[HPforGrownups] Re: Who do people think HBP Is?

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 131220

--- jlv230 <jlv230 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I feel the half blood prince is highly unlikely to
> be Neville, as he 
> is not Half-Blood. There is a currently lot of
> support (as far as I 
> can tell) for the HBP being a historical figure who
> will not actually 
> be part of the *main* plot of the book. This is
> supported by the fact 
> that the Prince plotline was cut from CoS, but there
> are so many 
> possibilities... I just can't wait for the book.

Since the subject broke again, I will add a few more
or less related thoughts I had today. It might be that
they were brought up already (perhaps even by myself -
I tend to think in circles and don't really keep track
of what I write and what not).

In PS Hagrid tells Harry that Voldemort feared
Dumbledore so much that he wouldn't dare to attack
Hogwarts - well, not now, anyway. It makes sense to
read this as meaning that Voldemort did attack the
school, under a different headmaster. The only
possibility is that this attack brought down Armando
Dippet, which is why Dumbledore quit the
Transfiguration chair for Minerva well after the
school had started (in December, thirty-nine years
before OotP).

We know that the an important element in the HBP is
something Harry found out in CoS. Could it be that
this relates to Dumbledore being a Transfiguration
teacher? Could it mean that Fawkes is the HBP? I
haven't seen this theory anywhere, although I'm sure
it has been mentioned, as everything has; but if we
think back of the CoS, which element of the story was
important enough to deserve a place in the title?
Either something connected to Salazar, but this is not
likely because we know that Voldemort, the last heir
of Slytherin, is not the HBP, or, even more poignant,
Fawkes himself.

Any thoughts?

Mira

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