Half-Blood Prince

[zeldaricdeau]

No: HPFGUIDX 137012

juicyfruit wrote:

"After rereading some of HBP I am starting to think the HBP is 
Voldemort. 

<snip> 

Harry looks through the book and discovers that it was published 
some fifty years ago, which I think is around how old the diary in 
CoS was. Snape was not at Hogwarts at that time."


Zeldaricdeau:

As Juli noted in her post, JKR is very explicit in stating that the 
HBP is definitely not Voldemort (or Tom Riddle). The inclusion of 
the 50 year old print date should still be a relevant clue, however, 
as you have suggested. Personally, I think it's just evidence that 
it belonged to Eileen Prince and was a hand-me-down to Severus who 
annotated it before and during his stay at Hogwarts (don't really 
subscribe to the idea that Eileen made the annotations herself). And 
I believe that connection is relevant because I am also convinced 
that that is why Madam Pince went ballistic over the book when she 
saw Harry with it in the library: because she is Irma Prince and 
recognized it. :)


Zeldaricdeau.