CoS & HBP (was I the HBP )(was Re: Snape's hidden plan?/)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 136387

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Cindy wrote: 
> > Didn't JKR say that the HBP information was orginally going to
> > come out in COS but she decided to wait and keep it for the sixth
> > book? Wasn't she even planning it for the title? 

>Potioncat:<snipped JKR quote from website> 
> Now, the question in my mind is why did she consider keeping HBP 
as 
> her title {of Book 2} if Snape's book and nickname were no longer 
a 
> part of the plot-line? Does that mean there is a connection between
> Snape's name HBP and Tom Riddle's name LV?

Jen: Maybe originally HBP referred to Riddle? Then when we met 
Riddle through the diary, we would automatically assume he's the 
mysterious HBP and wouldn't connect him to Voldemort. But there 
would be a big gap if none of the HBP storyline was actually there, 
nothing to back up the title. 

There are definitely similarities between Snape and LV. I wonder if 
Snape knows a little bit about TR's life, that he started out as a 
half-blood in Slytherin, too? Maybe Snape fashioned himself a 
nickname and started inventing those spells because he even admired 
LV, sort of hero worship. If that's true, then the story really 
needs to have a Snape redeemed, as someone who started down the path 
like Tom Riddle, but made different choices.

You know, it just struck me we were supposed to be very surprised to 
learn Snape was the Half-Blood Prince; that was the reason for the 
big, dramatic "It was I who invented them--I the Half-Blood Prince!" 
Either becuase we're used to spotting clues or it was just obvious 
in this one, most people caught on to the plot twist around the time 
Slughorn gave Harry the potion book. It never ocurred to me to 
suspect Slughorn, Lily or Riddle, though I think we were supposed 
to!! Not suspecting Snape would make that end moment more dramatic 
along the lines of discovering Riddle was a younger Voldemort.