The Half-Blood McGuffin

[Chys Sage Lattes]

No: HPFGUIDX 126655




> vmonte responds:
> I think that the HBP is a person, not a drink, as some other 
posters 
> believe. I also think that it's Godric Gryffindor. Mostly because 
> it's time that we get the back-story between the break up of SS and 
> GG. And also because Godric literally means: Rules with God. It's 
> about time we see the power behind the Order. We already know how 
DEs 
> came about, I want to know more about how the Order came to be--
> because I think that it is a lot older than we've been led to 
> believe.      
> 
> Is GG still alive? Or is he a penseive memory? Who knows? I keep 
> thinking that Flamel was more that just DD's chemistry partner. And 
> he lived a long life too. Is/was Flamel really GG?  How did Flamel 
> and Dumbledore meet?  Was Flamel the previous leader of the Order? 
If 
> he is/was GG it would explain why DD is now in possession of GG's 
> sword. Did Flamel train DD to be the next Order leader? And is 
> Dumbledore training Harry to be the next leader?  
> 



Chys:

I do think he's a person, not a potion. If it's a potion, then it has 
to effect a person, but it makes no sense to me should that be the 
case.

I am more and more liking the idea that it's GG, but I have nothing 
to back it other than the lack of knowledge of Hogwarts past, and 
precious events which could affect the future. I don't know how that 
would have altered the relationship between GG and SS though. You 
would think, SOMEWHERE, there would be PORTRAITS of the founders, 
right? I mean, really.... I'd even settle for one of them all sitting 
around a table playing poker. *_*

The order... is supposed to hunt down Voldemort from what I gather in 
book 5, but perhaps they had a purpose before that? (They were a well 
established group, right? Who formed them? I don't know if Flamel had 
anything to do with it, they sound like separate issues.) I don't 
know enough about it to say, but it might have something to do with 
Merlin.

I think the sword of GG could have been passed down through the 
Headmasters, since it's seemingly a school artifact, such as the 
sorting hat?

I doubt that Flamel is GG, they are two different characters, and it 
would be anti-climactic if we find out the now deceased Flamel (I 
stand by this, he's gone, as is stated in book 1, he's gotten his 
affairs in order and is letting go.) *ahem* Should we find that 
Flamel is actually GG, and Harry never got to meet him (or whatever 
plot device follows,) it wouldn't help the plot any IMO, and sounds 
like something an editor would cut out or have altered for the sake 
of the story. It's non-essential, so I don't see it as being true.

I think Flamel and DD have in common the potions/alchemy idea. DD was 
famous for the 12 uses of the Dragons blood correct? Flamel, 
obviously, the PS/SS. Perhaps they were friends from childhood or 
something simple like that?

About the book covers; haven't they, in the past, always depicted 
scenes direct from the book? So what of the potion book that's shown 
in the adult version, and the 'DD and Harry in a ring of fire' 
version? (Is that a credible version? I haven't researched.) I saw 
the version where on scholastic.com, DD and Harry seem to be looking 
into a cauldron or a pensieve of sorts....

Perhaps you can somehow FIND the HBP with a POTION? (Even so, why 
would DD need Harry for that, eh?)


Chys