Blacks, but precious
> little is said about Lucius' ancestry......

Well... there are two people I can remember from the top of my head that are
half-blood - Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas. I'd need some research to find
others.

But anyway, I've always been under the impression that Seamus Finnigan's
family is kinda country-sideish. He doesn't seem to be particularly
well-off, and we don't hear much about his family, so I don't think his
witch mother is from a famous family or she'd be mentioned more often.

But it's different with Dean Thomas. His father kept the secret about his
wizarding powers and his "involvement" with Voldything from his [new] family
till death. Dean Thomas has no idea he is a half-blood as far as we know.
And the official information we received from JKR (in her site) is pretty
limited. And she herself said she wanted to add Dean's bg story in CS (or at
least I'm under the impression she said that...), and that there was a
storyline she had moved from CS to HBP. Since she added no information on
Dean's father's background, maybe she was saving that for the next book.

But then again, if she wanted to reveal Dean Thomas as the Half-Blood
Prince, maybe she'd have kept secret the fact that he was a half-blood at
all. What do you guys think?

Elanor Pam, who needs to study loads of kanji