Godric Gryffindor- Half blood prince?

[jlv230]

No: HPFGUIDX 132531

Much of the problem seems to extend from the fact that we don't 
really have *anything* to suggest the HBP is anyone in particular at 
all. All we know is that they are referred to as `the Half-Blood 
Prince' and they are not Harry or Voldemort. If `the Half-Blood 
Prince' is a definite description (as opposed to a title), we must 
remember that Harry is considered to be a half-blood by some because 
he has one muggle-born parent so there may be others who also fall 
into this category despite apparently having two wizard parents. 
There are many wizards who we know are half-bloods (Seamus) and many 
who we know aren't (Draco Malfoy) and many more we have no idea 
about – IIRC (which I rarely do!) Snape and Dumbledore are examples.

If `the Half-Blood Prince' is a title then it might, at least at some 
time, have /had/ a descriptive element, but it may have been passed 
on. Nothing in the literature rules this out as there is very little 
about this sort of thing in the literature! I am using as an example 
titles like `the Earl of Wessex' – Wessex was a kingdom of England 
that no longer exists (although the land still does!) but still we in 
Britain have a Prince with this title. The `Wessex' part actually is 
fairly irrelevant. I'm not saying that I think `the Half-Blood 
Prince' is similar to this, just that it's not impossible.

Hence I really don't know what to think here – but I think Godric 
Gryffindor has just as good a chance of being the Half-Blood Prince 
as Hagrid, Nearly Headless Nick or Dumbledore. But that is just my 
opinion ;-)
JLV xx