What is the Half-Blood Prince?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 125908


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "LadyOfThePensieve"
> <chrissilein at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > No I honestly started to think the Half-Blood Prince is a POTION!
> >
>
> 
> Lady wrote: 
> > Here in Europe we have got the funny tradition to give alcoholic
> > drinks funny names.
> >
> 
> Valky:
> Here in Australia too, it's not uncommon to give a drink a funny name,
> and the name usually relates something of the experience of drinking
> it. for example...
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> 
> Half Blood Prince - If this were a potion named in the aforementioned
> tradition, I would expect it to be Princely and hence I would expect
> that it endows the drinker with princely qualities such as courage,
> dignity, rightness. 
> A drink called Half Blood I would expect might be difficult to
> swallow, possibly gag inducing, probably a salty drink. 

Finwitch:

I don't know... but there IS a coctail called Bloody Mary (a mixed
drink) - named so after a Queen Mary who didn't hesitate to have her
subjects executed... so at least Blood and Royalty in a drink name
have been used - so why not a drink/potion in wizard world called Half
Blood Prince?

Of course, if this Half Blood Prince is a drink or a Potion, it
absolutely MUST have some magical effects!

How about- or food? Have you ever eaten 'knights' for desert (bread
handled in a certain way -- with red jam. Rich ones have cream, too...
Poor ones just the jam...)

Hmm... what if it's some sort of blood-pancake someone decided to call
half-blood prince?

Now let's see -- what kind of magical effect could this
drink/potion/food have? Goblet of Fire -- no one was drinking from it!
 Order of the Phoenix - a bird of Fire...

Sure, let's have Aberforth mix a Half Blood Prince: Ogden's
Fire-whiskey and DragonBlood (Albus DID come up with 12 uses of
Dragonblood... maybe Aberforth made up a 13th one: a Drink) or maybe
it's goatblood if dragons aren't available... Or, half-and-half...

Finwitch