CoS was almost HBP: What does that mean?

[Julia]

No: HPFGUIDX 137279

Lupinlore:
> In our discussions about HBP, I don't think I've seen a discussion 
> of one salient fact that came up in JKR's interviews, that she 
> almost named the second book HBP.  Furthermore, she said that no 
> trace of the HBP storyline remained in CoS, as she thought the story 
> more appropriate for sixth year as opposed to second.
> 
> Now, this raises all sorts of interesting questions.  Her statement 
> implies that she originally intended for some of the events in HBP 
> to happen in the second book.  Which ones?  And what does that mean 
> for the importance of the events of HBP?  Does that make them more 
> important, or less important?  And does that cast any light at all 
> on the infamous question of Severus Snape?
> 
Julia:
Well, I think that JKR said that the plot of HBP was at first meant to 
be in the second book but I haven't herad anything about JKR actually 
consiering naming the second book HBP. If you have some quotes I'd 
really like to see them...

However if it comes to HBP's plot that could have been used in Cos I 
think it was the part about horcruxes and the past of Voldemort. IMO 
THAT part of HBP would belogically connected with the whole CoS 
storyline. Probably she planned to tell Harry through DD about the 
past of Tom Riddle - his childhood, parents, grandparents as well as 
his character and some mysteries involving him (his disapearance after 
school, his wanting to be a teacher etc). She may also intended to 
introduce some memories that DD managed to retrieve... 

I think that she planned to introduce idea of horcruxes as well but if 
she had done this she wouldn't have been able to say as much as she 
was in HBP so she erased the whole plot and placed it in the sixth 
book.

The parts of CoS that may be previosly connected with the erased plot 
of HBP could be: (those new things we learn from CoS)
- Tom Riddle is a heir of Slytherin (in HBP it turnes out who was his 
grandfather, and how he was proud about his blood line, and he he 
despised his doughter and how she was in fact a blood traitor)
- By destroying the diary the teenage Tom Riddle from the past 
vanished (in HBP it turns out that it was one of the horcruxes and by 
doing it Harry destroyed a part of Voldemort soul)

I dont think that JKR has ever intended to put such parts of the HBP 
plot as: Snape teaching DADA or Harry learning Potion from HalfBlood 
Prince in CoS

Just my thoughts

Julia