We'll be "very surprised" by the HBP??

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 126467


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> 
> Lately I have seen at least 3 or 4 references [see 125875, 126349, 
> 126353, for example] to JKR's having said we would be "very 
> surprised" to discover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince.
> 
> For the life of me, I cannot find any such quote.  Could someone 
> who's actually heard or read this direct me to the source?  Or 
would 
> someone else like to join me in Skeptical Land? :-)
> 

http://www.iharrypotter.net/books/year5/

I did  a google search, and found this reference in an archive of 
speculaton about OOP (it's not dated, but it appears to be circa 
2002, early 2003) to an alleged interview (not the interview itself) 
in which JKR was quoted as saying that we were going to be "very 
surprised" when we discover the identity of the next GQT captain. I 
wonder if that quote (in itself a little suspect) somehow got 
transmogrified into the statement about the HBP.

  - CMC (who will be surprised on July 16 whether JKR said it or not)