Half Blood Prince Theory

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 123610


Pook wrote:
> Most are thinking the half blood prince is half wizard and half muggle.
> 
> What about other combinations? 
> Half giant/half wizard
> Half centaur/half wizard


First, "half-blood" does mean half wizard and half Muggle, not
half-wizard/human and half some other species. (That would be "half
breed," a term that I believe is used in the books, possibly by Rita
skeeter, but I could be wrong.) And second, what about the "prince"
part? Hagrid's father was an ordinary wizard, his mother an ordinary
giantess, not the daughter of the Gurg, so far as we know. No royalty
there. And the centaurs don't seem to have a king or even a chief.
(Ronan may or may not be the leader, but he doesn't seem to have any
more authority than Bane or anyone else.) Also, as someone else
mentioned, the centaurs are unlikely to mate with humans even if they
weren't so sure of their own superiority. Imagine what kind of child
they'd have. Then again, I'd rather not.

So I'll stay with the view that "half-blood" is used in its usual HP
sense. I'd like the HPB to be Godric Gryffindor, but more likely it's
a living person, maybe Felix Felicis, who may or may not be the
lionlike man described in the snippet on JKR's website.

Carol, who thinks that if a toad and a wizard produce offspring,
they'll look like Umbridge